the G stands for Geraldine

I... borrowed... a couple of images from the nickelodeon style guide library, including a bunch of Hey Arnold! turnarounds and backgrounds. I really like this show, my girlfriend and I have been watching a bunch of it lately. It's obviously for a young audience but it isn't half as saccharine as most other shows of its ilk (whilst still retaining some worthwile morals). Helga's sort of ridiculous, though - she's probably the first tsundere character I can remember seeing. It's taken to a silly extreme - she is horrible to Arnold at every chance she gets but psychotically obsesses over him pretty much every moment he's not around (I think she makes a bust of his head out of gum at one point). Somehow she still manages to be a wonderfully well-rounded character and I obviously had a crush on her.

nickelodeon

so, I'm interning at the nickelodeon building in London for the next two weeks. I've met a lot of nice people and everyone's really cool. I haven't done much actual art yet (the last couple of days were mostly spent following around the head of the graphics department and going to a few live-action shoots) apart from the stuff shown above -just to give me something to do they asked me to do a cartoon of these british kids' show hosts for a logo. I find caricature really hard to do and I've no idea if they'll actually want to use it anyway! Oh well! We'll see how it goes.

EDIT: it's been a while since i deleted something on my blog because I'm so embarrassed about it - this is one of those times.