Comics are widely studied by academics in the humanities. Discourse around metaphors and messaging found in the superhero genre is abundant, while comic narratives…
Autumn Winds
This comic was inspired by a moment where my new life was starting to become settled. That is to say, it was no…
In 2022 I had the opportunity to delve into the intricacies of three pivotal technologies: microgrids, hydrogen power, and advanced electricity networks. Through a…
After writing and researching the paper ‘Graphic Storytelling: Teaching Experience and Utility’ (now published and available to read here- https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/fisher), I wanted to share…
In this activity I’ve taken a drawing by comic artist legend Kevin Maguire (below) and attempted to redraw it, adding light and tonality. Pretty…
I grew up enamoured with Monkey Magic. Something about the liveliness of the show, the kooky characters, the music, the absurdity of it, as…
In my ‘day job’ I recently worked with some brilliant people on a trans-disciplinary assignment task. The idea was that students from Creative Writing…
My final DVA studio output and the culmination of my Doctoral research. I have been slowly redrafting this over time, but here is the…
It’s coming to the pointy end of Entwined. The black and white pages are 90% there, and I’ve got pages trickling in with flat…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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,…
In composing a piece of visual work (let’s call it “art” for lack of a better word) certain considerations must be made by the…
The exceptionally well-attended Drawing International Symposium has been and gone, and it certainly was a success. I had my diary comics showing in the…
Yes- the diary comics continue (there are well over 500 of them now), and I thought some of you might like to read about…