Author: PJH

PJ Holden is a comic artist and this is his blog.

Chimpsky’s Law

Posted on 14th November 2023 by PJH

NOTE: This was sitting in my draft blog folder, since uhm 2020ish, so you’re getting it now because it’s got art in it. Well, there’s been enough time, so here’s a few bits of art, for fun! It’s been great
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Measuring Art

Posted on 10th November 2023 by PJH

One thing I’ve been mulling over recently is about how to get better, but specifically it’s how to get better at comics and get better at being yourself, I suppose, and one of the problems I have with it, is…
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Thinking inside the box

Posted on 9th November 2023 by PJH

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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The Doctor

Posted on 1st November 2023 by PJH

I think my earliest memories of Doctor Who are pretty clearly Tom Baker, but less the tv show and more the cut out and keep weetabix models. Toys were a scarce commodity in those toys and tie-in toys to tv
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Moving on.

Posted on 29th October 2023 by PJH

The 5th of November is the twentieth anniversary of my mum’s passing. It’s been a raw wound for a long long time. She died aged 50 and so I’ve outlived her by three years so far. She passed three months
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Dredd Poison

Posted on 25th October 2023 by PJH

I was pleased with how this page turned out from Episode 2. (It’s an eight parter running in 2000ad right now) Rob wanted a lot of stars, and I wanted to give it a lot of texture. so there’s about
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