Nessie vs Kraken

My pic for a sketch jam theme 'myths and legends'. Not the most original choices, but I don't know that I've ever seen them together.

Ceefax

I hear that Ceefax is being closed down today, which is a real end of an era for people my age. As far back as I can think, it's always been there. And for nearly all that time it always felt so delightfully retro. So simple. In terms of art and design I've always felt you can get really nice results with a very limiting medium. It's a fun task to see what you can create with only a few colours and a tiny resolution. I'm sure this is one of the reasons people still enjoy creating pixel art. There's a real challenge to it, to get across the required detail in such a small picture and still have it read well...

But I digress. Here's a picture I did. I even drew the text.

He's Going to Eat It

A sneak peek at a personal project I'm working on. Stage 1 of 3 is finally complete - a little behind schedule, but all the hard work is done now.

This was meant to be Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty from Blade Runner, but it ended up looking a lot more like Gordon Ramsay. I've changed him since, but I still feel that this looks more like Ramsay than the new one looks like Hauer. Bit disappointed.

The Sky Tonight

Another clear night with the heavens on display, so I took some photos. The Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) are visible.

Cruach Ardrain

Some photos I took on my latest hill walk.

New Design, Fonts, Browsers - Help!

I've changed the design of the blog slightly and am using some of Blogger's web fonts on the site. However when the page is loading or if you're using a browser that won't support them, it displays a basic font like Arial, Verdana or in the case of any of their hand-style fonts, Comic Sans. I can't find any reference to Comic Sans in the edit HTML feature. Does anyone know how I can change the backup fonts in Blogger? Adding a coma and another font after the web font name seems to disable the web font.

I'm told that it's just (older versions of?) Internet Explorer that doesn't support web fonts. How many of you use IE?

regards,

M

Hey look, an Elwood Comic

New Website

Now that it's 2012 I thought it was time I finish my homepage. I abandoned the previous, unfinished one in favour of something with a neater design and one that's a little more phone-friendly. I.E. not Flash. Anyway, check it out: www.markhaldane.com

Testing Mobile Uploads

Go-go is So Yesterday

I trying to sketch some famous faces from memory instead of sleeping like a sensible person. After drawing her face, however, I couldn't think what to next. She changes looks more than a chameleonic metaphor (...meh heh heh...) This somewhat dated version of her is all I could remember.