Story and narration: Peter Moyes Visuals: Darren C Fisher
Buddy, his Beat-up Gibson and the Gods of Guitar takes its cues from the Jewish Mussar tradition…
Developed in 2014 by Dr. Peter Moyes, I had the opportunity to work on Wise Up Kid in developing the lead character, Carlos, and…
Hand lettering is something I haven’t done much of and usually try to avoid. The idea that I’ll never be able to change the text…
Website planning on Procreate 5th July. Got into the zone, and well beyond it into de Bono parallel thinking.
Drawn on a budget 2018 iPad using…
Created for the Squishzine Brunstown comic anthology
Development and production here and here
A4 inks on Strathmore BristolAs it appeared in Squishzine Brunstown
Director’s cut risoprint, thanks…
In 2017, Squishface Studio put out a call for stories for the second issue of their Squishzine Brunstown comic, with the inner city-suburb of…
Ink and ink wash on A4 Bristol Board
Following on from what looks to be an unnecessarily inflated behind the scenes that no one asked for, and in the interests of wrapping…
Aaron Sims has been an integral part of Hollywood’s creature and monster movies for decades, working behind the scenes to bring to life some…
I’ll start by making clear that this second draft was mostly a bit of an experiment, I had gotten hold of an iPad Pro…
I have decided to try to rectify one of the shortfalls in conservation science and human progress in general, inter-group communication.
Helping different groups to…
White Mamba is one of the protagonists of Entwined: A Recurrent Romance (see HERE for a recap on what that is!).
He is Alejandro Vargas,…
Somehow, despite a series of blog entries outlining the design process of the Queen Sparkle commission (found here, here and here), I didn’t yet…
CG Futures (formerly known as Gnomon Live) is a weekend-long gathering of VFX, games and animation people ranging from industry legends, through to students. A…
We admire successful and ‘talented’ people for their ability to make the difficult seem effortless, beautiful. It’s easy to think that these gifts are…
Based on the reference drawings for Tlaloc (see my last post) I wanted to flesh the character out further. I was aiming to incorporate…
Dr Mike 2000’s brief for the Aztec god Tlaloc aka Rain and Fertility.
She appears as a small fertility figure with large weepy eyes. To…
2017 was a big year for me. I turned 40, finished my Doctorate, settled into a new life in Melbourne, and began my first…
I haven’t made many diary comics since I drew a moonlit bushwalk for New Year’s Eve, 2015 but I still make the occasional one here…
The second Aztec god in the Entwined roster that I gave a design overhaul is Death/Lightning, the deity formerly known as Xolotl. Dr Mike describes him…
The first of the character designs for Entwined is the Smoking Mirror, Tezcatlipoca, god of jaguars, sorcery, beauty, strife, and obsidian. Mike’s original character design pictured…
After much behind the scenes thought blasting via email, Skype chats, and an interstate visit, I’m finally ready to start posting a collaboration project I’m…
Just getting back to life drawing after a bit of a hiatus, and within the context of in-class demonstration. So everyone in the class…
Better late than never. Last week Jutta and I got out to the Aardman exhibition at our quaint little local, ACMI, to see what…
At the last watercolour class, I wanted to complete a piece in the 2 hours.
I used these 2 photos as reference and bam! I…
Drawing is equal parts experimentation, exploration, design, and play.
It’s also about the willingness to stay with it. To keep going.
In the last two posts, I was…
After settling on a rough layout, the drawing phase began. I used reference of an eagle so it wouldn’t come out looking like a…
Last week I was asked if I could draw a picture of my Honours and Doctoral supervisor and friend Andi Spark, to the theme…
For my second watercolour practice piece, I wanted to learn restraint in colour palette. I chose a reference image with a limited amount of…
Last month or so I started taking watercolour classes at the Victorian Artist’s Society. It’s a beautiful old heritage listed building that’s recently undergone renovations…