Christopher Middleton's Art and Stuff

Hello Internet, my name is Christopher Middleton. I'm an artist living in San Francisco. This blog is dedicated to my personal artwork. I also manage a blog called Anime Backgrounds that looks just like it sounds. I own a company called Scindo Media Inc. that is trying to survive by making cool things. (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-40063281-2', 'tumblr.com'); ga('send', 'pageview');

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One of my few 2016 resolutions was to produce more work, so here are a bunch of sketches from January. Tried to do at least 1 a day. Enjoy!

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I had to do this. #thomyorke #drake #bling #hotlinebling #lol

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The Past Away interactive art book is on the iBookstore now! Check it out!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-art-of-past-away/id1018575061?mt=11

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random doodle

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Wildling 

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So the site for my motion comic Past Away is finally up, it’s just the prologue so far, but more to come. Check it out.  http://www.pastawaycomic.com/

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wip background painting

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Some notes I put together for my CDA Class. Just stuff that I use. Take with grain of salt.

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A brief breakdown of how Thomas Romain (co-creator of Code Lyoko, Basquash! Space Dandy Mecha Designer, Cannon Busters) designs backgrounds digitally.

Brilliant.

https://www.twitter.com/thomasintokyo

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Quick! Turn on the windshield wipers! lol No, I don't actually have dialogue that cheesy X-)

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My book, SPAM 1.5 is available on ITUNES, and compatible with all iOs devices!! It includes all the pages in SPAM 1, print version, + 15 extra pages, and 3 hours of video content of me painting! 

Ibooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/spam-1.5-vol.1/id837545896?ls=1&mt=11

It is also available on Google Play! for Android users. :)

http://books.google.com/books/about?id=dP4LAwAAQBAJ

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Awesome book from my awesome friend. Check it out!

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Few bits from the #pastaway #sketchbook Almost there.

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Painting I did today, about 2hrs from life. Painting from life on a Cintiq is da bomb.

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Past Away was featured in the online magazine GameInsider! I really like how it came out. Special thanks to all the guys over at GameInsider and to Derrick Smith. Check out the full issue here: http://gameinsider.uberflip.com/t/29481

Also check out the Game Insider site here.

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Doodles, sketches, studies, etc.

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Another part from the same shot as the previous post. It's exciting to be taking a whack at something new. As long as I've been in love with 2D animation, I've never really tried my hand at it until now. Learning a lot :)

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I've been terrible about updates. I'll try to do better. In the meantime here is a running zombie.