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Blythe is working hard on his “twenty hundred page long” book titled The Day Of The… Zombies!. You peeps should see a few snippets floating around his page soon. Release date is still a little way off…

Just a quick entry to let y’all know that the new shop is live, and that it’s currently loaded with the remaining stock of Blythe Hamlin Kirk‘s limited edition books. Oh, and make sure you check out his recently launched homepage!!

*Leopard*

About to drop a few books written and illustrated by the very Young, not yet four-year-old Blythe Hamlin Kirk into the semi refreshed, soon to be now live webstore…

"Just… Mack-Lah!" by Blythe Hamlin Kirk.

"Chen-Fen-Nee-Or" by Blythe Hamlin Kirk.

Working on the layout for "Chen-Fen-Nee-Or" with Blythe Hamlin Kirk.

Ah yes, I know you probably think I’ve been holding out on you a little. Dangling the carrot. Well today is your lucky day, it’s time for a completed drawing to make its interweb debut. Those with a keen eye and a decent memory may remember a previous post containing one of the preliminary sketches that helped shape the final drawing. It’s also featured on the back of a recent batch of business cards I had supplied by the lovely folk at Print Together, a “green” printing service who use 100% post-consumer recycled stock and vegetable based inks.

I had planned to post this last image sometime ago, it seems it slipped my mind though.

The same corner from a previous entry in a much more completed state.

My studio is currently without any form of conventional cooling; not good when combined with the recent Melbourne heat. Hmm, I feel that this is something I really must rectify soon. I kicked aside my fragility and strong dislike for this weather, mopping the sweat from my brow and other regions with the sleeve of my t-shirt, and somehow managed to survive a lengthy drawing session yesterday — making some decent progress on the new drawing I might add. Please refer to the supplied photographic proof accompanying these words. These shots are just of the right-hand side… The rest is looking rather splendid and much more finished (I generally work a drawing left to right). Being the tease that I am, images of other areas of said drawing may surface on the interweb sometime in the distant future.

In other news, I assisted a very young person I know in releasing a small limited edition story book titled “A Toothbrush”. I’ve been able to hang onto a few copies and will be making them available for purchase either through this website or from a wonderful local designer store located to the west of the city named Mandrake and Willow soon.

Yippee, my camera is finally again back in my possession! So as promised on Twitter and Facebook, here are a few happy snaps of the latest drawing! It features a litter of puppies, five of the little guys to be exact. At the risk of sounding like a broken record… Let me say that I am really excited by it’s progress so far. Heck, I am extremely happy with the slowly growing pile of recently completed work sitting beside me. I wrote off well over an hour the other day just looking through them all. Starting to organise a few things for next year, stay tuned!

In other news: UPS are having trouble locating my large format scanner. The tracking number I have been supplied by the vendor is of no help, it’s returning invalid. Doesn’t seem like it even made it to the depot… I must say, the whole situation seems rather suspect to me.