Video!

Here's a time-lapse of me painting set to some funky music, enjoy!

I am Batman! (again/still)

Batman the Animated Series low-tops!

Nothing much else to say currently.

Don't do drugs, stay in school everyone.

Wow.

Wowsers.

So it appears that my Venture Bros Converse have gone slightly viral, having featured on the Magic Murder Bag Tumblr then today turning up on Fashionably Geek.

My super brilliant Spider senses tell me that gentleman raconteur and friend to all gingers Sam Veale is responsible...

Anyway, here's a picture:

Whilst I'm here adding content to my sickeningly neglected website, I'm might as well chuck in a few other things I've been on working on. Here are a few photoshop previews that are currently becoming a reality in my secret lab (living room table):

 

That's it for now and I hope you enjoyed this update to my horribly neglected website (poor thing), but all the kids know that it's all going off on Etsy and Facebook these days.

More updates soon though, promise!

-R.

Closing for Christmas...

Hi everyone,
                         I'm sad, but also kind of happy, to announce that due to overwhelming demand, I have had to close my shop until after Christmas.

At present I have a number of orders ongoing and there is no way I can realistically complete any more and get them to customers in time for the 25th.

I'm very, very sorry to anyone who has been disappointed by this. I will re-list everything on my Etsy shop on the 26th of December and start taking orders again from that date. 

Naturally I will make an official announcement this Boxing Day once everything is back up and running again.

Thank you all so much for your interest and support, have a great Christmas and I'll see you all again next year!

All the best,

Rich

Shop, shop, shop!

Well look at this, it only took nine months but I've made another post.

With good reason though, I've just opened a proper online shop, go give it a look, I COMMAND THEE!

You can go there and order from a number of existing designs and, as ever, if you want something new get in touch or go like the facebook page, I COMMAND THEE!

Sorry, I need to stop commanding thee, it's a bit rude, forgive me.

But seriously, like the facebook page, the kids love that stuff.

It's an 8-bit pixel hit.

Hello!
           As I mentioned in my last post, I was getting a pair of Zelda themed shoes ready to go, well here they are:

Have a scroll down to check out the photoshop version, I reckon I got these pretty close. I toned the colours down to give it a bit of an earthier feel whilst maintaining that slightly bile tinged NES look. Also, the triforce has a gold tint, you know, like this bad boy:

Not pictured: Flavor Flav.

To finish off, something utterly unrelated to shoes, a reworking of John Carpenter's The Thing starring the cast of Pingu. Seriously:

Thanks to Tom K for bringing that to my attention and also Martin Read, the man who ordered the Link shoes in the first place for the title of this blog.

Weee-eee-ooooh!

Hello!
           Well, that's Christmas and New Year done with, I've had enough booze and pies over the last three weeks to keep George Best busy for an afternoon. Ugh.

I had a go at painting on canvas this Christmas, as gift to the mighty Nick Skews (voice of 'Man at Work'). I went up for an image of Brock Samson, from The Venture Brothers.

I'm going to start doing paintings such as these more regularly, If you'd like something for your living room wall, let me know.
Anyways, in shoe news, I designed these on spec for a friend and they seem to have piqued the interested of a few others:

Off the back this I reckon some more 8bit gaming stuff is in the pipeline. Also, I picked up a pair of black trainers this week for my very own feet, but I don't know whether t keep 'em or flog 'em. Hmn.

As part of my holiday entertainment, I had a go at sketching the current Doctor in Doctor Who: Matt Smith. (His name is 'The Doctor', by the way, not 'Doctor Who'. Peasants).

Here's my first sketch:

I was originally going to paint this right onto an A4 canvas and try to flog it, but my desire not to mess up the carpet again caused me to do a swanky computerised version first:

Here's how it'll look like on some sexy kicks:

Well there you go, I'll be back with another post soon, I'm feintly aware that no-one is reading this. But regular updates are the only way I'm likely to build momentum on this thing, if 2012 goes well I'll get a proper .co.uk, or even (gasp!) .com address.

Since I'm making asides to myself right now, don't forget the following:

• The milk's about to go off, buy more.
• 2000ad is back again on Wednesday, don't forget it.
• Give Mum and Dad a call, actually, go and visit them.

Cool.