Unlikely Architecture : Pocklington Redux 2025

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Pocklington Illustrated Back in 2018 I started drawing various buildings from my hometown of Pocklington. It’s a very picturesque town with many pubs and restaurants situated in very traditional architecture. The original series helped me through the various COVID lockdowns. Stuck at home and nothing to do. The style of these illustrations were fairly cartoonish, … Read more

Inktober 2024

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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

Unlikely Weapons in Procreate

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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

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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

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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