After Voltaire, who said: “Il faut cultiver notre jardin” (We must cultivate our garden) – To this I add: “Il faut aiguiser nos crayons” (“We must sharpen our pencils*”) [*I hope!] First, literally. – ‘Start the day with a sharp pencil’ as I like toRead more…
Gesture Drawing and Fast Work / Developing a Style In this blog post I want to show you about developing a style, and how I advanced my drawing/sketching technique – primarily by doing more gesture drawing. Going to Art College In 2002-2003 I went toRead more…
Portrait practice and faces – line and shading (1995-2003) In my last post (here) I went into some of the writing and articles I was doing as a teenager. Now back to drawing and art. I want to show some of the areas of interestRead more…
Hi! If you have been following my recent blog posts (you can see part 1, part 2, part 3 here), you will see that I have been going back through some of my old sketches and art that I did from way back as aRead more…
Following on from my previous two posts showing some of my old sketches and doodles (where you can see Part 1 and Part 2 here), I thought I would go back to show how I became interested in Art and Philosophy and creativity and whatRead more…
Here is part 2 of a look back over my sketchbooks from days growing up! You can see part 1 that I posted here. In this post I’ve included some stuff I randomly sketched from my university days and beyond. (Most of the stuff I’veRead more…
I thought I’d dig out some of my old stuff from my sketchbooks… I have always drawn, as a hobby and ‘thing I like to do’, particularly in the summer holidays when left to my own devices! A chance to chill out and relax. (Plus,Read more…
If I have learnt anything at all about creativity and creative thinking… …it is that people (consumers) want to see something that is genuinely different – something genuinely new, fresh, and highly original. What they don’t want to see is same-old-same-old – old ideas rehashedRead more…
