Crumbs Fanart: Green Vs Stanley

It's that surprising and wonderful occurrence where someone wanted to make something for me! Rachel Normand, creator of Lizard Cops (Eeee, episode 2 will be coming soon sjhsjkhjdk) saw I was being a sad panda and decided to be all "I SHALL FIX THIS!" *Whoosh* and then this amazing creation appeared.

It's just utterly perfect. Green would be enough of a dickface to snatch a doughnut from someone and come out with a quip like that. Although he's hardly one to talk; I'm surprised that tree branch is still standing. Maybe it snaps afterwards and Stanley gets the doughnut back. Hmm.

... I will most likely be drawing that. Mmhmm, yep.

SPEAKING OF, I have been working on my entry for the Lizard Cops Art Contest. I'll just share a part of the sketch for now as the majority of it is at the unpolished poop stage. It will be involving Stanley as well.
This dog just cannot catch a break, can he. Well, a few broken bones maybe.

So yeah, hopefully I'll finish that this weekend!

Thanks to Rachel Normand for being her awesome self and if you haven't seen Lizard Cops yet WHAT IS ACTUALLY WRONG WITH YOU EDUCATE YOURSELF

Kay, bye guys!

Birdbrained Collection Complete and More Concept Art

I should be in bed now but I'm... uh, long story short, I need to distract myself right now. Besides, the college internet is being a giant prat so I don't think I'll be able to upload an entry tomorrow. So might as well be productive while I'm fending off sleep.

OK, so you might have noticed that indeed it's true, the Birdbrained collection is now complete! I may or may not add other birds in the future if people wish for me to but for now, I'm leaving it as is. I have to say, they all look fantastic together. Very colourful!

You can view the collection and buy the shirts RIGHT HERE.

I've also dabbled in some concept art here and there as I develop the characters and settings to help me dig into the story better. We'll start with a little idea I did for Hope. As she's a religious bird, I thought it would be fitting to recreate the classic holy dove imagery: the blue sky, bright sunshine and rays and of course the dove (well, in this case fantail but shush) itself. All she's missing is the plant they sometime include in her beak.
I'm considering making this a poster or a print in the future if people like it enough. Yes, no?

And as both Ashleigh and Rachel were doing some world building for their projects, I decided to do some artwork of one of the main buildings in the comic, an abandoned building in the town that the pigeons in the city often go into for meetings, shelter and so on. I did the same building at different times and weather because I wanted to see how that particular building would look. I'd like to create more settings once I think of them in better detail.
The raining one is my favourite one I think. It was the first one I did and I think I spent the most time on it. The Secret Promise perfume ad on the side of the building is actually an affectionate nod to a GCSE Media project I did with my friend Stacey, where we had to film our own advert. I wonder if she still has the footage...

Yeah, when the building is seen in the comic, the sign will always be different. Because shut it, that's why.

I'll make the pigeons colourful next time, I was mainly focusing on the background for the time being. Perhaps a shot of one of the pigeons overlooking the city. Hmm.

Also I should reeeeally get cracking on the script. Minor detail there. Oops.

Anyway you know the drill, any comments/advice/whathaveyou, just lay it on me in the comments. OK, catch you all later champs!

Slight Hiccup In Development

Yeah uh, if you know me in real life (or follow my twitter page as I was whinging about this constantly), intense stomach pains got me into the hospital before I was able to complete my project development work and hand it in. I came out with two weeny scars, aching everywhere and an exhaustion I'm still trying to shake off. Damn anaesthetic. Or however you spell it.

So I'm all discombobulated with my work right now and I need to figure out what I need to get done and when. I feel I should have recovered faster than this- it was just a keyhole operation and a laparoscopy, surely that shouldn't have been a big deal? I don't know, I don't really get sick often. Or at least nothing worse than a head cold.

Either way, I need to get a mitigation agreed. I was PLANNING on doing that today but the damn exhaustion took over again. I need to get over that tomorrow, the sooner the better.

So I don't have a LOT to show you guys, especially not in terms of the Realisation. And I also have to do the dissertation and... oh god, my head. But I have some little things I've done that I'm able to share. I'd also like your opinions on a few things actually.

Bit first, a cool picture of Scarlet. Always meant to colour this. I also tried a new shading style as well. It looks pretty good. Might use it more.

And now, the new Crumbs background. It's not done, I need to add Jay still but I wanted to add SOMETHING new considering I've been off the circuit workwise for nearly two weeks.

There it is in full. You can see it in action RIGHT HERE. And if you want to see the old background, you can look at the vlog again.

What I'd like to know is which works better. If you have any preferences or advice on what I can improve, please let me know!

Now I'm off to eat something and attempt to sleep and then not sleep in tomorrow like a moron. Wish me luck on that.