Helena Rakic

  • Saturday Joys

    Saturday Joys

    I took my Saturday super easy, where I just practised my skating, cleaned the apartment, finally figured out Davinci Resolve (and how to make GIFS!) and cooked. It was sunny, twenty something degrees and delightful. I also made one of my super easy and favourite recipes, a miso noodle soup. It really is a soup…

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  • Untitled post 53

    I’m still in the process of testing colour schemes for my pages. Blue has always been a colour I naturally gravitate towards, specifically dusty, soft blues. Although I find this blue beautiful, I feel that I’m still searching for a combination of colours that feel right for my pages. I’ve tried adding more colours versus…

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  • Colour Schemes

    Colour Schemes

    In the last little while, I have been trying to add colour to my graphic novel pages. I have always been attracted to beautiful, full colour graphic novels. So far, I haven’t been able to figure out how to add colour in my own work. My completed pages have mostly been in black and white.…

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  • Starting A Blog ~  A way to share my daily comic practise

    Starting A Blog ~ A way to share my daily comic practise

    2024 was the last year of my MFA, where I decided to illustrate a  graphic novel. I needed to develop a workflow that was efficient and effective to manage the workload with my thesis show deadline. The time slots I had available were early in the mornings, evenings, and most weekends. I worked on one…

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  • Daily Drawing – Morning Sketch

    Daily Drawing – Morning Sketch

    Here is a section of a potential graphic novel idea I have. In the mean time, it’ll just be part of the #gentlecomicshabit exercises I’m trying out for now.

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  • Daily Comic Practice