Happy Birthday RIchy!

I still have a couple more 2015 catch-up blogs to run, but in the meantime I'm going to take a quick trip back to the future, and post a couple of recent things I've drawn...

My friend Richy started off 2016 by celebrating a pretty monumental birthday. And as we share a mutual love for Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, I made him this Peanuts-inspired card, featuring his beloved cat, Suki Kabuki...

Webcomic Artist Swap Project 2015: Wasp's Week

Last week saw the third annual Webcomic Artist Swap Project (WASP) take place where a selection of webcomic artists swap art duties amongst their respective strips and work from each others’ scripts. While I don't have my own webcomic (Yet!), last year I was asked to contribute for art duties and drew Rachael Smith's One Good Thing comic. This year, myself and Lauren Murphy were asked to come up with a special comic that could be featured each day alongside the other WASP comics.

Lauren wrote the script for our story, which I then drew, and our strip was published over the seven days of WASP Week.















The whole page was then published on the final day of WASP for those that might have missed part of the story during the week...



I also contributed artwork for the WASP banner which contributers could include when they posted their artwork online:



And as a final bonus behind-the-scenes Process preview, here's my initial thumbnail layouts for our comic after my first read through of Lauren's script...

Happy Birthday Richy!

A New Year means New Birthdays...or at least the same birthdays as last year, but a year older! And my friend Richy K. Chandler kicked things off with a birthday on New Year's Day. I worked with Richy on a story for his Tempo Lush Tales anthology comic which he published last year, which he wrote and I drew.

Richy also has his own webcomic, Lucy The Octopus, which is updated weekly. The main character Lucy (who is an octopus) has a pet pufferfish called Puffy. Richy is also a big fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. These two things suddenly collided in my brain, and I drew Richy this picture with him coming up with the natural spin-off...



[EDIT] I was just clearing up the desktop on my computer and I found this initial sketch that I drew when I suddenly had the idea for Richy's card, so thought I'd share it here...

Happy Birthday Richy!

Talented comics creator Richy K Chandler's birthday is at the very start of the year and here's a card I made for him with a picture of Richy on the skateboard he got for his last birthday, playing on the 3DS XL that he got for christmas...

Look what THEY drawed: 21 again!

Yesterday was my birthday and I got some amazing cards, including these hand-drawn designs...

Me riding a Hulked-Out Yoshi by Augstine Coll...


Embracing my recent love of the Olympics, by Chie Miyazaki...


Soju Tanaka customised this card design by Rachel Ortas...


...and drew these characters inside! :)


A penguin party by (clockwise from top left) Richy K Chandler, his wife Tibah, their 5-year old son Emir, and their uber-talented cat Suki Kabuki...


Thanks for all my cards and birthday wishes! It's great to have such awesome friends! :)