Category: Creative Advice

  • How to Scan your Artwork for Perfect Picture Book Illustration

    Scanning your own artwork can often result in a grey mush in the white areas of your illustration, making it look a bit lacklustre and lifeless. How to brighten it up and remove the grey edges? Kathleen Crawford contacted me and asked: Do you scan your own images into photoshop? I’d love to see a…

  • Aphantasia to Hyperphantasia – another spectrum

    A couple of years ago, I was made aware of Aphantasia, the inability to make images in the mind. Leesa Austin, who follows my drawing videos, contacted me to say how they had helped her get a handle on drawing. I “just” have an image in my head and draw what I see to the…

  • Designing the cover for my new children’s book – Generation Moon

    It’s time to think about the cover design for my new middle-grade space adventure trilogy – Generation Moon. This is a first go at it to see what happens. Often, a first attempt looks terrible, so you try everything else. But, eventually, you tend to come back to the first idea. In this video I…