Sunday, 29 September 2024

Sketching the Hatter

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Let’s start with a bit of context. In the summer I officially retired from being a teacher. Last Monday I started in my new proper job, a te...
Sunday, 22 September 2024

Third time's the charm

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I wrote the last post about being unable to come up with a satisfactory illustration for “Alice’s adventures at the Poles” showing Alice’s f...

Struggling -

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Yeah. I’m struggling to make an illustration of Alice, showing her features, that I actually like at all. Yet I cannot sketch her from behin...
Friday, 20 September 2024

Alice finally makes it into an illustration

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Here’s a fact you didn’t know – maybe. Alice herself is depicted in only about half of John Tenniel’s illustrations of the two Alice books. ...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

It's been two whole days and I haven't bought another sketchbook since.

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The title of this post is a flippant reference to the number of sketchbooks I’ve bought in the last week or two. I have not bought another o...
Monday, 16 September 2024

Forgive me father for I have sinned. I have bought another sketchbook.

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So what is it, a week since I last bought a new sketchbook? Eight and a half days actually. Look, I’d just done a bit more business on Etsy ...
Sunday, 15 September 2024

To be original or faithful?

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Yesterday was a bit of a bumper day for making copies of illustrations in my new Royal Talens sketchbook. I wrote yesterday about the waterc...