Ron Swanson

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Also, recently Badass Digest started their Badass Sunday Comics and opened the floor to readers to submit their own.

I submitted one for the belated second issue that can be found here.

Here's my contribution alone:

For those unfamiliar, here's the story it's based on.

I tried to replicate the style (to some degree) of Daniel Clowes due to his involvement in the story.

Anyway, bye

Star Wars Uncut!

You might remember (probably not) about 2 and a half years ago I posted a short piece of animation for a project called Star Wars Uncut. Well, the finished film is finally here! Edited together in all its hand made glory.

I've got to say, it works nicely. Maybe it's just because I know the film back to front but I feel like I can follow what's happening even when the characters are constantly changing shape, age, gender and construction quality. I feel like it says something about the strength of the original film. Something that George Lucas seems to have forgotten how to do since. I'm not going to get into another rant about Lucas here though.

What I will say is congratulations to all those chosen. This is a really cool thing the internet has done!

Here's the whole film, watch away!



In case you're interested, my piece shows up at approximately the 13:33 mark and features R2D2 (one of my favourite fictional characters) looking around the inside of a Jawa Sandcrawler.

Anyway, enjoy!

Useless Doodles about My Life

So hello there. It's been a while since I've posted on here and I'm sure you've all been waiting with baited breath to hear (see?) what I've been doing. Well I thought I'd explain to you what I've been up to in LIFE since my last post through the medium of poorly rendered illustrations! How else can one explain their life?

Well first of all I spent a few days in London at the end of November. A few very expensive days I should point out. London hotels are pricey even when they suck which was a pity I must say. I'm still paying for that trip but I don't really care because it was amazing and totally worth it. It was a great few days of my life with some people who are very important to me. One in particular. Not really directly related to any of my work or art or whatever but I drew a picture of Big Ben from a Google image search so what's the difference really? Exactly.

I've also been posting a lot on Tom and Pals. That's one of my other blogs. It's creepy drawings of famous people, mostly Tom Cruise. I took a huge posting break on it there for about 2 months due to a problem with scanning facilities but I didn't stop drawing and now have a backlog which I'm currently releasing one a day. I've been posting those solidly for 2 weeks and I've still got about a week's worth left to post not including any I may draw in the meantime. It's very likely that I will draw more in the meantime so that's something to check out if you don't already follow it! Oh I also added a Tumblr branch to the Tom and Pals tree so that might be worth a look (and a reblog if you're that way inclined.)

I've also been reading a lot of Batman books recently. That's neither here nor there really. I just dig that guy. If you haven't heard of it he's basically a bloke who dresses like a giant bat and punches people. There's more to it than that but you get the idea. It's kind of underground. Whatever. I'm over it. Next question.

I've been watching a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation recently. This is a ridiculous thing to announce in any walk of life. Blog or otherwise. Even on a Star Trek blog it would be a ridiculous thing to announce as there hasn't been a new episode since 1994. It's not relevant but it's the truth and you came here for the truth (no you didn't) so you can just deal with it. Check out Worf's forehead there. It looks like a Mars bar kind of.

I've been working on a seeeecret webcoooomic for a while too. I've plenty of entries written, drawn, scanned and ready to go. I just need to figure out a webpage format for it. Might take a while. What could it be about!? What indeed?! Maybe there's a clue in this blog post!? Maybe not?! I can definitely tell you that there is or isn't a clue in this blog post. That's a promise I CAN make! I wouldn't get too worked up about it anyway. You probably won't like it. I like writing and drawing it though so that's why I do it. That's just how I roll man! That's just the way I do it.

Something I have been updating pretty regularly is my one sentence film review blog. Not a lot to say really except give it a look and see what I've been thinking of the old and new films I've seen recently. Some are great and some aren't. Weird.

I haven't posted to Cinewaffle for a while now but it was never really made to be a crazy regular thing. Who knows, I might have something to rant about soon? I have a couple of ideas actually so keep your eye on it. Or read the ones that are already there if you haven't already. Even if you have, read them again. Why not eh?! Eh?!?!

I'm moving out to Galway soon so that's exciting. I've got work to do out there. Should be there a while so yes. Look at me being all animatey in real life. How is that even possible you ask. I don't know. I just don't know but does it matter? Does any of it really matter?!? Yes. Yes some of it does but either way, I'm moving to Galway. So there's that.

Oh yeah and I figured I'd mention that I found this recently. This is humorous but also cool I guess. How ridiculous though.

Ha ha ha ha!

Friends

The Amazing Few DVD

That's also the shape DVDs are... whooda thunkit?!?!

 So I've mentioned The Amazing Few a couple of times on this blog.

This is the pinnacle though. The Amazing Few have a live DVD out and I did a bunch of stuff on it. They'll be selling it at their show tomorrow (Saturday 6th) and you should definitely come along and dance with me and buy a copy. It's a great DVD with colours and fun and what not. Also my animation's in there so you can't lose right? RIGHT?!

Anyway, the gig is called the Throwing Shapes Show and it's certain to feature new animation by me, including the image above probably. As well as others. That's a loada shapes!

Venue: The Grand Social (formerly Pravda)
Date: 06/11/10
Doors: 8:00pm
Price: €8
Fun: Yes
Diarmaid: Definitely

Seriously, come...

 
Throwing Shapes on Facebook

Tom and Pals

I've just started a new blog of weird celebrity (mostly Tom Cruise) drawings called Tom and Pals. I did a load of these recently and had a lot of fun with them. I'm hoping to do more. Don't ask me why. I thought it'd be a good idea to make a separate blog for them rather than just post them here. It'll avoid this blog feeling repetitive and will motivate me to make more of them... I reckon anyway.

Currently I've a small back up of them to post but I should get going on some new ones soon too. Do enjoy!