tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52586830670687781802011-11-28T01:01:43.918ZA new writer/ illustrator/ artist rambling, ranting and projecting the contents of his head as an exercise in writing between getting on with his novel and getting published. Expect art, illustrations and short stories. Click on the images to enlarge.John Chadwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802811414092531856noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258683067068778180.post-68581001307564659272010-05-24T13:18:00.002+01:002010-08-19T13:32:24.135+01:00

Just thought I'd write a quick blog welcoming StarcoreA to my blog page and thanks for following. I'm currently moving studio space from the smaller one downstairs at Platform Arts to a much larger one with skylights, which means that we now have plenty of natural light and I no longer have to answer the door to nutcases on the platform intent on the casing the joint. I've got a reading coming

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Just read through the chapters that I've posted this morning and realiesed how bad some of the spelling is and that there's the occasional garmmatical error and punctuation mark out of place. Just out of interest I thought I'd post this image of The Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, so anyone who has read chapter 4 can see where I took some character names from. I thought that as they were '

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Thanks to Michael Hann for his readings and comment of the last two chapters and for the anonymous reader who requested more. I intended to get this up sooner than later, sorry about the wait but theres been life stuff to deal with etc. Had a shit virus over the last week that was crappy. There's something going around that makes you feel achy and debilitated, hopefully I've shaken it off now

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Myself, Kath and my good friend Pete Heselton (curator of ThePython Gallery and fellow conspiritor down at Platform Arts) spent part of yesterday afternoon in the presence of the mighty black sage Alan Moore (From Hell, The Watchmen, Swamp Thing, 2000A.D)at The Laing Gallery, Newcastle. The performance of Moores 'Simultaneous Conjugation Of Four Spirits In A Room' took place between two paintings

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Not wanting to keep Les 'Dog Soldiers' Simpson waiting (on the off chance he comes round my house in those funny little pants he wore in The Descent) here's the next chapter... ... by the way the protagonist is supposed to be a sexist misanthrope, in case anyone thinks it's me. That was all part of my character flowcharting and stuff, trust me this one has been planned not written off the cuff..

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Mr Aqualung cartoon of the day March 2010 Already! Yes of course you are right, I should have put something up sooner, for gods sake its now March. Truth is I've simply been busy. As lots of you are probably already aware, we've just bought a new puppy... another Tibetan terrier to put alongside our other one and the cat. So its been a bit like a cross

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Heres the information from the wordlab lecture that I gave on the 12 of November for those participants that want it. Thanks for inviting me and I shall see you all again on the 26th of November John Firstly heres the task and the images: The task is a simple experiment intended to get your creative juices flowing. Choose either the pictures or the written text as inspiration. Or both if you

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Jack the Ripper illustartion thats going in the Whitechapel Society magazine at some point soon. Click to make it bigger.

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Just found out that my short story "The Midnight Supper Club" is going to be published in a collection of Jack The Ripper stories. It was enterd into this years Whitechapel Society short story competition and although I didn't win it was selected within the top ten and will be published along with the others by Mythica Publishing. I'm not going to post the story here yet in case it infringes

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Not felt this high after a gig since my friend and mine band as a teenager played a stormer at a theatre in the round in Great Ayton. The Haunted Library night was fantastic. £ groups of kids (not ASBOS) as I was told were taken round the library and fed bullshit stories, and it went down a storm. My last group started off with ten girls, was reduced to three and ended up with two. The best point

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Tonight is going to be a crazy night at The Central Library in Middlesbrough. I've been roped in to tell stories about the ghosts in the place to a group of kids aged 13 to 19 with Northern Ghost Investigation and a mystery man that is to remain nameless. He's an illusionist and mental magician. The NGI folk are taking the floor upstairs showing the kids where they've picked up ghost activity

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Cheers for everybody making comments, I've disabled the need to "follow" the site to be able to leave comments here on the page. Don't want to sound cheeky but if you are going to make comments can you do it here as the page looks a bit empty of followers and most people are messaging me on facebook or commenting there. I've just got more chance of getting published etc if peoples appreciations

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Not sure what to say about this one. Been going through sketch book material and reusing images to build up a varied portfolio. I had the idea of coming home to find a stranger sitting in your front room wearing your novelty slippers. I was also thinking of the Anthony Hopkins film where he plays a ventriloquist with a murderous puppet. For the life of me I can't remember what its called. Click

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Just finished this today, enjoy. The Man In The Moon. The man in the moon came tumbling down And asked his way to Norwich; He went by the south and burnt his mouth With supping cold pease porridge. (click the picture to enlarge it)

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I was left considering the kind of words that used to sell the the underground music scene earlier. It was fantastic when I was a teenager opening the sellophane on an a vinyl record too pull the inlay out and find a printed flyer inside the record advertising new bands and tours that I had never heard of before. I remember coming across both Tad and Nirvana this way inside a 12" by Mudhoney,

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Thnaks to Kate for following the blog, she does a blog on alchol which certainly makes me want to get the absinth out again. Thanks Kate you win a squeaky crocodile that my dog has torn apart. I should have some new illustrations up soon if I can put a portfolio pdf up I will, but I can't work out expertpdf maker, its a bit weird. John

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Black Cat. Kind of reminds me of a Hokosai this one. Wyrm. Well it's what we used to call them back in the day, but of course you are right any one who draws Dragons should be lynched for crimes against taste. I have no excuse other than it's not the usual Frank Frazetta tat. Cthulu. Well what else could it be. I doodled this one on A3 straight on with ink with a brush. I was a bit bored at the

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Character designs. Small sketches to help get an idea of different attitudes and movements/ poses etc, not just for animation but for illustration. These two are based on a Shih Tzu dog that we had when I was a kid. I still miss the mad little fella. I was asked to do these spider's for an animated film my friend  Ian Kraus was making. Not sure what happened to this film.

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Examples of illustrations. This one is for a version of Junky by William S. Burroughs. Reasons not play with Magic 1, 2, 3 I was attempting a more abstract design with this one. A Bath In Bath. I love the style of woodcuts, although these weren't done that way. I think my work was becoming quite abstract at this point. Funky none the less. Dark and abstract, think I might have been going

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I was working on a proposed animation about a circus, I took the initial ideas from a Windsor McCay cartoon called "Phoolish Phillip" and updated them to fit one of my own styles. The Walt Chowlski character is my own and drew influence from Todd Browning's film "Freaks".  Click an image to enlarge it.

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Here's some character designs for a short animated film that I was producing, "The Devil And Herge Gauche." These are quite rough sketches, that I used to get an idea of characterisation and pose.

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A look at a couple of pages from my sketchbooks of which I have loads, basically to help develop ideas and try out new styles without committing too much to a solid piece of work.

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Thanks to the agents and publicists that have been in and checking out the stuff that I've posted and the words of encouragement that has been coming in.Been working on new illustrations for prints the past few days which I'll post soon. They're a bit of a departure from some of the others, hopefully having a more commercial edge and displaying a different style in black and white.Had interest

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Culpeppers Orchard, Mike Tingley, Laughing Soup Dish covers just to brighten the place up a bit. Check out Mike Tingley's hair. Fantastic!! The Laughing Soup Dish albums in MP3 can be found at:First albumhttp://thealwaysbluesociety.blogspot.com/2008/10/laughing-soup-dish-we-are-dish-1987.htmlsecond albumhttp://gasmusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/laughing-soup-dish-underthrow.htmlI also found this

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Just a few of my recent images, prints available if anyone wants one.

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Things have been busy, busy, busy so apologies for not posting as often as I should but then there are so few of you reading this that we'd almost be better off meeting in the pub.I thought I'd put this piece of writing up as I've been intending to do it for ages.The best of my news to date is that I have been invited to take part in an overnight ghost hunt with Northern Ghost investigation for

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I've been interviewed on Radio Tees this morning for a promotion on the Haunted Middlesbrough Ghost Tour that will be taking place on September the 20th this year.We are after any stories that are ghost related to do with Middlesbrough town centre and/ or Middlesbrough in general.Theres a few bits and pieces that I've picked up on the internet to do with Poole Hospital, The Crown and the old

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Got back from Camperjam09 at Weston Park, Shropshire. The van is running fine at long last and we had no problems getting there and back. It seems to be a case of driving it at around 45 -50 mph and stopping every hour or so for a 45 minute break to let the engine cool down.The festival was good fun although we don't go to the entertainment tent to drink expensive beer and watch any of the bands

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I put a widget on the blog that puts adverts up and supposedly pays me for it, although I've been told that this will rarely happen.Can I just say that I am bewildered by the adverts that have sprung up and I don't endorse Psychic Surgery and I certainly am not affiliated with dating single men from North Yorkshire.Nuff said.Heres another bit of writing enjoy! THE FOOT It was a dull bank holiday

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Thought I'd put this up. This is one of my all time favourite album covers, The Laughing Soup Dish's album WE ARE THE DISH. The album was fantastic but unfortunately I only had it on tape and lost it years ago. I've been trying to find MP3 versions of some of the songs but have had no luck, I did find one that was streaming from their Myspace site but if you can't shove it on your ipod whats the

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Been a few hectic weeks since the last post, but Shaun Henderson told me off for not blogging daily so here I am and if you can dare to read this post on haunted Middlesbrough you will be rewarded with another chunk of my fiction writing at the end.Kath and I tried to get to Devon at the weekend but the VEEDUB blew up somewhere between Sheffield and Derby on the M1. We still don’t know what the

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Fantastic I now have 4 fools who have signed up to read this load of old balls.I have no idea which of the last two members joined first so you both get to win third prize, fortunately there are two of them but you'll have to wait until Thursday to get them. One each. Suprisingly large as well. I've got a feeling you'll like them. Poor dogs going to end up with a bucket on his head.John

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Fantastic, its only been up for half a day and I have another friend.Actually I already know him as well.Well done Gus you've won the air raid shelter (as previously discussed in the first post). Kath says it can be picked up whenever you want but you'll need a truck.Now I've got to think of a third prize; does anyone want a dog?He's kind of well trained, he sits, he gives his paw, he rolls over,

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Hooray I've got a friend on here!!!Friend being the operative word as I actually already know him. I've now been sitting her for 4 hours waiting for someone to come along and join in the fun.The winner of the competition is Martin Bell who I met at the Animex animation festival. Well done Martin you win a cadbury's creme egg. I'll give it to you next time I see you, or send me your address and

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Just a pic of me entertaining gypsy kids for laughs and chucks.

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Well here we all are!I've decided to start this blog as a way of exercising my thoughts (or is that exorcising my thoughts) and writing some bits and pieces between working on my first novel, getting short stories and other bits of writing published.I'll be posting bits of writing up here to test the water with it and see what peoples responses are so feel free to comment (only things that are

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