And now for something completely different.

Here's a kind of old school grime instrumental I made a while ago. I don't really know how good/bad it is or how finished it is.
It's pretty tinny becasue its basically a midi made in Guitar Pro 5 and converted to mp3 online. I didn't realise that by doing this the actual midi sounds change so it sounds quite different and slightly more professional than the original although some of the levels seem to have altered and some of the tracks are really quiet.
Also it's VERY LOUD for some reason.

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New Look

As you can hopefully see The Enormous Blogodile has a new(ish) look.
It's kind of along the same lines as the original but is now a bit fresher and more unique to me as it isn't a stock template.
Hope you like it.
Actually I'm not too bothered but let me know what you think bye.

The Revamp

After seeing Pete's revamped blog I think it might be time (tomorrow) to jazz up The Enormous Blogodile and move away from it's current default template design.
Although this layout is pretty basic and I've always found the actual post space to be a bit too thin it does get the job done and is suitable enough really. Maybe I'll try changing it and if it looks shit I'll change it back. Yeah.
Also, depending on whether this works, I'm trying out jump breaks.
Bye

Update: Jump breaks are useless and have been removed.

JUGGERNAUT!!!

You should only be able to equip Juggernaut/Painkiller online in Call of Duty up to a certain level (15/20 maybe).
This is because it's for people who aren't very good and they won't get better if they keep it on.

Recently...

I haven't done a lot of much.
I've slowly been working on my scenery picture for Day 25 but it's taking ages because I'm doing it in a really awkward way.
I've also started transcribing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAkmOjeIVig in Guitar Pro 5 because I like it and need to practise more guitar.
I've been working on an idea for our final major project and refining ideas for other things.

I'm going to finish the two pictures I missed out of the 30 days of drawing.
I'm going to start back working on Attack Fox 1 and get it finished so I can start work on Muchos Muertes...
I'm probably not going to work on the Emma Watson picture for a bit haha
There's a flyer/t-shirt design competition for a local club (Meze) apparently coming up so I might have a bash. The prize is £500 I think.

That's it.
Bye

Day 30 (A Congrats Banner For Finishing The Challenge)

Well I made it. As Pete said earlier the girl who wrote out the challenge must have been running out of ideas at this point:

Not much to say about it. Seems like ages ago I started this but only yesterday that I was at the half way point which is weird.

Now to finish the other two. They'll be up in the coming days hopefully.

BYE

Day 29 (A Place You Want to Go)

Just about caught up. Here's yesterday's:

You should get the idea. Didn't spend long on it, thought the idea would be more interesting than how well it's drawn. It's mainly done in various digital airbrushes with some other bits and pieces added.

Last one later :)

Bye

Day 28 (Draw Anything)

A pitiful attempt at an "animation" for yesterday:

Day 28 (Draw Anything) from Oliver Elliott on Vimeo.
More like a slightly moving image really...
Based on the superb interpretation of "draw anything" by Rory.
Again created using only PS and WMM.
Last day tomorrow thank fuck :)
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Day 27wellnotreally

Another cop out I'm afraid.
Day 27 is draw someone you love and I'm drawing my Grandpa.
It's an important picture and, as I work quite slowly, I don't want to rush it. So, like day 25, I'm going to post what I've done so far, do the rest and then finish this one.
To make it slightly more interesting I've taken images from throughout the process so far so you can see how I make the picture. Some of the other pictures are done in a similar way so this will probably apply to them as well (annotations below):

1) The scan of the original photo of my Grandpa in the Royal Australian Air Force taken in 1944.

2) In Photoshop I alter the saturation of the picture giving it a sepia tint and up the contrast to bring out the high and low lights.

3) In Painter I draw the main lines over the photo on a new layer with the pencil tool. Normally I would draw this by hand, probably using a grid, but to save time I effectively make a tracing of it. This is cheating :)

4) Back in PS I create a backdrop from two textures, velvet and leather, from the internet. I make the velvet texture layer, on top, slightly transparent so that some of the detailing from the leather comes through and then merge the layers. 

Then I adjust the colouring and lighting to fit the picture and make the background less distracting.

5) Moving back into Painter and using the drawing from 3 I block out the main shape of the portrait using two colours of digital chalk. The colours themselves are extracted from image 2 using the dropper tool. Again this saves time :)

6) Next I use black chalk to block out all the large black sections as well as some of the black detailing. I have done this since college, not sure why. At this point it looks a bit like a graffiti stencil.

Well that's all for now. There's too many distractions here at the house in Newport!

Tomorrow will be the 30th day and I've still got three pictures to do aside from this one and Day 25 :(

Hopefully yesterday's picture will be up later on tonight.

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