We produced a lot of work on the Seville drawing trip (or at least we should have done), but of it all I felt I got the most out of the afternoon we spent among the marketeers and browsers. These sketches took a small number of minutes each, emphasising character, narrative, and composition — I hope.

I was particularly happy to get some use out of the fine-liner as it has been much discouraged thus far, and that’s okay — difficult to learn new things when you’re comfortable with what you know — but I do enjoy coming back to the old friend now and then. I remember feeling a new confidence sketching these and happily churned them out.

If anything, I’m only sad that I came to the end of that sketchbook so quickly that I couldn’t do any more sketches. The market was full of oddities and eccentrics — for example, who’s buying enough second-hand pornography for this guy to get by? I could have drawn all day.