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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:** 38667

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:** 10174

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:** 10174

I really should commission you for something, Z.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10174

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:** 10174

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:** 10174

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:** 10174

RAGE QUIT.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10174

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:** 16640

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:** 49244

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:** 38667

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

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6613

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.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:25

Grim... wrote:

Clearly we should write them.

I'll do it right after I finish that book thing.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:33

Curiosity wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Clearly we should write them.

I'll do it right after I finish that book thing.

You're meant to be doing online game ruleset first.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:37

Grim... wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Clearly we should write them.

I'll do it right after I finish that book thing.

You're meant to be doing online game ruleset first.

I did that board game instead.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:49

Where's the calendar in the list of priorities these days?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:53

Dunno.

GazChap?

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:00

Grim... wrote:

Dunno.

GazChap?

What are you saying, that it's not a priority?

What a GazChap admin!

krazywookie · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2014 14:23

Great, that's sorted then. We'll all totally write one at a non pre-defined future date eh? Non pre-defined... Am I over-exaggerating there?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2014 15:47

krazywookie wrote:

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

Thanks very much. I did do on a set of digital illustrations a while back. Feel free to give them back stories though.

Just get them right...

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2014 23:54

Thanks for all the back stories Krazywookie.

Here are 31 more that need them

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Daily-D ... 4/15746055

Well, 32 I suppose with this one

https://www.behance.net/gallery/Demon-Drummer/15746255

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 0:47

To anyone who gives a fuck, there are thirty more now:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/1653430 ... April-2014

Third of the year gone already!

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