This Australian Comics Artist Shows The Funny Side Of Everyday Life (35 New Pics)

The artist told Bored Panda that before she started drawing, she worked in a cinema as a projectionist, which meant "sitting in a dark room eating popcorn and lollies and making sure the movies ran on time, lol it was great." Before that, the artist worked in a bead shop where she got to play with beads all day, which was "equally as great."

"I’ve always loved being creative but I found drawing to be really frustrating before I started drawing comics. My hand would never do what I pictured in my head so I didn’t do it often. But now that I’ve drawn almost every day over the past 10 years (gawd, now I say that I think I should be better than I am lol) and I love drawing, digital especially because it’s so much more forgiving."

Jess previously revealed that she started making comics because she was getting bored from the text-heavy Facebook feed. "So I downloaded a kids' drawing app and thought I’d start drawing the things that happened in my daily life instead."

"I’ve only ever been 'okay' at drawing and so my focus in the early days was just on the jokes and not how good it looked. Actually, I don’t even know if I focused on the jokes that much either, if something funny happened I just wrote it out how it happened without even thinking about it really. It took me a really long time to be brave enough to change simple things like having a colored background or using shadowing on my characters."

To our question whether the artist has noticed some sort of change in her drawing style, Jess answered that the quality of her works has improved since she started. "When I began, I was just using my finger to draw on my phone but my brother called the local paper for me and asked them to consider putting my comics in the paper, to which they said yes so I upgraded to an iPad and Apple Pencil which made a big change to the quality of my work for obvious reasons. I also moved on from Doodle Buddy to Clip Studio where I could draw with vector lines and have layers (which was a game-changer!)"

Jess admitted that she was self-conscious of putting herself out there when she first started to draw comics. "I thought people would think I was weird and laugh but instead people tag their friends and say stuff like 'this is me' and 'omg are you looking in my windows for comic ideas?' It’s been so fun to find out that there are so many other weirdos out there. A lot of fans have sent me DMs and I have quite a few new friends I’ve made all over the world now who I chat to almost daily (shout out to you guys, you know who you are!) It’s like my comics have been a beacon to all the other weirdos who are just like me, haha."