Giglamps rambles

Right under the wire for the holidays, Laid Back Logos has returned, same MO as the previous ones, a cosy little video collage of retro TV snippets, but this time, in the words of Noddy Holder... IT'S CHRIIIIIISTMAAAAAAS!!!!!!! ... Indeed. The mainstay of this video was put together back in August but between one thing and another, I got tangled up with other things and only just got the title and end card art done the other day (on the solstice, no less!) and here it is, ready for its close-up, complete with exciting celebrity guests! First off, here's a look at the title and end card art, without the text. It's probably fairly obvious I didn't have much time to spare for these, but it felt better to get them done than to leave it for next year. (We'll just casually sidestep the several episodes of Spooky Shenanigans which have been in the works since 2023...) To open with, there's Danae, Goldie and Jean-Paul posing a clear and present danger to a sizeable Chri...

It's been a long time coming; I put this video together months ago, but here we finally have the second Laid Back Logos video, with a breezy and cheerful atmosphere. These illustrations for the title and end cards were meant to be quick efforts, but they ended up taking several hours apiece. There was also another idea for the end card which was a bit more comedic, but it got scrapped because I couldn't get it to look right, so I improvised something else in its place. For the title card, Farren is out in the countryside, flying a kite. This idea has been knocking about for a while, starting life as another rough doodle on a scrap of receipt paper during a slow stint at work. And for the end card, Jean-Paul is enjoying some quiet time in an otherworldly garden. People who remember the original Facts About the World might notice the callback to issue 2, with Jean-Paul making his first ever appearance, perching on a column on the Soapbox Derby page. Finally, of course, here's...

This one is a more recent bit of art, which I did for a logo compilation themed around a laid-back night in, sometime in a dreamy, idealised version of the '90s. The rough sketch for it was done in pen on a bit of loose receipt paper at work, and I spent altogether far too long on this version. And here's the video; there is another one of these that is basically ready to go, I just need to actually make some art for it.