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Most recent letters
Spirals
I’ve just finished my first sketchbook of the year! Here are some things I’ve learned.
• 3 minute read
Once Through, Cleanly
Some solid advice from designer Frank Chimero on how to make the most progress in the early stages of a project.
• 2 minute read
Stormy Weather
A short comic about weathering my own personal storms this month.
• 1 minute read
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
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.
• 3 minute read
Endings
My life has a lot of endings in it right now. Some reflections on the passing of Kobe Bryant.
• 1 minute read
Negative Capability
On the inevitable uncertainty of making art and how filling sketchbook pages is helping me to tolerate it.
• 2 minute read
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.
• 4 minute read
Rock, Chalk and Ink
You share your advice on keeping a daily sketchbook practice and I try to do some simple drawing exercises.
• 3 minute read
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.
• 3 minute read
End of Season Finale
I have published a newsletter a week for a whole year! But what next? Plus an update on my postcards project.
• 3 minute read
Banksy And The King
A story about the time Banksy squared off against London’s greatest graffiti artist - and lost.
• 5 minute read
Ink and Card
I’ve just come up with an idea for an exciting project and I want to tell you all about it!
• 2 minute read