Lab

What stops a Pig from building five hay houses and playing it safe forever? What happens when one card swaps every player’s deck? Here are the assets, obstacles and locations behind those questions, from my pixel card game concept, Yamageddon.

I turned the seven deadly sins into eyeless, many-horned gods for my card game concept, and got there by breaking a rule. Here’s how the Vice Cards came together, and what each one does.

Twelve artworks into Inktober, fighting an urge to build lore around Yamageddon. This week is about holding back the story, putting function first and learning what a first prototype is really for.

Six days into my sixth Inktober, I've done more than I expected. The big difference is in my creative documentation and sharing the concept with friends even though it's rough. Seven questions in one evening showed me what self-isolated creativity was missing.

This Inktober, I'm changing how I work by prototyping before the final artwork instead of after. Two test runs, 300 GSM, and RM12 later, I learned something about playing cards, paper thickness, and how to make compromises with my local printer.

For the last five years of Inktober, I've never made any of it for anyone but myself. That's changing this year. With AI, economic uncertainty and the world feeling like armageddon, I've spent the last nine months conceptualising a thoughtful idea.

Most people wait until they're ready before they post. I don't want to be that person. Here's what the last few months of showing up before I was ready actually looked like, and why I'm about to do it all over again.

For over a year, word of mouth and referrals have kept me going as a solo creative. It wasn't until a good friend asked me one question that made me rethink my system. Here's what a shower thought revealed about a variable I can't control, and why I decided to refer myself.

The same people who asked me how I got fit eventually ask me why I post on social media. They sound like different questions, but I believe they're the same one. Here's how I answered it the first time and what I've learned about this process over the years.