Chromacon wrap-up
Last weekend was Chromacon. I’ve sold at conventions and craft shows before, but never at anything specifically set up just for comics and illustration. I’ve been so happy and excited to meet so many new illustration and comics people. Who all live in New Zealand! I teamed up with my long time buddy Rachel Smythe [...]
IT HAS BEGUN – Time Switch Process 01
Finally I can feel things moving with my new project. Since the end of Sunshine I’ve have several ideas but nothing’s managed to make the jump from idea to project. Usually there are too many ideas demanding to be worked on at once. In this case the ideas were still there, but the demand wasn’t. It’s [...]
Prints! <3
Cool, so my latest print endeavour was an insanely awesome success! When I first saw them I completely fell in love. Printed with 12 different coloured inks on thick high quality archival paper, these are the absolute nicest prints I’ve ever had of my own work. They looked like paintings themselves. I tried to take [...]
Art block and too many other things
It’s been a while since Sunshine and since then I haven’t made much of anything. I’ve gotten a new job as a web admin, which is all kinds of awesome. It’s 35 hours, so in theory this gives me an extra hour a day I didn’t have when I was working 40 hour weeks. An [...]
Sunshine is finished! Also, other stuff
Sunshine is finished, finally! You can read it online here. If you like it please share it with people you know. And also tell me! I’d love to know what you thought of it. It’s been a process, I can tell you that. And you can read all about it. From first draft to final. [...]
A Sunshine Thank You, and a new comic in the planning
I’ve had some truly fantastic feedback on Sunshine over the last month. Thanks to everyone for reading it, and thank you even more for sharing it. It’s so rewarding to share this project with people and find it’s resonating with others. So thank you, homesick kiwis and foreign visitors to Wellington (and everyone else). It’s [...]
Sunshine release date and updates
I’ve been tidying up a bit around this old website thing. As well as being prettier I hope things are also easier to find. My favourite new bit is the updated page for An Opal Dream Cave. Finally it looks how I want it to! There are still a few more changes and tweaks that [...]
Perfecting Sunshine
I’ve now been working on Sunshine for over six months. Originally I’d hoped to be finished before the end of January, then before the end of summer. Both of those goals sailed past without me having time to notice. As the year’s ticked on, my concept of what Sunshine is has become more ambitious. It’s [...]
Drawing Club
At the end of last year I started a drawing club. I almost didn’t really mean to, but it happened and it was a lot of fun to have a group of folks around to draw and chat with. The first couple happened pretty easily and effortlessly. I put the word out, and folks turned [...]
Sunshine – Process blog 4. Improved with Creative Commons.
I’ve made some good progress on Sunshine since my last post. I’ve finished the sketches for all twelve pages, inked them and am now halfway through the digital colours. I’ve also re-drew a panel and a page because they weren’t up to scratch. A recap, in pictures. A snapshot of a couple of sketched pages [...]
Sunshine – Process Blog Part 3
Process has been steady on Moving with Sunshine. Firstly, I have decided to rename the comic to ‘Sunshine’, as I think “The Girl Who Moved With Sunshine” is a bit wordy. I do like how the old title has a fairytale feel to it, but I think the shorter ‘Sunshine’ will end up working much [...]
Clearing the path
There is a path that runs from my head down my left arm to my hand. I found it there when I was very small. I can send pictures wandering down, and they flow out into lines and onto paper. When the path is clear, the lines and gestures on the paper look a lot [...]
Manga Classes
Hey, people! News! I am going to be tutoring a manga and comic illustration class this year. I shall be co-running it with Su Mon, and it will be based at Hutt Minoh Friendship House. Classes start on 29th of February and will run from 7-9pm. We’ll be covering lots of cool stuff like character [...]
The Girl Who Moved With Sunshine – Process Blog 2
I’ve been making steady progress on The Girl Who Moved With Sunshine. A couple of days of solid painting hours have been very fruitful. Oliver’s character design is beginning to take shape, and I’m starting to think about backgrounds (gasp!) and colour (omg!). I think I’m starting to get the hang of him here. Although [...]
The Girl Who Moved With Sunshine – Process Blog 1
I almost wish I hadn’t already written my 2011/12 blog, because I really feel like writing it all over again. Instead I’ll write a post about my new comic “Moving with Sunshine”. I’ve had this short comic idea in my head for a good while now, but it’s only begun to materialise in the last [...]
2012, the year of awesome
Summer is arriving in Wellington and I find myself reflecting on the year I’ve just survived. No, not survived, conquered. For the last several years the goal has been surviving, but this year was a bit different from the very start. When I look back I almost don’t believe in that girl I was last [...]
Hooray! Let’s Celebrate! Time for a print sale!
Hey, Internet! How are you guys? It seems to me it’s a season of celebration, so I’m putting a bunch of prints up for sale! Half price, even! The Sale will run until Friday the 28th. $10NZ each, plus $5 for shipping worldwide. Below is a slideshow of the illustrations available as prints. The set [...]
Work, CFS, and how Twitter is awesome
I’ve been working for twenty-seven days in a row between my two jobs. Since getting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2006 I thought that even having one part time job would be bordering the impossible. I don’t think I can describe how awesome it feels to prove myself wrong. Last year I was struggling to keep [...]
Busy Busy
It’s almost already not July anymore. Having jobs sure does make time rocket by super fast. I’m not complaining, but it does feel a bit like I’m running late, brushing my teeth while heading out the door. Every time I remove something from my schedule to free up time for The Otherwalls, it seems instantly [...]
Portrait of an Artist in Motion
Life sure has been busy and filed with things as of late. Along with my sushi job I’m now working three days a week at Holland Road Yarn Company in Petone. I love being surrounded by so much amazing colour, it’s a real inspiration. I’ve been making Amigurumi, which I will be selling at Craft [...]