Week twenty nine - In which our hero loses her folder (and then finds it again)

August 9, 2016

Trialing using coloured pencils with this short autobio comic.

Week twenty eight - Let's get emotional

July 20, 2016

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.

Week twenty seven - ADL --> MEL

July 13, 2016

An autobio comic about the annual pilgrimage to Festival of The Photocopier zine fair.

Week twenty six - What if?

July 5, 2016

A little comic for you to have a squizz at. It's about some things I think about sometimes.

Week twenty five - George Rex Comics: The Early Years, Part 2

June 29, 2016

I’ve been drawing comics since as long as I can remember. Here are some of my slightly ‘edgier’ comics from late high school years.

Week twenty four - George Rex Comics: The Early Years, Part 1

June 14, 2016

I’ve been drawing comics since as long as I can remember. Here are some of my early comics from Primary School and early high school.

Week twenty two - Colour me unsure

May 31, 2016

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.

Week twenty one - Pink is the new black

May 25, 2016

Rob has always had a fascination for the colour pink. Pink food, pink material, pink cartoon characters. If it was pink, Rob probably liked it. It all started with pink foods.

Week twenty - Our hero on communication

May 24, 2016

As part of the research and planning for my graphic novel (more on that in a later post), I decided to split my stories into three categories: communications, obsessions and fears. When writing down my anecdotes about Rob, I realised that after a while my writing seemed to focus mostly on the communication stories.

Week nineteen - Artist Spotlight on... me?

May 10, 2016

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!

Apr 29, 2023

Oh Brother Prep work, Part 2: Getting Emotional

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!

Feb 1, 2023

Oh Brother thumbnails finished!

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.

Jan 27, 2023

Drawing Buddies - January Challenge

This year my pal Jake and I are being drawing buddies. Each month we’re going to take on a different drawing challenge together. This month we had a go at drawing each other’s characters.

Jan 24, 2023

My Top Reads of 2022

According to my book tracker app, I read 128 books last year. Here is a list of my absolute top reads for 2022 (and the reasons why I liked them).

Nov 10, 2022

Oh Brother Update 2022

Back in 2016, I started work on a project I thought would take me a year (hah!). Flash forward to 2022 where I’m working with multiple editors at Penguin Random House to publish the book in 4 different territories.

Feb 17, 2017

Week 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).

Jun 29, 2023

Oh Brother Prep work, Part 3: Pushing Poses

Following on from my previous posts about designing my characters and then practicing drawing their emotions, I had one final task: to practice drawing these characters in different poses!

Mar 29, 2023

Oh Brother Prep work, Part 1: Building Character

The first thing I do when starting on a comic project is create the characters and draw up character reference sheets. Have a look at how the Oh Brother characters have developed over the 6 years I’ve been working on the book.

Dec 31, 2022

Map-Making

One of my very first loves was map-making: as a kid, they were one of my favourite things to draw. I would make maps of treasure islands, maps of our neighbourhood and maps of my bedroom.

Dec 23, 2022

Death

Here, for your reading enjoyment, is one of my early “published” works (from when I was 7). Probably one of my more experimental pieces of writing, but still incredibly influenced by the works of Terry Pratchett. The story is intriguingly titled "Death".

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