I've been lucky enough to actually have time to work on my webcomic. You can read the update here. Things are getting tense, I enjoy reading peoples reactions to moments like these!
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sketchbook illustrations
2012-02-28 07:26:57.0
My blog posts have been a bit delayed, as I was having issues posting images, but that seems to of been fixed now!
Here are two select images from my sketchbooks. I go through one every two months or so, I doodle a lot, but hardly ever finish any of the tons of images I have in my books. So I've started picking out a few select images and making them a little more finished. I thought I'd share them here too!
The top image is of the character Sebastian Flyte, from the wonderful (and muchos reccomended) book, Brideshead Revisited. The bottom image is a quick observational drawing I did when I went to St Pauls in the summer last year.
Science with me illustrations
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.
Letters to England
2012-02-08 15:50:21.0
Last year I entered the annual comic competition 'Manga Jiman', which is ran by the Japanese Embassy.
Much to my delight and surprise, I discovered that I was one of the shortlisted winners (11 in total ) and last Friday I went to the competiton ceremony, where I had so much fun catching up with fellow comic artists, and reading all the other wonderful winning entries.
Anyway, all the winning short comics are being exhibited from now until the end of Feburary at the Japanese Embassy in London. If you have the chance please go down there and have a read!
The exhibition is free and is open from 9:30 - 5:30 on weekdays. You can get more information on the winning entry, a list of the winners, and the adress of the Embassy (pretty much at the bottom of Picadilly Circus, or up the road from Buckingham Palace!)
here.
I can't post my short online until the exhibition is over, so I've cropped two images from the comic as a preview. I'm sure my comic looks better in print anyway! As you can see, my short was set in WW1. I actually based it around a real person, George Butterworth, who is one of my favourite composers and folk song collectors, and a soldier who died during the Great War.
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 :)
Webcomic update!
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! :)