Continuing on from my post about reference or cheating, here is some more progress on the pages for Squishface Studio’s upcoming anthology, Squishzine Brunstown….
Since the dawn of time, man has argued the question without end: “At what point does the use of photo reference become cheating?” I…
Inks and washes on A3 Strathmore Bristol
The next few posts will look at some of the things I’ve been drawing in my free time lately and break down some of…
I love inking. I’ve always enjoyed the process of cementing pencil indelibly into the paper with stark black lines. I love the contrast, I love…
We live in a world where it is usually cheaper to buy a new, superior product than to repair an older, now obsolete one. Case…
I’ll be at Oz Comic Con Melbourne this weekend. Table 30, next to luminaries such as table 29, and table 31.
You can’t miss it!…
How do you effectively portray and play with time in comics?
In moving image media such as cinema, timing is, to a large part, in…
I’m ready to share some pages from my contribution to the upcoming Universe Gun issue 11, created by Mike Cooper (aka Dr Mike 2000). I’m a huge…
I set myself a challenge to produce a birthday/mother’s day card within eight hours, in order to give myself a chance to post it interstate…
Last week I got news from the good people at Oz Comic Con that I’ve been elected from a pool of hundreds, if not…
Supanova is over and I’m left with a house littered with books and art materials, and a slight residual fuzzy glow. Here are some…
Reflections on my experience of Supanova Melbourne, Saturday 29th April 2017. After bumping in pleasantly on Friday evening and getting up at the crack…
It’s been just over a month since the submission of four years of work, and to reward myself I spent most of that time preparing…
I’m writing this in horizontal repose, finally free of stress and watching my body succumb to the rigours of an overwhelming deadline after weeks of…
It’s been exactly four months since my last post, and I owe it to myself to get back on track with posting again. So,…
Meeting with my supervisor clarified my direction to completion of the doctorate. The graphic novel will round out to about 300 pages and will…
It’s the first of August. There are just over six months till maximum submission of my DVA and I’m taking account of what I’ve…
I’ve emailed Henry Rollins, and the management of Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Rodriguez and Ben Lee asking for permission to use their lyrics…
In The System of Comics (2009) Thierry Groensteen uses the term Spatiotopia to refer to comics’ system of structures that sit within each other working independently and interdependently….
One of the critiques I got in feedback was that many of the scenes need some kind of separation, plus, there needs to be…
Draft 2 changes for the day. Wow. It’s not much, really, is it? What am I actually doing with my time? I don’t even…
I’ve been lucky enough to give a host quite a few workshops at libraries and such over the last couple of years. Pretty cool…
Watching Kim Jung Gi’s live drawing demonstrations gave me permission to draw in my sketchbook directly with ink pen. No planning, straight-ahead drawing, allowing the theme…
Eddie Campbell is one of those prolific and ridiculously proficient artists who for some reason are not living in a golden castle on top of…
After much fuggerizing around I’ve finally managed to upload a PDF of the 2014 Diary Comics that Ingram Spark didn’t spit back at me….
After consulting with my supervisor Andi Spark and after feedback from my mother-in-law Doris, I am going over the pages I’ve completed so far…
Drawing a page on the Cintiq again after a few weeks away.
Focusing on attitude and body language. And a timelapse of the process, if you’re…
When watching television or movie, even the most mediocre of offerings, the enthusiastic artist, I’ve found, can keep the pen moving and the hand…
This panel is from American cartoonist Joe Matt, taken from his collection of comic strips Peepshow. As a cartoonist/practitioner in autobio comics, there is a…