I'll keep working on this comic in-between doing other work, so keep an eye out here (or facebook/tumblr) for updates and little snippets of art. I think I forgot for a while there how much I enjoy making comics until I got back into working on this.. and it's always encouraging when you feel like the latest thing you drew, inked or coloured is better than what you've done before. Thanks also for the great feedback I've been getting! It's truly awesome to know other people are as psyched to see this thing done as I am!

Here's a drawing of one side of my lounge room, for no real reason. I took a week off work earlier this month to get some of my own work done and sketched this out on some new paper I'd just bought.

A few days into my work break though, I had a break of another kind... I came off off my skateboard during a slide stop and in a split-second decision (or maybe it was just stupid, dumb luck) I attempted to save my wrists/arms/face/glasses and took most of the fall on my ribs, breaking some as a result.
The first couple weeks after was pretty painful to breath, especially having asthma on top of it (yeah, I'm a massive nerd), but with the help of Nurofen 3 times a day, I'm not doing too bad now. Really just grateful I didn't break anything that would stop me from drawing!

It's funny, lots of people lately have told me how dangerous skating is, but only a couple weeks earlier I worked out that I was skating anywhere from 4.4km to 10km a day, four or five days out of the week for the past 10 months and this is my first fall... so those odds aren't so bad if you ask me. And it's still 10x safer than cycling on the road with cars!

~Jac

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Got a big box of these shirts sitting in our apartment, completely random sizes on black and white Gildans (ranging from toddler sizes to XXXL), so me and my cousin PJ, who played bass in Farewell Forever, are going to go through them pretty soon and work up a list of exactly what's in stock and we'll put them up for sale in my webstore. They'll be SUPER cheap, but sizes are very limited - as in we might only have one of your size - so don't sleep once they're up. I think I got the second last 'YL' size, pictured here...

The band isn't around any more unfortunately, and they only released a couple of songs but they still mean a lot to me. This was a true tribute band to the memory of Damien Morris, fronted by Damo's brother Luke and with other founding members of The Red Shore, A Silent Betrayal and No Plan B/Armageddon Sky making up the rest of the line-up. D.D.D.M.C.

Here's a link to my new Facebook 'fan' page that I mentioned in the last post, hit me up with a 'Like' if you're on there and tell your friends! I'm not too keen on fb much these days so I'm no longer using my personal profile but I am keeping a presence with this page instead...

Jaclyn Poole | Illustration, Comics & Design | Promote Your Page Too

By the way, a few people are adding my new profile that's linked to it, but it's purely there for admin reasons (ie. facebook won't let you manage a 'page' without having a profile as well) but there's nothing on there anyway so don't bother adding me on that one. Peace!

~Jac

Saturday 1st October, 2011

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So today, while the rest of the town I live in was watching some men chase a ball around a big oval for a couple hours, I was happily oblivious, listening to tunes and busy creating WWW.CADAVERDAVE.COM!!! I've only put the first chapter up for now - I originally had 18 pages up - but I decided to hold off on posting the second one until I can put the complete chapter up and I realised I still need to fix a few things on the last couple pages. They'll be up alongside chapter one in the next couple of weeks, stay tuned!

I also just created a new Facebook 'fan page' for my work... I'll throw a badge up here soon for it, but for now just search for 'Jaclyn Poole | Illustration, Comics & Design', click the 'Like' button and show me some love! I'll be deleting my personal profile for good pretty soon (it's been deactivated for weeks) and just using that one from now on and posting a lot more art-related stuff.

Reeeeally hoping to set up my new studio this month too with some time off from my day job! :D
Time for a drink.

~Jac

Monday 26th September, 2011

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CD cover for Nathan Seeckts' Deviation Road E.P. This was a nice little project, Nath gave me a couple of reference pics but pretty much said 'do your thing' - thanks Nath! Deviation Road is that road you can see winding down the hills in the background, from Geelong down to Fyansford. I grew up about a 7 minute walk away from the top of the very back hill that overlooks this whole valley so although I used a few google map images as reference for this angle, a fair chunk of it is just how my mind remembers it.

Here's the rough drafts of the front and back covers. I'll post the rest of the artwork when the cd's out.

I also found these old logo designs from my student days and thought I'd post 'em up. I think it was an Adobe Illustrator assignment where we had to redesign a logo for a company we thought needed rebranding.

And coming soon... COMICS!!!

I'll be putting the first two chapters of Cadaver Dave online in a little while. I've only shown a few panels or random pages up until now but figured I might as well show what I've got since most of it was drawn like 5 years ago now anyway. I came across my thumbnails of the third chapter in the back of my sketchbook (I used to draw them on my train commute), read through them and got all siked on working on comics again! More on this soon.

~Jac

Sunday 18th September, 2011

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I finally got around to re-uploading my previous site with the past 2 years worth of blog posts... check it out here. Hopefully there's not too many broken links. I haven't had a lot to post here (despite feeling like I'm working constantly) but I'll be doing a solid update with new art soon, and you can always check out my Tumblr which is kept pretty up to date.

Lately I've been going through some old backup discs trying to find something and I kept coming across old website designs and I realised I've been doing this for a while now... it's been 10 years since I started learning how to make websites, that's insane!
I originally started out with a geocities site in 2001, then a friend hosted me on an artist site called shoboken for a while until I launched enthuzed.net in 2002. Anyway, I managed to get a few screengrabs of some of the old designs and thought I'd throw them up here. There's quite a lot of designs missing, some of my backup discs won't even read so I guess they're gone forever. Some of these early ones are pretty funny, I'd saved a couple of screenshots back when I created them using Windows95 or something - you can see Kazaa running in the taskbar of one of them, haha.

10 YEARS OF BLOGGING...

1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.

1. 2002. jac.shoboken.net. earliest design I could find.
2. 2002. original 'enthuzed' website. made using Flash, had lots of cool animations as part of the design.
3. 2002. don't think this design lasted too long. No Plan B link ;)
4. 2003. got bored of this one real quick too.
5. 2004. gasmask design.
6. 2005. i had another, better, red version of this design which I can't find.
7. 2006. lowrider design v.1. i dug this site, it was just a nightmare to update.
8. 2007. lowrider design v.2.
9. 2009. streetscape design. keeping it simple. that banner drawing is the 2nd panel of my Cadaver Dave comic.

~Jac

Sunday 10th July, 2011

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I started a tumblr today! Will try to keep it all original content. Mass uploading commencing...

~Jac

Friday 8th July, 2011

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My lunch break today...

#RobotArmyMedia

~Jac

Monday 27th June, 2011

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Apologies for the lack of updates around here! A lot has been going on in the past 2 months and I haven't had much time for updating this thing. I've just moved house so it's been a whirlwind of searching for a new place to live, trying to keep on top of illustration work, slugging it out at my day job, packing/moving/unpacking etc.

But I'm pretty much all settled now (broke and living on bachelorette chow and beer, but settled) living in an apartment building that I've wanted to live in since I was a kid which is kind of funny - and completely awesome. Only now I'm getting distracted by this view from my balcony every time I turn around from my work area...

Anyway, a lot of what I'm working on can't really be shown yet but here's a sneak peek at a few things in the works. Click for slightly bigger version..

From the same project..

And this next one's for a big project which I'm really excited to be a part of and can't wait to talk about more on here...

I'm moving into a shared studio space in the next month or so with a good friend so I'm hoping to get a lot more work done there.. less distractions being away from home and whatnot. I'm dying to get back to drawing comics after these for-hire jobs are through... yes Cadaver Dave is still sitting there waiting to be picked up again. :o

I also want to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beautiful goddaughter, Harper, who turns 3 years old TODAY! Much love kiddo! ♥ ♥ ♥

~Jac

Tuesday 11th May, 2011

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I was feeling inspired last night and decided it was time for a site redesign! The old one was getting a bit too much to handle, so I stripped it way back and I'm keeping things as simple as possible this time around. So fresh and so clean.

Here's something I drew a little while back for Friedcat Comix issue #1. I'm a massive geek for The Lost Boys, it's one of my regular background movies while I work, and I always wanted to do some kind of fanart for it. Everyone loves a vampire with a mullet...

I'm selling the original ink drawing of this - check out the store if you're interested!

I restocked 'Lost Cause' at Sticky Books in Melbourne cbd on Saturday - special price of $6!

~Jac