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Malc74 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:14

Flipping heck, that's excellent, dude!

pupil · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:34

Aces! I really love your Troglodyte picture too!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:35

Thanks very much.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11920

That's awesome, I really like it!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 0:14

Finally finished off my latest batch of Illustrations tonight:

Stick your thumb up here please if you would be so kind: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Beasties/3163994

Took me bloody ages them.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Awesome. Reminds me of Samurai Jack.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 0:24

Bloomin' brilliant!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 0:25

More please. Can haz desktop backgrounds? I'm fed up of looking at Moonfiend now.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 0:28

Ta x

Er, you're welcome to make your own desktop from them Dimrill, let me know if there's sizing probs and I'll sort it out though.

SisterCheeba · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 260

That's some fantastic work, inspiring even. Thumbed.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

That crow one would make an awesome album cover. Good work Z!

metalangel · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:00

The Warp Beast and especially Demon Crow have a real Inuit art look to them. Fantastic stuff!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38774

Superb, Z. Do more, make a book. Much better than that Gervais nonsense.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:26

I like the witches best

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

Acebest!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:59

Brilliant mate... brilliant.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:18

I've looked on the site they're posted on and read your little bit of blurb, and if I was going to be picky I'd say that the fact you went to all that time to place the letters individually doesn't really show - they wave up and down in a fairly uniform fashion.
They don't look bad, but they don't look 'odd' to my eyes, which seems to be what you're going for.

The font itself is good, though - can I get a copy, or is that not how Illustrator works?

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

I really should commission you for something, Z.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

Wait, who was it who was doing the canvasses, that posted the abstract green background-in-progress?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:25

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:30

Grim... wrote:

...The font itself is good, though - can I get a copy, or is that not how Illustrator works?

No, it's not a font that you can install. I could make it into one with the right software. It's just a set of letter shapes based on a serif font that I converted into outlines, redrew to break up the straight edges, then warped and angled them before setting.

kalmar · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:40

Brilliant!
At odds with Grim... I think the text looks really good off-grid like that.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:42

Yeah, all the cool kids do.

Thanks for all the comments folks.

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

Those are bloomin awesome Mr Z, think i like the Crow best

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

Are 'weird' canvas sizes a pain in the arse? Or, I suppose, 'weird' frame sizes? I ask because I quite fancy an arrangement something like this, with the wide, thin one literally being a couple of inches tall but 5 or 6 feet long. With, for bonus awkward, the image wrapped around onto the sides.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

That actually is about as far as my artistic talents stretch.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:14

I buy my box canvas premade, and generally only get square ones. The frames are over an inch thick so to make a 2" wide strip canvas you'd be basically wrapping the wood rather than stretching the material over the frame. It would have to be painted onto board for those dimensions.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

RAGE QUIT.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10235

Okay, I'm back.

But I am skint at the moment. When I figure out what the fuck, I'll get back to you.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16712

Those are amazing mate, absolutely brilliant. Though your Airfix output seems to be suffering as a result.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:49

I know, should have my P-51d finished this weekend though.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:03

kalmar wrote:

At odds with Grim... I think the text looks really good off-grid like that.

At odds with you, I read my post

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:05

Keep it down please, this is an arty thread.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 13:25

Oh, has someone else posted some pictures?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 13:30

Your Tomcat is a woofter wagon.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2012 17:15

Zardoz wrote:

Your Tomcat is a woofter wagon.

Yeah, but then Zio got out again.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 23:07

Just a quickie, forgot I did this to be honest.

So bogged down in boring Freelance stuff at home

(but £

) I haven't had much time for my own stuff.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Nov 01, 2013 0:30

Forgot about that.

Here's what I've done in October, been pretty busy...

Two paintings, one for Markg and one for Baz (can you guess which is which?)

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Folk-Punk-Demon/11393881

http://www.behance.net/gallery/RC-Freak/11677445

And something for Halloween for a Shapeshifting Pork Fiend.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Hallowee ... y/11393635

Few other new bits too over on my behance portfolio: http://www.behance.net/darrenwoodcock

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Pretty much everyone tonight has complimented the zardart. Good work.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:48

As they should; it's bloody fantastic!

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:05

Brilliant.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:39

Cras wrote:

Pretty much everyone tonight has complimented the zardart. Good work.

Names and addresses of those who didn't, please.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38774

Supreme work, Z-man. I will continue to be a patron of your art.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6646

Splednid!

Also, seeing the spooky time-travelling Craster painting has reminded me that I'm sure I saw it in the background of a video or TV show or something - a man was speaking to camera and it was on the wall behind him. However, ow I can't remember if it was in real life, on here or in a dream.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2014 0:53

More new stuff here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/Daily-D ... 4/14854385

Been doing a Demon Doodle every day since Jan 1st with my new Rotring pens. I'll be uploading them in monthly chunks so February will be up soon to.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2014 1:03

I'm really enjoying seeing these on Twitter. Long may it continue.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sun Mar 02, 2014 23:33

February's Doodles are up now too: http://t.co/7ur3ksVb7l

krazywookie · **Posted:** Sun Mar 02, 2014 23:57

These are amazing! Most of them look like they have strange and terrible stories behind them, ever thought about writing some?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:05

krazywookie wrote:

These are amazing! Most of them look like they have strange and terrible stories behind them, ever thought about writing some?

Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
And so on...

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:23

Clearly we should write them.

Be Excellent To Each Other

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