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How to draw the Imperial State Crown – Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee

May 12, 20120 Comments

Getting the Jubilee off to a good start, here’s a lesson showing you how to draw he Imperial State Crown.

It’s the Queen of England (and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth’s) 60th year on the throne this year and we are having bait of a jubilation here in the Britain, so I thought I do some royal drawings. I’m starting with the Imperial State Crown that the Queen wore when she was crowned and which she wears on State occasions like this week’s opening of Parliament.

How to draw the Bathroom Tiles Optical Illusion

May 12, 20120 Comments

They don’t look equal or parallell, but they are! Watch the video, do it yourself and prove that each strip is exactly the same.

How to Draw One Direction Cartoon Style

May 12, 20120 Comments

I think this is probably my last One Direction video :)

How to draw Zayn Malik from One Direction

May 10, 20120 Comments

He’s the one with the misty eyes and the beetle browed eyebrows!

Drawing 101 – how to draw cubes

May 10, 20120 Comments

Some people think they are easy to draw – others think they are really hard. Either way cubes are the
building blocks of drawing and if you can really get a hang of drawing them, then you are building solid foundations for your drawing skills.

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8 great ideas for Mother’s Day

May 10, 20120 Comments

Here are all eight great ideas rolled up into one speeded up video – say hello to Mom :)

Four more ways to write Mom for Mother’s Day

May 10, 20120 Comments

yes, another four more ways to write Mom for Mother’s Day which happens to be on Sunday in the USA, so get making cards already!

Where ideas come from

May 5, 20122 Comments

My Illustrator friend, Kate Sheppard, came round this week to show me the dummy of a picture book she’s been working on. It’s wonderful! But I would say that… is a synthesis of two ideas I played about with a while back. I couldn’t get the ideas to work because they obviously needed to come together to make sense.

I didn’t or couldn’t make that connection, but Kate did – But How come we both had the same-ish ideas? And why am I not bothered that Kate got it right and I didn’t?

I was thrilled to see the book and add my thoughts to it because I’ve finally seen the idea come to fruition and can close that chapter in my head.

If I thought that was the last idea I’d ever have, then that would be a sorry day. I played with the ideas – learned a whole load of stuff and have moved on to other things. Luckily, those ideas found Kate, who has done a fabulous job and has created what I think will become a classic. Any picture book editor who doesn’t make an offer on the spot should… drink four pints of blue, fizzy soda, eat a pound of jelly babies and think again!

How to draw a Pansy in crayons

May 4, 20120 Comments

This is part of my Mother’s Day set of tutorials as on monday I’ll be showing how to draw a posy of Pansies to make a mother’s Day card or birthday card. I know we had Mother’s Day in the UK already, but it’s Mother’s Day in the USA Next week!

Four ways to write MOM

May 4, 20120 Comments

It’s Mother’s Day in the USA next weekend, so I’ve done some tutorials for all my viewers in the States, showing how to write MOM in different ways. four more to come tomorrow.

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