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…
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 read something a long time ago that stuck with me. I don’t remember the source, and I don’t remember it exactly, so I’ll…
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…
Indian ink on A4 250gsm Daler Rowney bristol board, coloured in Adobe Photoshop.
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…