This weekend I attended a silent meditation and yoga retreat at the secluded Casa Pallotti, in Millgrove, Victoria. Key takeaways included:
Different types of…
Managed to squeeze in an hour at the Cintiq today to work a little more on page 29. It’s coming along!
Great news- I’ve been accepted as a presenter at the 2019 International Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels in Manchester! I put together an…
Tomorrow I need to impart a few key concepts of semiotics to the third year animators at Swinburne. This is an overview of things…
Today was an interesting one. I attended the Media and Comms organised Cinema and Screen Studies Research Seminar (first for 2019) after a late…
1994 was produced in two parts. Melbourne (2013) and Brisbane (2014). 1994 is an early attempt at autobiographic comic storytelling. A diary-based reflection of…
A 24-Hour wordless Autofictographic comic in brush and ink. Available for purchase as a physical print in the Storybordello shop.
Ashcan comics is a collaborative space for Australian comics creators. I took over the imprint in 2014. Dedicated almost two years in organisation, coordination,…
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…
Drafting page two of Entwined- A Recurrent Romance
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
In 2012 I enrolled in the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning’s correspondence course in inking. This led to me discovering traditional inking tools of…
Following on from what looks to be an unnecessarily inflated behind the scenes that no one asked for, and in the interests of wrapping…
2007 saw me complete my undergraduate degree in animation. 2008 also unfortunately coincided with the global financial crisis. The GFC could not have happened…
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…