Have a very sponsored Christmas!

Well, we're in the last days of 2007, we hope you've had a good year. 2007 was great for Cool Surface, the work came in thick and fast, we got loads of new clients, Sarah joined the art team full time, we completely refitted our office, got a Cintiq, and in between the intensive workload, still managed to find the time to get married!

With the 1st of our five books for Kingfisher/Macmillan out in the next few months, art in an Ilex Press anthology and lots more magazine work, we're already looking forward to what the Cool Surface team will be bringing you in 2008!

Hope you all get what you want for Christmas, we'll see you back here in the New Year!
Have fun,
David

Testing the Cintiq...

Apologies for not posting much recently, Sarah and I have almost finished our first book for Kingfisher/Macmillan, so that's taking up most of our time. I finally invested in a Cintiq the other day, I was really hoping that I could improve my workflow by pencilling straight into Photoshop, but was concerned that it may take some practice. I needn't have worried, drawing on it is a dream! This was my first test sketch which I thought I'd share with you...

Walkies! A Digital Arts tutorial...

The latest issue of Digital Arts is out and features a tutorial on how I made this image, plus how to lay art out for your own badges! Take a look at the background for all of the monkey themed jokes...

Mushroom madness!

Computer Arts Projects recently gave away some limited edition toy mushrooms from Tado and asked people to come up some interesting photographs of them. Here's what Sarah and I came up with! Enjoy!

SPECIAL REPORT! You may have thought mushrooms are a rather uninteresting and benign species, but we have proof from Cool Surface.com photojournalists David and Sarah Cousens, that mushrooms are at the centre of a number of shocking events. We urge you to proceed with caution, dear reader, as some of these images are disturbing!

Mushroom spotted with former WWE Women's champion Trish Stratus!















Iron Man's true secret Identity revealed!


The Punisher's war on drugs continues! Magic no more!


And we have a further troubling report there may be a Mushroom militia on the rise and terrorising innocent Triceratops! "They're not in the trees, they ARE the trees!"





Be careful out there!
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