Awakenings Artwork

Yay! Again yay! I am finally done with this picture. I have gotten some advice on using textures which I put to good use. Click the image for a larger view. This was going to be the cover for Awakenings 2, but yeah.. I think it's a bit too busy and not striking enough, so this is gonna end up as a poster in the book.

Animation Again!

Wow, I am animating again... actually studying animation. These two ladies are some of the Characters I plan to animate for a 5 minute short. It's gonna be a challenge.... but I find that I love scriptwriting and pre-production.... now if only I could get an army of Jesca- clones to do the actual animation for me while I go have a drink down the road...

Anime Edition

Recently the Sunday Times printed an anime inspried version of it's weekly magazine. All the artwork was illustrated by South African anime artists- incl. yours truely. Best part was: the magazine was printed right to left like a manga comic- nice going!

I like drilling holes in walls and hanging stuff

I am so used to doing everthing digitally these days, so it's a weird and wonderful feeling for me to see my digital stuff printed and hung on walls.

(I love powertools and I have a hidden destructive nature)

So I thought I'd just share some of this, unfortunately on a webpage you can't see how groovy butt-kick this looks. All the prints are panels from my Awakenings comic (the one which is yet tio have a sequel-aaaaaaaaargh!). It's strange because I am used to seeing my drawings in these teeny tiny panels (the canvas is +/- 85 by 30 cm). So.... if any of you guys feel the burning need for some tasty art- speak to me... and help a local artist support her expensive shoe and tea habit.

And this is just some non-digital handpainted canvasses that hanging out near my workdesk in my "studio"

Jo'burg Mural

Hey there!

Here's a photo of an mural project I did with the super- creative people at Amicollective. Lots of fun and the thing is 70 meters long btw. Just click for a larger view.

Newspaper article

Talking about exposure... This is an article I wrote for the Cape Argus. What a fun opportunity that was! Hah-ha! I actually come across as an optimist in this piece- wow! Well I love comics and I am always keen to offer unsolicited advice to all and sundry, so this was a nice opportunity for a captive audience. Hey you can always turn the page if you don't agree with the writer!

(yeah and click on the image if you feel the burning urge to read!)

Too much art everywhere

Okay I am officially on too many Social networking, blogging and forum sites. My brain has recently suffered a password meltdown of note. So I've taken to writing things down, which is exactly what you are not supposed to do, but with all the random numbers and capitals added to over 20 different passwords and usernames I am not keeping up. And I keep running into the same people where ever I go. No matter how big the site. It's both comforting and scary. Like a family of people I've never met in real life. Sometimes it makes me feel boring, like I am doing a show and tell of the same art to the same set of people over and over again. I sign up on a new (or new to me at least) hang out for designers, artists and such ilk. I browse my sweet way through the recently added gallery section, where I bump into familiar artworks which come accross as old friends. " Hello nice to see you here again. Still looking good are we?" Maybe it's because it's the same section of people, all with access to the Internet, in the same creative industry, with the same hunger for exposure, with a penchant for signing up on too many sites. What counts as too much exposure for a piece of art? Can you benefit from a sense of mystery in today's information overload existence? Or could that attitude be compared to burying a coin in the ground and expecting a money tree to sprout next spring? Maybe I should scale back and not use the internet as a giant billboard for all things Jesca. Yet here I am starting another blog..... mmmm... what can I say, art is meant to be seen.... visual media isn't it?
Anyways enough rambling: I've created this blog as a news storage space. Especially since it's easier to update and add images to than my website. So here's two interviews I did with Otaku magazine a while back.

And here's an later interview which featured in Issue 16-if I am not mistaking