Larry MacDougall: My new Mentor!
That's right! You read that correctly, folks. I am the proud new owner of a shiny new mentor in the exact shape and form of one Larry MacDougall. I can't tell you how silly excited I am about this....
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How He-Man made me 'me'
I'm going through a bit of a He-Man kick at the moment, of which I do so about once every 10 years.I don't know how it happens, it just sort of clicks and then I'm obsessed with it all over again. It...
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Podcasting and technical nightmares
It's been busy times here at RoF HQ lately. I've had the past week off from work (the last one until February, sob), so I've been hard at the drawing board getting projects complete and setting up the...
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On Comics
I've always had a hot and cold love affair with comics over the span of my life. I was big into superheroes when I was quite young, dressing up like Batman, the Incredible Hulk, Spidey... Then in my...
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...now with A3 scanning facilities...
YAAAYYYY! It's been a long time coming, but I now have my very own A3 scanner.And it only came about, oh, 43 hours after I reeeaaallllly needed it.But that's okay, because I now have an A3 scanner! So...
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The Other of One
Folks might recall me mentioning a book by the name of The Other of One by local Galway author, Brian G. Burke. I initially produced a couple of black & white interior illustrations for Brian, and...
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An intellectual property to call one's own
I've been doing a heck-tonne of deep and serious pondering lately.I have ample opportunity to do so whilst commuting to and from work, walking the dog, etc. But I tend to be a bit of a muller...
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An afternoon with Eva Widermann... and Patrick.
On Saturday the 15th, I had the great fortune to attend a talk given by the great Eva Widermann on the subject of Concept Design for the Film & Gaming Industry.It was part of a bunch of events...
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Designing The Circle - Dryad
I'm going to do a series of posts here about my process of designing, and in many cases re-designing, characters and elements of my The Circle comic/illustrated story. I think I can safely say that...
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Bookmarks (not the website kind!)
I can still remember quite vividly a day all of 18-odd years ago now, when I discovered the charm of toned paper. I was working in an awful bookshop in a dodgy shopping centre (a mall, to my state-side...
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While you're waiting...
I know, I know.It has been quiet here for the last week or so. The bookshop is proving to be an exhausting and unwieldy beast at the moment (something to do with a fat home invader in crimson), so I...
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Bookmarks Mark II (see what I did there?)
Okay, it's the 23rd of December. That means I've finished up at the bookshop for Christmas and the bookmarks I made for my fellow staff members have all been handed out. So now I can show them all off...
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It's that time again...Can you believe how quickly 2014 went?As is tradition around these parts, at the end of a year I take a look back at the previous 12 months and see where I went wrong.But I'm not...
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Excuses, excuses...
I can't remember the last time I went so long between posts. And there are no EXCUSES!I've been doing plenty of design work, some writing, some life drawing, attended a workshop run by PJ Lynch and a...
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jeeez, I'm bad at this blogging thing this year...I'll not go into some big long paragraph about best intentions and all of that. I've just been busy, okay?Busy with important things, though. The first...
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The Wilds Will Bide
Well, here it is, finally!This is the first of the many The Circle stories that will be published in the coming years by me. This particular tale is just a first taste, a mere nibble, of the vast and...
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Shaping The Circle
Now that the first installment of The Circle is out the door and setting the internet on fire (one can only assume...), I thought I might take a little bit of time to talk about what form these stories...
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Thumbing My Way...
YESSSS!!!! I got a Pearl Jam song title into my own blog post title! Self props!Anywho... I'd like to talk about thumbnails today, as I really haven't had much time to do anything other than those very...
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Back on the Networking Trail
I think Kevin Costner was wrong. I don't believe for a second that 'if you build it, they will come.'It'd be lovely if that were true though. That way I could just concentrate on producing lots of The...
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Patreon & Dryad
So some of you may recall me saying that I had planned to have the 8-page Dryad comic complete and ready to release by the end of April. And wouldn't you know it, it's the first of May and Dryad isn't...
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