M.Drummond- Digital! Art! Sometimes not Digital! Sometimes hardly Art!

ghrey

2008-12-04T14:52:00.002+11:00

RED

2008-12-01T11:39:00.001+11:00

i like red.

Hustlin' Hustlin' Hustlin' Hustlin' Hustlin' Hustlin'

2008-10-20T17:03:00.002+11:00

Octo-what?

2008-09-15T21:28:00.001+10:00

Why Not?

Invincible

2008-09-01T16:50:00.000+10:00

Oh, Mr. Stark.

2 X

2008-08-27T16:32:00.001+10:00

D-D-D-DOUBLE post. All the shapes are default adobe variants.

DUN DUN DUN

2008-08-27T13:52:00.000+10:00

There's an unwritten rule that UFOs can only be seen in forests and woodlands, normally in the American north. This is boring, so my next picture might be someone getting abducted off a sunny gold coast beach. Or a ski slope.

Also, if you don't believe in aliens then you're boring and probably stupid.

Big Rock Heads

2008-08-23T18:56:00.003+10:00

Grabbed some new brushes off the dude who illustrated "The Terrible Secret Of Animal Crossing". The entire thing is amazing. Lengthy, but definitely worth it, if not just for the illustrations and paranoid ramblings of a six year old stuck in a summer camp hell.

Portrait Of The Average Internet User

2008-08-12T13:16:00.002+10:00

I've been told that deviantart is full of good artists, but it always seemed like a wasteland of anime and furry crap. I figured that I didn't wanna be one of those dudes, drawing their ideal women and mary sue characters. To be truly unlike them, I drew how I imagine them. Right down to the wall of anime and ergonomic computer equipment. You can almost hear him complain about "the fans deserving better". Gross.

1000 Bad Pictures

2008-08-06T13:35:00.001+10:00

Wow! An update!

Goggle on a cat.

2008-07-25T16:27:00.001+10:00

I decided this was kinda weak, so I cropped off the legs. Deal with it.

BOOM

2008-07-21T12:02:00.001+10:00

Maybe I should hire an Inker, Colorist or a Penciller. Outsource some of this stuff.

Review Of The Dark Knight

2008-07-19T15:19:00.002+10:00

Honk if you're Enola Gay

2008-07-15T12:24:00.002+10:00

I really just to use this title. Peace out.

This is fun.

2008-07-03T13:25:00.001+10:00

If the colours are messed up, It's because I'm using a different monitor. Anyways, this was fun. Really quick. More drawings soon, maybe.

Big Robot In This Post

2008-06-24T14:28:00.002+10:00

Big Robot. That's not a title, just an adjective and a noun.

Bat-Quick Messing Around

2008-06-22T18:16:00.001+10:00

Similar to one of the very first updates i did. Batman, in black and white, super fast. Took a few minutes and I thought I'd share it. Not really finished but i was bored of it.

Posthaste!

2008-06-20T16:20:00.000+10:00

I'm great at drawing hands.

Arms Like A T-Rex

2008-06-18T16:50:00.003+10:00

Go get your Firefox 3 on. It's more important than you think, and makes everyone's jobs a lot easier.

Anyways, Iron Man with strange arms. I like the background.

I am still drawing!

2008-06-16T17:17:00.003+10:00

I think these speak for themselves.

Street Level

2008-06-07T13:41:00.000+10:00

This took a colossal amount of time, and may not of been worth it. YOU DECIDE

Return Of The King

2008-06-04T21:21:00.002+10:00

Not dead! In the meantime, i launched http://templature.blogspot.com/ go get 'em templates.

C: The Big Sleep

2008-05-16T18:13:00.002+10:00

This one's allright, i suppose.

So, yeah. 100th update, by the numbers. From now on, less frequent updates, higher quality AND no more Roman Numerals, which were a horrible, horrible idea to start with.

XCIX: Octavius

2008-05-15T13:09:00.002+10:00

Couldn't have the last few daily updates without some superhero nonsense. Also, this would of been better saved for update 98, but I don't plan these things well.

XCVIII: Leviathan

2008-05-14T11:15:00.000+10:00

~OR~

I haven't read Moby Dick, and I don't listen to Mastodon. Still like the image though. Also, been rocking the 1280x800 a bit. It's nice knowing where things are going to be in the picture before halfway finished.

XCVII: Recurring Images

2008-05-13T12:49:00.002+10:00

I think I've got one more "giant space clock" image in me, then they're done.

XCVI: The Terror!

2008-05-12T20:36:00.001+10:00

Allright, this one's pretty cool. I want this week to be all good quality pictures.

XCV: This Time Next Week

2008-05-09T14:53:00.004+10:00

I thought yesterday's update needed a counterpart. I prefer the drawing of the girl, it's more "finished."

So yeah, this time next week, 100th picture, then I'm definitely cutting the pace, updating lesss frequently. I think I might take a break for a few days, then I'll probably dial it down to a few times a week. Once a week bare minimum.

XCIV: Green & Mean

2008-05-08T18:00:00.000+10:00

I might do some more colouring in on this later.

XCIII: By NIGHT! Paint!

2008-05-07T20:57:00.001+10:00

XCII: Put the money in the bag.

2008-05-06T16:29:00.001+10:00

Bank robberies are always cool. Except this one is really blurry.

XCI: Hurry

2008-05-05T20:31:00.000+10:00

my internet is breaking. Gotta hurry. I can allready see the cracks in it.

hold on let me try something here

2008-05-03T10:27:00.004+10:00

Throwin these up so i can link to the tiled background image, without having to trust imageshack's shaky ass limits.

XC: stop me before i do it again.

2008-05-01T15:44:00.003+10:00

I haven't used painter in months. I should play with it more often.

Also, new site graphics. Much easier on the eyes, and it should load a touch faster. I removed the store link/rss link because they were too big. They'll be replaced within a week or so.

LXXXIX: I should animate these.

2008-05-01T11:51:00.002+10:00

I think i'd like to animate these sort of things, get a James Bond credit sequence thing going on. Maybe i will.

It's a shame that this update pushes this off the frontpage. I liked that one a lot.

LXXXVIII: Star Whats?

2008-04-30T16:36:00.001+10:00

Just look at these instead. Muche better.

LXXXVII: i forgot what i wanted to put here.

2008-04-29T16:20:00.001+10:00

I think the last few updates have been kinda crappy, so here's hoping tomorrow is better.

LXXXVI: NO! I R.

2008-04-28T17:47:00.001+10:00

Just because i don't really get very abstract often.

LXXXV: This is an excuse

2008-04-24T11:42:00.002+10:00

An excuse for me to use these brushes. They're a lot of fun. Tomorrow; probably a picture of Iron Man and a hangover.

LXXXIV: Not Steampunk,

2008-04-23T19:28:00.002+10:00

Not steampunk because there's no steam. Without the steam all you got is corsets and lanterns.

Brushes, I Got 'em.

2008-04-23T10:54:00.001+10:00

Hey, you've probably (not) wondered what brushes i use in photoshop. It's these ones here. The set was originally taken from Imaginefx, but i tweaked them all out. These are pretty much all I use, apart from a Kirby Dots brush, but I'm not sharing that one.

LXXXIII: Again?

2008-04-22T22:11:00.003+10:00

Iron Man again. I spent more than a few hours on this before i realized that his mask was asymetrical. The arms/gauntlets still are a little off, but that's a far less important part of the picture. I'm all about compromise.

Also, the .JPEG artefacts are fairly pronounced in this one. Blogger does .. something to images. A little annoying.

LXXXII: Wait What?!

2008-04-21T10:31:00.002+10:00

I'm pretty friggin hyped for the Iron Man movie. I think everyone on the entire internet is.

LXXXI: Buy Me

2008-04-18T18:59:00.002+10:00

Also available in various flavours as a shirt here.

LXXX: Communist Propaganda

2008-04-17T20:42:00.001+10:00

Fun Fact: I start all of my images at 2232 X 1644, then crop as needed.

LXXIX: Noiresque

2008-04-16T13:49:00.002+10:00

Not much writing today. Enjoy the picture.

Threadless Stuff.

2008-04-15T15:25:00.002+10:00

Not content with the Cafepress shop, I'm also going for gold on threadless. You can view my designs here. I'm not sure of my chances of being accepted are, but it's worth a shot.

LXXVIII: Tribute

2008-04-15T11:48:00.003+10:00

this's based off a wallhanging in my house. I filtered a photo of it, because redrawing wouldn't of reproduced it as nicely. I just wanted to see what colours would be like on it.

ninguna comunicación

2008-04-14T16:50:00.001+10:00

debido a los problemas de la computadora no habrá actualización hoy, apesadumbrado cada uno. Gracias

LXXVII: Good News Everyone!

2008-04-11T15:46:00.003+10:00

From today on, merchandise will be available in the store. Capitalism GO!

LXXV: Things can't burn in space, idiot.

2008-04-10T12:22:00.001+10:00

Atleast this one doesn't contain a huge flying timepiece. That'd be weird.

Sort this one out on your own time.

2008-04-09T16:34:00.003+10:00

Bonus! Shame this pushes this picture off of the front page. I like that one.

LXXIV: Telescoptic

2008-04-09T14:11:00.002+10:00

This took far more time than it should have. Seriously, i think it shoulda been done in like 4 minutes but i kept getting distracted and trailing offf.

LXXIII: I don't really understand mechanics

2008-04-08T12:01:00.004+10:00

Did i tell you guys I'd only started drawing "seriously" (more than once a month or so) a little before i started mdrummond.blogspot? Cos i did.

LXXII: Tile it.

2008-04-07T15:48:00.004+10:00

Tile this as your wallpaper and be driven to distraction within seconds.

LXXI; Words Go Here

2008-04-03T18:19:00.001+11:00

WORDS WORDS WORDS

LXXI: Man, i am stupid

2008-04-02T21:15:00.002+11:00

Once again, Roman Numerals have trounced me. 70 updates yesterday, not sixy, rendering the picture innacurate but pretty.

LXX: I don't get celebratory enough

2008-04-01T18:23:00.002+11:00

Every 60 images, there will be one post with rainbows and elephants. It's going to be an institution.

LXIX: He Returns!

2008-03-31T12:05:00.003+11:00

Anyways, angry robot. He pretty much looks like Dr. Doom.

Tomorrow will be the seventieth (70th) numbered post on here. It looks like I'm sticking till 65 with the numbers, then stopping this daily business. I haven't picked a schedule, but I doubt I'll post less than a few times a week.

LXVIII: Holla at the new design

2008-03-28T17:11:00.002+11:00

Dig that new layout? I do. Also, i do have an RSS feed you should get acquainted with.

LXVII: I used to draw backgrounds

2008-03-27T18:22:00.002+11:00

For some reason i like drawing people and robots at the moment. This one used no reference (apart from me clicking through like fifty people's facebooks for an appropriate hairstyle).

LXVI: BZzt

2008-03-26T15:46:00.002+11:00

couldn't have two images i liked in a row.

LXV: Give Them What They Want

2008-03-25T16:21:00.004+11:00

In the interest of full disclosure, i did use a picture of Aya Ueto as a reference. I have no idea who Aya is, but good on her for getting into google image search. Tomorrow, if all goes to plan, will be this blag's one hundredth (100th) post. Some posts have no images, some have one or more. Still, ONE HUNDRED.

Also, Dead To Me is your new favorite band.

LXIV: Uninspired roof lines

2008-03-21T18:18:00.003+11:00

why am i updating on a public holiday?

LXIII: Tock-Tick

2008-03-20T14:07:00.002+11:00

LXII: The Skinny Man

2008-03-19T11:02:00.002+11:00

Real men only use four colours in each picture.

LXI: Breezed

2008-03-18T11:25:00.003+11:00

Can you tell what this is meant to be? I'm not so sure.

LX: News

2008-03-17T22:27:00.004+11:00

So, Sixty images. Big news: I'm stopping the daily updates. From sometime next week on, it's going to be twice weekly or so. It's been fun and taxing, but I think I've learnt enought to move onto bigger projects that take far more time, and not being able to complete pictures to 100% is frustrating me. So, fewer, better updates (and a new site design? what?).

M OUT.

LIX: For Lewis

2008-03-14T15:12:00.003+11:00

"I have something I want you to draw.

A piece titled "Friends with a Badger"
It's just a man and a badger having a picnic with tea in a meadow.

that'd be sick..."

Not 100% on what a badger or a meadow looks like, but here we have it.

LIIX: Don't look at this one

2008-03-13T20:28:00.002+11:00

not sure what i was "going for" with this one.

LVIII: Bring back the trilby

2008-03-12T19:08:00.003+11:00

58 updates? Amazing. It's 50 more than i expected to do.

LVII: Brace for epic

2008-03-11T20:14:00.001+11:00

Yep, that's a robot riding some missiles. No, i don't have a tissue to clean up your blown mind.

LVI: 7DS: 4 of 7

2008-03-10T16:42:00.002+11:00

over halfway through this bitch now. What's next? Who knows? ( Pride or wrath, actually). Annoying how many of these sins run together. I had to draw Sloth & Gluttony in bright or dull colours so they werent too close. It's all practise though i suppose.

LV: Roman Lowest Common Denominator

2008-03-07T17:22:00.002+11:00

Hello. Not much writing today because i am tired. Also, Poor & Weird is my favorite song by The Briefs.

LIV: 7DS: 3 of 7

2008-03-06T12:55:00.001+11:00

Not a huge fan of this one. Yesterday's update was nice though. Let's all go look at that one again.

LVIII: Adhering to the blimp rule

2008-03-05T15:54:00.000+11:00

any image with a blimp in it is more valuable than one without.

LVII: 7DS: 2 Of 7

2008-03-04T16:57:00.003+11:00

2 Of 7

Funny how practice makes perfect (or better). The writing in this one took a fifth of the time, and looks just as nice.
Looks like next update is Greed. So who's keen for a trip to Vegas?

LVI: Intermission

2008-03-03T18:09:00.003+11:00

No deadly sin today, but this looks ok. Tomorrow, Gluttony or Wrath. Probably Gluttony.

weekend bonus

2008-03-02T21:22:00.000+11:00

Because i have nothing better to do on a sunday night.

LIV: Vectorcity

2008-02-28T18:58:00.000+11:00

LIII: I can't think of a pun on the word "dome".

2008-02-27T16:28:00.001+11:00

This took longer than i thought it would. Mostly because i stopped every five minutes to cruise the net for ten minutes. Can't help think how much more productive i'd be without an internet connection, but i wouldn't be able to show both my readers the daily picture.

LII: Batman Returns (is a decent sequel)

2008-02-26T19:53:00.003+11:00

"Finished" this picture. I like it! Notice how i avoid drawing half of Batman by using a billowy cape. It's what The Pros do.

Tomorrow; Something else.

LI: bat man

2008-02-25T21:43:00.002+11:00

L: 50 Pictures!

2008-02-22T10:11:00.004+11:00

50 Posts today, and i am so sick of roman numerals. I'm going to try to continue the same schedule for atleast another 25, but aiming for 100. After that, who knows?

I'm also gonna throw it out there, some of the pictures i've included in numbered updates are horrible, from now on I'll be hesitant to number things that aren't up to scratch. There will be an update, but the numbers are (From now on) for nicer, finished things.

Scratch that! FULL STEAM AHEAD.

XLIX: Deadpool

2008-02-21T11:55:00.001+11:00

MEH. Something better tomorrow. Don't bother clicking on this one because it looks better tiny. Just enjoy the squinty pleasure.

XLVIII: Let's pretend i updated yesterday

2008-02-20T10:31:00.001+11:00

Yeah, it's pretty good. You should probably mail me wads of money.

Also, the best wallpaper ever.. Stuart Immonen draws like a wizard defies science.

XLVII: Things are looking up!

2008-02-18T20:56:00.002+11:00

It's just dawned upon me that some of these images are colossal, bordering large. If you're using Firefox, i recommemd this. Lets you zoom in and out when viewing images. Pretty much invaluable. If you're using Explorer, i think IE7 has something similar, as does Opera.

my webcomic sucks

2008-02-17T11:25:00.002+11:00

.. but atleat I'm not Tim Buckley

XLVI: done!

2008-02-15T14:24:00.003+11:00

as good as atleast. Took far less time than expected. Not sure if clouds ever look like that but i just do not care.

halfway through a beach

2008-02-14T12:23:00.000+11:00

tomorrow? the next day? goodness knows.

XLV: Enthusiastic T-Rex

2008-02-14T11:17:00.002+11:00

An enthused T-Rex was not strictly my idea. Anyways, HELL YES T-REX.

Also i noticed that most of my pictures look nice as thumbnails, but are underwhelming at full size. From now on every image will be below 200px wide.

XLIV: Better than nothing (just).

2008-02-13T20:19:00.002+11:00

It was this or a really scratchy Disco Batman, or a chubby looking Spider-Man. If you saw them you'd thank me for not posting them. Last time i messed with the BAT i liked the results, but you can't hit a homerun every game (can you? I've never played baseball.)

Also, i just realized i didn't crop yesterday's comic, Which i enjoyed making, even though the art and joke are ... poor. Sequential Art is fun!

I also missed monday's update. I was incommunicado with no internet. I drew some other stuff, so now I've got a "buffer" incase I can't find time to make you something pretty. I don't like missing updates, but it's hard, y'know. Specially when i just wanna play xbox.

So many apologies, you'd think i owed you guys something. WELL I DO NOT, SIR.

XLIII: Never gonna give you up

2008-02-12T14:55:00.000+11:00

Is this funny? I can't tell. I like the song too much.

XKCD mobius strips!

2008-02-08T20:38:00.000+11:00

XKCD- Mobius Battle! Mobius strips! Everyone loves mobius strips. The strips i made are the comic printed onto both sides of an A4 and stuck and the edge. Simple and quick.

XLVII: It's like a disco puked on a pot of gold

2008-02-08T16:15:00.000+11:00

a rehash of this. Not the greatest, but i think i prefer it to the other. Which do you prefer?
there's a chance there'll be a bonus today or on the weekend, brace your face.

XLVI: It's lik a rainbow puked in a jar of candy.

2008-02-07T12:24:00.000+11:00

HEY! This came from a sketch i cooked up a few weeks ago, and decided to get all splashy coloured with.

Sketch Here:

There'll probably be an alternate version with different colourings later on. (don't count on it though)

XLV: This isn't very good

2008-02-06T17:54:00.000+11:00

resounding MEH

XLIV: Sick of roman numerals.

2008-02-05T17:22:00.000+11:00

Shadows and highlights and shadows and glass and woodgrain. Went from a nightmare to fun to nightmare a few times during the course of this. Worked out ok though.

Pretty much all i've got to say, apart from check out the awesome junk i added on the right hand side of the page. The busy box is just for fun and to keep people occupied (like a playground). The slideshow shows past images (imagine that!)

who says i don't give you anything nice

2008-02-04T15:49:00.000+11:00

consider this a bonus for all the junky stuff that's been up recently.

XLIV: Zombieats

2008-02-04T15:38:00.000+11:00

I thought i'd challenge myself today. Looks ok i suppose.
The front page of this site looks pretty shitty at the moment, too much half finished stuff. Tomorrow, something bettter. (probably not)