This is a commission I’ve been working on for the last couple of months. Acrylic on canvas panel, 11″x14″. Timelapse video below.

Some digital sketches from sometime last year. A couple of figures from out of my head, and then some sketches from the film Chungking Express (one of my favorite films).

There’s a new game, called Love, just released last month by one-man indie developer Eskil Steenbert. If you have time, you should check out the gameplay demo video, it looks very cool and interesting and unlike anything else out there. Like with most indie games, it’s also astonishing it was created by just one person.

About a month prior to its release, its creator wrote a post explaining his reasoning behind, god forbid, actually charging money for the game, and in the middle of it all was this quiet indictment of the conventional wisdom:

“… The idea that we can produce more things, with higher quality, and fund it with smaller payments seems unrealistic to me.

“The smart money is not the ones trying to survive on microscopic payments, but the ones creating a platform to skim money from them. Apple wants the games on the Appstore to cost next to nothing, so that people buy more iPhones even if its not sustainable for the vast majority of developers. Google wants to you to think that you can become an overnight millionaire when everyone suddenly flock to your lolCat page with google ads on it, when they really make money on having millions of websites with their ads on that get a few hundred views each.”

And it makes me wonder whether this brilliant internet business model of giving your work away for free and then making money off the eyeballs is going to work when all the eyeballs are doing it too.

On a day filled with people’s impressions of Apple’s latest, the two paragraphs at the end of this otherwise-unrelated post by Leigh Alexander is my favorite thing written yet (and dare I say ever?) about the iPad.