It's better than bad, it's Blog!

Howdy! Well, at least three people asked for it, so here it is: My Blog.
I made a title and everything.
Now, time to say something interesting...
First, I'll start with a controversial statement:

There is no Santa.

There is an Easter Bunny, but Santa NEVER existed.

He was created by Bhuddists to sell cigarettes.

It's true, because I just wrote it, and it's on the internet.

Now that I have that sorted (sure to inspire debate among Santanists), time to say something interesting:

Geckos stick to walls with millions of tiny split-hairlike things on the soles of their feet, and they use their tails and front legs to right themselves if they get blown off a leaf. They can do this faster than a cat can. I urge you to experiment if you have a gecko and a cat handy.

Onto what I do for a living: I write and draw my own comic called 'Deadly' for DC Comics' online comics imprint, Zuda. I also work as a freelance illustrator, mostly doing gig posters and album covers. Sometimes I do wine labels, and spoons with delicious soup in them. I draw lots of stuff. A good spot to look at my work is here, and my website is here.  Seeing as this is probably what I'm best known for, I plan to blog a little about process and stuff in the future, but for now I'll show you a pretty picture that I made with images from Deadly. Enjoy!

Deadly is an action/horror/fantasy set in a futuristic Australia. It was origially created after I did a series of comic workshops with some young indigenous kids.

 

This is me with the kids, Clyde Rigney and Artist/comedian Kevin Kropinyeri (Look out for a Kev cameo on screen 40 of Deadly)

Basically, the premise of the workshops was "What would you do about the Drug and Alcohol problem if you had Superpowers?" We worked on characters, and I'd do sketches of their characters, and create one of my own to sketch up and bring it back the following week as a finished illustration.

 

Original by Bayden.

The first characters I created for Deadly were the Pricks:

 The kids loved this, I think what they got a kick out of the most was a 30 minute example of how I work. I took a photo of Bayden, and then downloaded it onto my laptop and drew him while they watched.

 

Baydens identical twin asked me to draw him after I drew his brother. So I flipped the portrait of Bayden and said "There ya go!" He didn't find it as amusing as I did...

After the workshops had ended, I went to my studio, sat on my arse for a month and created Deadly.
I had previously been working on a 4 page comic called "Licked"  that had taken me about a month to draw each page, so my aim with Deadly was to speed up my process, and do a page a day, quality be damned...It started looking pretty good by the end of it, so as a drawing exercise it was successful. 

 

After that I submitted the first 4 pages (reformatted to 8 landscape screens) to Zuda, and after a month of whorish slogging, ended up winning the competion, with allowed me to turn Deadly into an ongoing webcomic. I decided to rewrite and redraw it from screen 9 onwards, as it wasn't up to my usual standard...good enough for a buch of ten kids, but not for DC, methoughts...

So, the original premise was to create a comic that answered the question: What would you do about the Drug and Alcohol problem if you had Superpowers?

 

Rather than draw a comic with a dude in a cape telling kids to stay off crack, I used the premise more as a metaphor, with the Pricks representing Heroin, and the Juicers representing Addiction. That's where it started anyway....I could go further into this but at the risk of sounding horribly wanky, I'll leave it at that for now.

 

I've got a bit of a boner for injecting Indigenous Australia into Pop Culture. Indigenous kids need a comic that they can relate to, because at the moment, the only other Indigenous comic out there is a dude that shoots condoms from his hands... 

Anyway...

Apart from that, I live with a beautiful girl called Amy who I'm marrying later this year...

...and a handsome cat called Beazley.

Yes, I also have a tiny albino called Gavin. But don't we all?

I'm busy at the moment, I get up around midday, work for a few hours, eat some stuff and hang out with Amy for a few hours, then I work until about 6am.  I'm pretty tired, but really enjoying what I'm doing. I'm working on the final pages of the first season of Deadly mainly, making sure to nail each one as best as I can, plus fitting in a poster or an album cover when time allows. Here's one of my latest, for a talented cat called Josh Bennett:

Well, that's it for now, more to come when boredom allows...reviews, recommendations and whatnot...

Love Foz.

P.S. Please stop tweeting about coffee.
I love coffee, but I hate reading about it.
Unless it's that coffee that comes from panther shit that costs $50 a cup.