Trent Howard - Trenna's Blog

An Oasis on the Moon.

Gardening isn't just for yourself. It is for your local community, ecosystems and connecting to this ancient country.

The Old Man

A short story of a an old man who never amounted to anything, setting out to do something with his flie but finding himself slipping back into old ways.

The Grind to making comics

I've been at my long form comic Death of the Commons for over 3 years now. 350 pages and I'm not even 100 pages in. When I started this adventure I thought it wouldn't be to hard. Ignorance is bliss and all that. The sheer amount of work needed to

Going Dark. Entertainment Detox

You are probably reading,watching and listening to media you don't really care about. Maybe it is time to stop? We are all told we need to detox, detox from meat, from processed food and from fun. But what about Entertainment? Books, movies, TV, videogames, the internet and magazines all

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Cooper. A handrawn bike.

Just wanna look at all the photos instead? Check here I've wanted to create a custom bike for awhile. My current bike is 16 years old!! and due for retirement. Wanting something unique but semi affordable I settled on the Cannondale Bad Boy. I love the angles on this, the

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Orions Bones.

A man leaves the comfort of home to search an abandoned spaceship in the Australian desert for something of immense power. But what's it for? Recommended Listening while reading: [Heat Death Infinity Splitter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlVOp6UfXk target="_blank") by 65daysofstatic He bent over. A

Australia. A love letter to a country I don't understand.

I'm Australian born and bred. Growing up under the stars of the Murray river, I've got a deep affinity for our bush. Nothing makes me feel more at ease than rolling out the swag and going for a bushwalk. Making a cuppa and watching the magpies endlessly swoop back and

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F*$% Environmental Vandals, make comics.

There is something quietly awful about the world we live in. On the surface it is amazing with technologically awe inspiring gadgets and the ability to freely eat whatever we like. We have unshackled ourselves from the constant demands of shelter and food that had tied the hands of humans

Esky-Affee. An Aussie take on a popular German coffee.

An Eiskaffee is according to wikipedia: Eiskaffee, literally "ice cream coffee", is a popular German drink consisting of chilled coffee, milk, vanilla ice cream, and sometimes sugar and/or whipped cream An Esky on the otherhand is one of these: So how do you make an Esky-Affee? Simple

Survival. A Death of the Commons short story.

The following short story is based within the world of the Death of the Commons a comic coming out soon. You can read the first 12 pages of that comic here. You roll the empty baked beans tin with your feet, the hollow clattering sound reverberating around the empty cabin.

How to survive a crappy job

Work a job you hate? Feel trapped and as if nothing will change? This is the post for you. I, like you used to feel trapped and as if nothing would ever change. I knew that I wanted a happier, healthier life. But I also had bills. And bills don't

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Starting at the bottom. Climbing the passion mountain.

Deciding to make something when you have none of the skills to accomplish the task at hand is daunting. Building a house, creating an apple pie from scratch or in my case making a graphic novel is a scary prospect. But I think this is one situation where ignorance is

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Twenty Four Hour Comic Day. What to bring.

24 hours to complete a 24 page comic. Scott Mccloud who invented the idea must have been smoking the good stuff. I'm taking part in my first this weekend. Anyway it doesn't sound that hard. An hour a page, pfft no worries. As the guys over at Blitz comics pointed

New Kitchen and Wall removal.

Everyone complained that last time I waffled on about how I (and the old man) created my table. So instead here is just photos of our new kitchen and wall removal. How the last fella had the kitchen.

DIY hardwood drafting (drawing) table

Say no to a sore back and neck. Get a table that can go up on an angle, helping fix perspective issues and letting your back and neck sit at a more natural straightness. This project came about because I couldn't find a drafting table that was what I wanted.

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Cookie licking curtains

We own quite an odd cat. She is very loving but does some odd things sometimes. She always licks the curtains. No idea why. Maybe she is missing something in her diet or maybe she is spreading her scent. Most likely she just likes it.

Half finished posts. The desire to get it bloody done.

I have a problem. Well i have alot of problems some bigger than others. I struggle to finish stuff. I have a brilliant idea and I start doing it, it bubbling away in my head. I'm the kid that forgets to eat his icecream after wanting one all day because

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Why god invented erasers and why you should kick that rubber to the curb.

He made them to make us unhappy. Imagine for a second they didn't exist. You created art on a piece of paper using your favourite pen and that was it. It was solid, complete and unchangeable. Like carving into stone. One would have to except what is placed in front

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Apologies for the Z. The homogenisation of language.

American English. Australian English and British English. For most Australians we are pretty familiar with the differences. To most Poms or yanks it probably means nothing. They are all different. Well derr I can hear you say. First a bit of History. Being a young country and being invaded/settled

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The Tricky business of figuring out your art process

Finding the best and most importantly the most funnest way to create art is really quite difficult. It is a continual process that I think never ends. Below is my quite convoluted process that I use to go from an idea in my head to something finished and on the

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Portraits without environments are boring

Why are we so convinced the human form is the start and end of expression? Portraits have always seemed kind of silly to me. Like only drawing half the picture. I for some time have wondered why I find drawing just people or faces or bodies quite boring. People who

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Modern Life and anxious times (Poetry)

WIndows and boxes. Alerts and updates. Statuses and proclamations. Hottest and last year. God is dead. Grab the cord. Clutch the scissors. The insision deep. Maybe not deep enough. The feed inserts. The heart quickens. This is it. This will be the time. Feeling?! Excitement. Dilated pupils. Curled toes and

Rotten Circle of life (poetry)

I rot. Blue screens and blue boxes with white tables separated by blue sky. White and blue. Pure and free. But like the old sign on the freeway, all cracked and faded, promising a world of hearts desire. It's false. Security. Dependancy. "Steady job". "We all have to work". Work?