Category: Reading and Literacy
Day one of the Great Malarkey Festival in Hull
Today I’ve been at the children’s book festival – the great malarkey – in Hull which is on the East Coast of England. I’m the illustrator in Residence all week and will be filling my sketchbook up – have a look to see what I did today.
How to draw an evil cockroach!
Learn to draw an evil cockroach with pen and ink and a single colour grey watercolour wash to ad tone. A great style for black and white illustrated books. You can get a hi-res copy of this image here https://www.patreon.com/posts/11713262 After last week’s Scaredy Cats story video – The Killer Catflap – I thought I’d…
Happy Empathy Day!
Happy Empathy Day? What’s that? Oh no! Not another weird American idea we are going to have to buy greetings cards for? Today is actually the first Empathy Day. In relation to this post I should be calling it #EmpathyDay because hashtags and social media are one of the main cause for the recent lowering of empathy in…