I've been inking the scenes where I got my first job. After I finished Art University in the UK, I moved to Canada with the rest of my family. I applied to all sorts of art jobs but didn't get any, so I went with a supermarket job. I had a lot to learn.

Inking the autobio continues: After finishing university, I moved from the UK to Canada and continued my long-distance relationship with my Finnish girlfriend. We went from 2 hours difference in timezones apart to 10 hours. We both saved up and paid for her flight over.

Recounting my first week at my Illustration BA course. During the summer before it started, we were given a list of tasks, including reading 4 specific books and making a summer art journal. Little did we know that these didn't contribute anything to our overall scores.

Back in May this year I was drawing the roughs for this page, now we're back inking it. My first independent living situation, back in university. Part of my upcoming book 'The Big Soup: Growing Up Autistic'

I did a Twitch stream last night, inking my ASD autobiography comic. This is from that time my art college visited Paris. I'll be streaming at 4pm PST every Thursday for the next few weeks :) www.twitch.tv/nuclearjackal

Some more work-in-progress panels from the College era (shading and tweaks having been applied yet). The part of Cardiff we lived in was rather unpleasant.

Happy Halloween! Here's some throwback art from 2020! :D

Something silly I made back in 2021 but never got around to uploading it until now

Here are some inks, before I fix/edit them and apply shading. This scene could do with just a little more context, but it's spread out over many prior pages, which I can fit here: I was misbehaving more around this time, which explains my keyworker/LSW's mood (1/2)

Some panels take longer than others. For me, drawing people is very tricky. So those panels take long due to trial and error. These building panels take long not due to difficulty but mostly just because there are a lot of details to cover.

Recently inked the three panels where I remember my lurcher labrador cross. Chapter 5 just about finished: glad I tackled the toughest one first!

In 30 days I've managed to ink 50 pages. Chapter 5 is almost finished, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of it materialise These panels are about my experience with studying for the GCSEs (exams UK pupils take around age 16, vital for entering further education) 1/2

More WIPs from my autobio graphic novel project about growing up autistic. This is from when I was around 14 and went with my boarding school on a trip to France. Albeit a trip that featured few French people, and many activities that could have just as easily been done in the UK

SHAH! --- #drawing #fanart #hornet #silksong #hollowknight

Inking my autobio comic continues. Here's a scene from when I was about 13. I was enrolled in a boarding school for pupils with angry outbursts. Autistic pupils were grouped together with others with different behavioural issues, many with criminal recods.

The devil, from a thing I'm working on. I did a lot of research on Abenaki and Celtic mythology to make him, though I may not be done. May go to the library to try and find a better resource than what I could find online. --- #cernunnos #lox #malsumis #devil #spooky #characterdesign #horror

Only one chapter remaining to pencil! Infant School is finished, now for Junior school, possibly the most nostalgic era of my life (Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, drawing my first comics, and more!) But here's one more scene from my Infant School days.

More memories: this is how all the greatest plumbers got their start #autobiowip #thebigsoup #comicwip #pencils #memoirwip #asdmemoir

Ah, memories #graphicnovelwip #comicwip #memoirwip #comicpencils #thebigsoup

Just finished pencilling Chapter 2 of the autobio (set during ages 0-4). Two more chapters left, then it'll be finished! :) #autobio #asdautobio #autismautobio #autisticmemoir #graphicmemoir #graphicnovelwip #comicwip #comicmemoir #autobiowip #pencils #thebigsoup

More pencilled panels, this time from the part of my autobio where I recount living together with my partner, after about 8 years of long distance relationship. #autism #asd #autobio #asdautobio #graphicmemoir #graphicnovelwip #pencils #comicswips #autobiocomic #workinprogress

220 pages pencilled so far, that's 100 in the past 60 days. Some panels might be rewritten, so we'll see if some of these pencils that I've shared end up looking different in the end. I've been getting lots of helpful feedback from friends :) #asdmemoir #thebigsoup #autismmemoir #graphicnovelwip

Its me! BTW, Halfsoul books are in bookstores today!

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More ASD Memoir updates! So after the supermarket job didn't work out so well, I went on to become a shoeshiner. New cover design concept is in the works! The exisiting book cover idea will probably become an interior cover/titled page instead :)

Pencilling continues. We're looking at around 200 pages out of an estimated 300 pencilled so far. Here is the Post-university chapter where I got my first mainstream job. Even though I have a Canadian mum, I still needed to learn a lot about Canada, as well as big city life.

More watercolor. I feel like I'm getting the hang of things. The thing I like the most about it is you cant make it too perfect. The hand of the artist is always visible. --- #watercolor #study #crow #greyscale #pen #ink

So, I'm more or less finished with commission work for the time being, and now it's back to my ASD memoir. 120+ pages roughed, another 180 or so to go. Then I'll have to get it all inked by April 2026. It shall be done! Here's my studio apartment as it was when I saw it for the first time.

Sheron from Dragon Ball Z! I did the inks and Nearly_Contained_Chaos did the watercolours www.instagram.com/nearly_conta... Not a lot of posts recently because I've been busy with commission work and memoir edits. However, this was a really fun collab! #sheron #dragonball #akiratoriyama

So it's been a few weeks since my last update for 'The Big Soup'. I've now finished roughing Chapter 6. 120 pages done out of an estimated 360. Here are a few panels for the time my dad took me to an interview for an Illustration BA degree at a certain university.

Here are some panels from later on in Chapter 5. Chapter 5 has been roughed, but now needs some edits before I can push toward the final art for some of the pages. In the meantime, I'm roughing Chapter 6. #ASDmemoir #thebigsoup #comicwip #graphicnovelwip #autobio #comicautobio #autism #ASD

Tough memories from the ages of 12-13. That's the last of pre-final sample pages. I shall work on some more, but I'll have to wait until I've had a good long chat with my editor about the roughs I've made for next pages first. #autismmemoir #autism #asd

Happy New Year! Here's a throwback to Toni (wearing a blonde wig) & Aberdeen visiting the Temple of Janus in Ancient Rome.

Here are some more of the pre-final panels for Chapter 5. Chapter 5 has been fully roughed, and just needs to be reviewed by my editor. I'm currently working on Chapter 6, focusing on minor rewrites, text placement, and panel layouts. #autismmemoir #autismgraphicnovel #thebigsoup #ASD

I'm not particularly good at this 'social media' thing, but maybe I'll get better at it one day.

Throwback to an old Luke & Leena comic! Merry Christmas to ya #christmascomic #christmasjoke #thegrinch #christmascomicstrip #merrychristmas #drseuss #thegrinch

Here's a drawing you may have seen before! I drew it last year, but I'm sharing it publicly this year. Merry Christmas :) #christmas #christmaspudding #icecreamchristmaspudding #christmasdessert #happyholidays #merrychristmas #christmasartwork #christmastraditions #christmascomic

I always had trouble with laces growing up. #WIP #workinprogress #graphicnovel #graphicmemoir #thebigsoup #autobio #autobiography #autobiocomic #comic #comicwip #graphicnovelwip #memoircomic #asd #asdmemoir #asdautobio #autism #autismautobio

So far I've shared mostly pre-final pages, but I've been doing a lot of roughs. I'm up to about 50 roughed pages out of the 65 or so needed for Chapter 5 (one of the longest chapters in the book). Here's one from around page 35ish of when I went to France on a school trip around the age of 14.

Another scene from the work-in-progress autism-biography. I was about 12 at the time. My parents weren't vicars, but this vicarage was spacious and affordable. Too bad the neighbourhood sucked #thebigsoup #asdmemoir #autism #asd #aspergers #graphicnovel #comicwip #wip #autobio #autobiography

I still need to improve how I draw dogs, but these roughs'll do for now ^^

I appreciate the response to the birdy drawing I posted (actually a wren), so here are some more recent studies from the mini-sketchbook. #animalstudies #watercolour #sketchbook

Continuing where we left off, here's the deal with that bathtub incident. Also, some roughs from a later page. Right now I'm doing a lot of roughs, so finished pages will be a bit scarce at the moment.

I hope to post updates for 'The Big Soup: Growing Up Autistic' every week or so. Right now, most of my attention is focused on layouts, but I still have some near-finished pages I want to share. #thebigsoup #autistm #asd #aspergers #autobiography #wip #graphicnovel #graphicnovelwip #comic #comics

A little announcement! So I've mentioned it a few times now, but I'm currently working on an autism memoir of sorts. 'The Big Soup: Growing up Autistic' will essentially be a graphic novel about my life in the UK, before, during, and after school. #graphicmemoir #autobiography #comic #asd #autism

Another collaboration between myself (inks) and Nearly_Contained_Chaos ( www.instagram.com/nearly_conta... - watercolours). Jack Skellington enjoying Christmas Town!

Quick cloud speedpaint :) didn't come out as sharp as I'd like, so I'll try again at some point. Busy with NDA commission work at the mo, so I can't share any of that stuff (... yet 👀? ) #clouds #sky #digitalart #cloud #painting #digitalpainting #cloudart

Cueca! The national dance of Chile, also performed in Bolivia and Argentina. Here we can see my character Aberdeen dancing with a man dressed as a huaso. Toni sits and watches while playing an acoustic guitar. #cueca #huaso #dancing #chile #chileanculture #digitalart #dancing

A lot of folk are joining Cara, we'll see how things go it's early days yet, but I've got an account there too now :) cara.app/nuclearjackal

I'll be tabling alongside Nearly_Contained_Chaos (www.instagram.com/nearly_conta...) at #VanCAF this year!