Tag: drawing skills

  • The scintillating life of an illustrator

    Social media presents a constant stream of images of the wonderful lives other people are leading right now, while you are doing not a lot. This post is to let you know that I’m not leading a glamorous life in the sun, surrounded by adoring fans, drinking champagne with famous people around a swimming pool…

  • How to paint like Beatrix Potter – Mr Jeremy Fisher

    I think this must be my longest video ever! It’s a video of me trying to paint a page from The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter. I’ve not cut out a huge amount, maybe five minutes, so this is pretty much in real time. My first attempt went very wrong, because I…

  • How to draw an evil cockroach!

    Learn to draw an evil cockroach with pen and ink and a single colour grey watercolour wash to ad tone. A great style for black and white illustrated books. You can get a hi-res copy of this image here https://www.patreon.com/posts/11713262 After last week’s Scaredy Cats story video – The Killer Catflap – I thought I’d…