Gurch, at The Cornershop in Stratford asked me to draw him a picture of Shakespeare holding a jar of sweets for his sweet jar labels.
The Cornershop is where I used to get changed into the Grim Reaper when I worked for Grimm's Ghostly Tours when I was 14... 14 years ago! Gurch remembered me, we got to chatting and he asked for a toon. I've been stupidly busy with DJing Subculture, Subside, and Velvet, doing Mad Science, and Mad Museum as well as peripheral stuff like networking so it took a coupla weeks from starting it, showing him prelims, acting on feedback, and getting him the final copy but he seems happy with it as I sent it off last night.
I also spent a lot of yesterday designing business cards with moo.com and VistaPrint. The Moo ones allow more creative control so I imagine they'll be for business or guaranteed clients. I've done 3 of those - one for Illustrating, one for DJing, and one for Performance (Stilts, Grinding etc).
The VistaPrint ones, will just be for handing out generally willy nilly and they're a combination of my skills on one card. I'm waiting for payments to start rolling in (end of the month!) before I order them, but they're all saved in my Carts!
And I designed, finally, some flyers/posters on Photoshop. These are for putting up, leaving in shops, posting through doors.
Two slightly different ones. One a general illustration one, one more skewed towards caricatures. Again, I'm waiting for the dollar to come through before actually ordering them.
It's been nice learning and applying some design techniques. It's the first time I've seriously designed anything like this. Maybe this learning will come in useful again soon.
All is well. MAD Museum are keen to get me in over the Jubilee, and I think Area 51 may have some work for me too. I've got a few after school classes with Mad Science this week, then half-term next week. I've done a bit of gardening, so the garden is now inhabitable to sit in and read which has been nice! I've finished my "Perdido Street Station", review here. I'm now reading "I, Partridge", Alan Partridge's autobiography - very funny! And dipping into a book of essays about the morality, legality, artistic merits, psychology and more of pornography - interesting!
All's good.
Right! Now to make sure I know all the stuff for my lesson today and get showered etc!
