You know the drill by now… John’s original tweet: The roots of the Mandragora genus of plants are known as Mandrakes. Once prized as magical ingredients they are hallucinogenic, and highly toxic. It was once believed that when uprooted, the
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Category: Blogging
Folklore Thursday: Hawthorne
This week’s folklore topic is Trees and Forests. As ever, the strip was prompted John Reppion’s tweet length story: In 1990 work on the Limerick to Galway motorway halted. A lone tree stood in its way. The Hawthorne, according to
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Folklore Thursday: Blackberries
“John! JOHN! We’ve gotta do another one! Quick! Think of something…” I’m kind of curious about John (Reppion)’s creative process, I should ask him to do the next blog post – does he have any idea in his head what
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Channel Hex: Testing a cover
So, in order to figure out how I’m gonna get Channel Hex moving, I’ve been playing with a lot of ways of working, and wanted to have a cover that I could play with (see what logotypes work, see how
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Folklore Thursday: Island
After John Reppion and I did a fun little one pager using a tweet from John as my script for a one page comic we rattled around thinking what we could do next, and we’ve glommed on to #FolkloreThursday on
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Tweetdrawing
Earlier today, my friend John Reppion posted a little musing on twitter about a local Church being knocked down. John is a great writer, and the tweet had a lyrical quality that I really responded to. So I thought, as
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Channel Hex: Digest Size
I’ve been keen to thing of Channel Hex as digest sized, it makes sense, drawing roughly A4 art that’s half my regular art sized, should be much faster. But then you start looking at what digest sized MEANS – and
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Channel Hex: Planet of the Blind
Reminder: this isn’t the final work, the final work will be an entirely different story. This is just me trying to figure out some stuff about logos/layouts/page sizes/etc. Anyway, last time on Channel Hex, I’d planned on a commando digest
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Channel Hex: Planet of the Blind
Got some work done, decided to start playing with logos and layouts for the kickstarter digest idea. (To recap: a 64 digest comic, it’s actually 68 pages – once you include the covers, drawn while I do other work. Scifi/horror
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Pomodoro
I blogged about this a few years ago, but it’s been years and my blog has been wiped, so off we go.. The pomodoro technique is a way of breaking down tasks and just getting stuff done. It’s pretty straight
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