Showerbear

Everybody loves a shower bear.

Lady Comics

How-To Comics

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Stuff That Happened Comics

A lot of stuff happened while I was working in Canowindra (a wee town hours from anywhere with its disproportionate share of completely awesome people) but I can only fit so much stuff into a single page. Also I might be starting to think in comic panels.

Click the image to open the full-size comic.

Dead Poet Comics

"When the evening is spread out against the sky / like a patient etherised upon a table"



and as an added bloggy bonus, here's a video i made earlier today which demonstrates just how bored i have to be before i consider drawing a comic:

Port comics

comics by me, the giant octo, and some delicious grapey port!

click for the whole damn comic

Exam Therapy Comics

(aka desperate procrastination). Guest starring Elisa as the studious blonde ingenue.

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Junk Post

Questions You Can't Really Google Comics

Great scott! A new comic? Brb, running outside to see if the sky has fallen.

Click the image for the version you can actually read.

Also it looks like all the pictures in old posts are broken, but I think that's just 'cause imgur is doing server maintenance. If you come back in a few hours they should all be back up.

Giant Octopus guest post!

Many moons ago, during a Skype conversation that echoed from the depths of a lounge room pillow fort, I asked (read: begged) my ridiculously talented cephalopod amigo Elisa to contribute some artwork to this blog. She has obliged with a portrait of herself and yours truly that's chock full of in-jokey awesomeness -- ladies and gentlemen, set your faces to "stun".

Megashark and Giant Octopus sharing their mutual love of
cheap booze and comical facial hair.

Ten points to anyone who can name the bird making a nest in my hair. Thanks for the awesome, Elisa! :D

Wasted Afternoon Comics

Nothing can take its place in my mind / this beauty of girls. It could totally be a Maximo Park lyric. Yeah, I think Sappho and Paul Smith are kindred spirits.

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Feel free to grab the file and colour it in if you've got your own afternoon to waste!

Wooluff

More people I see at uni.

In which we discover how badly I need to learn how to colour.

Old Work

An old assignment from last semester. The brief was to create a CD sleeve with 3 Pantone spot colours. As you can see I took that quite literally.

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People I see at uni

This may cross just slightly into creepy territory, but I can't help myself.
I love ogling (maybe 'ogling' is the best word to defend myself against accusations of creepiness...) people at uni; they've all carved out a little stylish niche of their own amidst the thousands of students and lecturers that drift around campus. And they're all kind of brutally nonchalant about it, like the last thing they want is for people to notice how much time they've taken trying to get people to notice them.

So I couldn't help but draw this guy!

Hermit's January EP

It's finally arrived!

One of my musically talented friends commissioned me to design some album art over the summer, the result of which is the epic folk masterpiece Hermit's January EP. Check the music out at James Kemp@myspace or vote for him at unearthed! Here's the final artwork:

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Artwork proofs:

The process of designing a suite of art, for a client, to be printed was an immensely valuable experience - more so than a year's worth of uni assignments. I collided head-first with the learning curve (to say the least) but I'm pretty proud of the result.

And the music sounds great! Go buy it!

March art dump

Here's a couple of things I made to practise using my graphics tablet.

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These two were the unfortunate victims of my intial doodling. It's obvious I was terrified to put any colour down. (Value? Tone? Hiss! Get it away!)


Study of a classical sculpture I found in wikimedia commons. Getting used to blending shadow and highlights with the stylus.

A different style again, with no blending and flat colours. I was going to say, "This proves I have little grasp of the human body", but that'd just be setting myself up for a 'that's what she said'. Pre-empted, foes!