Trialing using coloured pencils with this short autobio comic.
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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 six - What if?
A little comic for you to have a squizz at. It's about some things I think about sometimes.
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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 twenty one - Pink is the new black
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.
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Week twenty - Our hero on communication
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.
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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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My current studio space, filled with all my favourite things: books, comics, art, podcasts, cups of tea and art supplies.
Week sixteen - In which our hero talks about the importance of personal space
In which our hero talks about the importance of personal space.
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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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Week thirteen - The alter egos of Robert Chadderton
A visual guide to the many moods of my brother.
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