tarot:2 The High Priestess

here is card 2 The High Priestess and the first card with the character in a sitting pose so i had to decide whether or not all my tarot characters had to be on the same scale or to make some bigger than others and as you can see i made her bigger and i think it works well

and here are the link for if you want to spend some money

on redbubble as

prints&cards,

t-shirts,hoodies & stickers

and

on zazzle as

skateboards

mugs 

i'll have a "G" please bob

i know i know i posted two t-shirt posts in a row and i told you i was going to try not to do that but things get  in the way. ok one of the thing that gets in the way is laziness but another is my brother calling me up and telling me he's  got no one to go to a gig with. so before i end up with 3 t-shirt posts in a row here a review of an oddly enjoyable night out.
i say oddly because you don't expect a good night to contain scenes like this


but this one did. the artist my brother was eager to see was Marina Gasolina former member of Bonde Do Rolê who was playing in brixton as was the Deftones. Deftones were play bixton Academy ware as  Marina Gasolina was playing a free gig at The Rest is Noise (a bar near to the bixton Academy)


i met my brother in Enfiled town were he had just finished work we had a quick drink in a local pub then jumped on the train
we came out bixton station with a sea of deftones fans and squeezed in to the bar were a good number of the  deftones fans had washed up for a pint before heading to the Academy as there numbers finned we grabbed  a table right in front  of the stage. as we sat there waiting for the gig to start and coming to the conclusion that the woman sitting on a table next to the stage was not the singer we had come to see (she was) the bar slowly emptied behind us. soon the tables that had been covered in glasses were cleared by the fast moving staff. we asked what time the band would be going on and was told it would be once it's started getting busier (aka when the deftones had finished down the road)

so to parse the time and to make our drink last longer we played some of the games that were stack on a table. first play connect 4 with less red Pieces than yellow. then block buster which never of us know how to play. and i got to say it was jolly good fun not what you would plan for a night out but i cant say there was anything bad about the night.

oh the music. that was good to here some photos

Marina Gasolina

Tarot:1 The Magician

here is card 1 of my tarot deck the fool being card 0. as you can see comparing this to last weeks fool I'm going to use the same style and technique throughout the tarot project. each figure will be standing or siting in a set made of box shapes using a comic book framework with the card name and number in the corner of one of two of the comic cells, as well as comic cell structures i am going to use tea stain on the the cards to add texture to some of the coloured spaces.

and here is were you can buy it 

on redbubble as

prints&cards,

t-shirts,hoodies & stickers

on zazzle as

skateboards

mugs

Tarot:0 the fool

 is the start of my new project designing my way though the Major Arcana of the tarot deck every friday i will post my design for one of the 22 card that make up the Major Arcana.
this week is card 0 The Fool

 and because money unfortunately make the world go round i am going to have to try and sell you stuff with my new artwork on
prints&card

t-shirts,hoodies & stickers

mugs

skateboards

having a poke around

i would normally be posting a new tee today but with the sftw project over i have no new tee for you today but i am starting a new project and will be posting the first part up on friday if all go to plan.
so today i'm go to share a interesting link with you and i don't mean a link to my redbubbule profile where you can get 15% off by useing discount code: IanByfordArt_is_on_sale_9568 at the checkout until november 14th (sorry about the plug but i had to crowbar it in somewhere)
if you like poke around the street as well as the web check out the shady old lady's guide to london it full of lot of little thing to you have no need to no but still mite like to. each location has a brief deception a map and are early browsed by theme like this list of london murder-related places

something from the weekend: the round up 15% off use discountcode: IanByfordArt_is_on_sale_9568

no monday i post the last part of my something from the weekend project. i start this project for a number of reasons
1. to try and push my designs in a different direction. and from day one of the project thing headed for the surreal side of the track with this my frist tee

2. to push me to try some new techniques. i don't think this happened to muck for most of the tee i used the same simplify and trace technique because it was easier to estimate how long the design would take to finish and you can see early on in the design is going to look when finished. but not all tee used this technique like this one

on which i tried out allot of different effect  in different combinations but i think it come out looking grate 

3. try and get more people moving between my blog and redbubble this has only relay work one way form here to bubble

4. to sell some tees and make some money to date this has not work but it not all over yet the tee are staying  on rebbubble and all the blog post are siting around waiting to direct people to them. and at the moment (tell november 14) there is 15% off  when you use discount code: IanByfordArt_is_on_sale_9568 at the checkout 

well that my roundup and to end it i here my favorite tee from the project 

15% off stuff discount code: IanByfordArt_is_on_sale_9568

all my stuff on redbubble has 15% off tell november 14 just use discount code: IanByfordArt_is_on_sale_9568 at the checkout now  go buy buy buy

plane-t-shirt 

just because things could be worse doesn't mean they shouldn't be better

Nickabocka glory

sky walk

if I HAD fantasy films

my new if i had page is now up here with a list of fantasy films i would buy if i had any money

something from the weekend 12:mirror photo

for the last 12 weeks every friday i've take some photos and turn one or more in to a t-shirt by monday then upload the photos and a pictures of work in progress for you to see and for 12 weeks be for that i was take some photos every friday and turn one or more in to a t-shirt before the end of the day then upload the photo and a picture of work in progress for  you to see,
and now i think it time to stop for now any way i'm going to try and get a post up about the project as a whole but for now here is the last t-shirt in the sftw project

mirror photo