• I’m always asked what pen I use. It’s called a Rotring Tikky Graphic and you can now get them from the . I’m not being sponsored by Rotring, this truly is a great pen and I’m more than happy to tell you why.

    The inks is black black and permanent. Most importantly for me, it is waterproof which means you can use watercolour or marker pens over the top and the ink will not bleed and dirty up the colours. The Nib is very responsive – I think you can see in the video that i get a really good “flick” effect with the nib. It can be used for neat equal width lines but you do also get that nice, sharp point with the flick that you would also get with a dip pen.

    They are disposable.I find I usually wear out the fibre nib before the ink runs out. They are pretty much the same price as a disposable rollerball pen , but you get such high performance from them that I think they are great value for money.

    I generally get my pens from cultpens.co.uk who have an amazing stock of weird and wonderful pens from all around the world and they provide a very fast service in the UK. I think they send stuff worldwide too. Don’t look at their site! If you are a penaholic, you will want to buy everything!

    I used to use the Rotring Isograph in the old days. It’s a very technical pen that needs a lot of looking after and cleaning out. It also has a fine metal nib which clogs up easily and I was always breaking them! If you love fiddling with pens and cleaning them out, this is the pen for you!

    There you are – I’ve been asked so much about this pen, I hope this tells you everything you need to know. If you need to know more – put your questions in the comments box below!

  • Here’s another lesson for Halloween – How to draw a witches hat. I’ve made a step by step guide for you. Click on the picture to make it full-size so you can print it out if you like. Let me know in the comments if you think this is a good idea.

  • Last year I was contacted by Josh, who puts on amazing backyard fright nights for Halloween to raise money for http://www.cmtusa.org. Joshua asked me if I would do a poster for this year’s event. I said yes and put in in my diary for a year ahead. Well, the time has come and here we are. Joshua sent me a rough for what he wanted and here, in two parts, is my version of the poster.

    In part one I rough out the design and draw the house and tombstones, colouring in with photoshop. In part two I make the pumpkin leaf border and finish the text. Have fun and don’t be scared!