Category: Books

Hatshepsut Full-Colour Zine – 30 Pages

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I’ve decided to do a test print version of my “Hatshepsut” 30-page short story, using the kind of glossy paper that is normally reserved for flyers. The colours turned out great! I printed about 50 copies of these zines in A5 to share with people and get feedback. The writing may be a bit small since it’s been shrunk down from a larger size (6″x9″) to A5, but it’s still perfectly readable.

For those interested in where the visual references came from, I have a bunch of posts on the visual research I did to produce this.

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!

Colouring Tests: Fabled Kingdom Chapter 2

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After my colouring tests for Chapter 1, I’ve now moved onto the colouring test for Chapter 2 for “Fabled Kingdom”. This is different to Chapter 1, because these are all scenes set at night, which means that the colours would all be darker and duller. I had to use the same palette as Chapter 1, because I don’t want the colours to look different chapter-by-chapter, and the end result is that the colours turned out somewhat dull.

I’m not quite happy with these colours, but I realise that if I were to use the same palette, this sort of thing is unavoidable. That said, I’m currently moving onto my next project, which uses the same palette from a totally different drawing style, so I may put this down for now, while I do my next work.

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.