• I’m working with Manchester Museum at the moment, making a fold out comic with two stories relating to the museum’s collection.

    Students from Cedar Mount Academy spent the day looking at the collection and thinking about how to create two stories for the comic.

    We were working with a five point story plan:

    1. Inciting incident
    2. challenge
    3. crisis
    4. climax
    5. resolution

    Not easy top do over 3 A6 panels, but I think I succeeded in compressing the story we camera up with on the day.

    Manchester museum is just wonderful. It’s kind of old-fashioned, but totally up to date and wonderfully cared for – all the exhibits are fresh and squeaky and shown in exciting and novel ways. Do visit if you are in manchester or have a look at their website http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk

    Thanks to the students of Cedar Mount Academy for helping us come up with the great story ideas. http://www.cedarmount.manchester.sch.uk

    This video shows my working practice as I decide how to write and plan the story and illustrations

  • https://youtu.be/W2XFa5SfWxU
    The Olympics are here again, so learn how to draw the Olympic Rings Easy Peasy!

    You will need a coin to draw around for the circles a pencil and crayons, colored pencils or marker pens. You will need Blue, Yellow, Black, Green and a pinky sort of red, which we sometimes call Cerise.

    Draw a line to start and use to put the bottom of the coin . Draw round the coiun to mak circlers. FGollow the instructions carefully as this is actually a bit tricky getting the places where the circles cross exactly right.

    Good luck and have fun 🙂

  • https://youtu.be/W2XFa5SfWxU
    The Olympics are here again, so learn how to draw the Olympic Rings Easy Peasy!

    You will need a coin to draw around for the circles a pencil and crayons, colored pencils or marker pens. You will need Blue, Yellow, Black, Green and a pinky sort of red, which we sometimes call Cerise.

    Draw a line to start and use to put the bottom of the coin . Draw round the coiun to mak circlers. FGollow the instructions carefully as this is actually a bit tricky getting the places where the circles cross exactly right.

    Good luck and have fun 🙂