• FontliFontli have an #inktober Lettering Challenge on at the moment where you can win prizes! Go to their website to find out more about them the competition and about #inktober

  • Batman-and-robin
    Here’s a fun drawing by Jim Carrillo who tweets at @SonofWagonWheel. It’s a mashup from one of my videos where I went drawing city buildings with Sarah Silverwood Taylor.

    It’s great fun to sketching with another artist, to learn what motivates them, where they are coming from and pick up a few tips along the way.

    Me-and-BatmanSarah is very influenced by comic books and likes to imagine herself as Batman or Spiderman sitting on top of a building surveying the city below. This idea must have caught Jim’s imagination, so he has turned Sarah and I into the Dynamic Duo in the Batcave – I particularly like how my glasses have turned into Robin’s mask!

    During our day together drawing, Sarah and had an idea for an art project which we may well pursue when she get back from drawing the city of Chicago. The we really would be a dynamic duo!

    Here’s another picture, my proudest moment – meeting the real Batman!

  • SarahjselfridgeIn the third and final video with Sarah Taylor Silverwood, we moved to the Bull Ring in the centre of the City of Birmingham to draw the iconic department store, Selfridges.

    The building is all curvy and covered in Aluminium discs. We found a good vantage point and got ourselves a cup of tea and a cake and started to draw. As the day wore on, our style became looser and looser. I tried doing one drawing without my hand resting on the paper at all – not my usual style and I didn’t feel too comfortable doing it!

    in this video Sarah uses:

    – the one I use too –

    Sharpie Magnum – and

    Chalk pen and

    Uni Pen Fineliners –

    Sakura Pigma Micron Pens – and

    and Copic Ciao markers – get them here in the UK and here in the US