Hi guys. Things have been pretty busy; 2011 is a bit mental so far. But here’s some of the stuff I’ve been up to since you last heard from me.

  • Workshops: Lots of them. I taught another four sessions at Easingwold Secondary; It was really cool to work with the same set of student for so many weeks, and the work they came up with was fantastic. I had a great day teaching in Harrogate Library, and last week I got to cap of the City of London Academy’s book week, which was all kinds of fun.
  • Webbery: Lots of bits and bobs including some highspeed emergency web surgery on the Glory Strokes site. 24 hours from “help meeee!” and starting from scratch to it being done, which was fun. There’s quite a few other things in the pipeline I can hopefully tell you about soon.
  • Shooting Roots: I’ve been designing the ads for ShootingRoots in FRoots Mag, making nefarious plans with our coms mastermine Steph about how to make our web presence kick some righteous arse, and it looks like I’m on board to get my craft on this summer at Towersey and Sidmouth. Summer is going to be amazing.
  • Storyboarding: Graham Lester George, the guy who taught the screenwriting classes I’ve been attending, got me in to do the storyboards for a comedy short he’s been working on. It’s just about to go into editing so hopefully I can show you guys soon. I got to check out the shoot (and help Xan record some foley), which was a lot of fun. I’d love to do more stuff like this.
  • Album Art: I’ve been working on the album and single artwork for Doghan and the Deerhunters new album, which has been cool. The single should be available on their upcoming tour, and the Album not long after that. It’s good stuff.

I’ve also been getting back into the whistle and singing, geeking out far too much about Homestuck (expect an article about this soon), working on some script stuff and generally trying to get things in order to push on with making cool stuff for you guys. I’m also hoping to try and get some more reference and tutorial stuff going on here, so if anyone has anything they’d like me to do some posts about, hit me up in the comments.

I’m going to be a Scarborough Aftershock this Saturday, which should be mint. See you there!

Anyway, back to work. Have fun!