Category: Art Exhibitions

Fundraising for WIRES

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Here’s an A4 piece of #AustralianBushfires charity art I did for the “Toons 4 Wildlife“ exhibition, to raise money for WIRES due to the horrific 2019 bushfires last year.

It’s organised by Mark from TIPPETTURES and The National Cartoon Gallery in Coffs Harbour, and the exhibition runs from the 22nd Aug 2020 ~ 25th Oct 2020. Please visit and buy a few prints to raise money!

Sales: If you want to buy a print of this, please contact the National Cartoon Gallery to arrange it. All proceeds will go to help Australia wildlife and WIRES.

This piece is an A4 digital piece, and its first print was sold on opening night. There will be more postcard prints made of it to further the fundraising cause, and be sold as part of collections.

June 2020 – Illustrations

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I’ve finally shifted to fully digital production of comics and illustrations in Clip Studio, and I’m looking to try new digital painting styles/techniques, particularly when it comes to light and shadow.

Attack on Titan fanart of Mikasa, done using digital chalk.
Attack on Titan fanart of Levi and Beast Titan, digital oil painting brush.
Face of a girl done using grisaille method (a first! Real big help!), digital airbrush.

Germinate Exhibition – 1st~26th November 2017

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Hello, all! I’m part of an annual exhibition by the Sydney Comics Guild which is being held at Artshine Gallery. This year’s theme is Germinate, and it’s an exhibition that is meant to show the creative process from sketch to finished artwork. Like everyone else, I’m showing 3 artworks that show the sketch, the flats and the final design of my characters for a story called “Blue Moon Zodiac”.

When: Opening Day is Sat 4th November @ 12-3pm
Where: Artshine Gallery @ 3 Blackfriars St, Chippendale (15 minutes walk from Central Station)
Cost: FREE! Come along and listen to the artist’s talks!
Artwork: My artwork is set at the price for $220 for the A4 piece, and $140 for the A5 piece.

Come along and enjoy the artists talking about their creative process!

New Art Style & Character Designs

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As you may all know, I’ve been working on doing colour art, and as such, has been shaping my artstyle to suit a more simple, streamlined way of colouring.

This has been an interest process – the colour tests for Chapter 1 of “Fabled Kingdom” may have turned out looking lovely, but that kind of colouring just took too long. The colouring style matched the linework, so if I need a simpler style of colouring, I need a simpler style of linework.

So, here are my first attempts – it’s a pretty established style already, since it seemed to have grown fully-formed from my head due to the number of other artistic influences I’ve had over the years. It leaves the “manga” look somewhat, but not by actually as much as it seems. The character on the left looks Disney-influenced, while the character on the right is influenced by lesser-seen but distinctive anime styles like “Kill la Kill” and “Gurren Lagaan“. The one in the middle is a mix of both.

Also, I’m grappling with the RGB vs CMYK issue. I can’t seem to grasp how different RGB vs CMYK is when it comes to how it looks on a screen, and how it looks on print. This is something I need to investigate more, but I have another project apart from the one above which I’m working on, so I’ll be doing that too.

Here’s a colour test attempt for Simon, the character on the right.