My first short film!

So films aren't that different from comics so I thought, why not give it a go?

Here's my first short film made in 2013 for the wonderful Stranger With my Face International Film Festival 48 hour Tasploitation challenge. More soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTph0oyOBs

Trooping for love and charity.

As some of you may know, I recently became involved with the 501st here in Tasmania. It's been great, because apart from raising money for various charities and making children smile, I get to do what I'm good at which is stand around in costume and have my photo taken with happy people. I've never been a huge Star Wars fan, but I am really enjoying using different parts of my creativity that I haven't had much of a chance to revisit since childhood, such as my interest in movement, dance, acting and costumes. I've always been involved in campaigns to help out animals or humans in need too, so the charity aspect of the 501st suits me on that level as well. So, today, for some of my new trooper, friends I decided to make a somewhat silly video about some of the issues we face when dressing up! :-)

Panic Attack!

Sea Jellies

Random scribbling when I should have been working on my new comic... a family of sea jellies. They look scared because I am.

Sun Pictures

I like light sensitive paper... I especially like how this one is blue!

Necklace

The necklace is made from a nice piece of Jasper I found on the beach near Ulverstone a couple of years back. It has been tumbled and polished with some other nice pebbles to give it the shine. I then crocheted around it with black cotton to make the setting and added some glass beads. It was a present for my sister! Happy Birthday, Alli!

Masks.

Here's what I made for another exhibition. I have to admit, there's not a lot of meaning behind it except that I have often seen faces in leaves and when I looked at this face I saw leaves. My doll for Totem has safely arrived in Melbourne too!

The current state of things...

Here's what's going on in my sketch book at the moment: the current character concepts for my latest comic. This week I hope to get the story boarding done too.

Moira, Melissa and me.

Um... so, um yes. Well, I haven't actually been making many toys at the moment because I've been writing. So that's good. But I just wish there were more hours in the day. Today for instance: a bit of a dolls leg, a bit of a coin purse, an old romance resurfaces with Moira's red-headed lover (and now I have to sort out a lot of continuity stuff that I've been avoiding for ages!) and of course notes for the snow story. She has moved in now (yes four years after I started the damn story) and the happy family are about to eat their first meal together. Not sure what will happen but something will, I've just (as usual) got one line in my head which all else will have to evolve from: "She liked the ice-cream very much." Oh yes, and I've written the last page of the story now. I don't know if it will stay the same in later rewrites, but I think it gets across the loneliness of James and the hopelessness of his life now. So that's all good. One thing still bothers me though: the smell of chicken cooking in the second scene... Would Melissa cook chicken for James? Realistically, would she? Maybe she'd wait for James to come home and do the cooking? I am hoping that Greg or Sarah can look at the draft for me and help me with some of these details.

Starting again

Hello. I've decided after spending a week teaching high school students how to make zines that I really should get on with my own comics again so today I went shopping and got some lovely new sketch books, yay! I was a bit influenced by the fact that Sarah H. and Leigh showed me their sketch books this week and like Sarah, I thought I should try to move onto something bigger than the A5 art diaries I've had in the past.
I've also become rather irritated at my myspace blog thingy lately so thought I'd start up a blog here as well because it seems a bit more reliable. I am, however notoriously bad at keeping up diaries, blogs and the like so I'll just have to see how it goes...