Waffle

He wears black turtlenecks, black trousers, black shoes and a stern, cool expression. His hair is closely-cropped but his face has five o'clock shadow. He completes the artiste look with a musical instrument.

A ukelele.

He gets away with it too, the bastard. He is Sven, of the Playmobil movies, our host during our trips to Denmark.

Scans of the progam of Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure, a stage version of the Tardis-jockey's adventures from 1988, starring Jon Pertwee in the spring run, and Colin Baker in late summer. If you have friends in a theatre company, drop them a hint that this exists.

Kel, morphing back from her plant form. Drawn for the Chronicles of the Witch Queen cast pages, although it may take a while before the picture shows up there.

I like drawing Kel morphing. It's a bit more interesting than drawing regular nudes of her, and it often turns out rather nice. Not perfect, in this case - as with the previous pics, there are some faults that indicate a need to do some more life drawing, but rather nice.

I've made prints available through DeviantArt, more to test the prints system before my free subscription there runs out than out of any real expectation that people will buy it. But if you feel like having a naked plant-woman on your coffee mug, you can get it from there. I get 10 % of the money, by the way. Can't vouch for the quality, because I've never actually seen a DeviantArt print, but maybe one or two people reading this can tell me more about that? reinder@despammed.com seems to be working again.
Seriously, though, I did have to submit a high-res image to serve as a source for the prints, and I do think this pic would look OK as an 10x14...

Behind the Sofa Again has announced the line-up for this Autumn's Stripped Down event, a communal effort to watch and review a shortlist of old Doctor Who stories in anticipation of the Christmas special and the next series. I want to take part, but I'm gonna have my work cut out getting everything that's on the "short" list:

Mon Sept 19th - Sun Sept 25th: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (Hartnell)
Mon Sept 26th - Sun Oct 2nd: The Peter Cushing Movies
Mon Oct 3rd - Sun Oct 9th: Tomb of the Cybermen (Troughton)
Mon Oct 10th - Sun Oct 16th: The Claws of Axos (Pertwee)
Mon Oct 17th - Sun Oct 23rd: The Talons of Weng-Chiang(Baker)
Mon Oct 24th - Sun  Oct 30th: The Leisure Hive(Baker)
Mon Oct 31st - Sun Nov 6th: K9 and Company (Sladen)
Mon Nov 7th - Sun Nov 13th: Earthshock (Davison)
Mon Nov 14th - Sun Nov 20th: The Five Doctors (Davison)
Mon Nov 21st - Sun Nov 27th: Revelation of the Daleks (Baker)
Mon Nov 28th - Sun Dec 4th: Ghost Light (McCoy)
Mon 5th Dec - Sun Dec 11th: The Chimes of Midnight (Big Finish Audio)

Of these, I have Revelation (which I think is shite even though many Who fans love it) in crappy digitized-from-VHS form, and that's it. I'll either have to fill up my hard drive with whatever I can find on Bittorrent, or pay through the nose to get the DVDs. Or, more likely, a combination of both.

I still have a few Who DVDs to review, by the way. I just haven't been able to motivate myself to do more reviews of anything. I'll get to it.

Update: I just looked on Amazon UK, and it turns out that most of the episodes are available on DVD. I've hyperlinked the ones I could find; all the DVDs linked here are Region 2 DVDs from Amazon UK, but a little searching from those results would reveal at least some Region 1 versions for Americans to watch. If you buy any of the DVDs mentioned above, I get a little kickback that could well contribute to me being able to afford the DVDs I just added to my own shopping bag (I didn't order all of them, yet, just the first few).

So it's life in the slammer for Mohammad Bouyeri. Good, although considering what came to light about the man's obsessions during the trial, it would have been a good idea to send him back to the Pieter Baan Centrum for further evaluation (Bouyeri was sent there before his trial to determine if he might be insane, but refused to cooperate). In all likelihood, having been declared insane would not have got him out any earlier, but it would have had the beneficial effect of invalidating his motive for the murder of Theo van Gogh.
All crimes Bouyeri was charged of have been found proven, although in the case of two out of six charges, a terroristic motive was ruled out. Bouyeri does not get stripped of his voting rights, which the judge reckons he won't want to use anyway, but he has been ordered to pay damage to Theo van Gogh's family and other injured parties.
I'll link to the full text of the verdict and sentencing if and when I find it on the net.

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Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, The Pantheon and the recently-updating-again Capn are down again as a result of a webhost outage that according to The Belfry's Webcomic tracker has gone on for several hours now. Just like last week, I have no real idea what's going on or when the outage will be over.

My internet presence seems to be vanishing before my very eyes anyway. Reader Martin Diehl reminds me that my email provider, Despammed, is also still down. I don' t miss it much, because it was no longer able to filter all the spam on its own. I've had it forward mail to my gmail address for another round of filtering for some time, and that worked a whole lot better. Nevertheless, I am not going to publish my gmail address on the web. If you must reach me, refer to this post for email instructions.

New cast images for the character Krakatoa.

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Quick Tutorial on drawing the male torso. Could come in handy.

Oops, there's a slight mistake in the latest Lives of X!Gloop page. I'll fix it when my other work is done. Of course, this is a good enough excuse for me to mention that comic again...
The website also needs a bit of work done to it, to ease navigation. I hope I'll be able to get to that this weekend. I'll be doing a lot of work on the rocr.xepher.net server, where the blog also lives, so there may be interruptions to the service anyway. The work shouldn't break anything, but considering my capacity for screwing up, I might as well warn you that outages may occur.

Thanks Danny! for another wonderful entry to our Creative contest:

Update: also entries from Geir Strøm and Adam Cuerden!

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