When I saw he was painting these dolls last week I knew I wanted them and eagerly waited for them to be posted in his Etsy shop.

If you like these nesting monsters as much as I do then you should check out Mister Hope’s website and have a look through his gallery.

Close Ups!

Then a sneaky shot of Teal’c next to Vince ;)

New laptop though so here they are!

Sorry about the crappy scan quality, I think my scanner is on its way out.

Character Walk

The Character Walk was hosted in 25 exhibition spaces/galleries around a small area of Berlin Mitte.

I really enjoyed seeing the work of so many talented artists and having the opportunity to speak to a few of them as we went around, particularly 3753% Tordal who we spent a while with talking about their work and customising boxes for Papp.

Instead of talking about them in depth here, I will try to write posts later on about the artists that inspired me the most or had interesting things to say in their lectures.

Characters in Motion

Each day started with the Characters in Motion screenings, showcasing some brilliant animation work selected by the organisers.

Some of my favourites included:

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On by Dean Fleischer Camp
Pixels by Patrick Jean
How Your Money Works by Musclebeaver
Giant by Céline Desrumaux & Yann Benedi

Doomed by Guillermo García Carsí
Let Go by David Wilson
Babiole by Matray
Logorama by H5

Baltimore Clap by Kristofer Ström
The External World by David OReilly
Umbra by Malcolm Sutherland

Lectures

The lectures ran over three days, from Thursday to Saturday, and were so densely packed together it was difficult to find the time to do anything else (especially since 50% of them ran late).

In this time we heard a number of very different artists speak about their projects, inspiration and work in development.  Again I will come back to the individuals whose work has inspired me or who I believe gave me something to think about!

The Missing Link Show

At the end of the 3 days on the Saturday night there was The Missing Link show, hosted at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

The highlight of this for me was most definitely Motomichi Nakamura, though Dan Deacon’s set was fun to watch from the seats as he encouraged people from the audience to join him on stage and act out a few things whilst he played records.

Motomichi Nakamura’s dark videos in which he uses only red, white and black were the perfect accompaniment to the heavy music that he chose to add to the mix.

All in all the festival was entertaining and fun, so I think I will most likely be trying to get a ticket for next year too.  Roll on doomsday edition Pictoplasma!

I had the idea a couple of months ago to start drawing on luggage tags and leaving them in various places.  I bought the tags but didn’t actually get around to drawing on them until Saturday, then didn’t want to leave them anywhere because I was pretty happy with them.

Instead of losing these drawings, I have scanned them and will work on making digital copies in the next week or so.  For now, here are my scans:

I ended up buying 3 prints in total by Tado, Aaron Miller and JamFactory; all of whom are designers/illustrators I’ve been following lately and drooling over their work a little.  I’m very happy to have been able to buy some of their prints!

Apologies for the poor quality photos about to follow, I might have to redo them when it’s daylight and I have a better spot to put them in.  For now, shhh.

I also bought myself another Tic Toc Apocalyse Toy from Forbidden Planet which I love.

Take a look:

As for my own illustration you can expect to see at least 10 new drawing pop up in the next week or so as I’ve started my luggage tag project :)

And for those with Spotify: Weird Al Yankovic – Truck Drivin’ Song

AT-AT Day Afternoon by Patrick Boivin

Oh well.

Today’s Inspiration: Mr Gauky