Gosh, it's 10 years since by daughter was born. It's so quick. And it reminds me that I should spend more time playing with her, amidst attending to all my work, youtube and art and all, before another 10 years passes. Si…
I've to make a conscious effort to remember small events like these and drawing them out soon after. Wait too long and the interest fades because new events keep happening all the time. In this one, I drew it with a vintage M…
Sometimes, I look back on my earlier comics in The Ollie Comics and I admire the those that have a more care-free loose drawing style. Although, most would say that my art already has that look, some of my comics carry that look…
This comic was drawn late last year. And it was from a moment that happened early last year 2023. (Yep I've been taking a long time to get comics out.) One possible reason - a comic takes about 2hrs+ to complete, from sketch …
I've been pretty busy with work, YouTube videos, kids and more these days. It takes some effort to record simple moments like these. I recorded this in my "note and throw away" notebook. Not my sketchbook. I think i…
In this comic, I was trying out directing the comic at Toby instead of a general audience. I imagine him reading this years later and it might be cool if it spoke directly to him instead. I'm thinking, it could also have chan…
Update 24 Dec 2023: What? It has been about 2 months already? Well, I actually did another part 4 page. But then, I realised it didn't work with the pace of the overall story. So I'm continuing the saga with this page ins…
Well Toby, this is for you in the future. This how we are waking up in the mornings in December 2023. Sailor Zoom fountain pen + watercolours. Drawn spontaneously. Sometimes, I find that it's best to just draw it out quickl…
This is what's been happening this month. Instead of pen I decided I'd use the Faber-Castell Polychromos colour pencils my mom gave me a few years ago. (I don't use them much even though I really wanted them, when I w…
I've been thinking up different ways to record a day. In this experiment, I decided to record my Sunday by only capturing conversations from morning till night. I drew this one with a marker and a fountain pen (Hero 9018 Fud…
After Parka's filming of my studio last week, I started looking for a way to scan with my scanner again. I had trouble scanning from Affinity Photo so I was mainly using my camera or SLR to shoot my drawings. But returning…
These were drawn one weekend morning in August 2023. With a baby around who is always on the lookout to grab my pens while drawing, I have to draw fast. I decided not to bring my fountain pens as those are more fragile. Instead, …
This event happened a couple months ago. Although this comic doesn't make me look good, I think showing where I went wrong is where others can benefit from the lessons I'm learning. My wife, Yvonne, actually organised a t…
Here is another update from my daily life. I capture them because they never stop coming and they never last forever. I also find it delightful to look back on these comics months or years later to see how much have changed, ev…
When we show Toby attention, Ollie will always want the same. This has been happening for months now. I find it amusing when it happens. We do remember to show her attention too as they are both precious to us. This is just one o…
This is what it's like almost every time we change Toby's diaper. Created using Procreate using a digital pencil called "Lisa's Pencil" from Lisa Glanz's Delicious Texture set .
I've revised this comic because the old version just wasn't working for me. New revised version Previous version I'd recorded the events in the sequence I experienced as honestly and accurately as possible. So what w…