LÆMEUR @laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org

I slept three hours last night, I had a one-hour nap three hours ago, I've got a flask of coffee, loud drum and bass in my headphones, and less than 12 hours to ink and colour this illustration with 13 celebrity likenesses. LET'S DO THIS!
*whimper*

Band Name of the Day:
Food-Grade Shuriken

Aaaand the first of the year-in-review jobs comes in today. I don't know how I ended-up becoming a sort-of George Perez for entertainment magazines (does anyone get the reference anymore?), but I certainly never would have predicted this when I was a kid.

My five-year-old, listening to the #radio:
[announcer speaks for ~30 seconds, gives station ID and announces the next track...]
"Dad? Is this an ad?"
"No, it's the DJ."
"DJs are annoying."

Of course I'm wondering this because this describes the fate of most things that I make.

I wonder how many interesting pieces of single-author software get written and then never adopted or even released because the author can't be arsed to write any documentation.

For my #starwars poster, I had to do my own vector conversion of the 1975 Star Wars logo. If anyone's interested, it's here, and it's public domain: http://laemeur.sdf.org/sw-logo/

My friend, ace cartoonist Aaron Florian, asked me to do a couple pieces for a #StarWars show he’s curating in Victoria, BC. Here’s the second piece. It’s a sort-of ‘80s comic book-style poster for The Star Wars, which, in this alternative universe didn’t get made into a movie but instead went straight to comics with circa-1975 character/ship designs by Ralph McQuarrie and Colin Cantwell.

I’m gonna sell prints of this. I’ll post an update when those are available.

#illustration #art #comics

Do you have an irritating tone of voice? Are you capable of doing weirdly restrained, awkward readings of dramatic dialogue? Well, my friend, a career in English-language anime dubbing may be in your future!

Officially landed as a permanent resident of Canada today. I sure put that off for a long time!

Hey, fedizens — take a moment if you please to sign this petition to tell Macmillan Publishers not to restrict e-book access to public libraries. https://p2a.co/fgcQkzV

Wow. I've had GIMP crash on me before, but I've never had it crash so hard that it took X down with it. Um... good job, Krita?

Hard to believe I've been listening to Boom Boom Satellites' _Out_Loud_ for 21 years! Still one of my all-time favorites. Hits so many sweet spots for me: electronic sounds, rock sounds, fat, chopped-up drums, great grooves with a sort-of menacing undertone on a lot of tracks. Great stuff. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lhp_Ot7lywkpwPoLrzgel2ymFqAwEhDBc

Yeah, I had cracked wheat with sardines and capers for #breakfast today. So what!?

Based on Ralph McQuarrie's 1975 "pirate" Han Solo design.
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#StarWars #sketchbook #HanSolo #illustration #cartoon #comic