2012-02-14 15:21:58.0
Over the last week I've been working on a rather cute illustration job for the blog section of a children's science website, Science With Me. Go check it out!
Its always fun trying to draw cartoon versions of real people and simplify them, I wanted to make everything especially simple and light hearted for these articles.
2012-02-08 15:50:21.0
So if you get a chance, get down there and have a read! I enjoyed all the winning entries for different reasons, there is a great variety of artists and stories, which is always lovely to see :)
2012-02-08 15:33:11.0
I actually updated my comic last Thursday, with 3 new pages, but I apparently completely forgot to announce it last week!
As always you can read my comic online here. Originally this comic was intended to be an attempt at old fashioned horror. It hasn't really turned out that way, but in these upcoming pages there are glimpses. I'm very pleased to see most of the comments at the moment on S+F are about how creepy and suspensful the comic is, just as I wanted! :)
2012-02-01 14:12:45.0
In part, another annual tradition of celebrating my favourite composer's birthday, I have been reading a wonderful illustrated book, Faithfully Mozart, by Donathan Bixley.
The book was released back in 2006, in the year of Mozart's 250th celebration. This also happened to be the year when I became obsessed with Mozart (it probably didnt help that he was being celebrated everywhere!). So my 16 year old self begged and begged for this book to be ordered all the way from New Zealand for my 17th birthday. I stil treasure the book to this day!
It is a wonderful book, in which Bixley follows Mozart's life through his letters. So, the book is compiled of various written letters from Mozart, and beautiful illustrations to accompany.
This isn't exactly a comic, but it certainly is sequential, and I've included I nice piece of silent comic which took up one page of the book.
And if you can ever get ahold of the book, I highly reccomend it, even to non-Mozart fans. In the end it's just a wonderful illustrated biograpghy about an artist trying to make it big in the world!
2012-01-27 16:06:04.0
"I met a young boy the other day and he said to me,
"Herr Kapellmeister, I should like to compose something- how do I start?...I only meant could you recommend a book or such like that I may learn properly from?"...
"Look my fine fellow, none of that matters; Here, here and here," I said, pointing to my head, ears and heart, "that is your textbook. If it is in there, take up your pen and write it down. Then once you have your composition written down you can ask some learned person of their opinion. That is how you discover what works and what does not!"
Mozart goes on to write in that letter 'Well, enough of my twaddle' !! Such wise words though!!
Happy Birthday Mozart!
As many people know, Mozart has been an inspiration to me in music, emotions and creativity for many years. So here is my annual birthday celebration picture!
This is actually part of my 'opera' project, although its not an opera character. Mozart did many operas, of which two I really love and have seen live <3 since today is his birthday, I thought I'd do a Mozart illustration in commemoration of this inspirational composer instead of an opera character.