Last year I spent most of my studio time working on re-drawing my Oh Brother thumbnails for my publisher. I have now finished and it’s finally starting to feel like a real book.
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Oh Brother, it's a book update!
A little update on how work on my graphic novel, Oh Brother, is going.
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George Rex Comics mini-documentary
Recently I was the subject of a mini-documentary created by a group of local film students. I was interviewed about my book and my practice. There is even a nifty little animation of my illustrations!
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Good Ripping Material
One of my brother’s favourite things to do growing up was rip paper into equal sized strips. Unfortunately for my book collection, he didn’t mind where he got his source material from.
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Good Reads // March & April
My top reads for March & April 2017.
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Mentor Pals // Part One // Pat Grant
Have a sneak peek at some pages from a sketchbook I shared with one of my mentors, Pat Grant, while working on my Oh Brother project.
Read MoreWeek fifty two - I'm all Thumbs
An update on how the book is going and step-by-step description of turning my script (words) into thumbnails (very basic drawings).
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Week twenty eight - Let's get emotional
As I've been drawing panels and nutting out scenes, I realised that there are lot emotions in the book and I was struggling a little bit to figure out exactly which facial expression was the best to show what the characters were feeling. So I thought I'd make myself emotion guides for each of the main characters.
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Week eighteen - Sense & Sensory rooms
The more I write about stories of my life growing up with Rob, the more I remember and the more I realise how similar my brother and I are. Our tastes in foods, books, TV, colours; our cheeky personalities. But something big I've only recently thought about is how we both are sensitive to various sensory experiences.
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Week fifteen - Robert Chadderton, master chef.
Rob has always had a love of food and drink. In fact, our whole family has. But no one else was quite as experimental with their eating/drinking habits as Rob.
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Following on from my last post about how the design of the characters in my graphic novel, Oh Brother, have changed over the 7-ish years I’ve been working on the book, this post is about my absolute favourite thing: drawing emotions!