Hello Steemit, about me and my comic

I'm a 27 yr old from Australia but now reside in Canada with my boyfriend whom I met online way back in 2010. It's a bit of a wild story that requires it's own dedicated blog post to tell. In short, he writes and I draw. We're in the process of creating comics together of which is what my blog posts will largely be about. In addition to that I'm also really passionate about teaching what I know, so I'll try to get some instructional/ tutorial blogs going too if i can find the time. This year I'm going into a trade school so I will be mostly busy with that unfortunately.

So far I've started slowly turning out some pages for our first short, 'Bumbleberry Pie' which is just a simple day in the life of one of our characters from a larger project "Strawberry Riot". The story isn't anything fancy admittedly, but we're making it to just test the waters and mostly for me to learn paneling and polish my black + white rendering techniques. I am not a fast paced artist and I own up to that fully - I like to take my time and flesh out the environments around the characters because the world they live in is an important character too. :-)

You can read the first few pages here: https://tapas.io/episode/723927

My artstyle was largely influenced by shounen comics because I love the wild diversity of styles from each individual series. I pushed for more realism in my figures however and ended up with what I think is a bit of a hybrid between western and eastern comic styles. The portrait below is of Eric Callahan, main character of Bumbleberry Pie. Hope you like it. :]