http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:philby&section=today deviantART RSS for by:philby en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:00:10 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/28654727/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/28654727/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:40:41 PST
Does it drive anyone else nuts when people go and see blockbuster movies like 2012, then complain about predictable plot and unrealistic scenes and bad acting and so on? If you go into a movie like that expecting high science and first class storytelling, you deserve to be disappointed. Either turn your brain off and enjoy it, or shut the fuck up, k?

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/28136345/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/28136345/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:31 PST trailer for the Prince of Persia movie a litte while ago. You should watch it too. Watched it? Yes? Good, I'll continue. I think it looks a bit good, which is kind of annoying because I really wanted to be able to hate it, and I was convinced that Jake Gyllenhaal was going to be dreadful as the Prince (who has a name in this, they've called him Dastan), but he seems pretty good actually. But yeah, check it out. I actually have hope for it.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/26233391/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/26233391/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:54:58 PDT
To pass the time between now and then I got myself some cheap games. Tomb Raider: Underworld does what you'd expect and has the most broken camera I've ever seen. Mirror's Edge though, why did I not get this game ages ago? It has its faults, but if you can get past them it's a bloody brilliant game. I think it's the first time I've actually been excited while playing a game.

Expect a fanart as soon I've got through the massive backlog of ideas I have.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/25346211/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/25346211/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:44:41 PDT "You like to think you're someone special, don't you?"

(It has nothing to do with sparkly vampires, by the way).

And what the hell is with this "outgoing link" crap? "Did you really want to leave deviantART? What could the rest of the internet possibly offer you that we can't? Please don't leave. It's so very lonely here". Asshats.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/24004244/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/24004244/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:16:24 PDT
I am actually doing a decent amount of drawing at the moment. I have a pic almost finished (I think), that I hope to finish in the next few days, maybe even sooner. After that I still have a few other pic ideas to do. I've started one already, but I can't get Mercy's face right again. I should have just left it as it was. Oh well.

I was gonna say more, but I can't really be bothered to be honest. It's not like a lot of people read this

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/23523732/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/23523732/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:43:32 PST There will be far too much Playstation going on, and probably the neighbours worrying about my sanity when I get angry at it.

Not a lot of drawing going on right now really. I think I've kinda run out of steam for the moment.

Nothing else to say really.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/23084335/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/23084335/ Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:17:51 PST
That's pretty much it at the moment. A lot of things I want or need to do, and nothing like enough hours in the day to do them, despite being back on part time hours at work. Oh well, soldier on.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/22329644/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/22329644/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:26 PST
Wow, I dunno what brought that on.

I did have something else to say, I'm sure, but it's gone from my head now. Same as always.

You might be interested to know that the pic of Spiderman I coloured (it was someone else's lineart) three years and two days ago has been featured in this article. That pic is quite undeserving now, but whatever, there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?

I think that's all. Remember kids, look both ways before crossing.

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Update 14th January 2009

Jennifer lost her second round of the Fightclub. I'm not surprised. But I've randomly gone back to working on that SOS short you've probably all forgotten about. I certainly had. I've decided to call it 'Charmer'.

I was going to do something else here, but I can't be arsed to type it all out. Maybe next time.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/21875383/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/21875383/ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:02:10 PST
Remember that short SOS thing I was working on? I think I might have lost interest a bit, even though I tried not to I just never had a chance to work on it for a while, and I can't be the only one who's left a pic for too long and found themselves unable to return to it. I don't really know if all that is right though. I still kinda want to do it, I just never seem to get around to it. It's confusing me a bit.

Maybe I will go back to it soon actually, I've sort of run out of ideas for now. Or maybe just run out of steam, since I've been on a bit of a roll, or at least as much of a roll as work allows, so I'm probably due a slump.

As always happens when I hit a drawing low though, my writing picks up. I had one of those fantastic moments writing SOS when several separate threads from different parts of the story all just come together beautifully. It's so great when it's been kicking your arse for ages and then it suddenly all just clicks into place.

That's all for now, methinks. Ta-ta.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/21303466/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/21303466/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:04:35 PST
I also have a pic of something that I don't want to tell you what it is for no real reason that's going quite well at the moment. Hopefully that'll be done before the week is out.

Did I mention I'd written an SOS short story? I probably did. I haven't forgotten about it, except, well, I've forgotten about it. Got caught up in other things I was working on, and having done much on it at all recently. I'll try and get on with that again. Maybe I'll even post a few shots from it at some point.

Which leads me neatly to SOS itself. I've been writing it in short bursts recently, which is better than nothing. I think Chapter 6 of Book One is ready to be typed up, and I've pretty much finished the rough plan of Chapter 7. Still need to flesh out the overall plot of Book One as well. I know near enough everything that's going to happen, it's just the details that need sorting out.

That's all I have for the moment, I think. Now you can go back to being productive.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/20872639/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/20872639/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:22:37 PDT
As for pics, I have about a million of them either in progress or in my head at the moment. No idea when any of them are likely to be finished. Hopefully not too long.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/20322504/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/20322504/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:15:32 PDT
BRING ON THE TRUMPETS!

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/19755986/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/19755986/ Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:38:32 PDT
SOS - Slooooow. Chapter VI is proving tricky. Also much of my creativity is going into drawing at the moment. I wish I had enough to do both, but what can you do? I've had an idea for an SOS short story, which I'm writing at the moment. Dunno when it'll be done, but it'll be good to have an actual finished SOS product to show.

Job - Don't talk to me about jobs.

Erm, pics - The one I've been working on for the last week or so is getting close to done. Expect it in a day or two, I think. I'll be doing sketches for my next one very soon.

After hearing it mentioned innumerable times as being very good, I've started reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It really is very good. I wasn't sure about the first book (I think it acts as a kind of prologue to the rest of the story), but by the powers, the others have lived up to the hype so far. It must have been a year or more since I last read a book that I simply couldn't put down. I read volumes II and III, a total of 930ish pages, in about nine days. I might have to go back to Waterstones and get the last three books while they're still in the three for two offer.

I think I might have to get myself a birthday present this year in the form of a DA subscription. The ads which are so blatantly placed right where they're going to annoy you have slowly worn my will away, and now I'm going to give this badly-arranged site £15 of my money just to make it all go away. Bastards.

Maybe I should start doing commissions or something, except I don't know how that would effect my jobseekers benefits

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/19223265/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/19223265/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:06:07 PDT

Job search: Boring.

Artings: My block has passed, but I'm still being slow getting things done. Mainly because I've spent the last two days mostly out of the house, occasionally speaking to other human beings. I have works in progress though, they'll be done when they're done. It's been much too long since I finished anything.

SOS: Going slowly, but still going.

Now get outta here and stop reading this, there must be far more productive uses of your time.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/18710907/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/18710907/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:02:24 PDT
SOS continues slowly as ever. I've got to a place now where I haven't written it again and again half a dozen times, so I'm kind of in unfamiliar ground, it's making things slow to plan.

My art block passed fairly quickly, the only reason I didn't submit anything sooner is because I was too busy with other things to work on pictures a lot. Also the pic I was working on took a while to do anyway. My next main one should take even longer, so don't expect any submissions for a while.

I think that's everything, except I won't be doing a thanks for 12,000 hits pic because it's been hardly any time since I did the 11k one, and if it carries on like this my gallery will have nothing but scantily clad pics of Jennifer I think I'm going to draw one of my other female characters for the next thank you pic anyway.

Oh yeah, I always forget something. My comp got some new memory and now it's not a piece of shit any more. It's not super fast, but it's hell of a lot better than it was.

Bye for now

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/18230973/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/18230973/ Thu, 08 May 2008 17:28:58 PDT
So, what's going on my life right now for those of you that give a shit? Main thing relevant to this site is that I have art block. No surprise really, I was really artistically active over the previous month or so, so it was bound to happen. I think it was actually a little overdue. I have ideas, but whenever I put pencil to paper it never seems to go right, and I can't summon the will to make it right. After a few days of trying to force it, I decided to just accept it.

Strangely enough, it hasn't affected my writing. If anything, I'm writing a little more, because my time isn't being taken up by drawing. This is actually also the furthest I've managed to get on SOS before changing my mind about something and having to start over, so yay That said, it's still not anywhere closed to finished. We're seriously looking at years before it's there. I should probably make an effort to spend an hour a day on it, or try and do one chapter a fortnight or something like that. That seems like a reasonable goal.

Also, if I hadn't mentioned it before, I'm job hunting. Turns out that there's actually quite a few web and graphic design companies around these parts, contrary to what everyone told me. I've applied to a few vacancies, apparently to no avail so far. Then I went on some course thing to improve my CV and stuff like that. Now I'm going to write speculatively to some of them.

I think that covers everything. More pics when my muse returns.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/17661691/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/17661691/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:27:48 PDT
It's been a month already since my last journal, so again I feel the need to update, even though nothing has really changed.

I finished the website I was building. Check it out here [link] if you're interested.

What else? Work on SOS continues, but a bit slower than I would like. Should probably try and get on with that later today. I'm going through one of those times when I have a lot of ideas at once and I don't know which one to work on.

I wonder if it's worth me taking commissions from this site. I could certainly use the money.

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-UPDATE 15/04/08-

Thanks for 11,000 hits I had a pic I was doing for the occasion, but what with one thing and another it's not finished, so you'll just have to go without

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/17113709/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/17113709/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:32:35 PST
Let's start with Song of Seirre. I've got back to writing it again, let's hope I stick with it some more this time Part of the first third of the story that I was having trouble with is starting to come together now, which is encouraging.

Got a couple of works in progress going on. Seems like a while since I did a straightforward picture of Leo and Jennifer, so I'm doing one each for them. I also have reasonably ambitious plans for a Cthulhu-inspired picture, so watch this space.

I also finally have a freelance web thing going on Let's hope it's the first of many.

I think that's all the important art-related stuff. Hopefully I'll actually have something to submit before too long Actually I just remembered I have a couple of pics I did for my sister's birthday card that's been finished for ages, though I haven't submitted it yet because she'd probably see it and I don't want that yet. She'll be getting the card today or tomorrow though, so I'll submit the pics after that.

PS: The buzzing in my ear mentioned in the last journal finally vanished after about three days.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/16721094/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/16721094/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:38:57 PST
The bands. Circa Survive were pretty good. Fightstar were probably good, but I can't remember much because that was when the moshing started and I was too busy trying not to die. Madina Lake I have no idea about, because I was in need of water after Fightstar. I've seen them enough on TV anyway and don't care much for them. Coheed were, of course, awesome. The moshing was on again, but I think half of the crowd (myself included) were knackered from earlier, so it wasn't as mental as it could have been. Apparently they did a cover of an Iron Maiden song or something, but maybe I took a blow to the head because I really don't remember hearing them do any non-Coheed songs :S

It has been 17 hours now since the gig finished, and my ear is still buzzing.

Erm, what else?

Oh yeah, my 10,000th hit is getting closer. I want it to hurry up because I'm fucking chuffed to bits with the pic I'm doing for it, and I really want to post it.

EDIT - Actually, not too quick, I just remembered there's something else I'm doing for it too, and it's gonna take a while

Also, over 24 hours now and still my ear buzzes

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/16533028/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/16533028/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:07:04 PST [link]

This sucks hard. There aren't many actors I like (I'm indifferent to most of them), but he was one of them. Dunno about you guys, but I'm gonna miss him. I hope The Dark Knight is a really good send-off for him.

EDIT - Just found out that anti-gay religious nutjobs are planning to picket his funeral because of his role in Brokeback Mountain [link] . I wish I could think of something terrible enough to wish on those idiots. I'm thinking a combination of disfiguring diseases, hungry wild animals and, probably, death.

Life goes on, however, and my 10,000th pageview is creeping closer. I'm probably gonna do a few pics for this one, since it's a big one, and like I did for 8,000 hits, I'm gonna take a request for it. Whoever gets the 10,000th hit and provides screenshot evidence in a note to me will get to have a pic drawn by me of whatever they want, except for the same things I said I wouldn't do last time. This includes but is not limited to:

- Naruto
- Harry Potter
- Yaoi/furries/etc
- Naruto

Because there's way too much of that crap on this site already (well, some of it is actually pretty good, but it doesn't change the fact that there's too much of it).

Can't think of a decent way to sign this journal off, so I'm just gonna leave quietly.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/16234620/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/16234620/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:21:21 PST Artgerm, has a character named Pepper you may be aware of. They're planning to release an artbook featuring art of Pepper. Here's the good bit: it's open to ANYONE. This is a great opportunity to get your art noticed. At the very least it will be displayed on a high-profile deviantART page, and there is also the possibility of having your artwork printed in the book itself.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'll be submitting a piece for damn sure. All you have to do is create a picture of Pepper, or Pepper and her friend Wanda, and submit it to the IFX folks.

More information is available here: *PepperProject

This is going to be one of those times I have where there are too many pictures I want to do. I have a work in progress going on, that I posted the lineart of about two weeks ago. I also have an idea for some Vagrant Story fanart, and last night I remembered an old sketch I did that could be adapted for a section of SOS I'm a little bit stuck with. On top of that, there's the Pepper Project. Oh well, it's a lot better than having no ideas

Bye for now, folks

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/15906176/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/15906176/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:29:20 PST NUMBER 1

Terry Pratchett has early-onset Alzheimer's. Read more about it here: [link]


NUMBER 2

My PS3 is playing silly buggers, and I may have to send it back


NUMBER 3

I really want to draw, but can't get any ideas that I feel really good about

PS: I really wanted to put the Alzheimer's thing again as the obligatory memory loss joke, but decided it was probably bad taste, even though Pratchett himself is likely to joke about it at least a little Also I didn't want to upset anyone who knows anyone who suffers from Alzheimer's.

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Check this out: [link]

It's making my mind boggle. All that stuff up there doesn't seem to matter so much any more.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/15557280/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/15557280/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:58:33 PST
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Hokay, so. Been a while since my last update, so I thought it was high time I regaled you with what's going on in my life, regardless of whether you care or not.

I've gone back to writing Song of Seirre, at long last. I've gone back to the beginning to rework it a little, since when I was last working on the script I was writing it as a normal comic, but now that I'm doing it as a Flash comic instead, I can do things a little differently. It's not going as fast as I would like, but that's nothing new. I'm aiming for a chapter a week, which means, though I don't know yet exactly how many chapters there will be, it's probably going to be something in the order of two years before I've finished writing it.

I don't think there'll be many submissions here for a while yet, not all because of SOS, but just because my ideas have dried up for now, and I don't feel like forcing myself to draw. I'm open to ideas though, if anyone has any

Also, I'm probably going to get a Playstation 3 very soon. Recent price drops and the release of more interesting games (ie, Assassin's Creed) is making the console very desirable to me. However, Sony have discontinued the 60GB version in Europe, for no obvious reason. British readers will probably know the baby manager from those loo roll adverts, I think he's in charge of Sony as well. They seem determined for this console not to sell well.

Oh yeah, I'm doing some volunteer work (I say I volunteered, it would be more accurate to say I was drafted in) at a small theatre, pointing lights at the stage. It's very confusing, I've never done it before. It's also quite fun though, and gets me out of the house most nights of the week

That's all for now, folks. Wrap up warm, winter is upon us.

PS. I still have no-one to come and see Coheed and Cambria with me in February

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So I have a PS3 now. A 60GB one, probably one of the last few in the city, if not the country. I managed to get it at a very good price as well, since I bought it at the supermarket where my mum works to take advantage of her staff discount The deal was a 60GB PS3 with two games for £350. Take off the 10% discount, and I payed £315 for it. That's less than most of the 40GB deals there were in town, and a hell of a lot less than the 60GB deals there used to be in town.

The thing itself is awesome, despite weighing as much as a small child and generating more heat than all the other electrical appliances in the house put together. The graphics even look nice and sharp on my little portable TV that I have up in my room. The games I got with it are Assassin's Creed, which is all kinds of awesome, and Ridge Racer 7, about which I care so little I couldn't even remember I had it until I got around to taking out of the bag some hours after buying it (I had to be elsewhere that evening). I've not even taken it out of the wrapper, just gonna trade it in for something I do want.

Anyway, that's all for now, else I'm gonna be late for the theatre.

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Hey again, folks. Just a little update to say I traded in Ridge Racer for Warhawk. My Playstation Network name is artful_scruff, if that matters to anyone. Maybe I'll see some of you online

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Yet another update

Alrighty, just ordered my tickets for the Coheed and Cambria gig in Leeds next year. The date and location of that event was more convenient than the Newcastle one for the people I'm going with.

I'm looking forward to it Also playing are Fightstar, Madina Lake, and Circa Survive. I'm also kinda looking forward to Fighstar, Circa seem okay from the one song I listened months ago, and Madina Lake don't really float my boat, but I'd definitely put up with them for a chance to see Coheed and Cambria

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/15204811/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/15204811/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:32:27 PDT
Anyway, anyone feel like coming? I'd rather not go alone, but I could possibly work myself up about it enough that I would

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/14776747/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/14776747/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:55:01 PDT
The reason I'm doing this is because I want to try more different things. As much as I love SOS, it's not the only thing I want to do. So here's a chance for you guys to give me something different to do, something I wouldn't think of myself. I don't want to do any of those things that this site has far too much of though. This includes but is not limited to:

- Naruto
- Harry Potter
- Yaoi/furries/etc
- Naruto

I look forward to receiving a note with the screenshot from one of the half-dozen people who actually bother to read this

Mother's love, that all sounded serious for some reason. Don't know why.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/14350355/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/14350355/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:44:59 PDT I wish I could say when I could show you stuff from it, but I don't really want to post anything until it's finished. I'll probably be posting it a chapter at a time, and in the interest of actually getting it done I'm giving myself about a month per chapter, so I'll stick to that if I can

This means perhaps less SOS art in my gallery, which is kind of a good thing, but it will probably also mean less art in general. Probably what art I do submit will be non-SOS related though, which is good for me because I really need to do things other than SOS.

I think that's all I wanted to say really. Bye for now

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Update

Why aren't any of the music loop things I found from flashkit.com any bloody good? I've about eight different ones for the first scene of SOS, but none have worked well with it It's looking like I'm gonna have to get the fruityloops demo and make my own, but I'm unsure about my ability to make good music, and I don't even know where I'd start making something that sounds how I want it to sound, mainly because I don't know how I want it to sound.

Also, for some reason, I'm really bored of the videogames I've got. Well, never mind 'for some reason', it's because I've played them all a million times. Except FFXII. Maybe I should play that again and do the secrets that I didn't do first time around. Some of them are stupid, there is no possible way to know about them unless you read it in a guide, and I have no idea how they found out about it.

Just, argh. Argh argh argh.

Argh.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/14001882/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/14001882/ Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:21:47 PDT royaltyfreemusic.com, and while it had good stuff, it was unbelievably expensive. Other ones I know of are sounddogs.com and flashkit.com, but in my experience those sites can be a bit shit.

Another possibility is if there is some music-making software available as a free download somewhere that I could use to make my own music. The downside of that is I know fuck all about music, so there's a good chance that anything I make will be a bit poo. Which leads me to my final option, and the one I think least likely to be answered, which is getting someone who knows what they're doing (and probably doesn't mind doing it for free) to do the music for me

GO GO GO!

PS. I know I said 'free' a lot there, but this is a personal project that I don't plan on making any money from. Money is horrible stuff anyway, if I could get by without it I'd be so happy.

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I feel the need to tell people about the dAMN chatroom #WeLoveMusic. It's for general music discussion and stuff, and could probably be good if it got people in there.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/13855055/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/13855055/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:26:09 PDT Well, people are doing them of Jennifer at least Only two so far I think, but it's still awesome.

Jen by ~Naixoa

WOE by ~Robato

I want to see more!

(Tried to post thumbnails, but since I'm not a suscriber I can't have images in my journal).

Just thought of something else to say. I've pretty definitely decided to do Song of Seirre as a digital graphic novel, which is sort of part comic part Flash animation. Go on newgrounds.com and search for Broken Saints, or go on gametrailers.com and search for Metal Gear Solid digital graphic novel. That's the kind of thing I'm aiming for.

I really want you guys to see my characters actually in action. Don't know when I'll have something ready to show you though. I'll definitely want people to give feedback on it though, before it's finished, so if you might be up for that then just ask

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/13590400/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/13590400/ Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:18:27 PDT Just barely scraped by on the final project, but it's still a pass, so I'm not complaining The actual grade was a 2:2, for anyone who's interested.

P.S. Why do my fanarts and collaborations (for lack of a better word) get all the views and favourites? Musn't grumble really, I suppose. I just wish the stuff that's 100% mine got more exposure

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EDIT - 13th July

Things like this are considered worthy of Daily Deviation status now? I'm not saying it's bad, but it's pretty damn far from awesome. And while I'm here, I may as well point out that damn near every time I bother to check out the dailies, there's a black and white photo of some girl with her boobs out. Again, I don't mean to belittle the person who took the picture or anything like that, but are tits and arses really the best this community can offer?

I realise I'm not in much of a position to complain about sexy pics, considering my most recent submission, but I'm not even going to try and pretend it's the pinnacle of artistic achievement.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/13314469/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/13314469/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:33:30 PDT
*parade, confetti, trumpets, etc*

Now I have time for all the things I didn't have time for these last few weeks. I have a big-ass picture I've been working on that some of you have already seen. That needs finished. I'm also working on an audition piece for =Endling's OC tournament.

I also intend to finish Final Fantasy XII (147 hours and still not getting near level 99 *dies*), and then I want to start playing Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Should be good.

Also I shall get on with writing Song of Seirre.

That's all for now. Nature calls.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12864021/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12864021/ Thu, 10 May 2007 12:17:53 PDT www.artfulscruff.co.uk

Check it out if you're interested

P.S. It is actually for a college assignment, and one of the rules is "no Flash", which works for me since I hardly know any Flash. I have got some Javascript in there though, which means Internet Explorer users might get a security warning. Just allow it, it should be fine. If you don't allow it you will have to look at my pictures the boring way

Also, some pages are still under construction or not there at all, but most of the main stuff is present. The pdf file that is my CV is too big as well, takes far too long to download, so don't click that either. It needs fixed

EDIT-

Answer these questions about me if you like: [link]

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12714874/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12714874/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:18:48 PDT
I have a couple of pics on the go at the moment, I hope to have one of them finished soon. Writing Song of Seirre is going quite well, I'm on Chapter 4 now. It's proving kinda hard to start it right though. If anyone reading this has read Chapter 3, perhaps we could talk about how you think Ch4 should start

Big news! Blondie are playing in my city in July. Frickin' awesome. I'm gonna find out more about it, then probably get tickets.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12353413/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12353413/ Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:34:06 PDT
Enough of that. I'm pretty sick of college work right now, and I'm going to use the next few days to catch up on the drawing and writing and other stuff I want to do. Here's a list of the pics I have in mind

To go with the one of Jen I did almost two weeks ago (far too long ago):
- Leo
- Ender
- Uriel
- Cait?

Because I want to:
- Varuna
- Main characters of "Dead"
- Main characters of "Sci-Fi Adventure" (working title)
- Beauty and the Beast (maybe)

Did I ever mention that I want to do a dark version of Beauty and the Beast? Well, quite dark. I talked to ~Naixoa about it, and she told me about a version she was taught at school that seemed to go beyond dark and into wrong. Maybe I'll see if my sis wants to collab on it, I think she thought a dark version of this would be cool too.

Hmm, need to write some more SOS too. Chapter 3 is nearing completion. Take note, people who've been reading it for me, you probably know who you are. Though the only one who gave actual crit has been off MSN for a while so she can work She's got better self-discipline than me, anyway

Finally (I think), I've started building my portfolio/CV website, which will be an actual live website that's properly online and everything. Are you excited? I am.

I'd like to finish with a quote, for no reason other than I'd like to finish with a quote.

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
-John Burroughs

P.S. I don't know who John Burroughs is. It's a good quote though. Fits how I've been feeling recently.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12107661/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/12107661/ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:38:34 PST
Anyway, the character rejigs are going well. I hope to have some proper finished pics of them posted up. I've been thinking about some characters I have from another story idea, so I may draw them at some point too.

Really must get back into writing Song of Seirre. I haven't worked on it in weeks.

If you like your sci-fi books, go get Ringworld by Larry Niven if you haven't already. I was intrigued almost instantly, mostly by some interesting ideas about evolution. I'm only about halfway through it still, so no spoilers if you're going to talk about it, please

I think that is all I wanted to say. Just felt the need to update more than anything else. Agh, there I go with the medieval-ness again, saying "that is" instead of "that's". I wonder if it will ever leave my system?

Fare thee well

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/11680724/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/11680724/ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:20:11 PST
Not a great deal to tell. Still behind with my college work, and I still don't want to talk about that

Progress on Song of Seirre has slowed in the last few weeks, mainly due to the fact that a shitload of college deadlines came in at once. But Chapter 2 is finished, and I have people looking at it and Chapter 1 in order to give me critique. I've started planning Chapter 3, but I'm not sure how it ends yet, though I'm pretty sure I know where Chapter 4 starts. That probably makes no sense to you, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

As for drawings, I decided to practice some action pieces, and sketched four ideas in my sketchbook. One of them is nearing the end of the pencil stage, and even though it's not perfect I'm going to have to crack on and ink it soon else it may never get finished at all.

Anyway, it's 3.30pm, and that means I have to go put the chicken in the oven. Later all


-UPDATE-

My dissertation is handed in Now I just have the final project and a few smaller things to do. Also, Okami arrived in the post on Saturday, and threatened to distract me from my work entirely. Managed to resist until Sunday afternoon though.

I apologise for the lack of artings. I shall get inking very soon, I hope.

Finally, I'm considering opening a creature design competition. There'd be no physical prize, but the best designs, or at least the ones that inspire me most, will probably get to be in Song of Seirre. Does that sound good to you guys?

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/11339145/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/11339145/ Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:33:14 PST
Enough of that, let's talk about comics.

Song of Seirre is steaming ahead. Or at least it is compared to the speed it normally moves. Haven't got around to drawing any of it yet really, I think I want to get well ahead with the writing of it before that stage really.

I'm also developing a second idea, currently called Dead. I want it to have a bit more of a noir mystery thing going on, seeing as SOS will be mostly action, but it still has a fantasy setting. I've done some character sketches (annoyingly, the two main characters have ended up looking like Leo and Jennifer from SOS) and have some vague plot ideas floating around, but it hasn't come together yet. I'm not going to rush it though, my focus is on Seirre at the moment.

I've given up on the hundred picture challenge for now, because I want to concentrate on my comics, as you may have gathered.

That's all for now. Don't eat any yellow snow

Update: ~Naixoa has coloured my Leo and Jen lineart. Check it out here.

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These gave me a giggle:

All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite enough
time considering how their online names might appear ... and be misread.
These are not made up. Check them out yourself!

1. "Who Represents" is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is www.whorepresents.com

2. "Experts Exchange" is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than "Pen Island" at www.penisland.net

4. Need a therapist? Try "Therapist Finder" at www.therapistfinder.com

5 There's the "Italian Power Generator" company, www.powergenitalia.com

6. And don't forget the "Mole Station Native Nursery" in New South
Wales, www.molestationnursery.com

7. If you're looking for IP computer software, there's always www.ipanywhere.com

8. The "First Cumming Methodist Church" Web site is www.cummingfirst.com

9. And the designers at "Speed of Art" await you at their wacky website, www.speedofart.com

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10971494/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10971494/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:52:19 PST

Now it'll just be forever until I get around to drawing it and writing the rest of the bloody thing Before that though, I think I may show chapter one to a few people and get some opinions. Oh yeah, the chapter needs a decent title too. All the ones I've had so far were a bit cheesemonger-ish.

Did I mention that I definitely settled on Song of Seirre as the title for the comic? It wasn't set in stone until I realised that the initials of the title were SOS, which you probably also know stands for Save Our Souls. Since saving souls is an important part of the comic, I thought it was quite fitting.

I formed a definite opinion of Coheed and Cambria too. They rock hard. I shall be getting their other albums at the first opportunity.

I got a pic started for 016 of the Challenge as well. Don't know if I'll finish it though, it's slightly complex and I don't feel like doing a complex picture at the moment.

That's all for now, unless you want me to start ranting about college, which I don't want to do. Laters

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HUNDRED PICTURE CHALLENGE

The point of this challenge is to test and improve your skill as an artist. After 100 pics who wouldn’t be better? Please forgive me if this in any way excludes you from taking the challenge.

The Rules:

1.) Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each pic should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.

2.) No time limit so have fun

3.) The main picture should be drawn but not limited to. For all fair purposes, people are allowed to use their paint programs and photo shop to create the pic.

3a.) Pics should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pics can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.

4.) The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that:
A.)You are in the challenge.
B.)What you have completed.

5.) Make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic.

6.) In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST:
1. Introduction - COMPLETE
2. Love - COMPLETE
3. Light - COMPLETE
4. Dark - COMPLETE
5. Seeking Solace - COMPLETE
6. Break Away - COMPLETE
7. Heaven - COMPLETE
8. Innocence - COMPLETE
9. Drive - COMPLETE
10. Breathe Again - COMPLETE
11. Memory - COMPLETE
12. Insanity - COMPLETE
13. Misfortune - COMPLETE
14. Smile - COMPLETE
15. Silence - COMPLETE
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection... ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10810253/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10810253/ Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:04:18 PST
The bad deadlines for college have passed now, so I'm a bit more chilled. I should still be getting on with the work I have to do though

That's enough about college. A few days ago I signed up to last.fm in my latest effort to find more cool bands. Already discovered one band, called Coheed and Cambria. The site played me their song A Favor House Atlantic (possibly the weirdest song title I've ever heard) and I really liked it. As a result I went into town and found the album for a fiver. Can't go wrong for that money, really. I've yet to form a full opinion on it, most of the songs are pretty different to Favor House, but I don't hate it

I also picked up some more Biffy Clyro and Lacuna Coil while I was there. They were fairly cheap too

I have started work on number 15 of the Challenge, I shall be attempting another full-fledged background with this one. Not doing a background just bores me now. Dunno when it'll be done, hopefully quite soon.

Oh yeah, here is my last.fm page.

Thanks all for now. Goodbye and godspeed

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10627291/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10627291/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:52:47 PST

Photoshop is back in full working order

I think that's all that's new in my life. Thrilling, isn't it?

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EDIT- I must be bored if I'm doing this kind of thing

1.YOUR PORN STAR NAME
(name of first pet + street you live on):
Sammy Bowman

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME
(grandmother's/father's first name + favorite snack)
David Cheddar (Mini-Cheddars are one of my favourite crisps)

3. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME
(first word you see on your left + favorite restaurant)
Tesco Depan (Slightly changed from Deep Pan, why do I have things that are weird surnames?)

4. YOUR SOCIALITE NAME
(silliest childhood nickname + first town where you partied):
Oblet Carlisle

5. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME
(first initial + first three letters of your last name)
P-Far

6. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME
(favorite animal + name of high school):
Wolf St Aidans. I like that one

7. YOUR BARFLY NAME
(last snack food you ate + your favorite drink)
Hoops Cola (yeah baby)

8. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME
(middle name + city where you were born):
Colin Carlisle. Perfect soap opera name

9. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME
(favorite candy + favorite musician's last name):
Riesen Clyro. That sucks, but I don't have a favourite musician so I just put half of a band's name in there.

10. YOUR OPPOSITE SEX NAME
(name of [opposite sex] friend + cell phone company you use):
Stacey Vodafone. What a load of crap.

11. YOUR STAR WARS NAME
(first 3 letters of your first name + last 3 letters of mother's maiden name)
Phi Ven. Love it

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10403392/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10403392/ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:38:51 PDT
So what else am I doing at the moment?

Let's start with college. I have a dissertation to do, a large web project to start thinking about, plus a smaller web assignment. And I have no motivation for any of it.

Enough of that. I have far too many personal projects going on to worry about college I'm thinking about ideas for 012 - Insanity, a Halloween picture, and a 5000 pageviews picture. I may be open to suggestions on that last one, but I suspect only a few people read my journal, so I won't hold my breath.

The biggest of these projects is my comic, which I think I have settled on a name for: Song of Seirre (song in the sense of a saga, and Seirre, pronounced 'Serray', being the name of the world where the story mostly takes place). As ever, it is moving slowly forward. I've done well in not changing my mind about anything that requires a huge rethink of everything I have so far. There are some bits that still seem wrong though, so it's not all perfect.

I realised tonight that I have had ideas for four separate comics. Firstly, Song of Seirre, containing characters I have had in one form or another for many years now. Secondly, Firebrand, which watchers of mine will remember from a year or so ago. Or maybe it's longer, I forget. It was a comic presented in short episodes that made fun of fantasy movies and stuff. I still have one or two ideas knocking around for Firebrand, so it may suffer a revival someday. I promise nothing though.

Now for the ones I haven't mentioned here before, I think. I have ideas for sci-fi characters, which were a pair of couriers and a bounty hunter. I never really got a fully-formed story for those characters, but it was going to involve the couriers coming into possession of something that various other unsavoury characters want. There was probably going to be an element of comedy in this comic, perhaps in the style of Timesplitters or Red Dwarf.

Finally, there was an idea I just got tonight, mostly involving the afterlife. It's pretty far from fully-formed, what with only being a few hours old, but worth pursuing I think.

Anyway, enough boring you with the dregs of my mind. I just wanted to tell you that Photoshop is working again.

EDIT- Photoshop is not as working as I thought it was. I used to use ctrl+backspace and alt+backspace as shortcuts to fill a layer with colour, but now they don't work any more. I've found another way to do it, but it's going to annoy me that I can't do it with the shortcuts. If anyone thinks they might know why those shortcuts don't work any more, please tell me.

Actually, it seems that Photoshop doesn't like any shortcut that involves the ctrl button. This is really pissing me off. I've had a crap enough day already, and this is the kind of stupid little thing that is likely to push me over the edge.

EDIT (again)- The Photoshop problem isn't as bad as I anticipated. I don't use the shortcuts quite as much as I thought I did

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10315081/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10315081/ Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:49:47 PDT
Sorry about the lack of artstuffs submitting recently. My Photoshop has packed in, so I can't colour in 011 of the below challenge Been contenting myself with sketching daevas instead. You won't get to see them though, I want to save my big baddies until they appear in my comic, which will be a few years at this rate But I am working on it.

Visited my sister (~atomicsmurf) in York today, she goes to college there now. We (me, my sister, my mum and my gran) went round the town. There's some excellent shops in York, and a blessed lack of chavs. How can you not love a city with a street called 'Whip-Ma-Womp-Ma Gate'? (100% true, I may post piccies to prove it).

Anyway, my favourite shop was something like Ottakar's, except they sold DVDs and CDs as well as books. There were so many books that I wanted there, including one I have not been able to get either at home or online. I got two of them, I may get the other books I was looking at on a later trip

There was another cool shop with lots of film-type merchandise and goodies in it, and me and my sister expressed interest in some pictures which were shots from a film put on canvas. As a result they have become our Christmas presents (no-one keeps these things secret in my family). So when I get it, I may post a picture of my rather snazzy Matrix Reloaded scene from the Burly Brawl triptych.

On the subject of purchases, The Killers' new album, Sam's Town, is awesome. Go get it.

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EDIT- Tagged, apparently. This means I have post six facts about me. Damned if I'm going to make a journal entry just for that though.

1- I have never shaved. Ever. And I have only recently begun to have a beard.

2- I think the world would be a much better place without all this technology.

3- I saw the comet Hale-Bopp when it last came close to Earth in 1997. This will not happen again until around about the year 4534. I hadn't even intended to see it, I only went outside, along with several other people on my street, to investigate a strange smell.

4- I am in the habit of growling.

5- My Terminator 2 DVD is signed by Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000.

6- I almost never get ill.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10093079/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/10093079/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:59:05 PDT
I made no progress on the Hundred Picture Challenge while I was offline, so sorry about that. My comic project moved forward, but I still won't be showing you that for a while.

My sister goes away to college tomorrow. It's going to be quiet here.

P.S. This site looks retarded in Internet Explorer. I may have to download Firefox again.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/9658371/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/9658371/ Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:59:38 PDT news article.

This makes me sad. You never think someone like him could die. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/9377394/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/9377394/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:32:58 PDT
It's a shame this bout of activity isn't working on my comic. I've still only written up to page three, I just keep getting stuck on dialogue. Anything I put in just seems shit. And I can't decide on a look for my bad guy. I decided to change his appearance a while ago, after doing that pic of a daeva. I think I've decided on the shape of his face, and he needs a new haircut too. The annoying thing is that I had a really clear image of him in my head for a moment, then it faded and I can't recall exactly how it looked. I think his hair was something like Edward Elric's, except white (and the character has purple skin) and shorter, without the plait. It doesn't look very evil though, in the sketches I've done.

Ah well, I'll get there eventually. I hope.
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ZOMG TEH UPDATE!

I finally got past page 3 of my comic I also finished page 4, though it probably still needs refining. And I'm not sure where the whole thing's going exactly. But it's definitely going, which I guess is what counts.

Anyway, that's all. Just thought y'all might like to know I'd made some progress. I may be back with some sketchy test pages (see scraps for the page ones I've done so far), but I wouldn't hold your breath on that.
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'nother update.

I've got further on my comic. A little bit anyway.

It's got around to that stage again that I want to draw, and have ideas, but whenever I try a picture it doesn't really turn out how I want it. It's most annoying.

Despite this, I managed to turn out a sketch of the bad guy described above. It's here, if want to check it out.

You want to know something? A while back I was searching for ideas for alternate names for 'humans' (as a species), because I wanted something more interesting than 'humans' for my comic. I came across the name 'Hain' and it stuck. It stuck to the point that for weeks now I have been thinking of normal, everyday people in the real world as hains. Is that weird?
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You must be sick of these updates by now. Especially as all I have is a new work in progress. Those with a fear of or allergy to scruffy pencils should stay away or get a friend to describe it to them or something. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/9045222/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/9045222/ Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:33:42 PDT It all went well, apart from the team arsehole kicking off because he thought someone was trying to take the credit for the tiny amount he had done. He'd have been scarier if he wasn't like the bastard child of Ali G and Tim Westwood.

Anyway, on to the art. I have a few ideas knocking around at the moment, and nothing to do till October, so maybe I'll start submitting more often. Maybe I'll even get my damn comic started

After playing Urban Dead for about nine months, I started playing something new. Nexus War is much more interesting so far. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/8578902/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/8578902/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:55:08 PDT

Enough of that. I'm pretty sure I mentioned a V for Vendetta pic in my last journal. That's died on its arse. I left it for a while and lost interest. Maybe I'll put what I did of it in my scraps at some point.

I also drew a picture of Aeris to go on the banner of a website I was doing for a college assignment, but since it looked, in my sister's words, "like Leo in drag", I didn't bother colouring it.

But never fear! I have a new idea for a picture, which I will finish. I hope. It's been ages since I finished something really worthwhile. I should probably be practicing new things too, but they never go right

Still trying to get this bloody comic written. Just can't make up my mind about stuff. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/8267300/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/8267300/ Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:07:21 PST
Also, I went in the forums to get ideas for dealing with writer's block, since I've been trying to get on with writing my comic but it hasn't been going anywhere. Thanks to suggestions in the forum, I've made progress, so maybe you'll be hearing more about that soon. Probably not though

Finally, I have an idea for a more complex, if that's the right word, piece of work. Having been starved for reading material recently, and hearing about the original comic book version of V for Vendetta, I went out and bought it. It's rather good, and I may do some fanart of it. It's probably going to end up similar to my Casshern pic from a while back, but at least I'll be drawing

I think I'll be seeing the film V for Vendetta tomorrow night too, perhaps that will bring more inspiration my way.

Here's hoping. Bye for now ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/8062350/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/8062350/ Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:46:43 PST

Ah well. I'm going to go and get some scissors. After that, I'll see if any ideas present themselves. I'm at a point in college at the moment where a bunch of new modules have just started, so we get a little time where we don't have much in the way of assignments. I should probably make good use of this time.

I'll shut up for now. Hopefully next time I talk I'll have something worth saying. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/7495405/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/7495405/ Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:52:39 PST Having said that, I probably won't be doing anything too complex.

Anyway, bye for now. Wish me luck with my assignments

Please. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/7369453/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/7369453/ Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:37:48 PST
So now it's the week before Christmas, and for the last few days I've had just about every minor ailment I can think of. Headache to start, followed by sore throat, and then I saw my dinner again. The next day I was better, but still headachey and sore throat. Yesterday I was pretty much fine, then late in the day my headache started to come back on, and now, the next day, it hasn't gone away again and I still have a sore throat and there's only one throat sweet thing left in the house

I hope I'm feeling better again by the weekend.

On the plus side, I've done a slightly crappy Christmas pic which I will hopefully colour and submit later today.

UPDATE- No pic because after writing this entry I got ill again and now I'm going to redo part of it when I can be bothered and I'm not too concerned about my assignments. Actually I just realised it'll have to be soon, or the Christmas theme will become unseasonal. Asshats. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/7050967/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/7050967/ Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:03:13 PST
I promised some stuff last time around, and I haven't really delivered. I have finished the 3D car now (see my scraps), but it doesn't look much different to the last WIP I posted. I think now I'm going to wait until I have XSI at home then finish the car off properly.

I also said I was going to draw Leo. I did one of him wearing his SWAT-type cop stuff (before he becomes a demon hunter ) but I wasn't happy with it and gave up a bit.

But anyway, I've started another pic in an effort to do something where the characters aren't just standing there. Dunno when it'll be finished, but I'll post a work in progress shortly.

Oh yeah, couple other things. I thought I had my comic going again, but then it all ground to a halt again. Same shit, different day, methinks.

I've also been playing Urban Dead [link] , a pretty cool zombie apocalypse MMORPG. Play as a human survivor or hungry zombie

EDIT- I'm gonna cry. The pic I'm working on isn't going to plan. I was having trouble with Jennifer's pose, but when I seemed to get that sorted, Leo started going wrong

I blame the cold. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/6754724/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/6754724/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:17:38 PDT I'll be required to do a 3D model of a car shortly, so expect to see that here when it's done. After that I have to model a character, which could be this guy [link] , which I think I'm looking forward to. I'll also have to animate him, though I have no idea how to submit 3D animations here, otherwise there'd be two on my page already.

In the non-college world, I plan to start a new picture of Ender today, something I said I'd do when I submitted that last one of Jennifer. I've also got the basic plot of the first part of a comic I plan to do, which will star Leo, Ender and Jennifer, among others. I'll start writing that soon before I change my mind again.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a pizza to eat.

Edit- I also feel some chibi-style nonsense coming on, so expect some of that soon too ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/6544668/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/6544668/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:13:31 PDT
-During a random conversation an image of my baby sister arose that I found amusing, so I decided to draw it.
-September 19th was Talk Like A Pirate Day (yarr) so I might be doing something related to that.
-I got a pretty good image (good enought to start with anyway) of one of my characters today. Haven't drawn this character yet, at least not in this incarnation so that'll be fun

I also want to try soft shading. Again. Hopefully it'll go better this time. The other times I tried it I was never happy with it and went back to cell-shading.

Stay tuned, some of that stuff might be up soon ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/6260364/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/6260364/ Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:23:55 PDT
This entry is mostly because the previous one is out of date.

EDIT/UPDATE- Still haven't done anything worthwhile. I can't get ideas to stay around long enough for anything to come of them. I know I have a good idea in my head somewhere, I just can't get hold of it. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5901241/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5901241/ Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:11:56 PDT
Hopefully they should be done by the end of the week though

Edit- [link] to the pencils of half of the picture I'm working on.

Edit2- Something I'll be colouring when I've finished the uniforms pic: [link] ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5654581/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5654581/ Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:47:05 PDT
Hopefully no college means I'll be submitting more often. I intend to do a lot of drawing in the coming months. That's right, months. I don't go back till October

To anyone else just finishing school or college, have a good summer ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5495640/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5495640/ Sun, 29 May 2005 18:31:54 PDT
Anyway, I've been here a year now I hope I improve as much in the next year as I have in the last year.

Three weeks till college is over. I think I might just sleep for two days straight once everything is out of the way.

]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5321726/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5321726/ Tue, 10 May 2005 15:23:06 PDT
My Ideas

-Casshern fanart. Got quite an ambitious idea for that, just need time to do it, and a decent picture of Casshern so I see what his bodysuit looks like.
-Band picture. I'm doing a picture of all my characters, as if they were in a band. Had the idea for ages, but keep getting distracted by other things.
-Posters. Saw some cool promotion-style posters in another deviant's gallery, and decided I should do something like that. So I'm planning that too.
-Comic. Currently early in the script stage. Working on that whenever I can

Assignments

-3D animations. Need to finish one by Friday 13th (adding sound and so on), and then I have to start another one.
-Short film. I need to do the titles and create a 3D UFO and possibly aliens too, by next Tuesday (17th of May).
-Drawing. Need three pieces for my Visual Literacy elective.

Maybe I should look into cloning myself. ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5146122/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/5146122/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:44:15 PDT
Second reason is college. Two of my three current assignments are quite demanding creatively, and I only have so much creativity to go around. Between that and the comic, I don't have much creativity to spare. I'll probably, hopefully, do a drawing at some point.

Thanks for reading ]]> ~philby http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/4898149/ http://philby.deviantart.com/journal/4898149/ Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:14:50 PST
Do have an idea for a pic though, so hopefully I'll get around to doing that ]]> ~philby