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I created this line drawing several years ago but did nothing with it, so I thought I'd use it to test out Affinity Designer and Affinity...

Having recently completed another contract using Affinity Publisher (I'll post the graphic here when the time is right), I decided to...

I wrote an article called 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' about pre-Christian winter traditions in the Bavarian Alps. You wouldn't want...

I'm taking part in Darkness in the Fields, a day of folk horror writing workshops, interviews and talks on Sat, March 11. I will talking...

My recent promo badge designs for music artist Concretism. The designs echo the covers of his albums, which I also designed.

I wrote and illustrated an article about British public information films of the 1970s, and it's featured in the latest issue of The...

Scarfolk is featuring in the The Horror Show!, "a landmark exhibition that invites visitors to journey to the underbelly of Britain’s...

Quick sketches of the wasteland behind the house where I was born in the old industrial NW of England.

A quick sketch done in the time it took to listen to two BBC Radio 4 programmes, so just under an hour.

An attempt at Tom Baker as Doctor Who #5. He was 'my' doctor and I still recall the first time a television show scared me: The Seeds of...

An experiment in the style of mid-late 20th century illustrators such as Celestino Piatti.

An attempt at Kurt Vonnegut, but I'll also be happy if you think it looks like Einstein on crack.

This paint-sketch is supposed to be the author Paul Auster, but if you think it looks more like Jean Reno, pretend I said it's Jean Reno...

As today is Star Wars Day (May the 4th Be With You), I thought I'd upload this sketch of The Mandalorian I did a while back.

A rendering of pianist Bill Evans with new brushes.

Trying out some new brushes.

I'm playing with a new, more textured sketching style.