tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62550754599279973182024-03-14T05:31:38.402+00:00Fox & CometUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-62250900754169164442014-10-17T07:12:00.001+01:002014-10-17T07:12:24.871+01:00New Address<br />
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Dear friends, the creatures and I have moved to Tumblr. The new address is <a href="http://foxandcometblog.tumblr.com/">foxandcometblog.tumblr.com</a></div>
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Just arrived from the printer. 16 new designs. Plenty of Creature Action. I'll be selling them at fairs, markets, shops and my Etsy shop. There will be nice gift packs. I'll post more about it soon. In the meantime, here's one of the designs:</div>
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I've been drawing the buildings here in New Orleans for a while now, and I'm starting to feel like I'm getting somewhere. New Orleans architecture is Old, and features a lot of patina, sagging wood, creeping vines and plain old rot. As a result, houses here tend to look like tired, twisted old creatures. What's been most interesting is finding a path away from completely naturalistic renditions towards a more abstract and decorative style, a style that brings out the character of a building.</div>
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I found a lot of help in looking at the work of <a href="http://www.nigelpeake.com/" target="_blank">Nigel Peake</a>, an illlustrator with an architectural background. I love his focus on lines and patterns, and his beautiful colour palette.</div>
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This is the first house I've finished and am happy with. It's available in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/186651102/new-orleans-house-art-print?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">Etsy store</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-2496781959849795342013-10-25T22:25:00.002+01:002013-10-25T22:25:23.638+01:00Paxton Gate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some snapshots from Paxton Gate in Portland, OR, on a recent visit. It's a fascinating place, part cabinet of curiosities, part natural history museum shop, part contemporary art gallery. There is fanciful taxidermy. There are fossils and botany books. There are clever pieces of art and design. A wealth of inspired ideas and faux-scientific aesthetics. Here is their<a href="http://www.paxtongatepdx.com/" target="_blank"> website</a>.</div>
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This print is now available in my shop. Click <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/165498445/magical-flower-garden-illustration-print?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-69854234559298719252013-08-20T21:26:00.000+01:002013-08-20T21:26:02.619+01:00Review: Bjornstrand, by Renee French<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I picked up this slim but surprisingly powerful little comic at the Portland Zine Symposium. Bjornstrand’s appeal lies in the skillful way it balances its outlandishness with severe restraint. </div>
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It’s the story of a group of distantly seen tiny, dark humanoids (?) being menaced by a monstrously cute giant blimp of a creature - the titular Bjornstrand. Who is Bjornstrand? What does he want? It doesn’t really matter. He wreaks havoc in the lives of his tiny, anonymous victims, and we see events unfold as through a fuzzy, grainy lens. This drawing style is very appealing to me. It’s that texture, the fuzziness and the distant perspective that create a dreaminess, an otherworldliness that draws me in so absolutely. A little like hearing music on a very, very old tape, or seeing a deer walk through a thick fog. The style of the drawings is simple and doesn’t reveal much aside from a basic landscape, Bjornstrand himself, and his prey. It’s devoid of detail, focusing instead on texture. There is, too, an interesting disconnect between words and image: while the dialogue comes from the humanoids, Bjornstrand’s is the only face we see throughout the story. Granted, it’s a vapid, seemingly lifeless face. For all I know, Bjornstrand is a giant balloon, tossed and turned about by gusts of wind. Because of the absence of a relatable character, the dialogue feels almost like an internal voice. All these things make me feel strange, in the best possible way. </div>
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And her own blog <a href="http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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This is my latest Feral picture. It was the most complex one so far. I wanted the background to be really dense, and it required a lot of work. As usual, it's done with a fineliner, colour pencils and infinite patience.<br />
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When I draw these pictures, I come up with a general idea of the image, and then, while drawing and gradually conceiving of the details, I start to spin a story around it, trying to work out what exactly is happening. This one is a mystery even to me, as I can't settle on a single explanation. I'd like to think that there is a transformation in the works: the foxes are really spirits, and they are in the process of a magical ritual, changing a human girl into a fox. Or the opposite: a fox is becoming human, before venturing on a mission into the human world. Maybe the girl was raised by foxes, deep in the woods, and her fox family is watching over her while she sleeps.<br />
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Like the other Feral prints, White Foxes is available in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/129687587/white-fox-fairytale-girl-art-print?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">shop</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-39475345873133897642013-03-28T17:40:00.000+00:002013-03-28T17:41:11.307+00:00Black Cat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not only do I have a sparkling new <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/FoxComet" target="_blank">shop</a>, but I've started making some old favourites available as prints. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/127795854/black-cat-print?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">This old cat</a>, is back by popular demand. It's as scratchy and sinister as ever. </div>
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A great, innovative little ad for a life drawing class at the <a href="http://www.wearetbc.com/" target="_blank">Book Club</a> in London, made by <a href="http://www.wrigglesandrobins.com/" target="_blank">Wriggles & Robins</a>. The way they've incorporated animation conveys the idea of what life drawing is really well.</div>
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(via <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/a-stop-motion-video-using-stills-taken-from-a-life-drawing-class/" target="_blank">Colossal</a>)</div>
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Hi everyone. I just finished a new print from the Feral series. In case you haven't noticed, the fox is my favourite animal, its only rival being the flying fox. So I'll probably do a few more fox themed ones.<br />
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I've just finished the illustrations for a new book that's set to be published by Paravion Press. It's called Willow Baby and it's a fairytale-style poem written by violinist and story-teller Max Baillie. It's the first in a cycle of 5 poems. Here's a little taste. </div>
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I normally work with fineliners, which produce a very steady line, but for this book, I wanted a look more akin to a woodcut, so I used a japanese Pentel brush pen. It lets you make hair-fine lines as well as thick. generous ones, and it gives you less control, which can be a good thing. For the colours, I used Cretacolor AquaMonolith watercolour pencils. Here, in fact, is the colour scheme: </div>
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A friend recently handed me a zine by Theo Ellsworth and my eyes popped out like in a Tex Avery cartoon. What incredibly rich, unique imagery. I'd like to live in his world. Theo also has a really <a href="http://thoughtcloudfactory.com/" target="_blank">gorgeous website</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-60694016820648613632013-02-21T20:19:00.000+00:002013-02-21T20:19:04.826+00:00Sleeping with Wolves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey everyone! Here's new print from the Feral series. Just finished it last night. It's available in the <a href="http://foxandcomet.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Fox & Comet Shop</a>. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-10974576587176924652013-02-13T12:41:00.001+00:002013-02-13T12:42:52.693+00:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">If you live in London, you can now find my comic Toastycats at the Nobrow Shop and Gallery in Shoreditch. (62 Great Eastern St.)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nobrow.net/" target="_blank"></a>Check out Nobrow <a href="http://www.nobrow.net/" target="_blank"> here</a>. It's better than a candy store. </div>
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Two recent plates. I've been told they're unsettling, which is fine with me. "What are the bears doing?" was the question. I think of the bears as some kind of protective spirits. Or make up your own story. They are available at The Shop, on Royal Street in New Orleans. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-55180494341418217302013-01-26T15:34:00.001+00:002013-01-26T15:34:47.821+00:00Robin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A recent portrait from my sketchbook. I don't use pencils very often, but this reminded me of how pleasant they can be to work with. I like how fineliners, which is my tool of choice, force you to be decisive. The pencil, though let's you engage with your picture a little more. Anyhow, I think this came out nicely.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-18995659195072838942013-01-25T16:51:00.001+00:002013-01-25T16:53:16.741+00:00Carson Ellis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello again. I'm starting off the year with a brand new print. This is the first one in a series entitled <i>Feral</i>, more of which you'll be seeing in the weeks to come.<br />
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The fact is that anyone <em>except</em> a child can make such things because children have the kind of direct, sensuous and complex relationship with the world around them that modernism, in its declining years, was trying to deny. That relationship is the lost paradise that art wants to give back to us. Not as children but as adults. It's also what the modern and the old have in common: Pollock with Turner, Matisse with Rubens or Braque with Poussin. And the basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling. And then to close the gap between everything that is you and not you... and in this way to pass from feeling to meaning."</div>
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An <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/don-hertzfeldt,72307/" target="_blank">interview</a> with the wonderful animator Don Hertzfeldt on today's A.V. Club.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-3139583272698170672012-04-01T23:13:00.001+01:002012-04-01T23:13:46.505+01:00Laptop Design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A recent private commission. The owner of this laptop wanted a design based on an old sketch of mine of the Seine river in Paris. I used Porcelaine Pens, which are normally intended for ceramics, but work well on most smooth surfaces. The range of colours is narrow, but I was able to achieve a nice, impressionistic effect by layering and a creating a dense texture. I'm really pleased with how it came out.<br />
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Jean Giraud, who drew the most incredible comics under the pen name Moebius, has passed away. The Comics Journal has an <a href="http://www.tcj.com/jean-moebius-giraud-1938-2012/">obituary</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255075459927997318.post-73112183304622304882012-02-29T01:08:00.000+00:002012-02-29T01:08:00.041+00:00Fox & Comet at Staple 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year, Fox & Comet is going to attend <a href="http://www.staple-austin.org/">Staple</a>, the Independent Media Expo held in Austin, Texas. If you're there, come check out lots of comics and postcards.<br />
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