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Fool

It hit me while daydreaming that Antonia holds Mitzi across almost every universe. I devoted my afternoon, therefore, to making a video. Colouring them all separately was an exercise in patience and a labour of love. I played with a LOT of transitions but I think the wipes were most effective, because in certain pausedContinue reading “Fool”

Naughty List: Full Zine

Below are images of the full zine, but storage limitations on WordPress have meant that they’re a little compressed. I encourage you instead to click THIS LINK and view it in full quality on Issu.com!

Naughty List: Creative Writing

I was arranging the pages I made into the zine, trying to create a good narrative, when I realised I really was seeing a scene – from start to finish – in my head. I scrambled to open a sticky note and wrote, scrolling through my zine as I did so. This piece is notContinue reading “Naughty List: Creative Writing”

I Ain’t Quittin’ You!

Jamie’s suggestion that I draw Drake and Ludwig as Jed and Octavius was in my head for many days. I’m absolutely stoked to be in October again: I want to draw Antonia as the mad hatter this year.

Naughty List: Initial Spread Ideas

The next steps will be to consider whether the zine will benefit from spreads that are more half-and-half composed, or whether this sprawling, atmospheric thing I’ve had going is working really well for it. I’ve designed the spreads with a simple colour scheme in mind already, to keep things simple with myself – black, red,Continue reading “Naughty List: Initial Spread Ideas”

The Proficient Demon – base work

Below is the work from The Proficient Demon, created without thought or judgement. Today’s task is to collage, mix, match and experiment – and I’ll update with what I get. I had good fun with this!

Filthy Royalists!

In the context of me loving this: Weighting of the speech bubble less than ideal. It messed up the composition somewhat. I think the type font could be better. Castle wall could have been less saturated and perhaps higher contrast, and I should have changed the brickwork to a more conforming blue but forgot. MoveContinue reading “Filthy Royalists!”

Dirty Roundheads!

Been enjoying living in the Castle scenes after my research on castles yesterday. I was a bit feverish after walking home without a jacket in the storm, and as I fell asleep the moving images were terribly realistic. Thumbnailed these poses a few times and worked from a few references. Playing with texture and painterlyContinue reading “Dirty Roundheads!”

OC business – at the pub

I plan to print off the first sheet, and here are few brain cells for your consideration. My research took me to Courtly Love, all about chivalry and nobility. I love this term and the places it came from. I’m thinking they will probably live in Courtington, a town on in the middle of theContinue reading “OC business – at the pub”

Let’s Get Down To Business

No Introductory blog post, no hello, just straight raw content into your eyes. Let’s go. Ok, no, I owe you a little explanation. Below is the first introductory zine of the first brief, Work Play Work. After this we began to respond to text, but I will photograph and post all of that together onceContinue reading “Let’s Get Down To Business”