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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.


March 2020 • 2 minute read

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060 / Stormy Weather

A short comic about weathering my own personal storms this month.


February 2020 • 1 minute read

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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.


February 2020 • 5 minute read

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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.


February 2020 • 3 minute read

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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.


February 2020 • 1 minute read

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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.


January 2020 • 2 minute read

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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.


January 2020 • 4 minute read

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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.


January 2020 • 3 minute read

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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.


January 2020 • 3 minute read

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052 / 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.


December 2019 • 3 minute read

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051 / Banksy And The King

A story about the time Banksy squared off against London’s greatest graffiti artist - and lost.


December 2019 • 5 minute read

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050 / Ink and Card

I’ve just come up with an idea for an exciting project and I want to tell you all about it!


December 2019 • 2 minute read

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049 / A Story About The Universe

I believe that when you move towards your dreams, the universe will move with you. I see evidence of this everywhere.


December 2019 • 4 minute read

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048 / The Future Of This Letter

My year-long experiment is nearly over, and so I need to ask you - what should I do next?


December 2019 • 3 minute read

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047 / More Thoughts On Words And Pictures

From Tilly Walden to William Blake - some inspirational notes on telling stories with words and pictures.


November 2019 • 4 minute read

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