• I have a lot to do in a very short time! I seem to have been very distracted by the Youtube NextUp Competition in the last few weeks. It’s a good thing I won, as I put an awful lot of work and effort into it!!

    That leaves me with a very short amount of time to finish my Olympia series. Printers are scheduled and I have to get everything finished on time. I delivered the artwork for book five on monday and pencil sketches for book six yesterday. So that’s three books to finish by the 12 of September! Today I’m doing a major rewrite to book seven and book eight needs a lot of rewriting too.

    Will I get it all done? I have a day by day schedule mapped out, so I know exactly how much I need to do each day. I always try and do a little more than I need to win myself time incase problems occur. I think I’ll do it – well, there is no alternative – I will do it!

    Then it’s off to Creator Camp at YouTube for a week. That is the big prize at the end, that keeps me inspired to finish a mountain of work on time. 🙂

  • I’m very busy finishing my Olympia series at the moment and haven’t got much time to prepare drawing lessons so this is just a bit of fun for you.

  • While I was Twittering like mad during the NextUp Competition voting process, I saw a link to Jack Draws Anything and was amazed by what Jack had achieved with a simple idea. He did drawing requests on the internet in return for donations to the Sick Kids Friends Foundation. He started out with quite a modest goal, but the whole thing grew and grew. He made so much money and did so many drawing, he’s stopped taking requests, but you can still donate on his web page. Go and have a look now.

    I asked Jack if I could draw something for him and he asked for a hedgehog, so here it is.