I have faciliated and hosted a number of figure drawing, graphic design, editorial design, motion design, graphic narrative design. and short film pitch package design workshops for both children and young adults. My portfolio of work includes presentations and panel talks, the latter of which I have both participated in and hosted. Most of my workshops are heavily rooted in concept, visual writing and tranformative storytelling through exploration of identity in both real and imagnined worlds, often combining both.

Co-hosted with concept artist Su Opperman, the How to Draw Your Own Superhero workshop formed a regular part of the comic book component of the Open Book Festival and featured regularly at the Cape Town Central Public Library, schools, tertiary institutions, literary and animation festivals across Cape Town. The focus of the workshops was for attendees to establish a unique superpower with a clear origin story, leaning on the application of mythology and the power of visual writing to transform negative experiences into things that can empower them.

Figure drawing, observational sketching and motion studies remain one of my favourite pastimes and you'll often find me with my sketchbook or a piece of paper most mornings before work and between conversations, drawing people and animals from observations. Drawing forms the foundation of my design practice and helps me better define and resolve visual problems when illustrating or animating. I have hosted many live figure drawing workshops at various tertiary educational institutions across Cape Town including Vega School, SAE Institute, The Animation School and Cape Peninsula University of Technology, among other instituions. I have designed multiple character design and figure drawing curriculums in combination and thoroughly enjoy my figure drawing practice.

Lecturing of motion design, graphic design, animation, illustration, figure drawing, critical studies, HTML & CSS and digital design modules to first, second and final-year Multimedia Design, Graphic Design, Copywriting, creatrive brand communications and Game Design & Development students. My responsibilities as a senior lecturer included facilitation of adhoc workshops, including training staff to effectively leverage Vega School's online teaching platform, VegaLearn (a bespoke version of Blackboard Learn for Vega School). Other responsibilities included supervision of research papers for honours students in the focus area of creative brand communications and multimedia.

My responsibilities included teaching students in the Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) at the Faculty of Dentistry at CPUT a structured approach to illustrating and sculpting objects in three dimensional form, with emphasis placed on a basic understanding of how to illustrate the human figure from imagination. Particular attention was given to illustrating the head and mouth with a scientific approach to documenting and illustrating dental morphology.

I was invited to a panel talk to discuss the pilot episode of an optioned animated television show based on my published newspaper comic strip, Squeers, moderated by Su Opperman. Participants included Wendy Spinks (animated television producer) and Daniel Clark (Star Wars Visions “Aau’s Song” co-director, concept artist and Klein Kariba graphic novelist).

I moderated a panel talk on inclusive storytelling and content creation, featuring Jess Bosworth Smith (illustrator), Pulane Boesak (animated television producer) and Mariko Tamaki (Marvel Comics’ “She Hulk” and graphic novel writer).

I represented Vega School as their Senior Multimedia Lecturer in a 'Growing Young Storytellers' panel talk with Wessie vander Westhuizen (Head of Multimedia at Stellenbosch Academy) and Andre de Jager (Vega School, Cape Town copywriting student), moderated by Su Opperman. The panel talk formed part of the official programme for the 2017 Open Book Comics Fest and Open Book Festival.

The panel talk formed part of the official programme for the 2016 Cape Town International Animation Festival. Su Opperman (concept artist), Gerhard Human (creative director and illustrator), Nick Wilson (animated television producer) and myself were asked to participate in the panel talk moderated by Wendy Spinks (animated television producer), as authors, comic artists and animators. I spoke to my portfolio of work as an animation director and comic artist.

I was invited to present at the events arena of the annual African Design Indaba conference to discuss my comic strip, Squeers, about two gay squirrels living in the oldest cultivated pear tree in the Cape Town Company Gardens. Published in LGBTI community newspaper The Pink Tongue, Squeers provided an underrepresented perspective in South African comics as the first published LGBTI comic strip in a newspaper with a print-run of over 14 000 copies.

Jean Jacques Rossouw of the art collective Exhibit.gif) and myself discussed accessible tech and how it allows for different kinds of storytelling. The talk formed part of the 2018 Open Book Comics Festival in combination with the Create a GIF, which I co-ohosted with Su Opperman.

I faciliatetd a Create Your Own GIF workshop with aspiring 2D animators and visual storytellers, in collaboration with Su Opperman, at the Open Book Comics Festival in Cape Town. Attendees used their smartphones to access free animation software to create their GIFs using simple animation and storytelling principles.