Last week I showed excerpts from my sketchbook with Pat Grant, so this week I thought I'd show some of the work I did with Mandy Ord.
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Week forty three - All those other ideas
It’s hard working on one big project, I always seem to have other ideas floating around in my head. Here are just some of them.
Read MoreWeek forty - Why the blue pencil?
A explanation comic about why I use blue pencil when I’m making comics.
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Week thirty seven - In which our hero meets 'The Slump'
A comic about the process of finishing a draft of a big comic and getting critical feedback.
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Week thirty three - In which our hero talks about her process
Holding my first draft manuscript of part one of Oh Brother, I’m finally starting to have an idea of what my process is for making a graphic novel or long form comics.
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Week twenty three - In which our hero checks in
We are about 6 months through the year and I thought you might be interested in how I am going with this graphic novel project.
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Week twenty two - Colour me unsure
Writing a long-form comic (I'm aiming for 200 pages) is new to me and hard. Drawing something with so much information will be a challenge but the thing that is bothering me at the moment is how I'm going to to colour this comic.
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Week nineteen - Artist Spotlight on... me?
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to be interviewed by the Adelaide University Art History Club for their artist spotlight blog. I was honoured to say the least. I decided to answer my questions in my favourite medium, comics!
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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 six - In which our hero shows off her her post-it collection
I talk about how I use post-it notes for my story idea generation and comics making.
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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!