The Grax Domain - Art

RE: Commercial Contest

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:05:00 +0100

This is my YouTube entry for the Grax's Games commercial contest. So what if it's about a year late...

Enjoy!

(Belate) Grax Domain gift 2007

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:22:00 +0100

See? I told you that I was gonna get you a gift señor Grax Domain and I have. Behold the fruits of my labour:

Like it? It's a drawing of my Second Life avatar, Grax Bishop.

I can't take all the credit. My friend in Second Life AshleyNicole helped me out with the text logo. So thanks a bunch Ash.

See my little humble website, I still care about you. Unlike the rest of the people out there. *Points out to the cruel, uncaring world*

Running water but through the wrong end

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:55:00 +0100

A poem relative to the recent event that happened to me this week.

Running water, but through the wrong end
Flowing through me like tainted wine.
The treats that pass my lips
Have no time to be processed,
Rush through on the gravy train,
Feeling their shapes.

Imodium's all gone but it no work.
Imodium has never failed before. Why now? Why...

Insides gargle like the toilet that I am bound to.

Sleep. A chance to sleep, maybe to rid my troubles.
It works with sea-sickness.
Sleep is good.
Sleep is not enough this time.
It was wishful thinking anyway. Long shot at best. I had nothing else to do.

My sphincter can't take much more dry paper.

Night time. The time. All or nothing. Relentless assault.
Water rushing out with a roar of stink
Unprocessed raisins squeeze thought the ring.
Something burns but I smell no smoke.
There is no fire. Oh God why is there no fire?

I weep with a pain that mere lower-middle class men shouldn't have to tolerate.
Swollen to double its size to try and block the passage.
Need relief. Desperate times.
Petroleum jelly.
Soothness and cool.

Three hours of sleep. This has to end now.

More Imodium, more supplies. It will not fail me.
The gargling beast inside kicks up a fuss.
One more squirt. I throw more ammo inside.
It will not fail me.
It will not!

...

Wait, how long has it been?
6 hours? Oh cool, it must have worked.
Glad that's over.
But I shall never forget.

Running water, but through the wrong end
Flowing through me like tainted wine.

This has been a poem about the two days of diarrhoea I had this week.

Thank you.

Sketch: Showdown

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:28:00 +0000

A new year a new doodle. I knocked this doodle up whilst I was at work (I think I was on hold on the phone or something.) Just something to pad things out a bit:

Showdown at The Art of Grax

School chum Xmas present

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:34:00 +0000

Hmm, it's been a since I've added anything to the Art of Grax. Fortunately I have something to add.

I did a few pictures for my old friend Harlandos for a present last Christmas and, with his permission I'd like to share them with you. They can be found in the friends section:

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

Grax the Pirate

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:37:00 +0100

Yar me hearties! In celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2006 I dids me a drawin' of meself as a pirate.

Arr!

New sketches and my nightmare added

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:53:00 +0100

I've added some new pictures to The Art of Grax for all to see. All but two of them are sketches. The last two are the picture of the Nightmare Spectre that I drew the other night. I've also replaced the sketches in that entry with the coloured drawings so that you can fully appreciate the full horror of my nightmares. Or something like that.

One Day...

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:45:00 +0000

I've just finished my latest animation; "One Day..." It's a story about love and one man's journey in finding it. Some might say it's a good Valentines Day submission, I say that it's a coincidence. :-P

I was listening to Echoes: the Einaudi Collection a few weeks ago and all of a sudden this animation started playing in my head. And unlike all the other animations that are played in my head I thought "Say, I can actually DO this one!" So I got to work. It's not exactly how I want it, but I'm actually proud of this piece of work. I guess it's up to the public to see if it's any good.

If you want to watch it, it's available in the "Stuff" section of the site. Course for those who don't want to waste precious seconds there's a direct link below:
"One Day..."

Oh what's this? Another link? "One Day..." is also available to see on Newgrounds. Follow the link below and you can vote on my submission as well.
"One Day..." on Newgrounds

My First Flash Animation

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:18:00 +0100

.... Apart from the stuff I did for Nezis.co.uk, which could be argued as Flash animation...

I was told that I had to make a Flash animation for a job interview as a web developer, to show off what I am capable of. It was to be an animation on "How to make a cup of tea". This shouldn't take too long I thought... 28 hours later and I cobble something together for the interview. Suffice to say they liked it a lot.

How to make a cup of tea Note: the subtitles may be out of sync with the narration.

The thing is I'm not 100% happy with it. Sure it was hard work and a lot of fun to make, I just feel it could be so much better. Technically it's not even finished yet. The subtitles and other possible bugs must be fixed, I wanted to add music to the whole presentation, the milk doesn't come out of the bottle, I had to cut out some scenes because I ran out of time, and the guy at the end (which is supposed to be me, Grax) simply looks shit. So many things that I want to do to the animation... No wait, that's pretty much all I wanted to do.

I'm going to carry on working on it.

*UPDATE* - I've updated the animation. The things I did include fixing the narration/subtitle sync, animated the milk being poured, tweaked the shape of my head at the end, added some credits and I threw in an extra scene after step 7. Any problems please let me know.

How to make a cup of tea (update)

SimpleImg to reflect my mood.

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:33:00 +0100

This week's SimpleImg word is Worried, and that's kinda how I'm feeling right about now. The main cause for my worries is work. I don't really feel very secure in my job now. Sales have been bad over the winter period, which means things have been a bit tight money wise. This has partly left me thinking that my time at my workplace may be shorter than I'd like it to be. This wouldn't be so bad if I had a "Just in case" stash of money just in case. Trouble is I've spent it all on maintaining my car for a year and I haven't been putting aside a little of my pay... Oh well, the taxman owes me some money and he better pay if he knows what's good for him.

The other thing about my job is I'm starting to get bored with it. I've completed the big project web site for the company I work with. It's live. I want to move onto another big web project that's unrelated to the last one. But now I'm pretty much stuck maintaining the thing. And maintenance is boring. That's partly why I'm so late updating all my websites. I want something new, challenging, and exciting. I need to be thrown in the deep end again with something and be forced to learn something new or die otherwise (or something like that). Dammit, that's how I became the competent web programmer you see before you.

Still all these things are not a major worry. I still sleep quite comfortably at night. I just wanted to share and show how I feel that's all.