Elf Blood

Hey everybody! No page today unfortunately, as I’ve been busy working on some paid illustration work. Check it out! The good folks over at The Ferret have done some sterling work in investigating the state of gender balance and pay gap in Scotland, and asked me to provide them with images for the article.

I took some time this evening to go to the Drink’nDraw and catch up with Glasgow-based comicky folks, which was great fun. I decided to do some doodly character musings for a superhero type character I’ve got on the backburner. This hero is called “Afghan Weapon”, a middle-aged refugee whose psychic powers were unlocked by a Soviet experiment in Afghanistan when he was a young man. He spends his days now in Glasgow, rooting out drug crime in his community, protecting other refugees and asylum seekers, and dodging agents of the FSB – who want to recover their ‘property’ – and the CIA – who want to analyse him for their MKGIGa programme. read more

Hey everyone – it’s been a busy dayjob week in training, and with a couple of convention rejections on top of that I didn’t really feel like making a full page today.

But, hopefully, this page will help you (as it’s helped me). We try things. We try so very hard to be good and to get better, and we put ourselves out there. And we aren’t going to succeed every time, that’s just the way the world works.

What’s important isn’t the denial of our feelings of sadness, disappointment, and frustration. We recognise those because they are indicators that our art is IMPORTANT to us. What IS important is that we look at our failures, and learn from them, so that we may continue to improve and increase our chances of success. read more