I’ve just finished the pencil roughs for my first Axel Storm book. I’m not going to share them with you because they look a complete mess! I use that word, “rough,” to mean just that.

There is a level of reworking and sketching and roughing out that makes the finished drawings lose something – spontaneity, I suppose. I’d rather do a bad finished drawing, scrap it and start again than do too much work at the pencil stage.

I pity my editors. Every time I get a new editor, they have to learn my language of roughs. Sometimes they really can misinterpret!