Category: Blogging

Folklore Thursday: Blackberries

Posted on 25th July 2019 by PJH

“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

Posted on 25th July 2019 by PJH

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

Posted on 18th July 2019 by PJH

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

Posted on 4th July 2019 by PJH

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

Posted on 1st July 2019 by PJH

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

Posted on 28th June 2019 by PJH

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

Posted on 21st June 2019 by PJH

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

Posted on 18th June 2019 by PJH

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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Why Not!? Post Launch…

Posted on 26th May 2019 by PJH

So, couple of days ago I put Tom’s comic Why Not!? online. I figured I’d put it up as a free pdf download, and if anyone wanted to donate something, that’d be awesome – Tom could have a little extra
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Mac and Me

Posted on 16th May 2019 by PJH

New computer New computer!! The last computer I bought was purchased from an online store where I got to pick and choose every single component. Now, I used to work in IT (though I preferred software to hardware) so I
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