• Are you excited for the new Star Wars Film, The Force Awakens? All those many years ago, when the first Star Wars film came out I went to see it with the lady who has been my wife for the last 26 years! Next week we have tickets booked to go and see episode seven – we must have seen all the others many times in the past.

    I don’t suppose we ver imagined an episode seven all those years ago. I don’t suppose we imagined we would be watching it together either!

    All those years ago I was thrilled by R2D2 and C3PO – now comes a new droid, BB8. How on earth does it work? This is a real thing not CGI – here is a great page with animations which explains the concept.

    Enjoy the movie!

  • I will be in Cardiff on Saturday with my publishers, Firefly Books. I’ll be reading from my Dragon books, showing how to draw dragons and signing books. Come for such and stay for stories and illustration from the wonderful Laura Sheldon, Dan Anthony and Huw Aaron. It’s going to be a wonderful day.Firefly-Storytelling-A4-Poster-v2

  • Learn how to draw Santa’s Reindeer. Of course it’s not a reindeer at all, it’s a Roe Deer or something like it. It’s all Rudolph’s fault. He was drawn this way and called a reindeer and now everyone thinks Santa’s Reindeer look this way – that’s the power of the media!

    Here’s a video of how to draw a real reindeer.

    And here’s another!