etsy discount code...

apologies for these etsy-related posts but i'm trying to sort my store out a bit...
and so i'm just trying their automated coupon deal out - if use the code LEEDSBUS66 when you buy stuff from my etsy store you should get a 20% discount...

bargain!

bus trip 55. errr...

so this is a bit of a weird one, and probably needs some explanation...

firstly, i lost the details in a sketchbook somewhere, so i couldn't find the timings to include on the print :-(

but it was a trip into town with jonah to buy boots, and i was pretty uninspired with the whole project at the time - the journey and the route and the bus itself all seemed a bit dull and over-familiar. and i was having this conversation with joe about what the worst disaster might befall us on that trip - i was thinking crazy-amazing disaster movies, hence this image.
and jonah's [very much] worst-case-scenario for the trip was that dennis wise might get on and come sit next to us...

thankfully, the journey was very uneventful.
[it didn't actually happen. honest. there were no actual alien squid. or meetings with short, unpleasant ex-footballers]

so this print is made up of two separate blocks - one in two colours to create the green layer and then a block for the black over the top...
i cocked up with the lettering a bit, so that's not come out quite how i'd have liked it.
and there are some lessons to be learnt about positioning the black layer if/when i try this again...

so i'm not overly chuffed with how it's turned out, in all honesty. but then part of the project is to show everything, the good and the bad, and to learn from both...

dank and cold. bus trip no.62...

work's got all hectic again, but i eked out a little time this weekend to make this print - it's a bloke i spotted leaning up against a bus stop on my way home from town. it's pretty simple, but i quite like that.

i've been adding a little mars black into the colours that i'm mixing up for these recent prints and it seems to work well, muting them down a bit without muddying them too much.

and the lettering's quite pleasing on this one.

lovely freebie music about women called Gloria...

i heard a track off the 'jonny' ep on marc riley's 6music show the other week and tracked it down here... jonny are norman blake [teenage fanclub] and euros child [gorky's zygotic mynky] and if you like either of those bands, you'll probably love this. it's quite slight, but great.

also available for download is a demo from leeds band 'the rosie taylor project' who i like a lot - you can grab it from here...

fold-up comic print thingy...

bus trip 51 - colours and layouts may differ to the one in these snaps...

and i need a shave...:-)

last-gasp etsy plug...

so, earlier this year i set up an online etsy shop to see if i could sell some of my bus prints.

whilst it's not been a roaring success, it was worth doing i think, and i just noticed that on the 27th of november [ie in a couple of weeks] a whole load of my listings on there expire and i'll have to renew them...

so here comes the big advertising push...

why not bob over to the shop there and have a browse, and maybe buy yerself a print or two?
they'd make ideal christmas presents for all your print-and/or-bus-loving friends and family members...

and also, as a little incentive, the first dozen or so buyers before the 27th will also get a bonus copy of bus print 51 [which won't be on sale, so it's kind of exclusive] - a little printed fold-up comic of six bloke observed from the number 3, early in the afternoon on august 24th... bargain!

a quick advert for all northern-types - i just recently iworked on this leeds charity advent calendar - it's a quid [bargain] with scratch-off panels that reveal thoughtful stuff to do each day through december. and all the cash raised goes to local charities [as listed on the back]



ok comics are stocking it, as are a number other retailers throughout the city...
go seek one out!

[it seems that i am not the only public-transport chronicler...]

these are very lovely...