Anything yet? ... Nope.

That's right... I still haven't done that design piece to kick-start my comic... It seems it's taking a lot of effort to beat this procrastination and it's doing my head in. But, usually what beats my procrastination is to force myself to do something big and beautiful. So, I'm going to do a HUGE picture (in my comic style, just so I don't lose the motivation for this style) of all the different Iron man suits... There's over 60 so I should be well occupied doing this for quite some time...
This isn't the first time I've done some huge project to get out of a rutt, this piece unleashed my digital painting talent and it took me a month, before this I could barely digitally paint at all:

Another reason why I STILL don't have any work done is because I recently installed WINDOWS 8!!!!
I know, a lot of people hate it, but I love new. And this kind of new, is definitely worth the 12 hours I spent getting the thing up and running.. I was one of the first to accept the move from XP to Vista, and because of it, I was more than ecstatic with Windows 7 as Vista was a steaming heap of...
Well, I'm very devoted to microsoft. I was Xbox over Ps3 and I'm MOST ABSOLUTELY CERTAINLY PC over Mac. I see past all the lies and scams and flashy outsides of Apple products and see the limitations and uselessness. If you ask me, even as a Graphic Designer, PC far outweighs Mac in all aspects and I find nothing more frustrating and anger-inducing that using a Mac. ESPECIALLY when it comes to graphic design, It's like Apple hate making things easier, the shortcuts are absolute crap too. You have to Ctrl+Click just to right click for christ's sake. Anyway, I hadn't intended to go off on a rant... I just wanted to offer up an update just incase I actually have some viewers who care what I jabber on about and/or are looking forward to my comic...
Thanks for reading :)

Procrastination Sucks

In all honesty, I have been procrastinating a bit lately... All I need to do is design the bandit leader and I can get started on the comic... But I've been toying with a few different ideas, I was thinking of having the bandit group a different race, who were subject to discrimination, but since laws passed (like the pass of the apartheid) and they became free from discrimination instead of being forgiving and just glad for the peace, this race is angry and sour towards the Draezyl and spend their time terrorizing and using them.
Like I said, it's just an idea and i don't know if I'm going to follow through with it..

So, as always, I have been using my spare time... I've been watching the amazing T.V Show, Dexter, About a serial killer, which I've been enjoying greatly, I also did a couple more drawings and went to a Hallowe'en party dressed as tony stark. Here are some pictures:

Well then, I'm sorry i didn't have much else to say, i should get that concept done soon but right now, I'm very, very tired...

Light - a 3-page mini-comic

So, I finally finished the comic I told you all about in my last post. It's simple, nothing great happens in it, but I made some great choices with lighting and accomplished some really cool effects in this comic. I don't think I've ever got colouring more right in my life and I'm actually pretty proud of it. Basically, the test was a success, the style is a good one and it works just fine.
Well, as promise, here it is:

Thank you so much for viewing :)

2 new creatures and a mini-comic

It's been a while but I've finally got something new to show you guys :)
I haven't been procrastinating again and I've definitely been busy. First of all, extending on the comic I told you I was working on, I've created a couple more creatures for the comic, and here they are:

On the left, the cow-bison-deer thing, is called a 'Bisalces' it's the general cattle-type creature in this world and I think it looks quite quirky and cool, with it's 6 legs and moose antlers. 

On the right, the large bull-bear is called an 'Ursaurus' and it is the natural predator of the canverien, the main mount I showed you guys earlier. This creature will also be the main mount of the protagonist. 

Now, I haven't spent ALL THIS TIME drawing those... I wanted to test my drawing style as a comic before actually making a comic using the style. And so, I've produced an incredibly short cliffhanger of a mini-comic which has only 3 pages. I've drawn all 3 pages but they still need colouring, texturing and shading.I haven't come here empty-handed mind, I've brought you one small sneaky peak. Here is the first page, uncoloured, untextured and unshaded :)

I don't want to reveal anything else about this comic, so ill just, lucky for you, stop here. Thank you so much for reading :) 

Also, it's a little like begging, but I'm struggling for visitors and followers here, so if you find my posts interesting in any way, please let others know, show them my blog, send them a link or tweet them. Also follow me on twitter (@TheDblTap) Thanks :)

Bored.

So, i came to town today to cancel my jobseekers allowance due to me now having a job... I then decided i would wait around for my girlfriend to finish college... But i have no money, my girlfriend doesnt finish college until 4 and its now oly half past 2. So, to kill time, and avoid spending what money i do have on a mcdonalds i decided to look around waterstones and price up the game of thrones collection for my dads christmas/birthday presents and the walking dead comics for myself...
I left, after finding out that both things would cost a helluva lot, deciding i would try to find them at a reasonable price online...
During this time i contemplated the fact that there are many things in this world which i cannot comprehend. After turning this thought over, i got out my phone, leant on a bycicle stand outside carphone warehouse and connected to their free wifi in order to bring you this incredibly non-art-related and frankly boring blog post about things i cant get my head round...
The first of these, came to mind as i saw some in waterstones... Erotic novels. I mean, sure, a lot of people read them online and a few actually reach publishing stage and are kept in quite racy stores and charity shops... At least thats how things were. With the release of 50 shades of gray into the public, things changed. 50 shades of gray is a very popular erotic novel, read by women all over the world and reaching fame insanely rapid. People i know, such as my mother, her friends, my best friends older sisters, his mother, all their friends... Theyve all been roped in by this erotic novel hype. And i just dont get it... The outcome, as stated by many of its readers, is that they get some kind of sexual satisfaction from reading the books. Now, i hate to be old-fashioned... Who am i kidding? I love it. But, isnt that wrong? To sell something so racy and sexual in major stores around the world? This book encouraged many other erotic novel writers to come forward with books of their own to publishers. And after having read through some of the pages in many of these books, i find that the writing in them is awful and pathetic, as though amateur writers have come forth simply to share their sexual fantasies with others, in a rush so as to catch the hype. Frankly, my 15 year old sister writes better stories. Personally, i also see reading something like this as a mechanism to become turned on, whilst with a partner, is quite an insult to them. Much like watching porn would be an insult to many girlfriends or wives.
Enough about that, onto another thing which i find completely incomprehensible. Fangirling... If thats the correct term... Going above and beyond to become the worlds most infatuated with a certain celebrity. The main two centrepieces of these kinds of obsessions being canadian singer, Justin Beiber and british boy band One Direction. I should state, before going any further with this subject, i seek not to upset or displease anybody, simply just to state my confusion. Groups of mainly girls and homosexual males dedicate their time, money, harddrive space and internet to certain people. And the thing which confuses me, is why... Why do people go to such an effort to obsess over somebody who doesnt even know they exist, wont notice that youve bought all their albums and t-shirts 3 times and have their face on your wall. I have never had a celebrity crush and never found myself particularly attracted to a celebrity. It seems ridiculous being infatuated with somebody you will never meet, who has never once in their life even thought about you and who will likely not even be who they seem to be when you meet them in person. Sure, you can listen to and analyse all of their lyrics, buy and read all their books and biographies and study their face and body in great detail, but you will never know this person. Surely these people must reach an age of adulthood and levelheadedness at some point? And surely at this point, they regret the time they wasted scribbling i heart bieber into their schoolbooks instead of working on a proper lifestyle. Maybe, if they were that much of a fan, they could build their life up to becoming a music journalist or band photographer and one day meet this person. But spending all your life, or even just the majority until the next heart throb steps into play, longing after and aspiring to meet somebody who will probably never remember meeting you if you ever did meet them, seems like a waste. Aspiring to be good at your job, or a great person to be in a relationship with, seems like a better use of your time... Imagine if you ever do meet a proper crush, somebody who you could make a future with, but they know about the obsessive nature, your longing for somebody far beyond your reach and their level, that would drive them off, or even leave them feeling quite bad about themselves.
Im not one to say my opinion is the right opinion, or that youre living your life in the wrong way, i just wanted to get my point across and burn some time...
Well, its 5 to 3 and i still have an hour until my girlfriend finishes... Ive completely bored you with a totally tl;dr and highly opinionated post and now ive nothing to do... Im hungry but were having a large meal this afternoon... What to do...
Well, thanks for reading, if you even made it this far...

GREAT NEWS!

Great news, friends, The drawing tablet which my wonderful girlfriend bought me did arrive today, as I said it would, but, even better, I did get chance to swing by her house and pick it up!
I was so excited, that as soon as I finished work at 10pm, I got on my laptop, plugged it in and started drawing... non-stop until just now... 1.30am... And this is what I created:

!!! EDIT !!!

It's 3.21am and I just made an adjustment to this out of curiosity... I wasn't sure which looked better so I decided to post both on here... You can let me know what you think on my twitter @TheDblTap

!!! END OF EDIT !!!

I used my girlfriend as reference (which I do a lot) as a tribute to the fact that she bought me the drawing tablet. This piece was also inspired quite a lot by E.D.I of Mass Effect:

Now, this post has turned out stupidly short... As it happens, I don't have a lot to say about that piece, it doesn't have a backstory or a specific style... I was just playing around with the flow settings on photoshop and my drawing tablet....

So, to fill some space in this post, have some other pictures I've drawn with my girlfriend in them...

Nothing at all

Well, disappointingly for anybody who has been religiously looking out for updates on the sci-fi/western comic I've been working on... I haven't done anything new... Anything at all. But, it's not down to me procrastinating, or being lazy, oh no... Somebody broke my drawing tablet... Snapped the wire clean in half... without it I can't do a thing... Well, I can, I'm quite good with Photoshop, but not good enough to draw with a mouse... And using the pen tool would detract from the style of my hand-drawn methods. My wonderful girlfriend bought me a new one on next-day delivery, which should have come today with which I could create all of the many things, all of the many ideas in my head that have come to mind while I've been without my drawing tablet... Unfortunately, either the seller or the royal mail are useless bags of... Rainbow... And haven't got it here in time... I can't see my girlfriend tomorrow due to work so, at the earliest, I won't have a drawing tablet, or coincidentally, any artwork for you guys until thursday... So until then... .... Uhh... Idk... Look at this thing I did ages ago...

Thanks for reading!