Archive for October, 2007

Truth Squad - A punk housemusic band you have certainly never heard of

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Truth Squad - A late eighties early nineties punk / house-music band you have certainly never heard of :

Truth Squad - eighties and nineties punk housemusic band

From left to right Andrew Woolf (a very good friend of mine who is a brilliant musician with many bands and songs to his name, and a fantastic digital artist in his own right), a very pretty young lady who was not part of the band, Ian ‘Marsdy’ Marsden (who played keyboards and provided vocals on a few tracks but basically had very little to do with the production and thankfully - for humanity! - got out of music and (back) into art very quickly after this picture was taken)

Wolfman or Werewolf Halloween Cartoon animated GIF

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Free graphics - Animated GIFs for Halloween download.

Wolfman animated GIF for Halloween by Ian Marsden

Free Myspace or social networking graphics - Wolfman Werewolf Halloween Cartoon Animated GIF graphic

Free Myspace or social networking graphics - Wolfman Werewolf Halloween Cartoon Animated GIF graphic

This is a Free Download and you can use it on your blogs, Myspace and Facebook as you like as long as it is not for commercial purposes.

©2008 Ian Marsden
www.marsdencartoons.com

Photorealistic Digital Airbrush Illustration in Photoshop

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Here is a photorealistic digital airbrush painting I made based on a picture of my younger daughter Ashley.
She is wearing her eccentic, international man of mystery grandfather’s white rockstar sunglasses.

:)

Ashley wearing Dave’s sunglasses

© copyright illustration 2007 by Ian D. Marsden
I created most of the masks in Illustrator before I started painting in Photoshop.

While I was working on this piece, I thought back to the days when I would have had to cut each mask out of Friskfilm, wait for the layers to dry, and constantly wash out my airbrushes to make sure that the colors didn’t mix. I still have several of my old airbrushes in my studio, but they are purely ornamental at this point. I love Photoshop! Who would have thought back then that one day you could do the same job, without a mask, compressor, paint, brushes, mess, and ripping your hair out if you made a mistake or if your original got lost or damaged.

Frankenstein Monster - Does not like light Beer! Cartoon animated Halloween GIF for social networking sites

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Here is a cartoon animated GIF featuring Frankenstein’s monster who does NOT like light beer.

An animated GIF cartoon for Halloween with Frankenstein's Monster

An animated GIF cartoon for Halloween with Frankenstein's Monster

This is a Free Download and you can use it on your blogs, Myspace and Facebook as you like as long as it is not for commercial purposes.

©2008 Ian Marsden
www.marsdencartoons.com