Most recent letters
066 / The Grief In Our Lungs
The world locks down, we are left with little choice but to sit alone with our pain. Some thoughts on grief.
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065 / You Don't Need To Make Art Today
Some thoughts from the first days of lockdown - should you be making art out of all this chaos? Don’t feel guilty if you can’t.
• 3 minute read
064 / We're The Extras
I don’t know about you, but I feel insignificant in the face of extraordinary events.
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063 / Eating Toilet Paper for Coronavirus
This week I made a satirical video for The New York Times about this new coronavirus thing.
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062 / Spirals
I’ve just finished my first sketchbook of the year! Here are some things I’ve learned.
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061 / Once Through, Cleanly
Some solid advice from designer Frank Chimero on how to make the most progress in the early stages of a project.
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060 / Stormy Weather
A short comic about weathering my own personal storms this month.
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059 / Ink And Gifts
Your hand-painted postcards are on their way! Here’s a step-by-step process of how I made them.
• 5 minute read
058 / A Kind of Aliveness I Live For
A crucial distinction for all artists - you don’t think in order to draw, you draw in order to think.
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057 / Endings
My life has a lot of endings in it right now. Some reflections on the passing of Kobe Bryant.
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056 / Negative Capability
On the inevitable uncertainty of making art and how filling sketchbook pages is helping me to tolerate it.
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055 / Sequential Art
A look inside Berlin - one of the best graphic novels I’ve ever read and my thoughts on what filmmakers can learn from comics artists.
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054 / Rock, Chalk and Ink
You share your advice on keeping a daily sketchbook practice and I try to do some simple drawing exercises.
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053 / Fill Sketchbooks!
My plan for 2020 is to fill as many sketchbooks as I can, starting with filling pages of collage. Plus some advice on keeping a sketchbook.
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