Baby Chick cartoon

Baby Chick recreated using Affinity Designer, from the book 25 Quick Cartoon Characters by Christopher Hart.

I feel as though I am just scratching the surface in learning both affinity designer and cartooning, but I feel it worth while taking time on the basics to move along at a steady learning speed.

The funny side

"I just found out I'm colourblind. It came completely out of the purple."

..ooOOoo..

"White collar. blue collar. Makes no difference to me 'cos I'm collar-blind."

The advantages of being colourblind

I love this image found at https://www.johns-jokes.com/advantages-of-being-colour-blind

CGI 3D Animated Short Film "CICLO Animated Short Film" by Felipe Del Rio

From CGMeetup channel on YouTube.

Reminds me of a job I once had...

Get the colour code of any pixel on the screen

Instant Eyedropper is a really invaluable time saving tool which will get the colour value of any pixel on the screen then copy it's hex code to the clipboard which can then be pasted into your graphics program or document. A brilliantly simple, fantastic resource. Well done to the developers.

Exceedingly weird, even for Cyriak!

Poo Pants!

Cute Kitty created in Affinity Designer

Cute Kitty created from guide on page 18 of 25 Quick Cartoon Characters. Created in Affinity Designer. Makes me think of Sheldon's Kitty song from The Big Bang Theory.

Soft kitty,
warm kitty
Little ball of fur

Happy kitty,
sleepy kitty
Purr, purr, purr

Beep, Beep, I'm a Sheep. Now, Now, I'm a Cow

Another video from Tomska. 

And one from Masterjdiaz.

Thursday Funny; on a Wednesday

Today we have a video from Tomska. This is totally funny.

"This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays." - Douglas Adams

Just like the inside of my head...

Well done Cyriak for this creation. For some awful reason I have an affinity to this video and feel really at one with it.

Times Gone By - cartoon soldier

The Queens Regiment

TA '84

Germany '85

Belize '86

Memories, which for better or worse, never fade.

Memories

The British Army Homepage

For the Fallen

Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), published in The Times newspaper on 21st September 1914.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,

To the end, to the end, they remain. 

Robert Laurence Binyon, by artist William Strang.