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University ChallengeYour average American university: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erVewRbMcPw
Your average British university: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fzmmrk6kk / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6YvpZb1pOY&feature=endscreen&NR=1
No reason.
I never went to uni.
As such; I have zero debt.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
(*granted, that does limit my employment options to drawing boobs or cleaning toilets.....)

"She cannae take it, Captain!"Despite being on an island whose population appears obsessed by the weather: this is the first time I've heard the MET office issue a "Red Alert" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16079849
Scotland is doomed!
Well: its wind farms are, at least: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57213000/jpg/_57213585_winturbinefire976by549.jpg

Oh, not again....Argentina is getting frisky over the Falklands again. I've no idea if it's just political bluster; a box for the Argentinean leadership to stand upon and rant about so that they can look strong in front of their people, or if the oil reserves in Falkland waters are providing motivation for renewed claims.
There are lots of little specks of land around the world that still fall under post-Imperial British control. That many consider these outposts to be tired relics of the Empire is irrelevant: the people that live on them consider themselves to be British citizens and have voluntarily chosen to remain loyal to the United Kingdom. As such, the United Kingdom is obliged to do all it can to ensure their security.
This is the case with the Falklands.
I'm not quite sure what other agenda the Argentinean government thinks the Royal Navy has in sending HMS Dauntless into the region.
Yes: the Daring Class destroyer is one of the most advanced ships currently afloat and the Princi

Will GTA 5 be any good?It certainly looks pretty, but I just can't seem to get excited about it.
Why?
Well; the last GTA game that I played from start to finish……was GTA.
That's; the original.
I never played GTA 2 or 3, I got stuck on the bank heist mission in Vice City, and then my save got corrupted and I never went back to it, the city-wide riot in San Andreas was so much of a chore that I just gave up and GTA 4 was such unplayable sh*t that I now use the disc as a coaster.
I'm hoping….praying….that Rockstar will imbue the title with the same explorative fun that existed in Red Dead Redemption, and make traversing the game world by car (or plane or scooter or tank) as much a delight as it was on horseback.
Better yet; I'm hoping that they've taken a leaf out of Bethesda's book and made the game world more than just a façade, populated by characters that exist outside of the main story arc.
Of course, if there's even a hint of the "social networking" or toll booths we saw in our la

Peddling PreliminariesBack in the old days, before I started working 99% of the time on a Cintiq, my method of producing an image was a little more complex.
First; I would draw a pencil sketch. This would then be scanned into photoshop and turned into a "blue-line" image. That would then be printed out. Inks would be drawn over the top of the blue linework and it would then be rescanned using settings that would erase the blue, leaving only the crisp black of the inks.
As a result of this method, I usually have two versions of each of my old works; the final inks and the preliminary sketch.
While I would like to archive ALL my work, I don't have the space, and am going to begin culling the latter.
Rather than simply toss it, however; I'm going to start posting pieces on ebay that may be of interest to fans.
First batch is as follows:
(Sold - Sorry. You missed 'em)

Cute Ad.A recent ad for Lynx makes me want to draw wings and halos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C7-v_R-r94
The product may carry the "cheap, teenage smell of desperation", but that naïve angel is damn cute

"Lynx" is known as "Axe" in some regions. Not quite sure why.
Say the word "Lynx" and it conjures imagery of lithe, feline predators.
What springs to mind when you say "Axe"?
Lumberjacks.
……….and murder.

Skyrim - First ImpressionsPicked up a cheapo copy of Skyrim today. First impressions: this game is so inside the box, it's inside a smaller box.
Tolkien was, undeniably, a genius, but, for the love of creativity and dynamism; read another f**king book, people.
There's a world of culture, history and myth out there to seek inspiration from! Fantasy should be an exciting, twisted reflection of the world around us, not an endless stream of pirated Lord of the Rings DVDs.

The Queen gets herself a Death RayOK - not really, but as part of her upcoming Diamond Jubilee, ERII is to fire an uber-laser from Buckingham Palace, which is awesome, but does make us look just an itty bit more.... evil.
http://nla.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4125344/Queen-to-fire-huge-Mall-laser.html
I mean; our crisis response committee is called COBRA, our military satellite network is called SKYNET and now the palace has been equipped with a great big f**k-off laser cannon.
You'd think we were a nation of super-villains.

The Word of KurtzI was checking the "links" section of my website, just to make sure everything was still working as I hadn't actually clicked on anything there for a while, and I found myself on the PVP website.
"A while" was obviously "a few years". I barely recognised the strip!
Anyway; I'm not writing this to bitch about hating change (I'll save that and put it into Sequential Art), I'm writing this to relay a very good point the good Mr Kurtz made in the PVP blog:
"Everyone is kind of freaking out right now because of the Gary Friedrich case. Long story short, the guy who created Ghost Rider in 1972 sued Marvel, claiming that they never filed a copyright for his work and therefore he still owns Ghost Rider. Courts said "sit down before you fall down" and in addition slapped the guy with a $17,000 fine for selling tee shirts and posters featuring Mike Ploog Ghost Rider art at conventions.
People are considering this a warning salvo at artists who do sketches of Marvel and DC owned characters at

Good news everyone1.
We now have cheap and sexy posters of Captain and gang available, shipped from England:

OBTAIN THEM NOW : http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/shop/yellow-brick-road-poster
SUPPORT :iconcaptainfanclub:'s TAKE OVER OF ZEE WORLD!
HELP :ICONSNIPPYFANCLUB: & :iconcaptainfanclub: & :ICONENGIEFANCLUB: VISIT ENGLAND AND FRANCE ZIS YEAR!
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Check out :iconluna133:'s delicious webcomic Zombiewaffe:
http://www.zombiewaffe.com/home/2011/07/11/page-1/
It will satisfy your craving for moar apocalyptic things!
I rate it at 495 thumbs up.

"Nyan" this.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv208tslzMU

I'm changing my name.That's right. I'm changing my DA name.
I've thought long and hard and have decided to change it toooooo.......
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.................."jollyjack".
That's right; i'm one of the few artists here on DA that seems content with my name. That; and I think changing a "brand" simply because you can, after you've spent time and energy building up an audience is f**king stupid.
I've been here for years. I've operated on the internet under "jollyjack" for longer. If I changed that now it would be monumentally confusing to people that follow my work, which, in turn, would have an effect on revenue.
There are a ton of artists here whose work I keenly follow, and I think they're kinda shooting themselves in the foot by doing this.
Kinda reminds be of those little label-making things everyone's been given on at least one Christmas as a kid: you unwrap it, you find out what it does and you spend the rest of the day punching out new tags for everything. Even if they'

November 23, the day God trolled me hardthis day shall go down in history.
this is an epic story guys.
Firstly, I'm still down at school and my fams up north, so i'm pretty much alone for thanksgiving and my birthday. I'm alone but not lonely

they're sending me wishes and all that.
I went to the store and yes, i purchased a cake....just for me. YES I BOUGHT MY OWN BIRTHDAY CAKE
I got a pretty cake with flowers.
Blue and yellow, vanilla and white icing.
Me and my roommate will share it and we will celebrate.
I will scribble on it "Happy birthday..Me"
It's not sad. Really. XD it's a grown up thing to do XD
I came back home from shopping. Got comfortable and began to work on my long procrastinated persuasive speech and then my LANDLORD SUDDENLY BURSTS IN THE ROOM.
NOT A SINGLE KNOCK.
He's like
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEY
and i'm like
HEEEEEEEEEEY wtfareyoudoing??
and he's all "don'tforgettocloseyourwindows." -walks out-
Me: ..........-flips open phone and calls mom-
Mom, my landlord totally walked in on me like..half nake

Turtles Production Shut DownVICTORY!
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/06/15/ninja-turtles-shut-down
Paramount has shut down pre-production on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot over "script problems".
Translation; Paramount realised that if they continued down the path Bay was going, fans would probably burn their studios to the ground.
With luck (and a dollop of common sense) the project will be shelved altogether and the IP left fallow until competent directors/producers are brought on board.
I'm going to pretend my little campaign helped with this

Doomsday....sorry; you missed it.Since the concept of the Leap Year was first implemented back in 45BC, there have been about 514 of them.
Without the extra day every 4 years, we would be in 2013.
As the Mayan Calendar doesn't take leap years into account; 2012 has been and gone.
(Edit - no: I'm not smart enough to work that out myself. I read it!)

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Sorry, but I do not accept comissions. I was too hard to work with people whose language I do not know. But if there was an opportunity to work on some first-person shooter (AAA-AA), and some join the team, I'd love to do it. Of course with the ability to work in Russian, because communication with an electronic translator is not enough.

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What irony that you yourself say that an electronic translator isn´t enough...I´m really thinking about gettting the Russian-rooted friends I have together and and ask them if they could help me translate ALL YOUR FRICKIN WEBSITE.
The images alone tell me that your tutorials are pure GOLD,man...