Dead Doodles

Android Dreams

2012-02-24T11:47:00.001-08:00

Android Dreams. Looks like its electric sheep again.

So I've let my Sci-fi nerdiness get the better of me once again! I finished reading through Philip K. Dick's classic, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (also known as Blade Runner on the big screen.) And I just had to do something about it. Luckily I just happened to see a great design (Circuit Bots by Seven Hundred) based on circuit diagrams and suddenly there was this design staring me in the face, from inside my head obviously! Its quite a literal interpretation but who's to say that's not the best way sometimes. A bit of doodling later and I've got another one to show you. Hope you like it.

Available as prints, laptop skins and iPhone cases from Society6 and Tees and stickers and stuff on Redbubble. And of course the Doodle Dojo store has all the links.

Santa Clara Takeaway

2012-02-17T12:04:00.000-08:00

Santa Clara Takeaway, the best chinese in town!

One thing I never could stand about Santa Clara, all the damn vampires!

The 80's had some great movies and The Lost Boys was one of them. Utterly cool from beginning to end, Keifer Sutherland being mean before Jack Bauer was even thought of, the Frog Bros! Just plain awesome.

This idea has been hanging around the back of my head for a while and I thought I had best get it out into the world before too long. Personally I'm not a big fan of creepy crawlies so I can't think of much worse to find in your food than this. Except spiders. This is one of those things that sounds like a great idea until you have to spend a couple of hours drawing a box of maggots. Still, lesson learned for the future, no more maggots. Although I can't think of any more designs that would need them. Yet.

Head over to Society6 and Redbubble to get yourself a print on something cool and don't forget the Doodle Dojo Store for more info.

Station's Most Bodacious Creations

2012-02-11T02:56:00.000-08:00

Station's Creations, the good robot Bill and Ted

Bill and Ted, the two most excellent time travellers, need a bit of help to defeat their evil robot counterparts. So they enlist the help of the two-part alien Station to build them some good robot buddies. Not only do they totally defeat the evil robots, they also make pretty good backup dancers for Wyld Stallyns.

Time travel, rock and silliness combined into two awesome movies? What coud be better? Not much if you are me so I thought it was time to add a bit more Bill and Ted to my doodle collection. The robots never seem to get too much attention, which is a shame because I think they look great. Especially in full air guitar mode.

Station's Creations is available on T-shirts, iPhone cases, stickers and prints on Redbubble. Not forgetting the prints, iPhone cases and laptop skins you can get from Society6.

Where's Wookiee

2012-01-30T08:54:00.000-08:00

Where has that Wookiee got to now?

I was looking at my son's Where's Wally books (Where's Waldo over the water) when this little idea hit me. I had to get sketching! After trying (unsuccessfully) to do a full page of finding the wookiee like inside the books I had a better idea and tried making it look like a book cover instead. This version worked out a lot better and, after drawing more Star Wars charactersin one go than I have since school, I came up with this. I'm pretty pleased with the end result and so far lots of other people seem to like it too, which is always really nice to hear!

As always this is available in my Redbubble store and on Society6 as prints, iPhone cases, greeting cards and T-shirts. Click on over to the Doodle Dojo Store for more info.

Basil's Fury

2012-01-22T13:30:00.000-08:00

Basil Fawlty takes out his frustration.

Fawlty Towers is one of those classic British sitcoms. It never seems to get any less funny no matter how many years pass. So I thought it should get a doodle. This is one of my favourite scenes. Basil's legendary anger gets the better of him when the car won't start and so he pays it back in his own special way. I think its the utter uselessness of it that gets me. There's almost no danger of the car being damaged but he rages away it at regardless. It could also be that John Cleese just looks extremely funny swinging wildly at an inanimate object.

If you somehow don't know what it is I'm going on about, just have a click here and enjoy the show.

Head over to the Doodle Dojo Store if you want to get hold of a T-shirt, iPhone case, or even a print.

Horrible Weapons

2012-01-14T05:23:00.000-08:00

Horrible weapons as used in some classic horror movies

Horror movies for me are all about the weapons. There are sharp ones, blunt ones and the more off the wall ones! So here is a selection of my favourites. If you had this little lot available I reckon you would be able to survive most zombie outbreaks without too much trouble.

Bonus points if you can name the films they come from too. In this case points don't win you prizes but you do get to be proud of your geekiness!

This is a slightly modified version of the design that I submitted to Threadless. Now that their 90 day period is over, you get to get your hands on it at the Doodle Dojo store instead. Click on through for more details.

In other exciting news (it is to me at least!) I have now started adding my doodles to Society6. So if you are in a helpful mood please feel free to take a look and click that promote button on anything that takes your fancy.

Urk Urk's Gaffi Stick Emporium

2012-01-08T10:59:00.000-08:00

Urk Urk's Gaffi Stick Emporium. The best Gaffi Sticks in the Jundland Wastes

Urk Urk is the Tusken raider equivalent of Hatori Hanzo. If you need a quality Gaffi stick, he's the one to get it from. Just head out into the Jundland Wastes and follow Beggar's Canyon. It's just behind the big rock, you can't miss it! Plenty of bantha fodder is available for all our patrons, just make sure you come in single file to hide your numbers.

I don't think its possible to run out of ideas for Star Wars designs. Urk Urk is the way I refer to the Tusken Raider that knocks Luke out. I thought that they must have shops and stuff and why wouldn't they have an Emporium as well, I'm sure they aren't just savages!

Available on loads of stuff at Redbubble. Just check out the Doodle Dojo Store for more details.

Dragon Army Emblem

2012-01-02T12:24:00.000-08:00

Ender Wiggin's Dragon Army Emblem

You might have noticed that I'm a little bit of a sci-fi nut. And once in a while its good to indulge the geekiness inside. So when I started thinking about doing a little something to do with Ender's Game, I knew I should just get it out there to stop me dwelling on it too much. So after imagining obscure pictures of people floating around pointing guns I thought I would make it simpler and just go for an emblem instead.

I only got around to reading Ender's Game quite recently, (the shame!) but I'm glad I did catch up, what a great book. And now I hear that there is a film in progress. That could turn out to be awesome, or might be terrible. Hearing that Harrison Ford is going to be in it makes me feel slightly better but who knows with the standard of films these days? Fingers crossed!

In the meantime, head over to the Store and join Ender's Jeesh!

2011 over and out

2011-12-31T07:38:00.000-08:00

Its that 'recycle an old doodle' time of the year!

I don't usually write lots of boring stuff in these posts but I figure that once a year can't hurt. This year I decided to get back into drawing after carefully avoiding it for too long. So when I discovered sites like Zazzle and Redbubble it came as a bit of a surprise that I hadn't found them before. After a bit of the usual artistic doubt (but what if people think my drawing is rubbish, what if these places are a scam, etc.) I got a bunch of stuff out there on the internet. A good chunk of time and effort later and I now have something to show for my efforts. This blog and a whole bunch of drawings!

The bit that really stuns me is that some people have paid money to own something with my doodles on. Thank you so much to those who did actually spend out, you have no idea what a pleasure it is to receive those emails. Thanks also to the people who have helped out voting, reblogging, liking and tweeting about my work. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be still doing this without all that help.

So here comes another year and I'm hoping that more of the same happens. So please invite your friends to have a look, leave a comment, and maybe even buy something. Should be fun!

Disc Bootik Chart

2011-12-29T03:30:00.000-08:00

Disc Bootik Chart from A Clockwork Orange

"Who you getten bratty, Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen?"

"What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful portable picnic players. Come with Uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited!"

I might have mentioned in passing that A Clockwork Orange is one of my favourite films. Well the Disk Bootik scene is one of my favourite bits of the film. I've always wondered what the bands and songs are on the chart, so with the help of a pause button and slow motion I figured it out. Sadly (for me) it just makes it even more interesting. What sort of band are Bread Bros? Is Jelly Rock a dance? Is any of it any good?

The Disc Bootik chart is now available on the Doodle Dojo Store as prints, t-shirts and iPhone cases.

Low Flying Spacecraft on Tee Raiders

2011-12-22T09:24:00.000-08:00

Health and Safety are important in the modern workplace.

The awesome people at TeeRaiders.com have decided to print Low Flying Spacecraft! That means that you will be able to get hold of this Star Wars based design for 72 hours for only $10! It will be available from Monday 26th through to the end of Wednesday 28th of December. TeeRaiders also sell hoodies starting from $30 so if you need to keep yourself a bit warmer you can get one of those instead.

Head on over to my Facebook page to get the latest info on print dates and new designs as soon as it happens. I'm thinking of having a bit of a giveaway when I get past a certain number of likers, and in tribute to the Star Wars-ness of this design I think the magic number has got to be 66. So share with your friends, tweet to your twips(?) and reblog to your followers to make sure that magic number gets hit.

Swiss Assassin

2011-12-13T14:32:00.000-08:00

Swiss Assassins are ready for anything

My latest doodle is based on Assassin's Creed. With the release of the newest game there hasn't been a lot else going on in my house, which meant I had plenty of time to consider the weapons. If the Turkish assassins have this fancy hook blade why wouldn't other nationalities have there own version? So the obvious choice was the Swiss. They love having a tool for everything so why wouldn't their hidden blades be ready too? So here he is, Ezio Auditore after a visit to Switzerland. No can will stay safely closed now.

You can show your love for multi-purpose tools and 15th century assassins by getting a T-shirt. Check out the Doodle Dojo Store for more info.

Party on, Who?

2011-12-08T10:22:00.001-08:00

Party on, Who?

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is one of my all time favourite films. And Doctor Who is one of my all time favourite TV shows, so when I started wondering what would happen if they met up it was fairly obvious that it would end up as some sort of picture! The TARDIS is well known for being slightly out of control, so its bound to turn up occasionally in places it shouldn't. The three future dudes manage to hide their surprise pretty well though I thought.

This one is also available on things to decorate yourself and your stuff. Head over to the Doodle Dojo Store to get more info.

Stormtrooper Eyetest

2011-12-02T09:05:00.001-08:00

Random stormtrooper eye testing begins on the Death Star

Stormtroopers always seem to get a bad rap for being rubbish at things like shooting guns at people. But I think its a bit harsh myself. Its no good blaming them when the emperor wouldn't hire a decent optometrist when he was building the Death Star. Lots of money for detention centres and garbage crushers, nothing for vision correction. He was going to put it right for Death Star 2 though, the optometrist moved in the day before the rebels attacked. Things just might have been different if it had been a week or two earlier.

The Doodle Dojo Store has the links to get yourself one of these on a T-shirt, sticker or iPhone case.

Don't Make Me Angry on Qwertee

2011-11-23T14:27:00.001-08:00

Don't Make Me Angry on Qwertee

Don't Make Me Angry is going to be printed on Qwertee from Saturday 26th of November! That's £8 or €10 or something else entirely in $ for a top quality screen printed T-shirt. Can't be bad.

Because this is a bit of a big deal for me, I'm having a bit of a giveaway as well. So if you head on over to Doodle Dojo on Facebook and hit the like button you will be entered into a random draw to win a sticker from Redbubble. That's any sticker of your choice from my Redbubble store for nothing. Got to be worth a go right? You can see the full range of available sticky goodness here. So click that like button and I'll keep you up to date with all my doodling.

Moustache Men for Movember

2011-11-17T10:49:00.001-08:00

Moustache Men - an evolutionary relative of the wookies.

These are the mysterious moustache men. I doodled these for Creaturemag's Moustache Illustration Awards. The brief is nice and open, draw something moustache related. Success with these guys I think! I tried to cover the full gamut of moustache styles and colours. I figure they are probably about 6 inches tall and live in a very cold part of the world. Their extravagant facial hair could be used to attract females during the mating season and also protect them from the thorny bushes in their natural environment.

My entry is now up on Creaturemag for viewing along with a whole bunch of other awesome moustache related pictures, so take a look. The awards are in support of Movember which aims to raise awareness of men's health issues, so its in all for a good cause too. Not only that but all the illustrations will get published in an ebook at the end of the month, result!

Kurgan Fried Chicken on COTDT.com

2011-11-15T11:36:00.001-08:00

I think that says it all!

The amazing people over at Catch of the Day Tee will be printing my tribute to the Highlander's nemesis on Friday November 18th. You will be able to get hold of this my Kurgan Fried Chicken T-shirt for only $10 but only for 24 hours. So either put it in your diary or tell Siri to do it for you. Unless it is Friday when you read this, in which case head on over there now! If it happens to be after Friday, where were you? Of course it will still be available through the Doodle Dojo Store afterwards.

Cavorite - A Remarkable Alloy

2011-11-12T12:01:00.001-08:00

Invented by Dr. Cavor in H.G. Wells First Men in the Moon

As you might have spotted, I'm a bit of a science fiction geek. So for this one I've gone back about as far as its possible to go in the genre and taken some inspiration from one of the originals. H.G. Wells had some amazing ideas and wrote some incredible books. One of his best ideas was Cavorite, which featured in The First Men in the Moon (Its free! Download yourself a copy). If its possible, his character reasoned, to have materials which are transparent and opaque to different forms of energy, why shouldn't it be possible to have a material opaque to gravity? It still seems like a pretty good idea today, so I thought I would have a go at designing an ad for just such a material.

I had a good look at some victorian adverts to get a feel for the style and made sure I got the copy in period too. The illustration shows the cavorite spacecraft which the heroes of the story use to visit the moon. That's where the main part of the story takes place, but as usual I got sidetracked by how cool it would be to fly around space in this contraption!

When I added this to Redbubble, I got a nice mail from Synaptyx (of Synaptees) asking if I would like to add some of my work to a group he admins called Corporation Inc. Of course I said 'yes please,' and they have been kind enough to feature some of my stuff on the group's main page. Thanks very much!

As always this design is available on all sorts of T-shirts, iPhone Cases and Stickers. Just go through the Doodle Dojo Store to find all the links.

Flying on Threadless

2011-11-07T05:45:00.000-08:00

Flying up for scoring on Threadless

I thought it was about time for another submission over at Threadless. This is a little sketch that keeps cropping up in corners of my sketchbooks so I thought I would finally give it some proper attention. Its a bit of a daydreamy thing, but I like it, so its time to see if other people do as well!

It would be great if you could head on over there and send some points my way if you have the time.

Harry Tuttle - Heating Engineer

2011-11-03T12:36:00.000-07:00

Harry "Archibald" Tuttle - Freelance Heating Engineer

Terry Gilliam's science fiction movie Brazil is one of those often overlooked gems of cinema. Its got a wonderful dark view of a future taken over by bureaucracy, red tape and complications. The people are scared into a life they don't really want by a fear of terrorism. But in the middle of all this comes a man who has ducked out of the world of forms and doing what you're told. A heating engineer called Harry Tuttle (played by Robert De Niro). He tells Sam, (the hero of the movie,) that he became a heating engineer for, "the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone."

I love the utterly surreal idea of an armed man busting into a house in order to fix the air conditioning without doing the paperwork. Reminds me of those soldiers that do the missions we never hear about, black ops. So what beter way of representing Harry than as the guy from Call of Duty.

Yes, this is also available on T-shirts, iPhone cases and stickers. Click on over to the Doodle Dojo store to find out more.

Ludovico Institute for Behaviour Modification

2011-10-29T08:17:00.000-07:00

The Ludovico Institute for Behaviour Modification

A Clockwork Orange is an all time classic film. It somehow manages to make the utterly horrible Alex into a character you care about and feel sorry for, even though everything that happens is bought on by his own actions and behaviour. The main reason for that is when his humanity is stripped away through the use of the Ludovico Technique. So I thought I would make a logo for the Institute where it all happens. The only other institute I could think of was the Torchwood Institute from Doctor Who so I thought I should mash the two together and see what happened. Turned out real horrorshow.

This is now available on T-shirts and other stuff from Redbubble at the Doodle Dojo Store.

Today is the Day for Evil Mummy!

2011-10-26T00:52:00.000-07:00

On sale today only for $10 at 24tee

Just a quick reminder that the Evil Mummy is available for today only at 24tee.com. If you want to get your hands on this shirt for a mere $10 you only have this one day to do it, so get on over there and get one before its gone.

Oompa Loompa YMCA

2011-10-24T13:36:00.000-07:00

Oompa Loompas doing the YMCA

Oompa loompas are definitely a weird bunch. They didn't improve much in the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate factory although they did get a lot more uniform. I liked the idea that they don't just do the routines that you see in the film. They probably have a whole repertoire that they practice to make sure they get their timing right. So here they are in mid practice of that most classic dance routine, the YMCA. Everybody knows it, but I doubt that many do it quite as well as Oompa loompas.

Go and have a look at the posters, stickers, iPhone cases and of course T-shirts available on the Doodle Dojo Store.

Evil Mummy is Getting Printed on 24Tee

2011-10-19T12:32:00.000-07:00

Evil Mummy - available from 24Tee on Wednesday 26th October

This evil mummy is not happy to discover that his internal organs are being stored in jars. I think I would be pretty cranky too though after 3000 years locked in a basement. But now he's being revived and stuck on a T-shirt. Doesn't look like its making him too happy though.

24Tee are printing this design on Wednesday the 26th of October. It will be available on their site for 24 hours only, at the very reasonable price of $10.00. So if you fancy a bargain, get yourself over there and grab yourself one. You can't complain at a price like that!

Thanks to 24Tee for picking my design, its great to be working with them.

Maurice Moss - Living the Dream

2011-10-18T02:31:00.000-07:00

Maurice Moss, living the dream

Maurice Moss wants to get an iPhone without paying any money to Apple. And if he could just get his arms free he might be able to get it. This illustration is based on this scene from the IT Crowd. One of the best sitcoms in a long while from the creator of Father Ted. Its looking like there will be a fifth series sometime soon, can't wait. I wanted to get some nice geeky toys in the machine with Moss so I've used a little imagination rather than copying what was actually in there. No prizes if you spot them all, but I'll be impressed anyway!

This is available on the Doodle Dojo Store as a t-shirt, iPhone case, sticker and all sorts of prints from Redbubble.