Musical Beards.1

Talking of Beards here is a classy use of a great musical beard Neil fallon of clutch one of the great American bands going today this video for the song Mob goes wild is the bomb.

God Machine

Having just thought about diversifying into band merchandise I have been looking into the various styles one designer who stands out is Godmachine his work is mindblowing in detail. Great beard too.

http://godmachinewip.blogspot.com/

Halloween 2 2009

For all the people who hate this movie by saying the "Michael character presented here is not like the originals" I say thats a good thing as who wants to see a watered down version of a character once described as "pure evil".
I feel Rob Zombie created a real monster towering over his victims and is very menacing. Exactly like in the original series but we do forget these movies were not about the Michael character they were about Laurie strode and her coming to terms with the horrific events of the original movie.
The first 15 minutes of this film in the cinema gave me a feeling of claustrophobia I had not had since watching the original Dawn of the Dead. This opening scene is a great homage to the original Halloween 2 (1981) from the moment you see Michael escape from the ambulance taking his body to the morgue. Through some miracle as with most slasher movies Michael finds out where Laurie is as approaches the hospital where Laurie is in you feel like screaming at the screen get out of there right now. Slow and very violent in it blood letting you can feel your heart rise to your throat as you see him getting closer to Laurie and she cant get away very fast due to her
The stand out scenes include the dream sequences shot in stark black and white and filmed in varying speeds to make them more dream like. They were very nightmarish and they hinted at the connection between Laurie strode and Michael Myers. There were people saying they were unneeded and did not follow the original sequel this is nonsense as the link was in the original but it seemed a bit tacked on here, I felt was more involved with the plot and the overall reason for telling the story and for driving the narrative to its conclusion.

New sketches 2

Here are some more sketches taken from stock images and photos I asked permission from to use in this manner can wait to get these sorted loads of lovely drawing work to do and add to the ole portfolio.

Quick sketches

Here are some sketches from my latest design work its for a cd cover my girlfriend going back to basics here will sort these images out in photoshop over the next couple of days and I will post some more once i really get going with this project. The song here is a worship song so of course I will see if a literal use of the songs lyrics is best or if she would like something a bit different. will post more when i get some more work done.

Hazel

As this week I have been busy sketching out some ideas for a cd cover here Is a quick peek into a set of photos from a shoot I did a few years back. The models name is Hazel and we had a good shoot got some great images and these will be used for an illustration Iam working on got loads to show in the coming weeks. Enjoy

This weekend sees the release of Black Dynamite at the cinemas everyone who has it playing at their local cinema should catch this masterfull blaxploitation spoof.
Who interrupted my kung fu!!!!!!

Bandjob

Recently I have been working on a CD cover my my girlfriends song I have been looking for inspiration on this site its a good source for ideas.

http://www.bandjob.com/

Arch Enemy Gig Picture

This photo is from the Doomsday Machine tour a few years back and what a gig.

Fairy tale shoot.

Having been into horror movies since I was in my teens so when I was asked to create a project based on any idea I had. My natural instinct was to do one with a horror twist having taken some ideas from old vampire movies and fairy tales here are 2 images that stood out from the pack.

City and colour

When I went to see Dallas Green aka City and Colour in the London HMV forum in June I knew little of the music he had done out side of Alexisonfire. When I got to my seat and the lights went down I was in for one of the best shows I have ever been too.
Here is a video to my favourite song from the evening.

New work

As of next week I will be putting up new designs for work I have been working on.
As Iam now looking for more work with models in my photography and design work.
here are some links to places I plan on showing my work on.

www.emptees.com

www.gigposters.com

Tom Bagshaw

Having come across this talented artists work only recently I felt compelled to put a link up to his work as i find it is very well done hope he keeps up the good work.
http://tombagshaw.blogspot.com/