I’ve never been great at including backgrounds in my comics, but I knew I needed to learn how toto help ground my graphic novel memoir in the real world.
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Week thirty one - My time in the Gong
In June I went to Wollongong to visit my mentor Pat Grant. For two whole weeks we would be hanging out, talking about my graphic novel and pulling apart my script. I was thrilled and terrified all at once (a fairly normal feeling for me).
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Week thirty - Hair Guide
As the stories in my graphic novel jump all over the place chronologically, I decided to create this illustrated hair guide to help me keep track of the story timeline.
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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 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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BONUS - BONUS - BONUS
November last year, just after I nervously spoke about my project to a crowd of lovely humans on the beautiful Carclew grounds and had just shook the hands of lots of rad women in arts, I ran off to the 891 ABC radio studios and was interviewed by the super Deb Tribe. Here's that interview!
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Week fourteen - Twenty Five: A quarter-life crisis
A comic about my quarter life crisis.
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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!