Experimenting with keeping the same authenticity i get with analog print process and translating this into my digital work. Using scanned textures as fill and colour adds a depth previously lost to a lot of my digital work.

I'm going to attempt to redo the image below with the textured images to see if i can get a better sense of atmosphere and narrative.

Adam aka Frankensteins monster, needed more eyes and teeth. If your are going to make a new race of necomancied humans at least put effort into it. 

Post-Cop I just really wanted to draw monsters again. When composing its more of an analog process, though it can be digital. I have to scamp out a few dozen compositions in miniature to get the right image for me. Creating the monsters or characters fluctuates between being an instant thing and a developed process depending on what i'm doing. Having a brief concept does help a lot tho so I think it's time to get back to briefs.

Thought Bubble

Ya Boi Got a Table at Thought Bubble

I've been going to thought bubble for 7 years now and then this year I got to have a table. We got the table 2 weeks before the convention and though it was stressful as all hell I feel accomplished in that I made half a table's worth of sellable work. 

Doing the convention was a huge confidence boost to my practice as I got so many compliments from both artists and art enthusiasts. When people bought my work all I could think of was how weird it was that people wanted to part with cold hard cash for my stuff.

I was shocked at what sold well at the con and what didn't. For example I thought people were going to love the rick and morty work so i made a lot of them however I sold only one the entire show. On the other hand the square image of the trapped woman which i'd only made 6 of sold out on the first day and my nigerian zine almost sold entirely out as well. People seemed very interested in my works colour, personality and quality. Alot of people asked if I was going to do more with the square lady character as well as professional comic critiques asking me if I'm thinking of creating a comic anytime soon and giving me their details so that they can be the first to critique it. It's very overwhelming as I didn't think I was good enough for comics but now I'm starting to think differently. Alongside that I've had people asking If I have a Big Cartel and sold work online. I'm thinking of pursuing this to get rid of excess stock and pushing my name and branding further.

Talking to people was a huge part of thought bubble for me, I was able to make connections with other black and queer creatives alongside others whose work i admired and potential fans of my work. It felt really good to do and I ended up with only 2 of my 100 business cards left!

I also got talking with a man from the Black cultural community in sheffield about one of my books going into their library collection archive. I also got t speak more with Mike Mignola and he complimented our work!

Overall I feel like I have a lot more options and opportunities presenting themselves towards me than I originally thought. I don't know which to choose but I'm excited to have the choice.

Cryptid Zine

One of the pieces I made for Thought bubble was a Zine and sticker set. Inspired by Kristyna Baczynski character sketches which where made by her drawing a random shape and then using line work to create a character that filled in that shape I used this methods when creating my monsters.


The end result was this Zine. It Uses a mix or horror in the images and humour in the writing to create something that can be seen as a dark humour booklet.

For what it is I think it works well. I printed it out on high quality white paper. And in retrospect should have done it similar to most zines in that it should have been printed on thin coloured paper. I sold a few of these off at Thought Bubble so they weren't too bad.

Travelling man has also expressed some interests in having the zine in their York zine library.

Ok so I'm going to attempt more and frequenter blogging here we go.

So An Update as to where I am work wise:

After Talking to Traveling man about maybe doing some work for them im going to kind of take kristdenyas advice and make work for me and show it off and find people who like it