Super happy fun Diary Comics 2015 compilation time. All the images are in place, now dropping in entry titles throughout. I’m halfway through April….
These couple of pages show a little of the character’s inability to play it cool. Texting, changing his mind, regretting, wanting, hurting… making bad…
Today we had the good fortune to be visited by screenwriter Shayne Armstrong, of writing duo Armstrong & Krause, speaking about a genre close…
When you stay zoomed out to full-page view and focus only on the storytelling, you can knock out a page layout pretty quickly. Helps…
Everything is happening too slowly. I should have had at least 300 pages drafted by now. Every morning I wake up and think of…
This is my new alternative to using a mirror to get proportions.
Video record, find the right angle, copy, paste.
Too easy.
But! Is it art?
This is a wee experiment with recording some of the fuffing around I do in trying to get work done. Sped up from just…
Playing with different approaches to combining the source diary entries with the pages. Trying and get across more of the internal world of Clint…
I’ve been reading through Critical Inquiry: Comics and Media, edited by Hillary Chute and Patrick Jagoda, recommended by my friend and trusted supervisor Andi…
I love strong contrast of black and white. I can remember falling in love with Frank Miller’s gritty noir crime series Sin City for the…
Received my reply from Henry Rollins, stating he doesn’t want me to use his words in my work.
Bummer. The thing is, I don’t actually…
I’ve begun work on the Diary Comics Compilation for 2015. The 2014 collection involved actually learning InDesign, a ridiculous amount of colour correction of each…
Henry Rollins is a personal hero of mine. One of his more quoted quotes is “keep your blood clean, your body lean and your…
On Thursday 5th I gave a presentation about my Doctoral Research thus far in the Film School Research Seminar, followed by Trish FitzSimons and Angus Veitch’s…
I’ve made an effort to keep each character as distinct as possible in their likeness, to varying degrees of success. This character is Alphonse…
Style is a hard thing to pin down. When we refer to a visual style, what exactly is it anyway? When asked about his…
In this page the character is doing something that was familiar to me in another life. Writing multiple texts and not sending any of…
Here’s a sequence from the GN where I’ve decided to use a song to lend a bit of continuity and to try to convey…
Getting sick- a stomach bug, to be precise. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
What a week. On Wednesday the 20th I had the great pleasure of accidentally stumbling into a guest lecture by Kim Farrant, the Director…
Following on from the last post in which we jump across time and space, here is a short wordless (for the moment) scene that…
Time is a slippery thing. In comics we, the creator, have the option to present time in any number of ways. We can use…
This scene is set within a typical working class Australian birthday celebration setting. Packs of Longbeach (or Lung Bleach as they are affectionately known)…
Thursday April 14th I had the opportunity to take part in a Masterclass with Associate Professor Mia Lindgren, a visiting scholar from Monash University’s…
Here I wanted to show Ronja pausing mid-stride, stopped by a sudden decision to confide in Clint. As an author, I’ve given myself quite a…
I am always thinking in making comics, how can I make things as clear as possible? To that end I rely on a great…
Say what you will about digital drawing but custom brushes are great. I drew this tree silhouette in about two minutes using a custom…
Today I didn’t get much work on the GN done, however I did manage to take my comic anthology Ashcan Comix #10 to a…
I’ve found that in moving from script to image, things change. I’m often editing and moving dialogue around, or removing it entirely. Here I’ve replaced the…
I ‘ve been writing a fair bit, waxing lyrical, if you will, on the many roles the sequential artist takes on when telling stories. It’s…