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We Are All Connected

Administrator — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:39:22 +0000

Now available on my RedBubble store, the first of my planned series of “serious” science designs, featuring one of my favourite quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson, the popular American astrophysicist and science communicator:

“We are all connected. To each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe atomically.”

We Are All Connected

Also available as a poster.

Skeptical Kitteh is featured on RedBubble

Administrator — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:21:10 +0000

A big thank you to the Dinobot for letting me know that Skeptical Kitteh has been featured on the latest RedBubble iPhone Blast. It’s quite a thrill to see him front and centre.

Moving the furniture

Administrator — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:33:28 +0000

I’ve been doing a little bit of housekeeping on my site, and have now placed the links to my RedBubble store front and centre on the home page, along with samples of the artwork I currently have for sale.

I’ve also added my FutureQuake Cover to the Comics section of my portfolio. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to get around to it. I’ll try and put up the pages from the Regrets, Rules and Jellied Eels strip soon, too.

Another mention on Why Evolution is True

Administrator — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:28:54 +0000

I’m once again thrilled to be mentioned on Jerry Coyne’s website, Why Evolution is True. Jerry has been kind enough to put up a picture of my latest Science Kitteh design, along with a very flattering title, and a link to my RedBubble store. I did cheat a bit and use the title of (what I believe is) Jerry’s first published paper in the image, which may have influenced his decision somewhat.

Skeptical Kitteh gets celebrity endorsement!

Administrator — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:00:29 +0000

I’m thrilled that Skeptical Kitteh and Science Kitteh have been mentioned on Why Evolution Is True, the website of well known evolutionary biologist Jerry A Coyne. In addition to his academic standing, Professor Coyne is a well known figure in the atheist and skeptic movement, as well as a prolific author and unabashed ailurophile; as a long-time reader of his site, this is pretty much celebrity endorsement as far as I’m concerned.

Disclaimer: I contacted Professor Coyne to bring Skeptical Kitteh to his attention, but I’m still thrilled that he has taken the time to mention me on his very popular website (not blog).

Being sociable

Administrator — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:22:25 +0000

I’ve recently added a Drawing Business Facebook page. There is currently just a small selection of artwork on the there, but if it proves popular enough, then I intend to make it the first choice for posting new images and content.

Please take a look, and if you have a Facebook account, consider “liking” the page.

Cover Up

Administrator — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:56:22 +0000

FutureQuake Issue 17

Issue 17 of FutureQuake is on sale now! Go and buy a copy now (£3.50 + £1.00 P+P), or there will be… trouble.

The Future is Nearly Here

Administrator — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:25:31 +0000

The very nice folks at FutureQuake Press have posted a teaser image of my forthcoming comic strip. It’s the lead strip in issue 17 of the Multiple Eagle Award nominated flagship FutureQuake comic. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy when it comes out later this month.

Flick Golf riding high

Administrator — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:40:08 +0000

It’s been very satisfying watching Flick Golf riding high in the US iTunes App Store. It’s currently at number 8 in the Top Paid chart, after peeking earlier last week at number 3. At that point, it was even beating Cut the Rope, which is quite an achievement.

Screenshot of Flick Golf

Flick Golf is the third iPhone release from my employer, Full Fat, and the first I’ve been involved with. Our first two iPhone titles, Deadball Specialist (featured by Apple in the Rewind 2010 and App Store Essentials), and Zombie Flick received excellent reviews, but neither have achieved the success of Flick Golf.

I designed and created the logo for Flick Golf, along with all the interactive elements of the game UI (buttons, titles, dialogue panels, etc). The wonderful loading screen images and UI backgrounds where created by Heather Sheppard (who you can also find on Twitter masquerading as DinobotTwit), who also painted the beautiful background for this Flick Golf marketing poster (click the image for a huge version):

Swanky marketing poster

It’s very nice to be involved, even if only in a small way, in a product that has been so successful, and received consistently high praise from reviewers and casual gamers alike.

Minor changes to the Image Engine pre-caching policy

Administrator — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:07:41 +0000

I’ve made a small tweak to the Image Engine Javascript that drives my portfolio browser. In the initial release, the script automatically started pre-caching all the full-sized images as soon as the page had finished loading. Now only the first 5 images are pre-cached; after that, images are loaded on demand as they are selected. This reduces the bandwidth hit that a visitor would suffer when visiting a page with a lot of slides.