It was a dark and stormy night...

One dark and stormy night... our little friend finds it all a bit too much...

New Cartoon

Experimenting with size. This may be too little.

Hope you like it.

Aphobia is Born.

Well, after a few suggestions and much thought i've tentatively decided on a new name for my seemingly regular cartoon strip. Or is that Comic strip. Not sure what the difference is actually, I should look it up. Interestingly when I go to google define: it gives Comic Strip when i search for Cartoon strip. I guess they are the same thing.

Anyway, Aphobia - an obvious shortening of Arachnophobia, is about a bunch of spiders. Is that the correct name for a number of them? A gaggle of spiders? a brood of spiders? Another thing i'll have to research...

The ironic thing is i hate spiders, so its probably an apt name for the strip.

wetfloor

wetfloor
Originally uploaded by Lyynx.

I was on my way to the toilet and encountered a sign that was poorly placed... They should have a warning sign for that sign. This cartoon was soon born.

Massage Bunnies...

My latest Littlebites cartoon strip.

Enjoy :-)

I've been busy as a beaver (or is that squirrel?) colouring my latest cartoon. I'm quite impressed with how it looks. Very happy with it!
I'm going to get it printed out professionally in A3 size, and then frame it. It will be on display in May sometime in the Little Creatures Brewery in Fremantle.
Hope you like the sneak preview. :-)

I'm dabbling in some Digital Art these days and when i get a few more images uploaded I plan to open a shop front. I will also put up some of my cartoons as the shop seems a bit cheaper than the current one I use.
Check out my space on http://lythix.deviantart.com and let me know what you think!

Constantine

Rob, Dave, Michelle and myself went and saw Constantine on Saturday night. Not a bad movie… Yeah I enjoyed it. Something about the hero movies that I like. Maybe we all want to be a hero? I dunno. Might be the kid in me, wanting to fly and save the day, or swing from building to building like Spider-Man.

I know I get all excited like a kid when I’m watching these kind of movies… I think the highlight of the movie for me was when Constantine gives Lucifer the finger… hehehe. I won’t give away any more than that or it would spoil it for you.

Go see it, its fun.

Perth Sights

If you are ever in Perth, this is one of the interesting sights you
might be lucky enough to see.

It's not every day you see a silver angel. There is a Brass man around
sometimes. I drew a cartoon a few years back of the Silver Angel beating
the crap out of the Brass man. It wasn't my best drawing but the idea of
these Buskers fighting over their turf amused me. :-)

Have you had a look at Expresso? It’s a Regular Expression builder and can be found at http://www.ultrapico.com/ It helped me out a few times with some complicated regular expressions.

Too much to read

I think I’m hitting overload on the blogging department so I really should make an entry.

Something I’ve been playing with is RSS readers on my Smartphone. The biggest problem I’ve found so far, apart from the apparent lack of a good reader, is that they all want to use my GPRS connection. The only way I can be sure that my phone isn’t jumping online and downloading content is to have it in the cradle. (It disables GPRS while in the cradle, and uses the passthough. Which doesn’t work real well through a proxy but that could be a setting somewhere.)

I’d love to be able to deny certain applications from using GPRS. Of course if Telstra had an affordable unlimited GPRS plan then it wouldn’t be a problem would it? I mean its not like I’m going to be downloading big files is it? It’s a phone with fairly limited storage.

Anyway, I’m thinking I will have to write my own offline RSS reader or something… It has gotten me to dig out my Toshiba Pocket PC and set that up for reading RSS. Maybe an alternate Outlook mail reader would do the job? I could then sync the messages via Outlook/Newsgator and then use a custom reader to view the messages. I wonder if outlook messages are hard to read?

Also I need to cut down on the number of blogs I read. Scobliezer is one I should stay away from. He’s got lots of great stuff to say but GOD he blogs too much. Its like 20 messages a day or something. If I can get this running on my phone then I can utilise the bus time better.

 

Musing of the Muse

The Bunny post was not done by me, just in case anyone was wondering. I find the bunny toons very cool. I like the lines and the ideas are ok, with a few bizarre and some funny ones.

Follow the link under the post to find more of them. Something else that impresses me is that this guy (or gal? I’ve not checked) does one every day. That’s very impressive, I’m hard pressed to come up with something every week. Although I am still trying to find a style I like, I keep coming back to my spiders. The ideas keep coming but I worry that they are too simplistic. How many spiders can you do hanging on threads having conversations. I guess I’ll keep drawing them until there are no more.

I’m going to start using my blog to post my cartoons, and then keep them in a gallery on my web server. I’ve yet to figure out a way to see how many readers my blog attracts.

Stay tuned for more little bites… (that’s the spider strip)

its name was alber

I’ve been looking for my own pet peev… bunny is cool.

 

Related...

[Bunny]

This is my latest cartoon. I sat down and drew it last night, while Everquest2 was offline.

Other news: Just got back from two weeks away on my honeymoon. We had a great time! Went to Queensland and drove around lots. We drove about 1600Km's in 16 days. Spent a week or so with my Dad. Kicked back and relaxed lots. I did some Kite Surfing and got burnt on my front. Mental block forced me to totally forget about suncream on the front side. Duh...

Its good to be back at work... (I'm one of those lucky people who enjoys their job.)

It's all good. :-)

Santa

I’ve painted a Santa on my other window. I left my camera at work so I’ll post some pics on Monday. He looks great. J

Off to do some shopping. Hope the shops are not TOO crazy.  

 

Merry Xmas

 

I got my Uni results yesterday! Yay!

Operating Systems (not so fun unit...) 76% (D)
Visual Programming (fun unit!) 80% (HD)

So that brings my running average (down) to 80.125% which still scrapes in as a High Distinction. hehe...

Am now enrolled in a Security unit, and a Graphics Programming unit. The graphics unit is a prerequisite to a 3D programming games unit. Not sure if i will do that but it sounds fun.

Rudolf

Rudolf
Originally uploaded by Lyynx.

Well after I read a post by a fellow cartoonist (Grant Brown) I was inspired enough to give my own front window a go. I think it needs another coat, still a little patchy in spots.

Didnt take long and I've actually impressed myself. They say copying is the highest form of flattery. Not bad for a first try, i'm sure i'll get better with practice! :-)

cheat

cheat,
originally uploaded by Lyynx.

Here's a new cartoon that i'm doing a test post to my blog for. Perhaps this would be a neat way to show people my new cartoons, as well as what i'm up to. I probably draw new cartoons more often than entries to my blog.

bugs

bugs-w
Originally uploaded by Lyynx.

Ever had any bugs in your web site? Not always a bad thing. hehehe

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.