Mirroring and repetition; whether it be with image, or text, or metaphor, or motif, is a powerful tool. It reinforces meaning, draws attention to itself, and…
This page harks back to enjoyable group activities back in the days. Hackey sack- a university cliché for good reason. Far more beneficial for…
This is one of the first scenes where I’m digging a little deeper into one of the supporting characters. The dialogue is still clunky,…
Scott Bukatman, in his essay Sculpture, Stasis and Hellboy found within Critical Inquiry, Comics and Media (Chute & Jagoda 2014), ponders on the ideas of…
More drawing like a madman, recording and adding commentary. This one goes for six minutes. My voice is like warm butter. Enjoy.
I’m really getting into these screen captures. The process of recording my drawing has become quite natural, which is odd when I remember the first…
Day one of my ten page a day goal is off to an uninspired start. Five pages, though pretty good, is only half the…
I have the next four and a half days for drawing. Aiming for ten pages a day. Should be possible!
Working on aspect to aspect transitions again. I originally had this scripted:
Upon drawing the scene out thought I had two intentions. One, to show…
Following on from the previous entries where I emailed Henry Rollins’ management about the use of some of his text and image in my…
There is a site where comic creators put forward their 10 rules (commandments?) for making comics, titled the 10 rules for drawing comics. I particularly…
These pages are part of an attempt to work faster. 3 pages in just under 50 minutes, as opposed to the usual minimum 1…
I’ve always enjoyed drawing. I’ll always maintain I’ve never had an inherent talent for it; I’ve just drawn a lot, and improved as a result. This page…
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…
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?
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.