I’ve been thinking about doing a 64 digest graphic novel for some time, I love the format (if you’re from the UK it’s most commonly known as the commando comics format) and a few years ago I documented how I
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Author: PJH
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March madness Journal 27th March – 2 April 2023
Attached some art from what I’ve drawn this month, it amounts to one episode of Dredd, two episodes of Leopard from Lime Street, and one 10 page one off by Paul Cornell (no images, sorry!) for Ahoy. Penciled 28 pages
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Work Journal 13/March/2023 – 26/March/2023
Forgive me father, it has been two weeks since my last confession. This sometimes (no, I mean, this frequently) happens. My record keeping gets sloppy as I slow down and things are a little less structured and more chaotic. Let’s
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Weekly Journal 6-March-2023 to 12 March 2023
Being ye olde weekly journal as recorded in the annals of comic artist PJ Holden… I dunno, is this stuff interesting? This was the week I finally finished Skulduggery Pleasant… Anyways, lets talk about my week – monday, deadline for
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Thinking inside the box…
There are panels I lean on a lot, panel shapes, compositions, etc, and honestly, I’ll do them without thinking because they work for me, but I’m trying to rethink some of these choices and make more interesting (or at least,
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Journal 27 / Feb / 2023 – 5/Mar/23
Yes, I know I should’ve posted this yesterday, but I posted something yesterday and I didn’t want to drown you in notifications. So, pencils and inks for the week – 7 pages of pencils, 12 pages of inks. Bringing the
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Bad Magic Process
Here’s an entirely spoiler free panel (with a spoiler free/vastly redacted thumbnail) to help explain my process as detailed in a previous post. Stage 0 – draw the thumbnail, I honestly have no idea what physical size it is, but
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Planning it all out…
Coming towards the end of Bad Magic – 21 pages of ink and then that’s a wrap. This week I’ve also drawn another episode of the leopard of Lime Street, and talked to a guy about pitching for an image
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FLOW
Here’s how I get in to the flow. Sit my arse down and draw. I’m in a pretty great position of not having any other job to do but my job, and I find it a lot easier when I
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Journal 20/Feb/2023 – 26/Feb/2023
A week of slight frustrations, where I’d genuinely thought I’d lost the ability to get work done at any sort of speed. Felt like a slog some days to even get two pages of crude pencils done. BUT! ultimately –
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