I don’t paint often, but when I do…I’m glad that I did. I wasn’t hoping for much in this painting exercise — to use only complementary colours and a white — but we had a few hours to play with and I’ve meant to do this kind of thing for a long time. Who said red and green should never be seen? I think I’m satisfied with…

Well here’s what I did for that Christmas project. Funny thing about sequences, is that you’re supposed to keep them aligned with each other. You know, like, looking similar. I definitely developed my idea of what they should look like as I went along. Maybe I’ll redo the first one. There are some photographs over here.

As I have said, I’ve been doing some work. This is one drawing in a set of five inspired by the work of M. R. James and a story in particular titled The Ash Tree. The brief: to illustrate key moments from the story. Thinking about it, this image may be a spoiler. Might add some smoke and more flames to this, and when the five images are…

About a year ago now, I made this box, for a brief to repackage a dull item found for under a pound and make it a little more enticing. To make the undesirable, desirable. I found a shoehorn, which I believe to be a complimentary gift from shoe seller Clifford James, which I paid way over the odds for, a whole fifty pence. Drawn to its…

Alongside collaborative partner, Mark Kenny, the last three weeks have been spent mostly animating this short film for its premiere held yesterday, 6th December. So, the brief was to make some puppets and perform a show, or make some puppets and do moving image. As much as I love to put on shows, I chose to do moving image – I just feel it’s better in…

New year, new modules, new brief. I’d like to show off my photograph of a welly I customised to represent Michael Eavis, farmer and founder of Glastonbury Festival. This photograph was taken for the first brief in the module ‘Ideas Through Design’, a module that looks and sounds to be the one I’ve been waiting for. Quick personal update, I’ve been suffering the dreaded Man Flu…

After only 8 hours of Life Drawing in my life, this happens, on two hours sleep, and in a class I wasn’t supposed to be in. Best. Class. Ever. There is no teaching, only philosophy. There is no technique, only thoughts. Nobody talks about drawing like Angelo DiCinto. Yes, the other students think I have fallen in love, and yes, that might be true, but I…

I am 4 weeks in to a degree, beginning my 5th. It looks like I’ve done a lot less than is expected, oddly, and perhaps conversely, I feel like I’ve learnt more than I ever have about drawing. Coming from full-time telling morons (and I mean that in the nicest way possible) how to eat properly and doing at best a scribble now and then to…

I have volunteered myself to help out the The Big Draw event at the Fitzwilliam Museum on October 23rd 2010, I’m not sure what I will be doing though it’s all about helping children get in to drawing and having fun doing more, well, drawing. It sounds like fun, and I too wish people would draw more and if I can get just one child to…

…does not exist after freshers week. Not that I fully integrated myself with the young boys and girls and their copious amounts of drink, but the tone has certainly tarnished and it seems like everyone has calmed down to reassess their financial and academic positions. So, I went to the library to print off a few CV’s; see if I can’t get myself a job. I…

That, there, is Al-Amin, the convenience store, deli, import foods, post-office, butchers, tobacconist on Mill Road; if you can name it, they’re selling it. Illustration Practice Visual Research through Drawing Brief One We have each been allocated a business to research. The brief is to gather as much information as possible about the building, the space and the culture it contains. We’ve been dropped off at…

EDIT: I found out that this building is actually a part of Darwin College, so there you go! I’m here, Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art where I commence a new life of study over the next 3 years, starting from…now! I’ve been here for one week, living with a friendly bunch of fellows from the east-side, totally new folk, then. Accents and lifestyles…