Monday 25 January 2010
Enigmastico! - Rock Concert puzzle illustration, for an Italian magazine
Can you spot what's wrong with this picture?
Friday 22 January 2010
Aesops Fables - The Miser and His Gold
This is No.3 in my series of Aesops Fables.
The Miser and His Gold
Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbours came around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold. "Did you ever take any of it out? asked one of them.
"Nay," said he, "I only came to look at it."
"Then come again and look at the hole," said a neighbour; "it will do you just as much good."
MORAL - Wealth unused might as well not exist.
The Miser and His Gold
Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbours came around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold. "Did you ever take any of it out? asked one of them.
"Nay," said he, "I only came to look at it."
"Then come again and look at the hole," said a neighbour; "it will do you just as much good."
MORAL - Wealth unused might as well not exist.
Thursday 21 January 2010
Blog Search Engines and Listings for Illustrators and Artists
I've been adding my details to blog directories to enhance my online'ness. We'll see how successful things will be. I've put links to and from these places, so give it a go too and see what happens -
Blog Search Engine
Blog Catalog
Blogged
Bloggapedia
Blogflux
Blogexplosion
Blog Directory
Let me know if you have a success story with them!
Blog Search Engine
Blog Catalog
Blogged
Bloggapedia
Blogflux
Blogexplosion
Blog Directory
Let me know if you have a success story with them!
Illustrations galore! Apron Overload! New webshops open for business!
I've opened a webshop to sell some of my artworks. Fantastic art pieces on aprons, mugs, and cards, what more could the discerning fashionista want?
Here's the link to the shop - Come visit my store on Zazzle! and below is a panel showing a few of the things that you could purchase, should you be feeling frisky!
Alternatively here's a cafepress.co.uk shop for all my Goths - Come visit my store on CafePress!
make custom gifts at Zazzle
Here's the link to the shop - Come visit my store on Zazzle! and below is a panel showing a few of the things that you could purchase, should you be feeling frisky!
Alternatively here's a cafepress.co.uk shop for all my Goths - Come visit my store on CafePress!
make custom gifts at Zazzle
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Aesops Fables - The Crow and the Pitcher
Here's the second in my series of Aesops Fables. Getting deep down and dirty with some serious cross hatching action.
Inked Art
Pencil Rough
The Crow and the Pitcher
A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.
MORAL - Necessity is the mother of invention.
Inked Art
Pencil Rough
The Crow and the Pitcher
A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.
MORAL - Necessity is the mother of invention.
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