FIRST THINGS FIRST: look at some of my graphics

Right then... yes... well. I think to begin I'll show a few of the latest graphics I have made, for I will be posting a graphic here every time I make one in the future. Usually when I've just completed one, I become very proud of myself and show it off anywhere I can.

Okay, this is my most recent piece. If you actually look in my Photobucket gallery you will see that the subject of this piece is featured heavily throughout. Mutya Buena (who knows if you've heard of her in the states) is my idol, so [too many of] my graphics are based around her. This one is purely for the aesthetic, however. I kinda got this idea from an erotic graphic design book called "All Allure". Basically, her skin has an outline and everything else is filled. Blah blah blah... the point is, it looks sexy and amazing, and it was so simple to do. Usually when graphics come out this good, they took absolutely forever to do. This is not the case here. Oh how wonderful. Please gaze at it in amazement as I have been doing for the past few days.




NEEEXT. We are going back before christmas now. I actually made this as a christmas present for a friend (he likes his weed. Or... pot, as you Americans call it). It is... a smoke machine. A-ha-ha... what a funny pun. As you can see, the little machine looks rather high, and looks as if he is wasting quite a bit of money, for it is pouring uncontrolably out of his back-side. This is indeed a sort of attack on todays youth, and how wasteful and irresponsible we can be, but also - without seeming too hypocrytical - I am mocking myself. I too like a bit of weed... but I've never actually spent my own money on it. (I think I would if I knew who to buy from... cough).


Well... while we're on the subject of weed, here is a lady... smoking weed. Uh, there is actually a point to this piece - I'm not completely obsessed with doing graphics related to weed. First of all, the woman is actually Amelle Berrabah, who is part of UK pop group the sugababes. A few weeks ago, I learnt that one of my best friends is now living with the guy who used to sell Amelle her weed when she lived in her home town. I found this rather amusing. I told other sugababes fans. While some too found it amusing, others were offended and disgusted. Call me stupid, but I did not realise that the majority of the sugababes fanbase grew up in an isolated plastic bubble completely cut-off from the REAL WORLD. SHE WAS A FUCKING TEENAGER FOR GODS SAKE... 90% OF TEENAGERS HAVE AT LEAST TRIED WEED. So... yeah... their reactions pissed me off enough to make this piece. It was hard to find the right photo, but this one was perfect. In the original photograph she is in fact signing some artwork, and just happened to turn her eye up to the camera which is why I suppose she isn't smiling. I replaced her pen with a nice little joint that she is stubbing out. And I believe her perfectly careless, almost angry, expression works so well here because it tells others that she doesn't care about this very tiny, minute, insignificant... thing about her past, and others shouldn't either. So there.


Right, I did this piece more or less straight after the last one. At this point, I had become a bit obsessed with doing graphical pieces about weed. This one is entitled "Weed Heads". Now, I was actually going to include something like this in the last piece (sitting on the table next to her or something) but that would have been far too cramped and pointless. It works really well as a piece on its own. Now really, its just a bit of fun, and wasn't meant to be that serious that I'd post it on here and write some fat description. But I'm showing this because I've never achieved something that looked quite so professional. Perhaps you disagree.


Lastly, I felt I should show this piece to get rid of the grassy after-taste. This is possibly one of the best pieces I have ever done. It has to be. It's a desktop wallpaper I made especially for myself... and I do not change my desktop wallpaper every week like most people do. I've had my own computer for about 5 years now, and since then I have changed my desktop wallpaper twice. First it was the golden petals, then a graphic that someone made me before I was any good at making my own graphics. And now (at a time where my graphic skills have greatly improved and had surpassed the quality of my previous wallpaper about a year ago) I have this one. The dominant colour is yellow, as it has been in my two previous wallpapers, but the content of course is very different. It actually looks quite mad when you think about it. There, on a strange black hill, stands my idol, cheerfully thinking "the cracks are in the dawn" (to this day I don't know what that means... it was a phrase that popped into my head). In front of her she sees her own giant, masked face; suspended, as if it were some kind of spectre. (please note she did not have a cloth around her mouth in the source photograph. I put that in to add further mystery, and so I could add the tiny label with her true first name on it). The hill then cuts off at an alarming angle causing her inspiring glow to fall upon the many, seemingly discarded dolls of herself. I suppose the huge pile of dolls is a reference to the fact that she is an original, and cannot be 'duplicated'. If you were to do so, it would be an immediate failure, worthy only of being thrown away. There you have it.

Phew, that took a long time. You have my thanks and gratitude if you even read one paragraph of this post. A-thank you.