By Crom! is a joke-a-panel autobio webcomic featuring life advice from the ever-practical, mighty-thewed Conan the Barbarian. It ran online from 2012-2014 and was collected into a book in 2016 thanks to Kickstarter! As it ran, the art style changed significantly; below is a whole range of samples from the archives, including covers of all the zines and smaller collections; it can all be read for free on WealdComics.com
I’m a huge fan of the strangeness of satellite imagery of earth, and how it intersects with how we draw maps for navigational or other uses. I also love watching pigment flow around on a surface, and I’ve been thinking about how liquid dynamics of watercolour can mimic liquid dynamics of water tables, geologically. Which is to say, I’ve been painting watercolour maps. Click in to see them in closer detail:
Drawn from memories of new growth in forests recovering from floods, making use of Windsor & Newton and Daniel Smith watercolours. Pigments used include green apatite genuine and fuchsite, adding a shimmer to the painting in person.
This grove was inspired by a trip through the Irish countryside in 2004, where I took approximately 700 film photographs of the wilderness, the architecture, the verdant forests and the magical quality of the light. Using mixed media, I wanted to add something a little more visibly magical to one of those memorable environments.
My comic for 1001 Knights, The Great Eeldragons of Penx.
