The application of paint! The little video here shows this drawing without the half tone added here and before the paint has been applied here and there. So the version below is almost the final thingy. It’s one of my series on Cotswold Wildlife for Cotswold Life magazine and will appear there in due course. I’ve added the text so that you can hopefully see the sense of it. Once the line work is complete, then I generally add and amend with a bit of this paint, which will obliterate almost any marks. This and all my methods are not … Continue reading Complete white out?

      So here’s the drawing after it’s been mounted on to card and had some half-tone added.In this instance the half tones are soft pastel, though I do use chinagraph pencils sometimes. There will be a video about each of these. All the hand work is now done and it’s a digital file where it can be cleaned up and faffed with for evermore.For the techies around I scan at 600 dpi on a flat bed scanner but have sometimes been known to photograph larger drawings so that I don’t have to then stitch them together in photoshop. As … Continue reading Stick this one on!

Heritage Art Videos on the use of these sort of things and the resulting drawings.Every morning for the coming week, I suppose this is a trailer of sorts. Continue reading Coming this week…

I plan to post a small series of videos quite soon on how I get my drawings looking like they do. Here to give to a start is what I call my cartoonists kit. Not included here is the grey matter used to think of the drawings in the first place, you can’t buy that. This is just about everything that I use to get the drawing done. After it’s done it does go into my Apple mac for some judicious cooking. The joys of digital artwork mean that I can then fix what I think might be mistakes. The danger … Continue reading Coming soon, a series of the inner workings…

This is the first of a small series about how I do my own cartoons. For those of you who’d like it in black and white, here’s the plan. I scribble on layout paper, or any handy piece of paper, the first idea. If that works out ok, and I think the idea is worth taking further then I go over the first drawing on layout paper. If I think it still has legs then I redraw, again on layout paper. I don’t use pencils and stick to black Pentel Sign pens, pens I’ve been using for many years. They are … Continue reading Number 1: How did I get here?

Another in the series of Cotswold Wildlife drawings, again this is the rough next door but one to the final, the second version is the one below, from which I’ll go for the final. The text, to save your eyes goes as follows: Micra Parker ( Parkus bumpicus geriatricus ) Can be seen leaping out of a micra gesticulating in a strange way to the male, who remains micra bound. Female plumage is generally quite colourful with a cockatoo style of solid hair kept in place by spray. This hair can sometimes be blue. Usually common near what are called free … Continue reading Micra Parker

Nearly finished, here he is in all his glory. I’ll be tweaking for the very final, but he’s nearly there. For more about this please step back here Continue reading Lower Tuffley 2…

Here’s another rough from my series about Cotswold Wildlife. I reviewed what I’ve done so far and come to the conclusion that there are not enough of the female breeds or of the young. This corrects to some extent just one of those issues. For those unable to decipher my writing here are the words, edited again from above. Lower Tuffley Short and naturally aggressive and found generally in one small area of Gloucester and its City Centre. Sometimes seen, but rarely, in Cheltenham where it appears to become even more aggressive than normal. Best not approached at all. Loose … Continue reading Lower Tuffley

There I was at Writer’s Group, staring at a blank piece of paper and unable to write a word that made any sense at all. I’ve been in the group for a while. There’s no pressure to perform. The plan works like this. We gather at a pub room and then a subject is given. We then have some time to write to the subject. I found it impossible last night. As everyone else, there were about 12 in the group, typed and scribbled away I found it quite impossible to think of anything worthwhile. So I fell back on … Continue reading Writing dries up, drawing warms up.

Happy Easter everyone. I’ve been here working on some amendments to my website and other stuff, forced on me when the print company I work through decided to ‘retire’ a system they have been using. Retire! It means they are binning it and that means quite a lot of work for me to change everything to a new system. I now have to open a shop through shopify. Shame that it is not a UK company, but never mind. So Easter has been busy. To be fair to the print people the change over is relatively straightforward and much of … Continue reading Someday my prints will come…