WILLIAM .ETC

Back in action.

2012-01-31T23:47:00.003Z

So, it's been a little while since I updated this thing.

There's some interesting things coming soon.

Portrait of the artist as an emo.

2011-11-21T23:23:00.001Z

Portrait of the artist as a red person with white hair. (completely accurate otherwise)

2011-11-21T20:59:00.001Z

Dovahkiin

2011-11-18T18:22:00.003Z

So, I pull myself away from Skyrim only to do this... I think I have a problem.

And, yes, I realise the helmet is wrong...

...

2011-10-30T16:31:00.002Z

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2011-10-30T13:55:00.000Z

Bald (again)

2011-10-29T15:28:00.000+01:00

Bald.

2011-10-29T13:23:00.000+01:00

5th member of the gang.

2011-10-28T11:50:00.000+01:00

And another one.

2011-10-12T23:56:00.003+01:00

I'm starting to think I should submit these to Walkers for some sort of post-modern, gritty Monster Munch reboot...

This one is glum.

2011-10-11T22:16:00.000+01:00

A rather-depressed-at-3-am thing.

2011-10-11T03:24:00.000+01:00

A thing.

2011-10-10T21:24:00.002+01:00

Not so sure paint is my medium, but the Korean ink-brush saved the day!

The stupid people I work with (and me)

2011-09-21T21:35:00.003+01:00

Things that I can pass off as "work".

2011-09-12T20:16:00.001+01:00

Some sketches I did last night.

2011-09-12T20:14:00.001+01:00

An EP for a friend.

2011-08-19T15:55:00.001+01:00

For a Birthday.

2011-08-13T14:51:00.001+01:00

Some things from my sketchbook from the past few months from not doing any artwork from working too much from needing money.

2011-08-08T21:25:00.002+01:00

For a Film.

2011-06-14T22:46:00.002+01:00

Posters

2011-05-29T13:56:00.002+01:00

Hey Kids! Colour this in!

2011-05-19T22:04:00.003+01:00

New toys.

2011-05-06T13:05:00.003+01:00

A good friend of mine brought me back some lovely art supplies from Korea, possibly the best of which is the brush that holds the ink inside like a pen. Why aren't there more of these around? They make so much sense. I also recently bought a baby Holga, which may or may not yeild some incredible photos. Expect tests soon.

Have You Seen This Man?

2011-04-30T16:38:00.000+01:00

Saucer Men.

2011-04-29T19:03:00.002+01:00

Another Request

2011-04-08T17:48:00.000+01:00

At the request of a good friend.

2011-03-23T18:08:00.002Z

Don't ask what the antlers are about because I have no idea.

A week off and some pissing around.

2011-03-23T02:33:00.004Z

So here's a bit of photography I did on a week off from work and
some stuff I messed around with for my band.
Find us on Facebook.

A horse gets her wings.

2011-03-10T22:20:00.004Z

An angel gets her wings.

2011-03-09T12:19:00.002Z

Upon the seas.

2011-03-08T23:04:00.003Z

Firey!

2011-03-07T22:21:00.003Z

So it's been all quiet on the Blogfront for two weeks while I stressed myself silly over the cover for the novel I'm doing (which will be finished by other hands than mine thus won't be going up here right now) but I'm breaking the silence with this wee drawing for inside the book.

Watch out! He has treasure!

2011-02-21T15:32:00.002Z

Cartography for a Monday.

2011-02-14T16:42:00.002Z

Fine dining.

2011-02-11T21:19:00.000Z

New stuff.

2011-02-10T23:11:00.003Z

So here's a few things I'm doing just now for a real proper thing. Exciting, or what?

Happy Now?

2011-02-01T14:32:00.002Z

Here's some development work I've done for the project I'm working on.

Devolution and Anatomy.

2011-01-20T10:35:00.002Z

Here's a preliminary sketch from a bit of a project I've embarked myself upon.
With research and development and everything!

Ok.

2011-01-12T21:55:00.003Z

Ok, so here's the score. Instead of updating this thing every day, to keep it from going stale and to keep me from despising it, I'm going to update it once or twice a week with things that are actually good and have a bit of time spent on them. Quality over quantity as they say. Otherwise I'll just end up with shite like this:

THANKS

Yankee Candles

2011-01-11T17:29:00.002Z

So today I got around to doing some more music for ABRAHAM.

I am officially in love with my nylon string guitar now.

A Portrait of Philip and a man being born from another man.

2011-01-10T19:49:00.001Z

Self Portrait number 483 plus photoshop experiment number one.

2011-01-09T20:11:00.005Z

This is probably the most psychedelic thing I've ever done.
I'll probably do more.

This photograph was taken with a lovely modified pinhole camera that is now deceased.
I only got 6 photos out of it. :(

Colours and Paints.

2011-01-08T21:17:00.004Z

I am easing myself back into using paint.
It's been a few years.
Expect something more ambitious to come.

Guitar Hero and More Shirts.

2011-01-07T19:55:00.008Z

Kittens and T Shirts.

2011-01-06T21:54:00.006Z

Here are a few shirts I drew in November. I'll probably do more at some point.
Most likely when I can afford more fabric pens and blank shirts.

Back Again.

2011-01-05T15:52:00.002Z

Back.

2011-01-04T21:20:00.004Z

Ok, so. In October my laptop was stolen. But now I have a new one and will be updating again. YES.

A Folktale

2010-09-08T17:11:00.002+01:00

Here's the first draft of the first two panels of the Colombian folktale I'm working on.

ABRAHAM.

2010-08-26T21:14:00.003+01:00

Been doing some ABRAHAM work recently. Follows are links to it:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/ABRAHAM/136124083073815
http://vimeo.com/14416245

2010-08-13T14:28:00.003+01:00

Some photographs of a house.

2010-06-19T20:57:00.005+01:00

Some things.

2010-06-07T16:23:00.002+01:00

A man making a film, for Douglas

2010-05-11T17:03:00.002+01:00

Some Sketchbook Pages, New and Old

2010-05-05T21:12:00.005+01:00

Batman VS. Xavier, Courtesy of Colin

2010-04-22T21:22:00.003+01:00

Brother, Happy Birthday

2010-04-21T18:40:00.002+01:00

On The Buses

2010-03-15T16:01:00.004Z

Vignette

2010-03-15T15:21:00.008Z

I got a new phone and it can take photographs very nicely. Since I don't have a working scanner right now, this will have to do.

Arms Of The Sea

2010-02-21T13:24:00.003Z

A B R A H A M

2010-01-15T18:29:00.001Z

RE: The Letter Killeth

2009-12-01T17:19:00.002Z

Birches and Britches

You went out for some fresh air
by the bins with the smokers,
but neglected to sweep

that leaf-seed thing off your leg,
allowing Mother Nature

to procreate with your trousers,
creating, in time, a hideous trouser-tree,
sprouting trousers

in various sizes, styles and fabrics

– corduroy, Teflon, gingham –

with labels already attached
which you then sold to worried,
trouserless men in pubs
for a fiver each.

Poem by Mr Chris Lindores

Poor John Allison

2009-11-12T17:57:00.004Z

Friends! Dear Mr. John Allison, author of famed, incredible and really very excessively brilliant webcomic Scary Go Round is going through some not nice hard times with his new venture Bad Machinery. He culd certainly use our help to get his readership back up again. It's a bloody good comic too! Thank You.

October, 1917

2009-11-07T14:38:00.002Z

I have recorded another song. Thanks you.

More More Photographs

2009-11-02T23:25:00.007Z

EastCentral

2009-11-01T20:57:00.002Z

ABRAHAM (me and chris) have put up a new song on MySpace.

THE LETTER KILLETH

2009-10-29T19:02:00.004Z

More Photographs

2009-10-25T17:52:00.005Z

Here's a couple more photographs I took in the last month or so:

Also, my scanner fucked this one up, but I thought it was cool, here you are!

Photographs

2009-10-07T23:47:00.012+01:00

So! I got around to scanning in a lot of photographs that I didn't have digitally. Here are some:

Undermice

2009-09-28T16:18:00.002+01:00

So, recently I've been working on some Illustrations for a children's novel by Bella Bathurst and I've just finished a first draft:

As Suggested by Kirsten:

2009-09-10T19:05:00.002+01:00

Here is Kirsten's suggestion, a Sheep with nice curly hair:
Awwwwwwwwww...

As Suggested by Stephen:

2009-08-28T18:26:00.003+01:00

Here's the first suggestion from the "challenge" I have set up.

It's pretty self explanatory I guess...

A Challenge Of Sorts:

2009-08-26T20:24:00.002+01:00

Ok, so, I thought this might a nice thing to do:

I openly invite people to suggest/request things for me to draw to put on this here web log. It is highly likely that you will be rewarded with big cash prizes and inevitable fame afterward*.
The rules are:
1. Nothing graphically and horribly sexual (comically is fine, I just don't really want to draw anything minging, you know?)
2. a) Nothing outrageously offensive, like Hitler killing a Jewish person or something, or anything to do with slavery etc.
b) No negative stereotypes (again, comical ones that wouldn't offend anyone are fine).
3. No plagiarizing someone else's idea. Character's from films/TV, etc. are fine but no copying a T-shirt design or anything.
4. Try and think of something that will be difficult or even impossible to draw (this is a challenge after all).

You can suggest/request of me in anyway you see fit; you may comment on this post, email, text or telephone me. Hell, you can even write me a letter if you want and I'll scan that and put it up alongside the drawing.

Thank You And Get Thinking!

*Actual chances of receiving cash prizes from William Burnett Hill (Myself) or gaining any form of notoriety from entering this challenge are extremely low, if not zero.

Abraham:

2009-08-23T12:41:00.003+01:00

So you might know that me and Chris have a wee band.
I just did a song for us this weekend and put it on our My/Your/Space. Can you please be nice and have a Listen.
Cheers, eh?

Jessops:

2009-08-23T12:16:00.003+01:00

So this week I got a job. And the only reason I feel it is note-worthy to digitally scribble about it is because I walked into the Jessops store at Fort Kinnaird just outside Edinburgh to ask if they had any vacancies. I wasn't expecting anything, but I walked out having been interviewed on the spot and with a phone call an hour or two later saying that I had the job. So here is a photograph that I took/processed/developed etc.//

Men of War:

2009-08-18T13:13:00.000+01:00

The man with no taste:

2009-08-15T19:28:00.002+01:00

So....

I saw an advert on Gumtree for an Illustration job, so I emailed the guy who then sent me a "test job" to draw a portrait of a man (who I assume was himself) in a "caricature style".
He gave me some link of things he liked and the style he was after. Here they are:

http://oigres-undead.deviantart.com/art/Cartoon-Portrait-128427112

http://ddxmotion.deviantart.com/art/exaggerated-self-96541108

http://artmaven.deviantart.com/art/Ned-s-Toon-Portrait-34444102

http://coffeestained.deviantart.com/art/Cartoon-Randy-69630668

Oh my... So I did that drawing up there of him and inadvertently made him a sleazy bastard.
It's safe to say that he can keep his job.

Sketch book things from recent times:

2009-08-15T15:54:00.007+01:00

More to come soon/when I do some:

Introduction:

2009-08-15T15:36:00.000+01:00

Hello, Hello.
I now have a blog. This is because I can't fit everything I want to on Carbonmade, so my things are going to go on here now. Hopefully I'll figure out a way to put some music on here too, so fingers cross'd. Nothing finished or anything, (I wouldn't do it without you, Chris) just some doodles and ideas and what have you for songs/etc.

Thank You!