Hey! so Im aiming to blog everyday for at least 2 weeks. if all goes well. So I've been working on some new stuff, trying to get a bit better at digital art, mainly brushes and overlayer colour dodges etc, So ive been getting allot of help from Ricco Chapman, Great digital artist and my junior at work, great guy, his stuff great, just hope it rubbs of on me.



(click above for larger image)

Anyway heres my stab at Angus Young (ledgend!) from AC/DC

see what you think

So here it is this is pretty much photos from the last 4 years of my life From Phat Smoker to Now lol, they are all taken in Photobooth on 5 different Macs... its about 10 Mb its 134 of the best one, because there was thousands ... so it may take a while.. God my bandwidth going to be through the roof.. anyway you can pause it by rolling over it.

Im about to do a Tutorial from my Boy Ricco at 80eight design, shoudl be fun ill let you know how it goes.

Not feeling great today .. a good friday night was had and much alcohol was conumed.

Anyway ive been working on GM Trainig today, a close friend of mines new company, I am trying to get it finished out the way asap so i can work on my own stuff. I came up with a few logo concepts and they were wittled down to three,

My Fav was this one....


but they ended going with the hand written one.

So ive been working on there site its online and being tested at the minute



Click above image to get a better view (its a pop up so unblock the page first)

Im quite happy with it, the flash header animates nice, and the client is happy too, just wee bugs to iron out but shouldn't be long till its finished.

Im working on new biz . contact cards for myself, there not really for business, i just want to try and get my name out there and become a better known designer.


The design i have in my head is really nice but ill need to work out costing as it may be a tad expensive :S.

I also found some biz cards that i designed a few years ago when i was tidying up, there nice design, i forgot all about them, ill try and take a few pictures and stick them up here soon.

So its the last day in town, i feel a bit sad about it, its been 3 years, 3 years of ausome lunches from chopstixx and gregs... man ill miss though guys..(sob)


So were moving officially to the south....not the one with red necks and hicks, the other one, lol im looking forward to having my own studio now though space to do what i want and our own unique space for the design team to flourish... IE play loud music.

The office is a bit of a mess at the moment, everything packed up, although im still working away on stuff atthe same time which is a bit mad as the network is almost gone.

theres a funny story behind this picture...


basically myself and a few of Coatbridge's finest went on a road trip to download festival in Donington, I only had the car a few months and the clucth blew out just outside stoke, it cost a shed load of money to fix. The irony is that the main band I went to see that weekend are from Tennessee who are called clutch, they were simply fantastic and made up for the bad luck.

Also Faith No More and Deff Leopard were amaizing!

what an ausome weekend!!! and what a fantasic car, wouldn't trade it for anything :)

J

All righty!!

Wow its been far two long (see what i did there? almost 2 years ...) since Jan 2008 in fact (ill double check that)

So what's been happening. Loads! far to much to mention in a one off. So what's changed.. well Im now the lead designer at CO, i have an ausome Junior called Ricco, who as well as being a great designer is sound as... what a great guy! chuffed to bits.

Works been mental over the last year but things are now stable, things have been crazy! weve just launched 2 magazines, inspire and Love curry. we have had 2 new out door events Hungama at the Quay and Diwali at the square, which all went really well, We also still have the IRN-BRU scottish Curry awards and the SABAS, along with our second YSME awards which will take place next month; so as you can imagine we have beeen very very busy.

Me in charge of the AV pit at the SABA's


so what elese have i been working on externally, well ive been once again commissioned by the director os CMI training to work with the,. they are re branding as GM training with all new art work and website. i will keep you up to date with the work.

what else did i do today then..... well I've had a bizzar week my iphone stopped working which was gutting... after a few appointments at apple they discovered that i had "fluff" stuck in my headphone jack. SO today i set the official Glasgow apple store record for the most amount of "fluff" removed from an apple iphone.... slightly embarrassing as a small group of Apple staff gathered round in disbelief as they removed ball after ball of ooz.


Excuse the picture, its an old one from the day iphone was launched. I waited out in the snow for 9 hours...sad i know... ANYWAY

Also Ive rebranded all my jdigital stuff, the whole freelance thing is no over for me for a good while, im no longer looking for solo projects, just stuff for people I know. I want to focus more on official work related content only.

im going to keep this up todate from now on also.. I hope.

ALSO I CAN NOW DRIVE! i got my passed my test a year ago and have a first gen new mini cooper in silk (mint metallic) green. im so happy with her, (thats right her!) shes my pride an joy. I got a new macbook too the week before teh new macbook pro came out lol gutted but Im still happy.

Anyway i will be on here alot more. although i do keep my photo iPhone blog more up to date as its easyer lol which can be found at http://www.jdigital.co.uk/iphone/

Oh and Ive also lost 5 stone and have changed my life dramatically lol

cool

Take it easy and ill speak soon