Wondering how to become an animator or get into the animation industry? Over the years, I’ve gotten a lot of questions from students or people looking to change their careers, wanting to know how to become an animator and where they should start, and asking for any advice I can give them when starting out. […]
Author: Robyn
Monday Morning Storytime – Baphomet’s Trick
Baphomet stared in consternation at the strange creature sitting before her. “What ARE you?” She sneered in disgust. “I am a Good Boy!” Woofed the creature, wriggling excitedly. “A Good Boy ? You’re a “Good Boy”? That’s not a thing.” She muttered, lip still curled. “Well, whatever you are, you’re disgusting. What do you want?” […]
Monday Morning Storytime – The Glass Teapot Mermaid
The glass teapot was the only home Pterryn could remember. She had been living in it for so long that even the thought of leaving it caused her hearts to beat faster and her gills to open and shut too spasmodically for her to breathe. The world outside her teapot seemed a very large and […]
Monday Morning Storytime – The Forest Witch finds Love
The forest witch wearily stuck her shovel back into the unforgiving soil, levering up another dry mound. Would anything ever grow here? She lifted the shovel, and paused, thinking she had heard something. None of the town’s folk ever came up this way. Once, she had lived on the outskirts of the town, and helped […]
Monday Morning Storytime – All and the Cat
All crouched down, tentatively extending a hand to the recently deceased cat’s spirit. The spirit mewed plaintively and sniffed All’s hand, not yet realising that such earthly senses were lost to it now. All sighed in pity, noticing the ribs showing in the mange – ridden body. The cat had been a stray, like so […]
Monday Morning Storytime – Spacewhale
My first Monday Morning Storytime, an exercise I decided to do every Monday morning to stretch my creativity, as well as to give my social media followers something nice to look forward to on a dreary Monday morning and hopefully brighten up their feeds. It’s an illustration with an accompanying snippet of a story. Spacewhale […]
Comic Strip – Tuppy and Sock-Sock- Forbidden Love
It’s been a while since my last blog post! I acknowledge this and I do feel very sheepish about it- I am trying to keep my blog posting kind of regular, but it is a little difficult with so much going on; full time job, freelance work, trying to keep my own personal projects going […]
9 Ways to Beat Creative Block
9 Ways to Beat Creative BlockMost creative people I know – in fact, all the creatives I know personally- struggle with creative block now and again. It is very common and very normal. It’s a bitch to deal with, and it can make you feel demotivated and pretty bleak, and maybe like you are not […]
Creative Self-Doubt and 5 Ways to Conquer It
5 Ways to Conquer Creative Self-Doubt I have noticed a common thread with the artistic, or creative, people in my life; myself included.It’s creative self-doubt. Crippling, painful, ever present self-doubt. It’s there when you wake up in the morning, and it’s there when you lay your head down at night. It’s especially prominent when you are […]
Introductory (first) Blog Post :)
Introductory (First) Blog Post :)Hiya!As mentioned, this is my first blog post. As we speak- well, as I write- I am still finishing up my site. It’s been a bit of a process, setting this thing up. I’ve learned a lot, which is not something to ever complain about. I am still struggling to get […]