these are the thumb drawings for that image. It seemed a bit small initially, so the final image below is bigger, and I went with number 2.

Actually I worked with this client before and they were pretty cool then, and they won the project with my image :)

Not much to update this week. Taking a break from the Naomi and Poggie for a while. Will finish those strip some time with tones ready for a B&W print, for the upcoming 'made in China' book I'm working on.

In the meantime, I am happily employed at 5 minutes and I don't do freelance, but if there's a fun project I'll do it. If they give me money, I won't say no.

This image here represents why I don't like the BS that goes with freelance. I got approached to do some drawings. Looked fun, and I quoted them a sum, that I got repeatedly asked about it, to which I repeatedly confirmed (BTW something like this will cost you 70Euros I spent about 90minutes including thumbs). I took it as I like doing loose designy drawings too, and I think you can do fun things here. Anyway it turned out to be a test and the people were testing me against Chinese students who'll do this for 100rmb (10 Euros). For future reference if you want to hire somebody who has been getting paid to draw for over ten years, look at their portfolio. Mine is this site and majortoons.com. See if you find something that would suit your need. If you can't find it, you don't want me. Easy, don't like people wasting my time. I like to draw, but if it's not stupid girls with guns, or Naomi and Poggie, it's work. So no I don't enjoy drawing stuff for you that you may or may not pay me for.

Overall I was actually happy with this :)

This was my second animatic. Again same criticism from the director (BTW I have a synopsis to follow). This one was not approved. Some elements were a bit off, but generally I was actually quite happy with it, and I could read the gags. He couldn't, it was a shame as I never got to talk or communicate with the director properly. It's a shame this thing didn't work out any better, as I quite enjoy the preproduction process of projects, and I enjoy making animatics like these. If you look for user 'sloppynyuszi' on youtube you can find some more stuff I have done :)

This was done while I was still in the UK, though the client was in LA. I think the cartoons are popular on youtube. The director was unhappy with my boards, as he couldn't understand them, so I made this animatic. I remember he wasn't that impressed, but apparrantly this one past. I mainly had communication with the producer who was pretty cool.

Anyway I'm posting this, because I'm having a shocking couple of weeks, where I'm turning out rubbish drawings I don't want to share, and this hasn't been seen by very little people.

this is the most interesting thing I drew in the past week. All my other sketches recently have been quite shit. :P

Not much to say. Every pay check makes life easier, and work is OK again :p so need to get the sketch jam back and did this. No Naomi and Poggie, just school girls fighting robots. This is a view from my bedroom :)

This is an "i Love Shanghai' peace. It's vulgur and rude, but I think Shanghai is a super tough city, but by far the most interesting and memorable place I've been to. Hope I can survive it. It's pretty difficult. I've been meaning to print a sticker bomb for Shanghai, and I think this might be it.

I've been actually drawing a lot, but very little Naomi and Poggie stuff, and will probably start a new just art stuff blog. So here's a rare Naomi and Poggie Doodle.