the story of my old worplace in melbourbe made the papers on the weekend. I'm curious what will happen next now this has happened.

for twelve_cards "employee of the month" thing

hmm, the colours look much more saturated on my work computer screen... weird.

Meg was one of my favorite people from Melbourne. Do you own a bubble fan/gun? She does!

Having some screen issues, hope the colour is ok.









Also; I move into my own place next week. I've never lived alone before!

As richly chronicled in some 'friends only' entries, Melbourne life officially ended last night. Once it was confirmed I would be leaving, I packed my last couple of weeks with adventure in the great city of Melbourne. My new Perth animation job starts Monday.
Now it's time to get out of bed and start my new life.



( Some of my favorite photos of my last days in Melbourne )

LINK: facebook photos from my trip to perth

edit: new nephew born in perth! only just missed him by less than 2 days!

Work has continued taking up all my time. It got to the point where I was pretty ill. Real dizzy and faint-y whenever I got out of my seat. Recently the computer network could take no more and gave up, and we got a couple days off. The schedule was altered and since being back and a little rested, things have been going a bit better. 2 former workmates from Perth, the powerful animation couple of Tim and Rosie have joined us, and another workmate is back from Korea, so things should be getting easier finally. Still overtime, but less.

Hopefully I can start make my own art again. I still intend to finish the 5 images for the meme I posted at the start of the year.

My housemates sister wanted me to make an image to clients for the glasses frames place she works at:

first attempt below. Borrowed another artists style a bit, what with having little time and all, but she wanted something cuter.

this ones fortiny_vice 
I remember being a bit worried about suddenly going to live in Canada in 2007. Luckily I found tiny_vice's neat journal just before i I left, which helped show me that Canada wasn't going to be a scary place at all.

A while ago I made an entry about making drawings for the first people to post comments. Here's one for Blake. Otherwise known as haze 

Hm, Iv'e been reading old Grant Morrison comics again. I do like his "Doom Patrol".
Blake is actually a friend of mine who I met in 2006. Since then we've spent most of that time in other parts of the world. He currently lives in Korea and enjoys a celebrity lifestyle that comes from being a redhead there.
This is how the image first started out as.

Here's a slightly drunken drawing of my housemate who's suddenly moving out this week.



( Concert photos )

twelve_cards makes zines every few months, and this is my contribution to his latest, movie based one.


( Photos and text about; hostel times, work, spiritualized live, new home! )

Sunday afternoon I went down to St.Kilda beach to draw my friend Gladys, who is from Paris.
No scanner, so these are just photos of the drawings.

Good news, I managed to land a job as an animator in one of the main studios here in Melbourne! I start monday.

The new of Montreal cd was delivered this morning. Its crazy dozen panel fold out packaging inspired me to draw this.

Saturday is the Northbridge festival. 3 of my comics will be sold at the 24 hour comics stall there!

Glorpy dance!

Watch it on endless loop: link

If you are like me, then you have wondered what page 16 of Glorpy might look like in colour.
Wonder no more:

This is for chamonkee's fanart contest.

I seem to be switching art styles rather frequently these last few months. Im happy with the style of last weeks 24 hour comic, but thinking in a certain style was pretty difficult.
I am curious, can anyone recall any style that they might be particuarly fond of?

My friend aussiepoida has generously offered to print Glorpy's comic for free at his workplace. It will be on sale at the Northbridge festival, November 1st.
While at his office, I witnessed 1 suicide attempt through the window. Fortunately the person was rescued by the police.

One Glorpy also found its way to the Candycult exhibit.

The exhibit was put together by ohayo_sakura

The comic turned out really well. Half an hour before leaving my family got a call that my older sister started haveing contractions. The baby was born shortly after I got home from the 24 hour event the next day. Its a girl, and her name is Milana.

Facts about making the comic:
-It inculdes several homages (this helped make making new characters easier)
     The chicken costume guy from the 2006 24 hour comic
     Glumble is a reference to Bumblebee
     Glound, Soundwave (originally Wolverine, but it didnt look right). The mouth is kinda like his chest door.
     Glyguy; Shyguys from the Super Mario games
     Glariknow wears Super Mario's clothes.

-My favorite pages are pages 10, 16 and 18 (all splash pages)

-I used a similar style inspired from the cut up technique. Where I wrote  a series of random words out beforehad, and inserted them into otherwise normal sentences. Although I only remembered to apply this for the middle of the comic.

-The bubble-travel thing was something I once used in '04 in a flash animation. Going back to previous pages and adding bubbles was simple enough.

I have purchased my ticket for Melbourne. I will be leaving early November.

Heres a bunch of life drawing images. The first 5 are from last December/January in Vancouver, and the rest from the last few weeks.
I dont have a scanner, so theyre just some quick photos

( LIFE DRAWING IMAGES )

Also, I finally brought a drawing tablet. Just a small one, though. Up until now Ive only been drawing with a mouse.

This was done on my laptop with a mouse in Flash 8.
Very low quality though, compressed a whole lot for youtube. Hopefully it still reads ok.
There was meant to be a pause in the music when the anvil hits, but they didnt want the music to stop. Other than that, I just made up whatever I wanted and ran it by my pal Eric, who works for the band.

my niece has mastered being on grown up toilets, but is still a fair way away from reaching the seat