Following on from my previous posts about designing my characters and then practicing drawing their emotions, I had one final task: to practice drawing these characters in different poses!

Following on from my last post about how the design of the characters in my graphic novel, Oh Brother, have changed over the 7-ish years I’ve been working on the book, this post is about my absolute favourite thing: drawing emotions!

The first thing I do when starting on a comic project is create the characters and draw up character reference sheets. Have a look at how the Oh Brother characters have developed over the 6 years I’ve been working on the book.

Last year I spent most of my studio time working on re-drawing my Oh Brother thumbnails for my publisher. I have now finished and it’s finally starting to feel like a real book.

This year my pal Jake and I are being drawing buddies. Each month we’re going to take on a different drawing challenge together. This month we had a go at drawing each other’s characters.

According to my book tracker app, I read 128 books last year. Here is a list of my absolute top reads for 2022 (and the reasons why I liked them).

One of my very first loves was map-making: as a kid, they were one of my favourite things to draw. I would make maps of treasure islands, maps of our neighbourhood and maps of my bedroom.

Here, for your reading enjoyment, is one of my early “published” works (from when I was 7). Probably one of my more experimental pieces of writing, but still incredibly influenced by the works of Terry Pratchett. The story is  intriguingly titled "Death". 

Trying my hand at working in B&W instead of my usual flat colours.

Back in 2016, I started work on a project I thought would take me a year (hah!). Flash forward to 2022 where I’m working with multiple editors at Penguin Random House to publish the book in 4 different territories.

For the past few months I’ve been trying my hand at watercolours (when I have a spare moment).