posting tiny crops of backgrounds I’ve been drawing to motivate me for my deadline this month
the first step to making comics is spending way too long trying to make the rigging look good. so that the gay kissing and interpersonal drama hits right
ALTfor the next couple weeks I'm driving myself insane trying to thumbnail (hardest part of comics for me) some stuff on a ship (hardest setting for comics for me). Do you know how many references I've gathered. Do you know how many hours I've spent looking up ropes. anyway please wish me strength
I’ve returned to draw this same panel properly and I can’t emphasise enough: this drawing, compared to reality, is me considerably SIMPLIFYING the ropes
june
using my classic method for drawing comic backgrounds: accidentally creating a sort of unfathomable hell of my own devising
brush tests
new post about how I love to draw tiny tufts of grass. among other things
small drawing of a bit of marsh I got excited about
evening / january
(“latest doodle with no context”) 👀
snippet of something from patreon
drew a lot of rolling green hills for my last comic which is honestly not true to my experience of living in the south. If I get another book set in england greenlit, I want it to be in the countryside of my family and heart: Bleak seaside. Bare mudflats. Saltmarsh where you lose a shoe
(Full blog & more drawings on patreon)
ocean sketchbook, “imagine if you were a seafloor creature” edition
Thinking about Them (ships)