some more art by request

This a rescan... after a rewash... from the busty nurse series... she is such a delight

Do you like the new colour scheme

Webcam Portraits (Mock) Magazine
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Just wondering if anyone would like to comment on the new colour scheme and layouts.... I felt the green was becoming boring and the slate grey lets the colours of my watercolours stay true in tone and intensity... also the stuff on the right hand side had become cluttered and boring so i've tried to unify and simplify it a bit...

The new (mock) magazine covers are a bit of fun... think of then as big buttons... click on then and they will take to interesting places

Pencil sketch of yoko

yoko1
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I'm travelling.... but that doesn't mean i stop sketching... the trouble is how to scan the result (actually it is no trouble, just use my digital camera... and this one just needed the pencil to add a balance to the composition)

Phone me @ midnight, for free internet... yes absolutely free!

I have for some time been looking for the right place to set up my long term cartoon project, an on-line cartoon bar on the net itself. Regular folks can attend via suitable web portals but must assume a comic book character style avatar on entry. It was to be called Club Zero.

After a long search for the right ISP to host this I stumbled on a very interesting phenomena, but lets start where the story begins, Whilst traveling in the southern pacific last year I came across a beautiful uncharted set of tiny islands at lat -6.160990°long 179.991670°

It was a beautiful spot, i spent the better part of a day there. I also accidentally left behind an old satellite phone still hooked up to a radio transmitter and solar powered recharger. It was most likely behind a rock or somewhere not so obvious and didn't miss them until a few weeks later (too late to return)
Amazing it still answers the phone and lets me control the radio. The only good signals I can get are on american samoa, about 3° south and 10° to the west. Luckily there are an a couple of unsecured WiFi node, called afdj1 & afdj1 there and I can get internet access. All pretty amazing but only the start of the story...


Back to the hunt for an ISP, I was drawn to the many affordable domian registrations options available through Tovalu, which also happend to have the domain idenentifier.tv so clubzero.net.tv was born... Now if I manage to time my call to my satetlite phone perfectly, just afters it's local midnight, and connect to the hotspot in american samoa which takes under 2 seconds, then connect to my website in Touvalu another 2 seconds, I have two entries on the interent to establish my session but the start is in yesterday and the response to it is in tomorrow (with respect to the inital request). You see the signal is travelling back and forth across the date line, once by radio and back by the net. All works well except on the internets central bandwidth billing site. The one day time difference causes the session to be dumped as an error, and while i can stay connected without much difficulty, it is is prefectly free for the rest of that session. So come and say hello at the club some time soon and i might even share my access number and the afdj codes.

13K visits wow...

It was a surprise to see I've reached 13 thousand visitors.... I had promised myself to tweak the colour scheme and layout of this humble little on-line sketchblog when it reached 12 thousand visitors... buggar distracted again... I'll blame yahoo 360.. i've been seduced by their background themes... (is it just me or are they too sugary? looking and tasting good on the first bite but leaving you unsatisfied in the long term longing for more sweatiness)....




well time to spring to it!

For Illustration Friday's topic: Spring

Nude (except for stockings) ascending stairs

Nude (except for stockings) ascending stairs
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

nude descending stairs was a great work by duchamp... it was influenced by time lapse photographs of just that... this is a sketch of a (partly clad, if stocking count as cloths) nude... based on a photo... and itself a photo of a sketch... confused yet...

well i'm not, i'm inspired

by request

Most of my sketchs in this blog have been drawn "live" from my friends and models webcams... lately I have been doing a few requests... from photos... if you ask nicely i will do my best when time is available... nothing is charged... but i do like to post the results in here and/or flickr (with your permission of course)

Wow that was quick

Join the barmaids group now
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I made this "virtual" magazine cover... just a few days ago... to start promoting a flickr group I inherited... not sure why i was picked to moderate it (hmmm maybe they didn't what the topless barmaids deleted!)


Anyway it has been a very popular image making over 100 views in under a week... just goes to show blokes are hopeless when barmaids smile (and flash a bit of cleavage)

ask me what i did today?

let me try your patience

over a telephone line

lets plan small secret

lets hold a surprise

lets build an evil genius

and keep warm tonight

we gonna meet with a laywer

we gonna change our name

we wont make it to the movies

oh be happy you came

... ...



ask me what i did today?




the lyrics are from a song called PF


I like my ipod... and i have become intrigued by podcasts... which mean i can listen to what i want when i want.. anyway the IOD podcast is where i first heard about controller.controller... check out the link to their web site which has some MP3 for download under their media section... they are a Toronto band with a edge somewhat reminiscent to the early deborah harry... well thats what I think'

A short break

cyclone yarn
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Please excuse a little bit of a break in my posts here... its not permanent... there is a whole world outside the net... it can be both a wonderful place and a hell hole... i'll in search of the former... and maybe making a sketch of two

up all night

Watched the sun sinking low

Watched the moon rising slow

Watched it move across the sky

Till I saw the morning light



lyrics of "up all night" by the waifs



Somethings a great location and good art can do that to you

freshing up the approach to drawing

I have been reading the new "drawing with the right side of your brian"... the theory is a bit beyond me, but the right brain exercises definitely do work and can be fun

Seeing eyes a fresh

Sketching eyes has been one of the greatest challenges for me... I know what eyes look like but if I try to draw them that way... I end up destroying my sketches... i especially destroy and expression of personality... thats assuming i have seen it properly... I sort of writhdrew and just put the shadows of the eyes and pupils in as best I could guess their correct position... usually with very little detail and almost never a lower lid

Well there are lots of places on the net that can help including the link to about.com above... now here is my question to you... does anyone recognize these eyes



Some detail in a watercolour wash

"If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

becky's sketch

becky
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Whilst becky may not be from my normal group of models... I felt she deserved a bit of praise in here for her great website and especially her fun stuff/games page... it is via her becky's web thar you can play my Nude variation on Sudoku... (just click on the button below, or the one over on the right hand side)

... ... thanks becky

more dreaming

perhaps this is a little lighter than my normal scrawling but i do loved the pose and dreamy's expression... graphite pencil on course paper.

art & well being

I am relaxing and doodling and just liked this quote and article (chase the link below)... commuity is something that i lost.... was it yahoo closing the chat rooms... me travelling so much.. or something deeper... well time to get drawing and find that well being that art can bring again...




“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.” .... Jan Zwicky

sweet kelly

a small honor

i got this a while ago and forgot to display it.... seems like i must have annoyed someone... "well you can't argue with the ignorant..." and i want stop sketching big girls

If you get asked to join that particular group on flickr and you are not a self opinionated a "look at me, i'm intellectual i don't make typos" type who thinks that art only means a bloke showing off a semi erect penis in strong relief lighting, well don't join.... they are cruel and spitfull... but it seems they could not handle me ;)

if you are interested in the artistic side of nude join fine art nudes instead

A pleasant night at the theatre

Last night I went to see dusty the original pop diva, a new muscial about the life of dusty sprigfield... it really is worthy seeing... very good theatre as well as good music... most of the cast are unkonwn (well to me) but excellent... well except for deni hines,(she is well known here in oz) who was really great... all this is saying a lot given that dusty was considerable skinnier than the full sized girls I normally prefer



I particularly liked the song with dusty, her hair dresser rodney and her dresser (vicki I think?)... using wigs that represented the popular UK female singer of the 60's... ok that does't sound a very exciting description but dusty is a show worth seeing. I'm sure it is one show that will travel the world

A time for romance......?

Dawn in yet another plane

Dawn in yet another plane
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Over the past two weeks I have seen the dawn through the window of an areoplane on no less than 8 days...
thats about 4 times too many...


still it is a magical sight...


but i still have quiet a few countries to visit... at least accourding to the country visited website I'm only 48% of the way there, according to there list...




create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

found@last

Many of my friends will be pleased that I have found a couple of sketchbooks and loose sketches from late last year.... watch this space for updates.... PS don't worry girls I'll check with you first before I publish

where the f??? am i now

where the ??? am i now
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

I have been so many different places in the past few weeks i am starting to forget where i am... well i supose i just have to relax and enjoy it... won't I ... this is another post from my phone, if you have a flickr account go checkout how you can do it its easy... so easy I can do it without even spilling my beer

friendship tapestry

collage of flickr friend
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

"Never look back...
Never regret...
Never remember
the people you've met.
Never begin...
And never end...
Never say never
when it comes to your friends!"
-Aliza Llaguno

Happy New Year

PC310407
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

well 2006 snuck up quickly... hope you partied hard to welcome it in... or at least enjoyed the fireworks



Have a great year

My Nightmare & belated season's greetings

My Nightmare
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Sorry there hasn't been a lot of activity on my blog... I was busy in africa then got home only to get a fever... that ended with in hospital over christmas... not a fun thing to do by the way

my new ipod was one blessing

Farewell Africa II

Another photo of my final morning in africa... western africa this time... and the hamattan winds have already begun

And yes folks it is another phonecam photo

trying out e-cards

Those that know me will know how easily I am distracted by fun "toys" on the net... well I have found I can produce E-cards.... (it's a free service, through bravenet, so there are ads, but they are not too annoying)... anyway I will put a range of popular images on them.... including some "motivational" style ones.... Those that get used I will leave.... those that don't i'll change.... and let me know if you Like (or Hate) them! Are they worthy to put on the right-hand side stuff

Retrieving an E-Card?

Enter Card Pick-up ID below:

getting all the pieces in the right place

I managed to kill my notebook computer a few weeks ago... and survive without it... well I didg borrow a very snazzy and much little HP (was a bit sad to give it ack).... but now I have got myself a new computer, another Toshiba satellite (thankfully I had insured the previous one)... in 15" wide screen no less... I love it..

The tricky bit is getting everything set up again... its amazing how many little things need to be done.



Wow a whole month since my last post... sorry about that!

on the road again

on the road again, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

parliment building bishkek

parliment_bishkek
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

well I am still managing to get to those out of the way places... this place was the scene of a major "peacefull" democratic protest recently... whilst the town is pretty run down... bishkek and the surround countryside has massive tourist potential, quiet a hidden secret... buggar have I let the cat out of the bag

The Russian Compound

The Russian Compound
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Instead of being a the caulfield races ... i find myself looking for a guy who is following migrating birds across central asia ... such is life

Be Right Back

Be Right Back
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

post might be less regular... and by cameraphone

Are you game... ?

those that know me... and especially the flickr side... will know I am easily distracted and love to play with new stuff... especially the toys & games over in flickr... well here is a really reall great one...






nude sudoku... all you need to do is click on the image above it will take uou to a new game...


if you are not a sudoku addict already maybe try out on the normal numeric puzzles that seem to be everywhere these days... its a fraction harder with images... but so much fun



Flickr sudoku was created by becky

waiting at the pass

waiting at the pass
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Rescuing the rescuers...today we are up really high up on the slopes of the western side of the himalayas, waiting for a lorry to arrive to with an earthquake relief team... we will then ferry them with some fresh avgas to their grounded chopper... it is cold and the air is so rarified you can not walk and talk at the same time... and one who tries gets giddy... I think I'll just sketch as i wait... out of the wind

bloody hell a signal on my mobile (wonder what this will cost)

There is massive earthquake damage around here, but people are turning up to help (so in some ways they are luckier here than in new orleans)


I've re-scanned this

escape to the movies

back down in udaipur... thankfully the supplies are moving up nicely and the damage we saw was not so great... time for a break... well a night in a proper bed... there is even a cyber cafe...



one thing that struck me dumbfold was the big posters for bollywood blockbusters... they were everywhere, even the most run down village...





I was really taken aback by how much my sketches of aarthyr could have easily been on any one of those posters... so i just had to make a couple with fd's Flickr Toys.



BTW: with appologise to Norman lindsay and his novel the age of consent, which is the source of my ficticious plot well more the inspiration (well I think it is at least similar)...

that was the shortest every break

I'm back over the equator again... this time getting fuel for chopper up into rajasthan & kashmir... although the earthquake damage may be light here... at present no one knows so... and getting up high into the mountains is going to be a logistics challenge.

Next lesson

Next lesson, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

After the comments on the difficulty of photographing the sunrise from africa ... i though i should continue the geography lesson ... this is late in the afternoon (approaching sunset ) looking out over bass strait on the southern australian coast ...how is this possible ?

my (virtual) publishing empire

Issue 2, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

reflecting on my journey into blogging over the past year or so... i started thinking of the places I have been (both on the net and in the real world) and just how many remote places I have sent posts from... then i realised how much I had learnt and just what a powerful tool... well tools kit, since their are several individual tools... i had manage to build up for myself... i don't pretend to know much about computers... but I certailny now have a very real and power private publishing empire at my command. some parts are still not quite contributing and a few self opioinated little hypocrites in flickr I could do without... yet i can see real progress

Am I using it wisely?

well i think I am... art and beauty, specifically of real sized & big beautiful women... needs to be viewed, that is the easy bit... I trust I am doing that honestly and tastefully

now I guess the next challenge will be to earn some money with this publishing empire.

a good idea at the time

a good idea at the time
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

the last post got a lot of interest that I was able to take it with my cameraphone... so I had the idea to take a picture of me taking a picture of myself with the camera phone... well it did seemed like a good idea at the time

a new day

a new day
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Africa is teasing me ... my last dawn is unforgetable ... even seems i am getting a lot better with my camera phone ... i have even worked out how to store this as my phone's wallpaper... next stop singapore then hopefully australia!

good outcome (at last )

good outcome (at last )
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

The bali bombings and the continuing need to evacuate the seriously injured have dominate things for of over the part 18 hours ... so the positive outcome here came as a surprise ...while others are partying and enjoying the sun ... i do want to get out of this place ... well maybe after a beer or two...

more bombs

whilst i an no where near bali or singapore... the simultatneous bombs at jimbaran and kuta on bali have kill and maimed many innocent people... well I hope the medical evac can lives and help those injured recover...

If only the courtyard doors could speak?

If only the courtyard doors could speak?
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.

the doors of old zanzibar are really amazing... obviously they were

design to keep out marauding pirates, slave traders and assorted

mercenaries... every courtyard has two thick heavily studded doors to

the outside world ... most villas have no lower storey windows... they

present the street, and outside world with a high wall... a domestic

fortress