Unlikely Stories

These illustrations came out the back of another Domestika course that I completed during lockdown. Mattias Adolfsson is an amazing artist who creates these extremely detailed pieces with a fountain pen and watercolour. His work really connected with me and you can probably see his influence in these works. As a child I really enjoyed … Read more

Architecture : Likely & Unlikely

I’ve turned my interest back to architecture this weekend as I started a new course on Domestika with a brilliant artist called Albert Kiefer who I have followed for quite a while now on Instagram. His free and open style has really inspired me to revisit the illustrations I did for my home town of … Read more

Unlikely Weapons in Procreate

During the winter of 2024, in the lead up to Christmas, I managed to click with Procreate after a walking through a good training course on Udemy. I’ve not finished it yet, but it taught me how to build a picture up using Layers and merging my additions. It’s a great way to paint without … Read more

NFT : An unlikely project

An illustration of an unlikely sci fi rifle.

Over the summer I’ve been reading about the “Blockchain” and Crypto-currencies, mostly due to developments with the day job, but it soon brought me to the attention of the bizarre phenomenon of NFTs, or “Non Fungible Tokens”. This is again thanks to my inquisitive son who just loves to stick his nose in all these … Read more

Punk & Procreate

I’ve thought long and hard, perused my recent albums to try and think of something that I was really into when working on this. The Summer of 2023, for me, had this brilliant album on constant replay. One of those albums that bury into your brain and leave you with parts of the song ringing … Read more

Doodles: A Circle Squared

Sunday afternoon doodle. Building on the pencil sketch from my last blog entry. I need magnifier spectacles now, which is a really horrible admission. This time I was more strategic in my placement of the big circles and worked around them. Composition seems better. I also had a nightmare trying to re-point this blog to … Read more

Doodles : Circle Marks

On one of several work calls this week, doodling and definitely paying attention. Doodling has always helped me concentrate on the conversations, even though it may not look like it. One of my doodling pursuits is to attain the perfect free-hand circle. This should be in my sketchbook, but it’s not always at hand. I … Read more