Hiatus

I must apologise to everyone out there who have visited my blog and not seen anything new for a few months.  I've changed jobs, moved house and replaced the old PC with a new iMac in the last few months, as well as doing heaps of cartooning and writing.  Anyway, I've recently launched my new website at www.bestwordsandpictures.com and am making myself familiar with the ins and outs of Joomla.  I'm presently trying to link this blog with my site so everyone can access both.  Please bare with me on this, I'm not the most computer savvy person.

I've been really getting into my writing at the moment.  I'm editing my first e-book on the Wild Strength! program based on my experiences in the gym.  Stay tuned for it's release.  I'm also working on a children's book idea I hope to publish in the near future.  It's based on animals doing sports.  And as usual, I'm submitting articles and cartoons for Ironman and MILO (that's right, in the next issue of MILO, they'll be publishing my Gym Follies toons with a strength training slant).  When I find a spare hour or two, I do a set of toons for submission to Mad - one of these days I'll get published in Mad, mark my words!  I'll post some images very soon.

Disturbing medical trends coming our way...

Here's a couple of toons I've been working on lately.  I'm not happy with them for submission so here is the next best place for them.  I'm going to re-work them completely before sending to Aussie Mad.  Hope you like...

Just Imagine...

Here's a set of toons I submitted to Aussie Mad mag.  I've titled them 'Just Imagine...'  I've made several improvements in my style, caricature skills and digital colouring skills.  All it takes is practice, practice, practice.  Thanks for stopping by.

Hughesyyyyyyyy!

Here's a caricature of comedian Dave Hughes.

Evolution of a cartoon

Thought I'd give you a quick step-by-step process on how I do my toons for Aussie Ironman.  First, I start with a basic sketch, then trace it onto art paper, ink it with india ink and a nib or brush, scan it onto the computer and colour it in photoshop.  Parts of the process are here.  Hope you like...

Caricature of Mel Gibson

I went through some old sketches the other day and found this one.  It's one of my better ones.  Mel is hard to capture but this time I got it right.  Thanks for visiting...

Publicious

I went to a free workshop hosted by the Gold Coast City Council at Robina Library the other day.  It was a one hour info session hosted by Andy McDermott, author of "the Tiger Chase".  He gave us some very good information about publishing a book.  He was first published by a big publishing house in the USA, and later self-published his book worldwide.  He gave us some of the highs and lows of being published and shared with us the process he went through to bring the book to life. 

Because he experienced first-hand the pitfalls of being published by a big publisher, he's started his own business to help authors self-publish their work, and promote and sell them globally.  It's called Publicious, and you can contact them at http://www.publicious.com.au/ or e-mail them at andy@publicious.com.au, or phone Andy on 0402807440.  They also build and design websites for a fair price.  Check them out!