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I’m so excited you’re here! My job is drawing children’s books, but right here is a place for chatting with you!
✏️ This is where I mess about with drawings and stories. You know, all the fun things that happen in sketchbooks.
✏️ Illustrating can be a solitary old business and it’s so helpful to see how other people go about it.
✏️ I share unpolished sketchbooks, things I’ve learned about drawing, how I handle creative confidence melt downs and the whole emotional turmoil of sitting quietly at a desk making pictures.
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Here’s a selection of popular posts to dig about in:
How I found an agent & how an agent found me
I had all things I needed: ✏️12-15 pieces of illustration work I was pleased with ✏️ a list of Illustration agencies I wanted to approach ✏️ a brief polite email introducing myself that I could adapt for each agency ✏️ a list of the submission guidelines for each agency I was approaching
Pencil Puzzle of Manhattan
You know when you reach for your pencil and it’s not there? And you start patting your pockets and muttering I know I had my pencil just now. . . And then days later it turns up somewhere weird? Well . . . This is Water Street in Manhattan, New York in the early 1980’s:
Snow Day
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Excuse the mess: a non-fiction visit to my studio
Hello and welcome to my beautifully photogenic, rustic yet cosy garden studio the spare room in my flat. I’m calling this My Studio so you’ll think I’m fancy. Truthfully, I never call it My Studio. It’s called The End Room because it’s at the end of our flat, furthest from the front door. However, I
Tips for drawing from life (while terrified of drawing in public)
The advice is always to go and draw from life but it’s SO SCARY to draw in public! My brain is always shouting “what if someone notices me?!” “what if someone looks at my sketchbook?!” “What if someone talks to me?!” “what if I’m judged by a total stranger!?