As I look back at 2024 one of my regrets is failing to continue designing The Wait - and other personal projects. The Wait is a mini graphic novel I've been working at for a long while now. Back when Sputnik: Faith + Arts gave me a small grant to work on character...
Selkirk Farmers Market
Emma Butler-Cole Aiken Stained Glass and I are looking forward to being at Selkirk Farmers Market next week, on Saturday 7th September! We'll be in Selkirk Market Place from 9.30am to 1pm with a table full of glass, drawings, prints, paintings, books, postcards,...
Sidhe
The Fae Elders are desperate to restore the magic of the Sidhe. They think Owain and Eilidh can help … whether they want to or not. Click through the panels below, or scroll down to view the animatic (no sound). I've been working on Sidhe (Shee) as a portfolio piece....
Simple Character Design Exercise
Next week I'm running a Traditional Animation Workshop in Hawick, so I thought I'd share a little preview from the class. I've always found creating characters to be challenging. Where do I start? And I often find they all end up looking the same. Why is that? This...
Storyboard Planning
Over the last couple of weeks I've been working on a short storyboard sequence for my portfolio. It's still a work in progress, but I'd thought I'd share some of the early planning from it.I don't often share thumbnail storyboards because they're usually pretty...
Costume Design
I've been working on a mini graphic novel project for a while (you may remember this, this and this) and recently I've been doing a lot of research into clothing. It's set around 1300 but much of it falls into 'vaguely medieval'. There are very few source materials...
Sketching Morna
I first shared some sketches of Morna here, and I'm finally diving back in to developing her design. There are lots of things still to nail down but I'm pleased with how she's coming to life!
Liquid Solid at DepicT!
Liquid Solid is now screening at DepicT! You can watch it in full here. If you enjoy it please rate it out of five - your vote will count towards the DepicT! IMDbPro Audience Award.
Morna and Alistair
Morna and Alistair are from a story I've been working at over the last few months. As they both get older in it I've been trying to find characters that work at different ages. These quick doodles I did after work are the first ones I feel capture their characters.







