Low-Effort Trends for 2017

I’ve had a super-hectic few months where I’ve not really been able to get any work done, but today I actually managed to put in a few hours in front of the ‘putor. So I must have used this time to do something worthwhile, right? Nah – I thought it would be more fun to mock and ridicule the relentless tide of lazy, low-effort, generic-yet-oh-so-edgy designs that I’m seeing everywhere at the mo.

(Wow – if you read that last sentence back you can almost hear the sound of middle-age settling in).

Anyway, enough of this – here’s some design bollocks.

I’m totally not bitter. Totally.

 

Big Tings Gowan For Us…

Finally! Finally it’s happened – I have gone and bought loudribs.com and actually made some sort of functioning shop to sit on top of it! So from now on, you can buy all of my tat from one convenient location and revel in all it’s noisy ribsness.

Quite what happens to this weird little outpost of the internet, I’m not sure yet but from now on, make loudribs.com you’re first stop in the quest for random tosh.

Exciting times, Lemmings – exciting times!

GTA: Brexit

 

This has taken an absolute bloody age to do and also remind what a ball ache Cameron is to draw (he’s essentially featureless – it’s like drawing a fatberg) but – at last – it is done! Behold, my GTA: Brexit poster – the carnage simulator for those who’ve graduated from mowing down pedestrians to stacking whole nations into a wall. You can get this design on all sorts of cobbler here.

In The Shite Garden

As the parent of a toddler, I spend most of my waking hours wanting to punch the inhabitants of The Night Garden, but – seeing how it’s Easter Sunday – I’m going to let one of its denizens off the hook today. Lucky old Makka Pakka, eh? Long may he continue to faintly worry the nation with his obsessive behaviour…

Oh City of Mine…

Yeah yeah yeah – I know: Leeds is not by the sea. The thing is that I live in Leeds and the natives (whom I have to walk among, day in, day out) have been getting restless and somewhat threatening in their demands for their own poster. Given that I already suffer enough abuse at their hands, I thought it only prudent to knock this little beauty together and also take the opportunity to get even with Manchester at the same time (we have a great many scores to settle, Manchester and I). So here we are, Leeds in all of it’s awful, awful splendour and not a pier, promenade or esplanade to be seen.

Postcards and prints available from the Rubbish Seaside Etsy store or at Fabrication in The Light, Leeds…

*sigh*

It’s good to have a hobby…

A Snifter of Rando

Two little telly related quickies for you:

The first is in honour of the Clash of Quizzie Titan’s that’s set to take place on tonight’s University Challenge. If you haven’t been watching then shame on you as this series has excelled in big personalities – the biggest of which are going head-to-head tonight. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you my interpretation of what the Bobby Seagull vs Monkman semi-final might just look like.

Aaaaaaaand secondly, to celebrate finishing the Leeds Rubbish Seaside poster (more on that soon) I’ve allowed myself an afternoon of tossing about and drawing Tomasz Schafernaker forecasting a giant weather knob. Don’t ask me why.

Greetings, Pokers…

If you’ve just arrived at here via The Poke and are in the market for seaside tat to purchase then fear not – you can find purchasable coastal slander at the following places:

For postcards and A3 prints, head over to the Rubbish Seaside Etsy store…

For T-shirts, Red Molotov will be able to sort you out…

For assorted wares like mugs, laptop covers, duvets (srsly, I shit you not) then Redbubble’s where you want to be….

Or, if you’re in Leeds then drop into Fabrication in The Light for irl seaside merch or The Greedy Pig for handsomely framed stuffs.

Anyway, stick around and have a poke about – if you’re in the market for cruel Richard Madeley photoshops then there are bloody loads on this site!

Nano Rando!

Things have been pretty busy of late so I haven’t had a great deal of time to get daft – that is until today! Given that I only had a brief window to get all stoopid, I thought it only fair that I should give Madeley a bit of attention – I mean it’s been like three months since I last messed with his visage and that’s just plain slack. Anyway, here it is: Madeley in Manhattan.

Hmmmm, what else? Not much I’m afraid – just this little Reddit Gets Drawn from a couple o’ months back.

So that’s your lot for now – I’ll try and work up some more time to be dumb in. Until then, as you were…

A Tiny Rando…

Must admit that I’m a tiny bit bummed out about this one as it’s surprisingly hard to find decent resolution images of BBC newsreaders that aren’t a) anodyne studio promo shots of them simpering or b) really ropey screen grabs. As a result this B-List Movie Poster is much smaller than I’d like and Stayt is not half as grumpy/angry/vexed as I intended. Still, the shot of Steph’s a belter (I had to trawl deep into her Twitter for that one) and the concept is – even if I do say so myself – solid gold. C-. See me.

Aaaand here’s a Redditgetsdrawn of u/Cavemanrogers that I threw together at great, great haste but actually didn’t turn out all that awful.

C+

As you were

Right. That’s your lot for now – nothing more to see here.