• “My Vaccine is ShooRayner! He makes me feel better all the time!” what a great comment – can’t find the chat to find out who said it though.

    Lots on this week’s show- go to the chapters or just let it play all the way through.
    Let me know what you would like me to talk about or draw for next week’s show in the comments box below.

    00:00 Introduction
    01:23 Talk about Mindset for artists
    08:44 illustrations I’m working on
    11:05 How I treat the illustrations in photoshop
    13:13 Drawing emotions with a dog character
    24:00 explanation of how watercolour works
    24:29 drawing expressions on a dog
    36:00 chat and advice
    46:16 How to start drawing poses
    52:30 about essential drawing equipment
    55:26 how to illustrate your family
    01:01:42 How to approach a publisher
    01:03:58 How to deal with artists block
    01:05:38 how to cope with an art exam
    01:09:31 How to tell a story with pictures

    Join me for an hour or so of live drawing and chat about drawing!

    Do let me know what you would like to talk about or draw next week, in the comment box below.


  • Following on from the previous video, which showed how to draw 6 different shield designs, here are nine different designs to place upon your shield to create your coat of arms.

    See the Create your own Coat of Arms Playlist of videos here.

    You can get ad free drawing videos, images and help sheets for this and other drawing videos when you join me on Patreon. You’ll also be helping me to keep making more, new easy drawing videos.


  • Here is another Just So Story by Rudyard Kipling, that I rewrote a little bit, to freshen it up and bring the language up to date. It’s a classic story and so fun to read and listen to. I can still hear Miss Sherbourne reading it to me in Class 2 when I was seven!

    My channel LearnEnglishThroughStory is (very) slowly adding subscribers. If you are not subscribed on YouTube, it would be wonderful if you could click the link and do so!