Redhoteskimo

Well, i’ve started drawing like crazy again, seems to hit me every couple of months and i’ll have weeks of spending my time just blitzing sketchbooks - sad i know - but it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

But here are a few that i like from the past week or two - been so snowed under at work that by the time i get round to the sketchbook my brains turned to mush and i end up drawing pirates (one of which i’ve included - ya hah me harties, urgh!) eating ice creams and battling with giant lollypops.

The reason i’ve been soooo busy is that i was set the challenge of making one of my doodles into a 3d model (in a peice of software i’ve never used - and not having touched any 3d modeling software for so many years) and then animate it for a TV show, also showing the design process from sketch to render. Well, i think i’ve managed to pull it off, and as soon as i have a draft, i”ll post it - as well as that, numerous new interactives for CNN including a new style of quiz, and a video type one coming up.

*phew*

oh, yeah, if you’re a designer, and around brighton in the future - look out for Skillswap, organized by Clearleft - went to it with Andy last week, and aswell as being a good chance to chat to people of a similar ilk, you may get an idea or two.

On another note, went to the Beachdown Festival over the weekend - a bit of an organizational nightmare to start with (cummon, one burger van for the entire campsite), but sitting in a natural amphitheatre watching the magic numbers, the beat and fun lovin criminals made up for the first night - had to bale early as the weather was awful, but i would recomend it for next year.

Just finished the quiz for just imagine , lemme know what you think - the programming was a bit of a challenge, but the drawings were great fun, hopefully I’ll have a bit more time to work on the backgrounds next time - but I’m very happy with it as is.

Bit of a backlog, as i’ve been way too hectic/lazy to upload any pictures for the last couple of weeks, but here is a selection of the better ones i’ve done in that time - no chance to add any color to them - maybe over the weekend.

So, off to the conference tomorrow - should be interesting. Here’s some of the doodles from this week.

so, I’m still churning out interactives - which seem to be going down well, but realized i haven’t uploaded any doodles in a week or so, sooo….here are some from this week.

so, been ironing out the kinks in two interactives i’ve been working on for a week or so - hopefuly they’ll launch soon.

Here’s a quick doodle from this morning….

People seemed to like that interactive i posted last time - so here are a couple of my other ones - The Jargon Buster and a Foreign Policy explainer - not as quirky as the comic, but if you’re confused by the international implications or the sometimes strange lingo used, these should help you out.

I’ve included a couple of the initial sketches of the comic panels, i think they have a bit more feeling than the flash colored ones.

Wednesday… in a hurry… 4 doodles from past 2 days - especially pleased with the winter guy and girl… gotta go, mockups to make…

So, reading wired this morning, and loving the danger room post on last week being ‘the most dangerous week ever‘ - especially monkeys making robots walk and STUFF! planet of the Terminator apes - aaaaaaargh!

Any way, some doodles from end of last week and this morning. Also - I’m hearing rumors that a certain weekly magazine may be coming back - which means the friday illustrations will resume - GLEE