Welcome friend! Whale here.

I see you’ve made it to my page! Well done, your medal is in the mail. 

So what’s this all about anyway? 

It all started with a sketch of a badly drawn whale (me) and a desire to start a creative habit. Something small that could be farted into existence 5 days a week and kept up consistently. With so much weird stuff going on in the world, especially at the beginning of 2020, the week-daily blog ‘The Daily Wail’ was born. 

My mission was to put a sarcastic and comic spin on whatever was happening that day on the news whilst incorporating an interesting fact, a funny or interesting youtube clip and an original piece of work in the form of a poem or short write-up. 

1 Clip 

1 Fact

1 Original Written Piece 

GO!

This ‘machine’ quickly put the repetitive, fear-mongering news aside, and switched to prompts based on days of the year celebrated on the publish date. Daysoftheyear.com was the website used for this, packed with all sorts of information about weird celebrations worldwide: Donut day, TV day, Fruit day, Writer’s day etc… The machine swam along and evolved to incorporate different things along the way. 

‘Cartoons In June’ started a character design stage, drawing a finished character and short story piece in a day. Then on to ‘A Sticky July’ where storyboarding the June characters to eventually become animations was the practice. 

The 3 characters from the video above are from the prompts:

1. Milk:  Bill The Angry Almond. 

2. Rocky Road: The Rocky Road To Realisation.

3. Pen: Percy Has A Four Way.

All these animations will be released in the coming months, and you, beautiful calendar owner, will be amongst the first to see them. Aren’t you a lucky sausage!

After 300 episodes of prompted ‘The Daily Wail’ pieces I was transformed into ‘The Riddling Whale.’ The original pieces now had a maximum length and the prompt was for the reader to guess. And here we are: Still bungling along, but steadily putting content together to poke you in the brain.

Thanks for hopping on this Whale of a Journey! It’s going to be a weird year and beyond. Let’s see where we end up.

January Calendar Images Making-Of Videos

Check out ‘making of’ the calendar images for January followed by some A.I. Magic to bring them to life as well as A.I. Outtakes.

January Main Image

A collection of title pages from The Daily Wail and The Riddling Whale evolution.

January Side Image

Did you guess what word this image is representing? I’ll give you a clue… It’s a symptom.