Find Chaffy

A one panel comic I submitted for Jamie Smart's Find Chaffy Journal. (He's aiming to make it the longest journal...ever. Whenever or not he reaches that goal is debatable but there's some pretty neat pieces of work going on over there.)

Jamie Smart is one the current artist for The Dandy Comic and he's been illustrating the Desperate Dan strips. A few weeks ago he mentioned in a journal over on his DA about a One Panel continuation comic he had going on over at one of his many sites. I wrote a message saying it looked like a great idea and I'd try and rack my brain for an idea.

And Idea that he said was brilliant:

Sorry for the slightly unreadable text. I did mention this to Jamie but he said it was fine. =)

A Bit Skew Wiff

I have a fan comic/story/characters...that I won't go into. However, I will show you my illustrations that show my other way of illustrating. This one is less cartoony but not in a sense that it's realistic.

Desperately need to work on faces that face away from the 'camera.'

Leigh? Aren't you a graphic designer, not an illustrator. Shh. Brian Wood said I can be both. And a writer if I so wish!

Style Icon

Style. Artistic expression. Or; why I draw the way I do.

A 'problem' I brought up at the end of the second year was worrying that I had not developed any kind of style. That no one would be able to look at my work and go: Oh, that's Leigh Wortley's. (Or more accurately; that's the girl who talks to much about the X-men.)

I've come to the decision however (one that I think was made for me by people around me) that I don't need a style. Especially not in an illustration sense. This would pigeon hole me and limit what I could do with myself as a designer and an illustrator.

As a test I started to illustrate Jubilee (of the x-men, who else) in the same style that I have done my header image in. I wanted to see if it could work across media (from real life to comic books.)




The Jubilee one is still my favourite. It was the first one I did and I didn't get any better at it. XD
After I posted my own caricature, I had requests from friends for me to do illustrate them too. However, I'm not Wonder Woman (Though her new costume is quite spiffy) And I only managed to do Jonny P.

Other requests include my kid sister and Emma Price. She's getting her's for her birthday though.

Next post. My other way of doing things.