I nearly didn’t bother this time round, but the bottom line is that I actually enjoy doing it. Each year I have grandiose ideas of making one intricate masterpiece that involves all the prompts and unveil each aspect of the piece each day and it slowly reveals an outer story. Like my failed attempt from … Read more
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
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
This post is brought to you by this killer album Gong – Live at the Gong Family Unconventional Gathering, release in 2021 and contains all the hits I love from their extensive discography. I really love the current line-up with Kavus Torabi at the helm. I got asked today at work what a good User … Read more
This post was brought to you by Cardiacs brilliant live album Special Garage Concerts Vol I & II. I don’t know the details of the recordings but it’s later in their career and the closest album to this brilliant track on Youtube that I love to listen to time and again. The Sketch I spent … Read more
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
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
This is latest of a series of illustrations that started from an online course on Domestika with Mattias Adolfsson. I love the small details in his artwork, you spend ages finding little things that surprise you or puzzle you. This piece was made for a colleague and friend, so the details are all in-jokes, so … Read more
So here’s one of my potential failures, the details of which I will fully explain in a later blog next week. Today we are all off to Leicester to see my favourite “band” The Orb Live. I have followed them since the mid 90s and its the perfect backdrop to getting in the zone with … Read more
I have been drawing guns for years now. Grandiose, fantastical and most likely completely dysfunctional weaponry that looks good. I grew up watching movies such as Star Wars, Predator, Alien. All movies with fantastic weaponry depicted in them and somebody somewhere had dreamt them up to look the part, without worrying about how they would … Read more