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A new and very unique sketchbook

A new and very unique sketchbook

I adore Moleskines. I love them for writing, but I struggle to be satisfied with them for sketching. So the once quiet hunt for the ideal sketchbook recently took a turn for the better.
What’s wrong with Molesknes for sketching? The very uniform and predictable paper – which is either a little too heavy or a [...]

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Process, process, and more writing process

Process, process, and more writing process

There has been a fair amount of discussion in this household this week about our personal processes in writing. Novels do not write themselves, and are a vast undertaking. So how would you get from scribbled inspiration to 100,000 words worthy of someone taking the time to read?
How you would achieve this, I have no [...]

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Three new illustrations

Three new illustrations

It has been a while, but I finally got around to finishing the most recent illustration and scanning the previous two that have been sat in the Moleskine for a couple of months. Art seems to be low priority behind the book lately.

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New Drawing: Getting Ahead

New Drawing: Getting Ahead

On flickr and A Unique Space
Ink line on Moleskine.

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New drawing: Untitled1

New drawing: Untitled1

see larger versions over at a unique space or flickr

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A place for my art at last

A place for my art at last

Finally, after great deliberation, dead ends, and false starts, I’ve created a place for my illustrations, drawings and other art to live:
aUniqueSpace.co.uk
The site has no preview thumbnails, it’s a ‘journey’ through various artworks – mostly those within my main Moleskine sketchbook. I have also added some text beneath each one. These texts may give you [...]

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New Drawing: Run, Bert, run like the wind!

New Drawing: Run, Bert, run like the wind!

Run, Bert, run like the wind!

Ink on Moleskine

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Chairs and Headskirts (new drawings)

Chairs and Headskirts (new drawings)

It has been far too long since I posted any drawings, so today I managed to finally get around to scanning some previously completed pieces from the trusty Moleskine.
Click the images to pop over to flickr for larger versions

 
Head in a Skirt Checking for Rain – What can I say? I believe the title has [...]

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Cross browser and platform website testing

Cross browser and platform website testing

Testing your shiny new website across multiple browsers and multiple platforms for consistent design and layout can be tricky without a spare-room full of different machines and operating systems. Services such as Browsercam.com are superb, but a little on the expensive side if you are not a web developer pro.
Browsershots to the rescue! This is [...]

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NaNoWriMo on the BBC

NaNoWriMo on the BBC

Sitting in front of BBC Breakfast morning magazine programme this morning and up pops a short feature about Nanowrimo.
It was a rather trivial piece and would likely go unnoticed by most people, but it is good to know that what is a growing activity every November is gaining some attention from mainstream press – and [...]

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