April 15th, 2009
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 [...]
August 6th, 2008
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 [...]
July 12th, 2008
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.
April 7th, 2008
On flickr and A Unique Space
Ink line on Moleskine.
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April 1st, 2008
see larger versions over at a unique space or flickr
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March 30th, 2008
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 [...]
March 12th, 2008
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 [...]
November 27th, 2007
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 [...]
November 27th, 2007
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 [...]
