Magnetic Island Possum from Australian Geographic

Tough looking cat like insect in Australian Geographic

Mummified cats from National Geographic

Cat Mummy from National Geographic cover

Head

Morning tea on the Lenovo tablet

Walleroos fighting from Nature Australia

THE ULTIMATE VISUAL EXPERIENCE : ad in Australian Shooter

New tablet

First good drawing with new tablet

Joanna Paperhat Nersch

I drew this one evening while in the Builders Arms. I'd started the session with a couple of friends who left early but not before our table was overtaken by a group of much younger folk celebrating a birthday. One of them honed in and started talking about my drawing. Her name was Joanna, too. There was too much of an age gap. I had a conscience then. Maybe I was too self conscious. Still like the picture, though.

Hysteria #3 cover sketch

I had a lot of goes at this. The girl on the cover of Hysteria #1 was adapted from a photograph of one of Charcot's hysteria patients. The second was a mutation of that one looking crazier and sporting huge claws. This had her sprouting roots into her mattress and long dangling runners like a banyan tree. The one I eventually went with was far more aboreal. She was shedding foliage as it was meant to be an Autumn theme. I'll try and dig that one out.

Maria

This is Maria Szabo from an imagined graphic version of a short story called Spring also featuring Eugen Drada from the strip below (the story came before the Oblomov Days strip)

Oblomov Days 3

This was a first run at the regular strip Oblomov Days from the aborted Hysteria #3. The strip was a thinly veiled self parody of what I was like in my twenties.

Face at window

The streets after the party

A sketch for the story Heat from Tango 5 Senses.

Not intended for final story.

Brian Mutz: Coroner

One of many from Coloured Pencil Nacht in the terrible winter of '96. Diena had given me a box o' coloured pencils for my birthday and I spent a night in the lounge room, using the tv as muzak and trying out the colours. Here's one.

Mermaids

Self confrontation from unpublished story

This is part of the climactic sequence for what would have been the main story in Hysteria #3, Adrift. Having looked at it again recently, while scanning it, I think I will finish it and publish it somewhere. It's about twenty pages.

Buffo Presidium

Wally and the Deserter

Preliminary sketch for my Escape anthology contribution The Blue Avenger

Waiting

Seabird

Needed some relief from work on The Monsoons. This seabird presented herself.

Drunk Maria

Inking of old pencil sketch. Getting comfy with crowquill and brush interaction on the Cintiq

Rough Gail

Rough sketch of my character Gail. Learning about masking

Bulbnose

Nothing major, here. I tuned the feel of the tip of the cintiq pen a little more finely and tried a favourite combination of pen over visible pencil. jpg compression does little for rendering pencil. Ah well. Still, I like it as further evidence of the influence of Dr Seuss on my characters.

Irritus: Angel of Heatwaves

Disgustingly hot even at ten to midnight. Drew this after playing around with the crowquill and brush settings.
I think I should probably really have that gin and tonic now.

Tracey and Liza from old photo

Needed to do something while it was still January the first. Easy but sincere .. my attempt, not the subject matter.

Seventeen in suit from photo