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The Comics Journal Review

| Paul Greer


Having a home holiday and digging around in the files, came across this cutting of when Scenes From The Inside, an anthology comic I was involved with in the ’90’s, got reviewed in the illustrious Comics Journal (kind of a Cahiers du Cinema for picture literature for those unfamiliar).

They talk about my 20 page insert “Kings of the Wild Frontier“, which was a documentation of the final performance piece by Bristol artist, Dan Eastmond.

The Comics Journal had a tough reputation, so being reviewed there and not getting completely mawled by them was quite the thing.

Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 132-140 (Myrtle)

| Paul Greer

I was talking to a friend yesterday about this kind of regular drawing and discussing if it gets easier as you go, if there are any patterns or systematic ways of doing each drawing that makes it easier as you go. But I have found that if I try and emulate a previous success it usually ends with a weak picture or a mess.

With each one of these I feel like I am starting again from scratch, like an adventure, and the ones that work really well are often those where I end with something I wasn’t expecting when I began. They transcend my plan.

I would like to experiment with materials more but usually they are done on the fly when I just have a pencil and a Uniball in my pocket. The onion picture below I did at home so had various different media available.

Here’s a useful post about the use of a dip pen.

 

132/365 Beryl the patterdale terrier sleeping in the office. Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle

133/365 Small collection of winterified pots down by Shed A, on another rainiest day ever. Pencil and Uniball micro 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle
134/365 Bowl of onions, Sunday afternoon. Kuretake multinibs, Sanguine oil sepia pencil, pencil and Uni-ball micro. 20 mins. Notebook: Myrtle
135/365 Desperate attempt at hamster cage. Feeling unwell, if that’s a excuse. 20 mins Uniball micro, Stabilo point 88, disappointment. Notebook: Myrtle
136/365 Occasional table. Still Ill. Pencil Notebook: Myrtle
137/365 Youngest trying out some animation on the big telly. Straight to V-Ball. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle
138/365 Various vehicles parked throughout the day on Whiteladies Road. Pencil and V-ball. 5mins per car. Notebook: Myrtle.
139/365 People walking on Whiteladies Road. Cold Spring Day. Pencil and Uni-Ball. 10 seconds – 2 minutes per figure. Notebook: Myrtle.
140/365 Farm gate with distant golf course. 20 mins Pencil and Uni-ball. Notebook: Myrtle.

 

Mission Statement 08/02/2016

Aside | | Paul Greer

Hello.

My name is Paul Greer I work at BDH Design and Direction in Bristol making computer animation for the television and other formats. I live in the West of England. I am married with three children.

In my spare time (distant laughter) I draw, write and play with animation.

I started this blog nearly ten years ago as a mixture of a scrapbook of internet things, a log of my professional work, and an archive of my more personal art and drawings.

My main interests are animation and investigating different ways of telling stories with pictures. I also like to post about music, tech, film, friends, politics and comics.

This is a very exciting time with regards to story telling and the ways those stories are disseminated so I would like to connect with people who have a similar interest in radiant experiments with media, and who might like share what we can offer to that project.

As well as this I would like to use this blog as a research station and personal feedback loop to reinforce and encourage my creative life, hopefully providing a resource and point of encouragement to readers as well.

Here is a gallery of the some of work I have been part of or have been fortunate enough to make myself.

Fortune: “Done is better than perfect”.

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