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Vector graphics marble test using Affinity Designer (and Inkscape for its raster-vector tracing function, which Affinity Designer doesn't...

This illustration of my family's first record player was just a vector graphics exercise. It's a PrinzSound Stereo System 6 with a...

Last year, I was approached byThe Chinese Room, a UK video game developer who were making a horror survival game set on an oil platform...

I recently drew one of the cinemas of my childhood, Sale Odeon, which you can see here. This is the other cinema I frequently visited,...

This is another drawing that I've created purely as a distraction while I'm trying to write, or, rather, playing with fiddling graphics...

A while back, I re-created a graphic that featured in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was a very minor graphic in the...

I tend to doodle detailed faces while I'm thinking over ideas for stories. Apparently other writers also do this, or rather they have...

I created this vector graphic and piled on the details, including vector textures, to see how much my computer (and Affinity Designer)...

A new illustration in the linocut style.

I've long been a fan of graphic artist Edward Bawden (1903-1989), so thought I'd try to draw something roughly in his style. It took way...

I've been playing around with Affinity Designer. I don't normally create photorealistic vector graphics, so thought I'd give it a go....

Recently, I set out to create new digital artwork that can't be replicated/imitated by AI. It seems to me that AI's Achilles heel is its...

My grandfather used to work here, so I thought I'd draw an image of White City's gates. It started life as a botanical garden in the...

I've long been a fan of the 1967 documentary The London Nobody Knows in which James Mason introduces the viewer to less salubrious areas...

I can never simply stop work at Christmas; I always have so much work momentum built up that I end up spending the first few days of my...

I'm still in the mood for drawing precise lines and technical details, so here's a TV studio camera of the type you'd see at BBC...

This factory was near to where I grew up. This test illustration might be the start of new, longform project incorporating text and images.

An old-school sex shop of the type I used to see when I lived in London in the 1990s. Digital charcoal pencil and watercolour.

Here's a quick sketch of W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, Rings of Saturn, and others.

This is essentially the result of avoiding proper work on a rainy Thursday afternoon. I'm in the middle of Twin Peaks re-watch binge, so...