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
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
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
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
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
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