Dusting off the Book Shelf

Okay so I have finished this picture ages and ages ago ( around October last year. Feels like decades almost) and thought I better post it up here. I spent about 4 weeks on that one at the time and I think it's worked out alright! I'm not having so many mixed feelings about it as I typically do with older works, but it really sealed the deal that patience and actual hard work on a piece does really pay off in the end. I'm currently working on another right now, and has been sort of 4 weeks running already. I'm not so sure about this one, if it will have the same kind of completed feel as this one as it's a much softer and more subtle picture. Part of me feels like I've upped my game but another part of me looks at the new work and just... Feel like it's maybe a bit too plain. Part of me wonders though if that's just because I want some "wow" factor in it or not. I always have that feeling of "less is more" and I'm just not so sure that always translates so well with an audience. Especially being that my last picture was all wam-blam with colours popping out of its ears. Anyway! This piece posted here is now available at my society6 shop now!



So check it out!

In other news, now that I have more time for myself once again I'm going to have another go at reading these lovely things :



I keep looking at them and I know I should read them. I've started off with the Divine Comedy, which I already wrote about previously as I started reading it when I received it for my birthday.

Not too much else going on. I bought a screen calibrator this way I can know how my prints are going to come out. The whole thing is pretty convoluted and complicated, but I think I've managed to understand it now. I've got a few other things on the matter I want to read and get familiar with yet. I will actually be writing a little tid bit about what I know and explaining it pretty cut and dry for some others who were asking about it all. Anyway, I'm going to run off. I have a headache the size of...something.

Not sure if I mentioned about Flying Lotus before, but here's a lovely track :

Flying Lotus - Phantasm (ft. Laura Darlington)

Have a lovely one.

Society6 Shop now Open!

SO. I am still alive (somehow) and as I said before I felt the need to revive my blog. And now I have plenty of time to do just that as I've recently quit my job. To cut a long story short, my boss tried to guilt trip me into staying, but I knew what I needed to do. Which was not stay there and try to at least go and full on focus on my art while I still have the chance.

After a week of being out of there I've finished my last commission (that I've taken sometime in the summer of last year) and managed to open my Society6 account. So I've got plenty of goodies up there for grabs so have a look! :

www.society6.com/CBedford

I only just opened it yesterday and have since just added the two products. Though mind you a lot of editing went on to get the other products in order. I wish they had guides for the products because the only way you can tell how it's come out is after you've uploaded the image and squint at the little sample image. Anyway, the things I made!

So I'm fairly happy with the out come. And it was particularly easy with this print as the image is nicely contained.

It's actually a commission for a lovely little lady called Natasza who was so very patient the entire time while waiting for me to finish.

I'd love to actually write more but my head is starting to feel all headachey. I have to go down to Boscanova cafe on tuesday. I had to kind of convince the dude to look at my work as they stopped hanging up local art he said. But he was really cool about it all so. Yeah! Hopefully that goes down well!

Oh and if anyone happens to already have an account with society6 then please, by all means hit the promote button for me please! I'd be so happy if you did. In the mean time, I'm going to go crash. I havn't had a day of sitting around doing nothing since I quit work so. I think I'll go do that now.

OH and Mid-Air! has did this little gem.

Mid-Air! - Sleigh Bells - Run the Heart (the beat in our feet remix)

Halcyon

Laura Mvula - She

I felt like drawing something for myself kind of...and I think this came out alright. Normally I'm really horrible with the amount of time it takes me to do anything, but this one seemed to come out quite easily.

He's a character for my ANDRO✰ comic. It's quite a while before they have any relevance actually, but I'm so far ahead in my mind with the story that I can't help but put some of it to paper.

I'll be taking ANDRO✰ off hold and start updating soon again. I just want to finish up chapter 2 before I start posting again (so it'll be like a 10+ page update). Then after that there will be a bit of side story ( I guess I can call it that?).

It's been a looong while since I've updated my blog, I know, but I don't want to abandon it. I think this is the only place where I can kind of...freely write down my thoughts on everything and every piece I work on without over crowding the picture itself. I feel like keeping this updated...well it kind of keeps me grounded a bit maybe...

It's strange because it seems like so much has happened, even though my last update was what? Oh god , like 4 months ago. That is quite a while I suppose...Anyway. I...well I do have so much I want to say, but I'm not sure how much I -should- say. Life has been tricky, and I feel that the more my life progresses in the right direction, that the life of those around me seems to kind of..take a swerve into some crazy one. Particularly my younger sister...I feel like I've failed her. Big time.

Like...I feel if I didn't leave, everything would be so different...And that she wouldn't be stuck how she is... I guess the picture is kind of a representation of ..well just someone who can make things better. That can fix everything...I was definitely thinking about my sister non stop while drawing this. I was a sobbing mess really... Had to kind of tilt my head back so I didn't like, get the paper wet haha. It was even more difficult when Tom came home and like..I hate crying in front of him.

But yeah...I just want things to work and for everyone to be happy and just make the -right- choices that would be better for them. I wish she would listen to me when I talked to her, but it's her life at the end of the day, right?

I have a load of other pictures to upload, and things but , I'll do that soon. I won't wait 4 months that is certain.

...Yeah. Time to make some tuna potato...In the mean time you can listen to this :

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Black Boy

I don't really have it in me right now to write about anything. I should have updated my holiday photos by now but...Later maybe.

These are things I'm working on/worked on in the past while..

I should update more often and write more again. It really helped me understand things. Now I'm just a bit muddled up again.

I'm still continuing the ANDRO✰ comic and many seem to be enjoying it. I'm still struggling to get it to the standard I want it to be. But I guess what it is now is better than nothing at all.

Feeling really strangle lately.

fLako ft. Drig Gerner - Lonely Town

This song seems to apply now more than ever.

ANDRO✰ website!

So I FINALLY have the website up! FINALLY! I've actually ad it up for about ...almost a week now or something? But Really only been able to gradually post about it in places as I've been trying to do quite a few things at once still (and being a tiny bit lazy). Anyway, here it is!

www.andro-comic.com

You can also follow the updates and things on Facebook or on Twitter to keep up with when pages are uploaded. There's also an RSS feed on the site as well...

I'm pretty happy with the overall look of it and everything, and Tom helped me out quite a bit with the design with some of his own advice (as well as actually building it all and making it functional) But it's done now! Now people can just read it with ease, which was the main thing I was annoyed about when having it on tumblr and dA. It was really only easy to read for dA users in the end and...well that's not really helpfull.

I have lots and lots planned for the story as it gradually builds. It's interesting because at first I was litterally just going to make it a very short and brief comic without much depth or thought. I just wanted to try and finish something. But the more pages and further I got into it, the more the story started churning and processing in my head. I then realised that I shouldn't just do something easy just to say I did it. If I'm going to do something, I should do the best I can! So ever since staying active and actually making an effort with my work and my life, I have been the happiest since I've made my big move across the great pond. Now I look at the past and laugh heartily at some of the mistakes I had made (not to say that I won't make anymore , as I surely do). But it's a good feeling, doing what you want to do, and working hard for what you are trying to achieve.

I'm trying to get to a point of regulating m updates as often as I had when I first started posting, which should be fine as I'm getting some mroe time freed up from work.

As well as that, I will be working back to doing some of my actually arty stuff. Like my canvases. And I am also taking commissions again, which can be read about here : www.spacebubble.deviantart.com . Basically, I'm doing pencil work (or ink) for $20 (plus shipping - varies country to country).

Well it's time for me to get back to work, as I have to leave soon.

Peace,love and happiness and whatever else it is you desire.

Mid-Air! - A Little Bit of Sunshine 

I also have some vacation time soon! Back to Devon...again.....I do like Devon though...

Starwatcher

Daedelus - Tailor Made ft. Milosh (Sepalcure Mix)

Based off of Mobius' Starwatcher.


I decided to take a small break from all the Andro stuff for a day or two. Started drawing his at work and finished the details when I got home....I really like the character design, and so badly want to know more about them. I haven't really taken the time to do more research though to be honest. Tom has bought me a book of Mobius' work, but it's all in french...and has a very limited selection. Anyway back to work!

So many things to do....

Takeover

I have been incredibly busy the past few weeks. Trying to continue with the comic, but also having increased hours at work as well suddenly. Unfortunately this means that I had to give up my monthly pin up work for the time being (thought this doesn't mean that I will never do pin ups again!).

ANDRO✰ seems to be going well for me and I'm still having a great time drawing the story out, slowly adding more as I continue to work on it, changing things around and just basically explore what I'm capable of. I'm about 43 pages in now, having to ink about 8 of them still but haven't had the chance because of work suddenly. I've also been working on the actual website for ANDRO✰ on  it's own because really, tumblr and deviantart are probably not the easiest places to read it to be honest. Especially if you're not signed up to either of those sites. Not to mention I'm limited on the appearance of it's presentation. So I will be shouting about that soon. But with all these little things I've been trying to do, I've been neglecting my dear blog. Which I feel bad about. But other than doing pages, I haven't much else to show anyway......

And I should probably stop for now as I have lots more to do this evening....I just hope all my hard work is not in vain!