Essays About Drawing
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The Professional Beginner
As we get older, it gets harder to be a beginner - but that is where the adventure lies!
Storytelling Panel By Panel
The third and final guest letter, with some useful advice on plotting out the panels of a comic.
Get Better Faster
The first in a short series of guest letters from Third Something readers, sharing their own ideas about creativity and visual storytelling.
Miles And Miles Of Squares
A fun warm-up exercise for your sketchbook that improves your technical skills at the same time.
Maybe It Is Not What You Achieve, But Who You Inspire
Apparently seeing inside my sketchbook has inspired lots of you start drawing again - and that’s wonderful!
The Lockdown Diaries
I’ve been keeping a visual journal during lockdown and I’ve learned to pay attention to the little things.
The Sketchbook Problem
Sketchbooks are supposed to be a place for creative freedom. But rarely feel like that. A very long post with lots of pictures!
Ink And Gifts
Your hand-painted postcards are on their way! Here’s a step-by-step process of how I made them.
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.
Rock, Chalk and Ink
You share your advice on keeping a daily sketchbook practice and I try to do some simple drawing exercises.
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.
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.
