Book and painting

Hola!
Did some things to send off for this thingy, kinda like a secret santa (but its not Christmas), that we do on the Unified Scene, which is the Hold Steady forum.

So I made a book for this guy, and the little slip thingy that goes over it has the Stay Positive logo on it. I also did a Dylan painting for him. I got a picture of Dylan, played with the levels and threshold in Photoshop, and then imported it into Illustrator, live traced it, then physically traced it - off the screen of my laptop, no less - and painted it.

Chuffed how it came out, actually!

Peace x

Chris

Sharks rock.

Hey guys.. Just a little something I threw together the other day, because sharks are so cool.

It's not showing up on here so I'm gonna have to just send you on over to my DeviantArt page.

If you are gonna download it, please drop a comment either there or here (if you have an account), or send an email down to chrisstringer[dot]des[at]googlemail[dot][com]. Thanks :)

Cheers

Chris

Zombies! Dinosaurs! Zombie Dinosaurs!

Guys, I love zombies. It's no secret. Another thing I openly, and all too regularly, declare my love for is dinosaurs. They both rule hard.

So, I present to you...

The Zombiraptor!

It's a work in progess, but I'm excited to finish it!

Peace!

x

New DeviantArt Page.

Hello people. Just a little note to say I have a new DeviantArt page, hit it up if you get a chance. There's not much on there at the moment, but bear with me. 

In other news, finished my first year of uni, got a letter saying I passed - yay! Kind of knew I would, sort of, but then again one can only be so sure. Currently reading Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist - freaking awesome. Can't wait to watch the film, but have to finish the book first!! 

Also, plenty of planning ahead this summer; which I don't usually do, I don't like planning ahead too often because I feel it ruins surprises and the enjoyment of madness. But I'm planning to do quite a lot. I've actually got a commission too at the moment (which I haven't actually started yet), so that will be fun, drawing a DJ for this guy in work. My father also said he'll commission me to do a corporate identity for his contracting service  - I don't have a super close relationship with him, so it'll be less like my father and more like a real client, which is kinda cool in a sort of depressing way! But that's IF he even emails me, which he hasn't yet.

I'm also going to start work on a comic I want to make. Nothing more on that yet, but it's called Fliers. Kind of a gigantic mixture of loads of awesome stuff. 

Anyway that's all for now, I'm going to leave you with the awesome works of Jon Sommariva, A.K.A  Red-J on DeviantArt. He's an awesome artist and has been working with the legend that is Jay Faerber on a comic called Gemini for Image Comics. It's been aaaaaaages since number 3 was out, and I've heard issue 4 is coming mid-July sometime. I can't WAIT.  

Take it easy

x

Take back the streets.

Hello!

So I've really gotten into stickers, as I said. And I was really inspired by Karl Toon and his character, and thought about doing something sort of similar; but with a bit more to it. So I was thinking, and there's this character I've been playing with for ages, (another rabbit - go figure) called Harvey. And he's y'know, kind of the main character in a graphic novel I will never write - I'm sure somebody else knows how that is! And I was thinking - the reason I won't write it is because I'm not really talented - or patient - enough to do backgrounds and inbetween frames and stuff. So then I thought - what if the street (how gangster does that sound?) was the background? So I'll just print the characters and maybe props, and stick or post them on walls and stuff? I think this could be quite cool. Anyway, today I sketched a little thing of 'Harvey' running up behind a guard (oh Hell yeah there's archetypal bad guys). I'm currently working on the guard in Illustrator (will update when finished), and I've already done Harvey.

Hope you liketh!

Peace!

x

Wild Wild West.. and a Demon.

So yeah. I really should go to sleep, but I find myself staying up for no reason, and when I have nothing left to do, I actually find something to do. 

Anyway, here's an Illustrator-ed version of the Wild West Bunny, and a weird Demon thing I drew on a tiny tiny post-it. 

Peace x

Easter!?

So, I've finished uni for Easter, and I really enjoyed this term. It seems that the course is getting better (in my opinion), and the briefs and projects are getting more interesting as we get more talented. I like. So, now I'm off for a month and don't know what to do with myself. I went to the Library yesterday to find a book on the Queen (it is harder than you'd think to get a good, hi res image of the Queen like the one Jamie Reid used for the Se Pistols), and found this book called "Sticker City" about sticker-graffiti. It's something I've been interested in for a while, and this book seems to have a lot of information on how people work, etc, which is the kind of book I like - rather than just "this is so and so, he is good", it's more like here are artists, here is their work, and here's how they work. There's also a short section on methods, about artists making their own screens (for screen printing). So yeah that's good. Anyway, in between Scrabble and Jean Claude Van Damme movies, I've been sketching and looking to buy a4 sicker sheets, 'cause I really want to create some stickers of my own. Also, if you're on DeviantArt, check out some of the sticker work on there go through Traditional Art>Street Art>Stickers (or just go here)- ultimately inspiring.

In the meantime, here's this bunny character I've been working on. I should put more of my sketches up here, because it's weird how characters quite often become rabbits. Must be my undying love for Bucky O'Hare. If you had to hit the link to find out what that was, I am disappointed.

Peace! x