Author: PJH

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

Blender

Posted on 27th March 2021 by PJH

Blender, if you’re not familiar, is a free (open source) 3d program. I’ve dipped my toes into blender every few years but it started life with a painful interface (in fact many 3d programs have awful awful interfaces, why –
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Superfocus

Posted on 24th March 2021 by PJH

Superfocus. Superprocastination. Sometimes there’s things I’m so desperate to put off I will literally ink an entire comic to get out of doing it. i mean, I need to do both jobs, but drawing is just, fundamentally, the easier of
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The Archive Project Volume 1

Posted on 18th March 2021 by PJH

Finally got the first of the 2000AD “Thrill Power Containment Vessels” (ie Binder) filled up – from Prog 1233 (March 2001) to Prog 1522 (Jan 2007) one entire volume of about six years worth of work. Doesn’t look like a
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The archive

Posted on 17th March 2021 by PJH

Because I’ve been published by 2000ad for quite some time now (about 20 years and counting) I’ve built up rather a massive back log of back issues. Right now I’m in the process of taking one copy of each and
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One long year

Posted on 16th March 2021 by PJH

Last Christmas my wife gave me a sketch a day book, and, of course, I didn’t use it. Part of that was my general rubbishness at doing any sort of do-this-per-day part it was because … well, covid happened and
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March, eh?

Posted on 7th March 2021 by PJH

Time has become a non euclidian space. Somehow it’s the 7th of March 2021. It’s probably a Thursday*. It’s always a Thursday. *No, it is, of course, Sunday. I think. I’ve plenty of work on, thankfully, should see me working
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