• Another cheerful subject for Halloween! Actually quite a few people have asked me to draw the Grim Reaper over the past couple of years, so, finally-here it is! Don’t get scared while you’re drawing it and remember – he’s not evil, he’s only doing his job!

  • I showed you how to draw James Bond’s gun, well, you’re going to need some bullets! Actually this size bullet is more for a rifle, but it is a good exercise in making shapes with cylinders.

    Let me know how you get on!

  • I had a Fabulous review for euclid yesterday, from Ginny Steele, a teacher in Ontario, I just had to share it with you! You can get the ipad version here or you can get the

    Intro to geometry for primary kids

    I was so impressed with the sample pages I bought this book immediately and whizzed through it. This book helps refresh those of us who did geometry a LONG time ago, and puts everything simply enough that you can use it to help your kids learn it too.

    The videos are superb instruction in how to construct shapes using a pencil, compass and ruler and bisect lines and angles. All of which is coming for your child in school, so it helps if YOU know how to do it. The great thing about the videos is that your child can select the chapter relevant to their current topic of study, use the video to follow step by step, pause, play and go again as necessary.

    The jokes are enjoyably cheesy, perfect for a primary school audience, the comic-book character illustrations and simple animations attractively add to the text and I enjoyed the overall look of the book, which does NOT feel at all ‘textbookish’, but instead manages to get across all the important stuff in a fun story style. At the end of each short chapter is a 3-question quiz designed to point children to the right answers, and if they get it wrong, they can keep checking till they find the right answer. It feels very low pressure and I think children will enjoy it.

    Cleverly done, and thank you for creating this book, Mr Rayner.

    I highly recommend this book