Little Voices

@ceibner caricature

2009-06-20T10:48:00.001+08:00

Here it is Catherine. :)

Silky and Ken on AusDotNet

2009-06-20T10:43:00.002+08:00

Posted this to the AusDotNet e-list and forgot to post it here.

Silverlight guy, Tim Heuer

2009-04-11T11:28:00.001+08:00

Thanks for all the great Silverlight posts Tim. :)

Busy day for the caricaturist…

2009-04-10T21:20:00.001+08:00

This one is of Simone Chiaretta, C#, MVC and rock climber guy.

Check out his book on Amazon here.

Another Scott at Microsoft

2009-04-10T14:37:00.001+08:00

Scott Hanselman asked me to draw this one so you can blame him, Scott. :)

Another famous person caricature for the weekend…

2009-04-10T13:03:00.001+08:00

This one came out pretty good! :)

See here and let me know if I got the likeness down…

Edit: I knew something was up with it… just couldn’t put my finger on it. Forgot Scott’s moustache!! Here’s the revised version. :)

Delicate Genius

2009-04-10T09:21:00.001+08:00

Delicate Genius
Originally uploaded by Lyynx

Ahh... long weekend, and some free time to do some caricaturing of famous people. :)

Hope you like.

Starlight Big Kids night out.

2009-04-09T16:44:00.001+08:00

Last week I went along and spent the evening drawing caricatures at the Starlight '”Big Kids night out” fundraiser event. It was a great night!

They had all kinds of things there like a Velcro wall thing, a bucking bronco machine, a black jack table and of course some caricaturists! (Myself, Jeremy and Dave). They even had horses with riders cracking whips riding around the room. (I was almost run down by one…)

I think between the three of us we drew over $600 worth of caricatures! All for a good cause, giving sick kids their “dream come true”.

Had a great time!

The Perth Markets… a few caricatures

2009-01-25T21:24:00.001+09:00

Note: everyone seems to be smiling, so a good sign it was a success! :)

Drawn out…

2009-01-25T18:21:00.001+09:00

Wow, had an awesome day today at the Perth Markets (www.theperthmarkets.com.au) drawing caricatures.

I’ll post some of the caricatures I’ve done this weekend, in another post. I’ve drawn 23 people today in around 8 hours. Some of them were group caricatures, but it was quite busy. At one stage I had a queue!! :)

Yesterday was a bit quieter, I drew 18 people. One of them was a family of 7!! Hmm, that’s 41 people in two days… WOO!

Jeremy (www.drawattention.com.au) also came along to draw, and he did one of me (and I did one of him).

He captured my nose quite well, don’t you think?

I’ll be back there tomorrow for most of the day, and Dave Gray (www.Dagtoons.com) will be there too. See you there!

Perth Markets this weekend! Australia day weekend!

2009-01-23T18:17:00.001+09:00

Ok, someone told me off for not selling myself enough and telling people I’ll be drawing caricatures this weekend at the big launch of the Perth Markets.

For more info on the event see the official web site at www.theperthmarkets.com.au

I’ll be there Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 8.30am to 5pm or there abouts. I’m hoping I make the whole weekend but that’s a lot of hours and hopefully a lot of drawing. Come along and check it out, should be a lot of fun. I’ll post some pictures afterwards and if it’s a big success I might make it a regular thing.

Hope to see you there!!

Letter Conservation

2009-01-16T23:28:00.001+09:00

I’ve done a bit of a Google search on letter conservation and couldn’t really find anything other than letters about conservation.

Anyway, it’s time I blogged a theory I’ve been working on for a number of years now. I’ve shared it with a number of people as it’s matured and I think now it’s ready for the big screen. So here we go… I hope I can get it all down accurately here, and for that purpose I won’t be conserving any letters.

The basis of this theory is that, we, as humans, are allotted a finite number of letters for which to use while we are here in this life. To think that we have an unlimited or infinite number of letters to use is a ridiculous thought. These things have to come from somewhere, one can’t just create matter from nothing you know, its a basic law of the universe.

Have you ever met someone who mumble or slur so much that you can hardly understand them? Chances are they have either wasted their allotment of letters, or they were allocated a small number of letters to begin with. Either way, they no longer have the letters left in their letter cache (for want of a better word) to enable proper speech. If you plan on living a long time, and lets face it, the marvels of medicine these days have increased our expected life spans considerably, then you should take some steps now to prevent running out prematurely. I’ve been working on some tips and tricks that should help you conserve letters.

One little trick I like to use, is to switch common letters with uncommon letters that sound similar. If done right no one will even notice. For example when I say the word ‘Cat’, I tend to use a K instead of a C and say ‘Kat’. No one will notice your small deception (you can laugh at them in their ignorance too, another fun side game) and you will save your C’s and use up some spare K’s.

There are a large number of words that use silent letters. Whoever designed this language English certainly didn’t think about letter conservation. This blatant waste of letters highlights how old English is. People back then did not have access to the marvels of modern medicine and had bigger issues to worry about (like, being burnt at the stake for being a witch, for example). Running out of letters didn’t even occur to them back then. So whenever you say a word that has silent letters, you can just drop them out and no one will notice.

Another common waste of letters is those verbose words that use two letters to make a single sound. Ph to make an F sound is one example. Do what I suggested with the C, and use an F instead of ph. You’ll thank me one day. (Or at least be able to thank me should we one day meet.)

So that’s a bit of an overview of my theory of letter conservation. I’m going to see if I can dig out some of my notes I’ve made on the subject and see how it’s changed over the years. Might make a follow up post in the future if I have any letters left.

cameron-reilly

2008-12-08T21:22:00.001+09:00

cameron-reilly
Originally uploaded by Lyynx

Went to the Australian Cartoonist Association Christmas BBQ on Sunday and got all inspired by the guys there. What with Jason Chatfield moving to Melbourne it would seem that he left a gaping hole in the live caricature space.

So I've decided to spend some time practicing with my caricatures and maybe early next year I'll try my hand doing a few corporate gigs. You never know where it might lead...

So here's a caricature I did tonight of Cameron Reilly. I had the pleasure of finally meeting Cameron last week while I was in Brisbane. Hope you like it!

Street drawing in Coffs Harbour

2008-12-05T20:13:00.001+09:00

Well, It’s been so long since I last blogged but now with Uni out of the way for the year (and if I passed, then forever) I plan to do some more cartooning and blogging.

I just got back from a trip over east. I went to the Stanley Awards weekend (Australian Cartoonist Association thing) and had a ball. We did some street drawing in Coffs Harbour, a bus tour, a BBQ and of course the convention. Oh, a cocktail party at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery, and the Stanley’s Award dinner.

Here’s some of the poor people I drew in Coffs Harbour. :)

Quokka in the news

2008-05-14T21:22:00.001+08:00

Quokka in the news
Originally uploaded by Lyynx.

It would have been irresponsible for me to have drawn a cartoon like this one. So here it is...

Mud sticks...

LOLCode

2008-04-23T11:05:00.001+08:00

LOLCode.com have posted a link to my latest cartoon. I've been busily drawing a new strip called Quokka.two for the Microsoft event Remix 08.

Seeing Nick Hodge is such a big LOLCODE (and LOLCAT) fan, it was a logical choice to do a LOLCODE cartoon. :)

For more info on LOLCODE and what it is, visit the site LOLCode.com.

See you all at the Melbourne Remix 08, May 22nd!

Pens ready? Go.

2008-04-03T23:51:00.003+08:00

http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2503

First post for the year and its April. Ok, I've been kind of busy. Not blogging and not reading blogs.
So what have I been up to? Working, studying and as of this week, back drawing some cartoons.

I'm on the look out for a new job at the moment as my contract ends in a couple of weeks. Loved doing the UI work and have decided that it's something I want to pursue. I've ordered a couple of design books and got myself a Silverlight book. New things to learn! Love my job. :)

I find myself somewhere in the middle of the Designer-Developer scale and I like it. It's not very crowded here so very nice.

New upcoming T-Shirt design

2007-12-20T07:52:00.001+09:00

101 uses for a John Howard

2007-11-26T10:52:00.000+09:00

Jon Kudelka's book 101 Uses for a John Howard is available from the website http://www.101usesforajohnhoward.com for $20. The perfect Christmas present for an ex-Prime Minister looking for a new job.

Go buy it!

Where's my single life gone?

2007-11-13T12:37:00.000+09:00

Knock Knock Neo...

2007-11-10T18:28:00.000+09:00

Hosting problems

2007-11-08T07:29:00.000+09:00

Have been having some hosting problems so I've decided to point my domain at my blog and post new cartoons there. Had some issues doing that so my site has been up and down but it seems to be ok now.

Am going to post some new cartoons, and some old ones. Hope you enjoy!

2007-11-05T23:45:00.000+09:00

Easter bunny tricks...

XamlPad

2007-10-04T13:41:00.000+08:00

A cool little tool that comes in handy for UI development with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is XamlPad.

When dealing with a large application, making small tweeks to UI can be time consuming, especially when you are not quite sure which tag or attribute to use. Compiling,running the application and then navigating to the correct part of the application to test a small change can take a long time.

Enter XamlPad. Its like notepad except it renders your XAML so you can see what your changes will do. It doesn't handle anything that needs to be compiled, such as code behind methods, but for layout it is brilliant.

There is also a button that enables the treeview of the XAML. I missed this on my first few uses of XAMPad but being able to see the tree that your XAML produces is great.

iHave iPod

2007-09-26T20:12:00.000+08:00

My iPod touch arrived today so in the tradition of documenting the unwrapping, I took a few photos.

The box... quite small.

Nice box. Attractive. Can you feel the excitement???!

First glimpse... could it be? ... love at first sight?

Hungry iPod. It wants to be fed.

Her first feed. Pretty soon she'll be on solids.

Ok so I've had my new iPod for what... a few hours now. I've twittered on it. Surfed the web (the keyboard takes some getting used to but I don't see it being a real problem.) I've played a bit of a movie, a few songs and just generally looked around. I've copied a bunch of my cartoons onto it and am REALLY impressed with the photo album viewing. Flick the photo and it shoots off to the side and the next picture zooms on. Rotating the screen is impressive to watch too. Really nice feature, that auto screen rotate. I've got some podcasts on there too, and I've only used up about 3 or 4Gb out of the 16Gb.
I wasnt worried about the 16Gb size limit... its a big jump up from my 2Gb on my JasJam, and most of my songs are crap anyway. This will give me an opportunity to cull the crap ones and delete them.

The only downside I've seen so far is it gets covered with greasy fingerprints. It comes with a soft polish cloth, but no case. A case would have been useful but no doubt there will be iPod touch skins soon (if there isnt already). Bluetooth would have been nice for my headphones...

The verdict... I'm in love.