One Man And His Blog

Bedtime doodle from the other night. Full-on deadline mode at...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:30:46 +0100

Bedtime doodle from the other night. Full-on deadline mode at the moment, so there might be nothing else for a while!

Matt- I REALLY love your work. If you ever get bored, I’ve always wanted to see what she...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:33:00 +0000

Matt-

I REALLY love your work. If you ever get bored, I’ve always wanted to see what she would look like as some sort of superhero: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m26ua7b4Bg1qjysaio1_500.jpg

Or a villian, or whatever. Someone had asked me to do it before, but I wasn’t too fond of their style :/

Matt sez:

Thank you- I think it’s a bit of a big deal when somebody wants to trust you with their stuff, so I always appreciate it when people ask. I’ll do my best to get to it sooner or (more likely) later.

In other news: Tumblr. Why is it so difficult to communicate effectively on it?

Dredd Studies.

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:41:55 +0000

Dredd Studies.

Unexpectedly found myself with an hour to kill. Thought...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:53:11 +0000

Unexpectedly found myself with an hour to kill. Thought it’d be rude not to finish it.

KIMOTA! Somebody asked if I’d make this into a wallpaper...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:12:21 +0000

KIMOTA! Somebody asked if I’d make this into a wallpaper for them- so I might as well let other people have it as well.

Marvelman- worked up in Manga Studio 5, from a bedtime doodle I...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:52:27 +0000

Marvelman- worked up in Manga Studio 5, from a bedtime doodle I did last year.

Bedtime doodle- Manga Studio 5. No wonder Adobe are...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:32:31 +0000

Bedtime doodle- Manga Studio 5. No wonder Adobe are ‘accidentally’ releasing older versions of Creative Suite online. I’d be worried too…

First Batman of 2013. I don’t think I like it. :D

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:45:34 +0000

First Batman of 2013.

I don’t think I like it.

Wait… what? What were we talking about again? There...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:39:46 +0000

Wait… what? What were we talking about again? There was… something…

Just so you can see just how much time I wasted on that...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:08:23 +0000

Just so you can see just how much time I wasted on that Lawmaster- I built it in Sketchup first (colour added in Photoshop).

I was going for a complete redesign, but it’s influenced by Bizley’s general take on motorbikes- and the eagle/headlights combo is pure Henry Flint. The fun part was building it- drawing it turned into a bit of an anticlimax, to be honest!

Spent the day scratching my Lawmaster itch- and don’t even...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:09 +0000

Spent the day scratching my Lawmaster itch- and don’t even like it now it’s done.

I’m not sure I’ll ever really learn… :D

No good deed goes unpunished...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:29:17 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, we had a young lad called Aaron Mitchell knock at the door. He explained that he’d recently been laid off from a double glazing firm and that he was looking for general maintenance work.

Having seen him working in the street on a couple of other houses, and because I was impressed that he was obviously willing to go out and make his own opportunities- and, most of all, because I felt a bit sorry for him- I found him a job to do. He painted our garage door for us- a job that’s needed doing for at least five years.

He asked for some cash upfront for materials- which I didn’t mind. He hadn’t asked for much and I’m a big believer in helping people that are willing to help themselves. Sure enough, my faith in humanity was rewarded- he came back with the materials, did the job, and I was happy to pay him a very reasonable price.

I was so happy with the work that he’d done, that I let him do a bit of pointing on the roof for us as well. Again, he charged a very reasonable rate, didn’t mess about and I was quite happy to recommend him.

And then we went off to the hell that men call Center Parcs for the week (and really, that deserves a post of its own).

Naturally, it pissed it down all week- both here and there. On the Saturday night/Sunday morning after we got back, it really chucked it down, waking me up. I stumbled out of bed for a wee- only to find that Woody had already been. All over the bathroom floor. Not the end of the world, I thought- and proceeded to clear it up. While doing this, water started to drip on the back of my head. I looked up and realised that it wasn’t wee at all- the roof was leaking. We had water coming in through the ceiling and around the light fittings.

Half asleep, I made my way up into the loft to try and locate the leak, which seemed to be in the vicinity of the valley, between two sloping roofs. Water was all over the electrics and I couldn’t really do much more than put a bowl under where I thought the leak was coming from (there’s no light or proper flooring up there, so I was fumbling around with a torch).

In the morning, I went up to have another look- fully expecting to see cracks of daylight here and there. What I saw was a big rectangular hole, where one of the tiles was missing (the roof lining happens to be torn in this particular spot- otherwise I wouldn’t have seen it at all). I went outside to have a look from the back garden, but the angle wasn’t right- so I asked Rob, my neighbour, if he could see it from his. He couldn’t, but he offered to put his ladders up and have a look for me. Sure enough, the tile was gone.

Now Rob was a roofer, many years ago, and he immediately knew that the tile had been removed and hadn’t blown down. Had it blown down, he told me, part of the tile would still be there. More to the point, it wasn’t in either of our gardens. His first theory was that Aaron had removed the tile to either secure his ladder to one of the roof’s beams, or to wedge his bucket of cement into the hole while he worked, and that he’d obviously forgotten to put it back again. A common mistake, apparently. Fair enough. So where was the tile?

Whatever had happened, I needed to speak to Aaron. It was bright and sunny, but more rain was forecast for later. Like a fool, I’d misplaced Aaron’s number- but I knew that the guy across the road, Pete, had had to ring him to get him to come out and finish a job- so I went over and asked him for it, telling him what had happened. Pete then proceeded to tell me a funny story. On the Monday that we left for Center Parcs, Aaron was supposed to be replacing one of Pete’s tiles, but hadn’t got around to it yet. Pete told him he wanted it doing that morning, or he was going elsewhere. Ten minutes later, Aaron was back- with a second hand tile that he’d managed to get from a mate. Pete was surprised that he’d managed to get it so quickly, but was just glad to get the job done.

Penny having well and truly dropped, I was really quite cross indeed. I was also very disappointed. Contrary to popular belief, I do try to see the best in people, and I genuinely like to see them do well. I’d mainly liked Aaron because of the fact that he wasn’t just sitting around his house, eating cheerios and watching Jeremy Kyle. He’d gone out, knocked on doors and found work. That said, had he taken that tile from the opposite side of the valley, that leak would’ve been all over my work kit- and no power on Earth would’ve saved him from a trip to casualty.

Anyway, I walked straight round to Aaron’s house to ask him about the hole in my roof and the second hand tile he’d fitted for Pete. I wasn’t particularly eloquent about it and I felt a bit bad when Aaron (who’s probably young enough to be my son) looked like he was about to shit in his pants. He denied everything, of course- almost to the point that I wondered if I was jumping to the wrong conclusion (I may have occasionally lost my rag in error before now), but the facts all fitted and I found myself getting increasingly annoyed at the protestations of innocence. To be honest, if not for the fact that I didn’t want to have to get another tile myself- and I certainly didn’t want to be clambering around on the roof- I’d probably have punched him in the neck right then and there.

Long story short, Aaron managed to get another tile (this one looked new, so I wasn’t worried that he’d just robbed somebody else). It took him less than five minutes to get up on the roof and fit it (I watched from inside the attic, to make sure he did it properly) and he was gone by the time I got downstairs again- a sure sign, I thought, that he was feeling guilty. I still had nagging doubts, though. He seemed so sincere- and who would be stupid enough to steal a tile and fit it right across the road?

On the school run this morning- one of my neighbours, who’d heard what had happened, apologised to me and Mrs T. She’d seen Aaron on our roof on the Monday morning and, knowing that we were away, was going to ask him if he should be there. She decided not to, though, because she knew that he’d been doing some work for us already and that I wouldn’t want him to know that the house was empty (I’m trusting- but not a complete muppet).

The little shit.

Recent illustration for GL Twynham’s witches vs aliens*...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:41:01 +0000

Recent illustration for GL Twynham’s witches vs aliens* series, ‘The Thirteenth.’ I feel really honoured that I was asked to visualise Georgia’s characters, as I know that they mean a lot to her. I still made her pay cold, hard cash, though.

*I’m pretty sure that there’s a bit more to it than that.

RT @paulallanwhite step up @matt_timson RT @Robot6: Is a return...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:29:00 +0000

RT @paulallanwhite step up @matt_timson RT @Robot6: Is a return of ROM: The Space Knight on the horizon? http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/11/is-a-return-of-rom-the-space-knight-on-the-horizon/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I originally did this a couple of years ago for a Bill Mantlo benefit book. I was balls deep in Impaler at the time, so everything I did was full of blood, I think.

For those that are interested in such things: that Captain...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:14:09 +0000

For those that are interested in such things: that Captain Marvel pic again- side by side with the original (before I made it a bit softer in Photoshop). I think I actually prefer this version- but it was a victim of last minute tinkering.

Yeah… so I’m probably a little bit late to this...

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:49:48 +0000

Yeah… so I’m probably a little bit late to this party…

Morning warm-up went a bit mad. Must work now! I blame PJ...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:50:22 +0100

Morning warm-up went a bit mad. Must work now!

I blame PJ Holden.

mckelvie: kierongillen: apiphile: dorkery: theteratophile: B...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:50:14 +0100

mckelvie:

kierongillen:

apiphile:

dorkery:

theteratophile:

Blue Knife

…I’ll take it

THE STRIPED UKULELE

The Naked Tea Cup.

Sounds like an English sex manual.

The Skin Mouse.

That works.

The Black Cintiq.

The Red Pillow? Oh that’ll strike terror into people everywhere… :D

Bit naughty, this- I should be working. Sometimes you just have...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:47:05 +0100

Bit naughty, this- I should be working. Sometimes you just have to draw stuff for yourself, though!

Morning doodle: another ‘old man’ Cyclops- while...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:18:22 +0100

Morning doodle: another ‘old man’ Cyclops- while talking to @pauljholden (coloured after). That’s how interesting that conversation was… :D