Tag: sketches

  • How to use a sketchbook

    I did a lot of sketching during my recent trip to Amsterdam. I had a wonderful time. Talking with my friends in the evening, as we discussed what we’d seen that day, I was drawing away happily when I realised that everyone was watching, but they were involved in the drawing and the conversation continued…

  • Pencil Roughs

    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,…