Happy Birthday Zarina!

Today was my friend Zarina's birthday! I made a card featuring her comic character Le Mime wishing a "Happy. Birth-day. To (two). Zarina." in his own silent style!

Happy Birthday Kyoko & Carolina!

Sometimes birthdays are like buses...you wait ages and two come along at once! Today two of my friend's had birthdays: Kyoko and Carolina. I made a card for each of them...



I'm feeling quite a bit better now, after being sick the past week, so hope to have more new drawings up soon...

Gong Hey Fat Choy!

Tomorrow is the start of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger. Grrrrr!!! Happy New Year to all my Chinese friends...

Little White Lies Creative Brief

To tie in with the release of Matthew Vaughn’s movie, Kick-Ass, based on Mark Millar’s comic-book series of the same name, Little White Lies set a competition to take the film of your choice and re-imagine it in the form of a comic, within a single six-panel page.

After wracking my brains trying to decide what film to use, I finally decided (for reasons I can't quite explain) on David Fincher's Fight Club.

All entries had to be black and white, and also had to fit within the set panel template, which was an interesting limitation to be faced with. It was also a challenge to condense the essence of the film into just 6 panels, and as a result I ditched some of the less relevant sub-plots and characters. As Edward Norton's character in the film provides a constant narration to the events, I decided to avoid using speech bubbles, and instead use narration boxes to capture the tone of the movie...

I'm happy with the final result and enjoyed working on this project... The best selected entries will be included in a special digital edition of the magazine, and the winning entry will be printed in a full-page of the next issue of Little White Lies...Fingers crossed!

Decade Drawn Out: Dazed & Confused competition

Here is my entry for Dazed & Confused magazine's Decade Drawn Out competition. The brief was to draw one of the ten selected best covers from the last decade, with the only restriction being that the cover had to be entirely illustrated.

After looking over the selected covers, I decided to do a version of this cover from 2003, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal. After sketching out some ideas, I decided to do something a bit different and have Jake wearing the Frank the Rabbit mask from the film Donnie Darko (which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, for those of you that don't know).

I'm really pleased with my final image, and it was nice change from all the comics I've been doing recently...

28 Comics Later... Day Fourteen

...I wasn't sure what to do a comic about today, all things considered. But then I decided that a comic doesn't necessarily have to be funny, and it seemed like as good a medium as any to comment on my nan's passing...

28 Comics Later... Day Thirteen

I did today's comic quite quickly, so it's a bit sparse on any background details, but wanted to get the idea down when I thought of it (...plus I'm off out in a bit for my brother's birthday).

28 Comics Later... Day Twelve

Sometime ideas just present themselves in the most unexpected places. I was travelling on a bus today when I overheard two girls talking...



...The idea of someone being "scared of 3-D" when we view the world around us in 3-dimensions just struck me as amusing. I sketched out a few ideas of how to present this comic, finally deciding that it worked best by focusing on my reaction, and keeping the girls unseen. I found it interesting telling a story with minimum changes between each frame. I was also trying to convey the loudness of their voices by making their words fill the speech bubbles, although I'm not sure how successful that particular idea was...

28 Comics Later... Day Eleven

While it might surprise some of you, I don't always like to draw myself! Today's comic features my friend Priscilla, and the idea came to me after she was complaining on Facebook about how difficult it was to install her new digital set-top box...



...it also gave me the chance to draw her new cool haircut!

28 Comics Later... Day Ten

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programme...

So as some of you may have noticed (and a few people have actually pointed out to me when I've seen them), I haven't posted anything on my blog for the past week or so, which also means I've neglected my 28 Comics Later... project. Well, now I'm back and my first new comics offering also acts as a sort of summary of what I've been up to during my leave of absence...