Showing posts with label March of the Penguins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March of the Penguins. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Thought Bubble 2014

Thought Bubble is the annual week-long Comic Art Festival held in Leeds, which culminates in a two-day comic fair this weekend. And for the first time, I'll be exhibiting with my own table, selling my comics! If you're going along, you'll be at table 65 in New Dock Hall sharing with John Cei Douglas.



I thought I'd give a quick summary of the comics I'll be selling this weekend...



Look What I Drawed..., as well as taking it's title from the name of this blog, is my latest comic and will be debuting at this year's Thought Bubble. It's a collection of various comic strips, single page comics and a couple of longer stories I've created over the last few years, including this two page story, The Orb, which I produced earlier this year...





Look What I Drawed... includes a wide range of comics, featuring vampires, werewolves, feline superheroes, Shakespearean penguins, and more!



March Of The Penguins was released earlier this year, and is a collection of comic strips featuring a pair of penguins who live alone in the middle of an isolated snow-covered wasteland. I originally produced these strips daily during the month of March, which is where the title comes from. What started out as an attempt to produce a comic strip about nothing, gradually evolved to develop more of a longer narrative, and I'd still like to come back and do something else with these characters at some point. Here's a sample of a couple of strips...







I'll also have two penguin badge designs on sale alongside the comic!

And finally, I'll also have a limited number of copies of my first self-published comic, Haiku Comics!



This was my final project for my MA Illustration degree, where I decided to adapt English translations of three-line Japanese Haiku poems into three-panel comic strips. Looking through these again now, this is also a project that I would love to return to. Here's a couple of sample strips...





So there you go! Now you know what I'll have with me and where to find me, so I look forward to hopefully seeing lots of you during the weekend! Do come and say hello!

Monday, 20 January 2014

Penguin Awareness Day 2014

So apparently, today is National Penguin Awareness Day, and I thought I'd celebrate the occasion by dropping in with a couple of old friends...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Papero W/ Artists: Photos from the Maison et Objet Paris 2012

I was selected to take part in a collaborative project with the Korean papercraft model makerPaperobean, organised by the London-based design PR company Epha3. As part of this project I was asked to draw my own design on two of Papero's best-selling models: the buggy car and biplane. I recently posted photos of my designs on my blog.

These models were then exhibited at Maison et Objet Paris between the 7–11 September, and I know have some photos of the exhibition display to share...










Thursday, 6 September 2012

Papero W/ Artists

I was asked by the London-based design PR company Epha3 to collaborate on a project with the Korean papercraft model maker Paperobean, and design my own customised version of two of Papero's best-selling products: the buggy car and the biplane.

The Papero models are produced as flat A4 blank laser cut sheets, which can then be decorated, and fitted together to create the 3D models. The instructions are easy to follow (I managed to put it together all by myself!) and I was amazed at how many moveable parts the finished models have – the tyres turn and you can open the doors and lift the bonnet on the buggy car, and the biplane has a slidable door and moveable propellor!

Here are some photos of the two models I produced...





























Seven other artists took part in the project, and all our works will be exhibited at Maison et Objet Paris between the 7–11 September. You can view more photos of my models, plus the designs produced by the other artists over at Epha3's website.

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

One Flew Over The Penguin's Nest: The Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize 2011

So as well as the i newspaper's Comic Idol competition, I have also been working on my entry for this year's The Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Competition. I completed my 4-page comic story yesterday ahead of the deadline this Friday, and here is the result...






I enjoyed the challenge of producing a longer comic story, and am pleased with the final result. I came up with the idea for this story after reading news reports back in June about an Emperor penguin that arrived on a beach in New Zealand after supposedly getting lost while swimming from the Antarctic. Then I started thinking: What if he wasn't lost, and really wanted to go to New Zealand to get away from the Antarctic?

The winning entry will be printed in The Observer newspaper on Sunday 6 November.

Thursday, 31 March 2011

MARCH of the Penguins #31



Wow! I did it!

Although I didn't say anything officially when I started doing these March Of The Penguins comic strips, my plan was to see if I could do a daily comic strip for the whole month of March. And now I have! And I enjoyed it. So what now?

Well I kind of like these characters and have some more ideas in my head for them, so I think I'd like to carry on and see what happens. Although before I do that, I'm going to take a short break from them, if only for my own sanity. But they will be back very soon...!

TO BE CONTINUED...

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Monday, 28 March 2011

Saturday, 26 March 2011

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Tuesday, 22 March 2011