Animals
Wild Life Drawing – Wolves

Wild Life Drawing – Wolves

Wild Life Drawing hosts live drawing sessions with animals in the UK. I sadly haven't ever been able to go to any of their in-person classes, but I have now attended online! Last week I joined in a Zoom drawing class featuring three wolf-dogs from Watermill Wolves. A...

Badger Prints For Sale

Badger Prints For Sale

My badger sketches have proved popular, so I've had some lovely A4 prints made! You can purchase them on my Gumroad shop.

Equitots Lanarkshire Pony Booklet

Equitots Lanarkshire Pony Booklet

My sister and I were horse mad when we were younger, with model horses, multiple books, and notebooks filled with pony sketches and stories. I still ride, and (when I'm not in lockdown) volunteer with my local Riding for the Disabled group. So creating this booklet...

Cats, big and small

Cats, big and small

Gestures of cats big and small from Line of Action. Some very quick 30 second gestures up to two minute studies.

New Portfolio!

New Portfolio!

It's been about two and a half years since I last updated my drawing portfolio (!) so I thought it was time to give it a refresh. What's been exciting about putting this one together is that it's all new - nothing from the last portfolio is still in it. You can take a...

Move Summit 2019

Move Summit 2019

Move Summit is an industry-focused animation conference in Edinburgh now in its third year. In 2017 and 2018 I was a volunteer, but this time I was able to attend. This year it was a three day event jam-packed with speakers from Pixar, Axis, Aardman Animations, Blue...

Inktober 2018 #10 – Bree

Inktober 2018 #10 – Bree

Bree (or Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah, to give his full name) is the titular horse of The Horse and His Boy. Shasta is the boy. I had wondered about drawing Aravis and Hwin, the other main characters, but there are so many other characters I want to draw I initially...

Inktober 2018 #01 – Elsa

Inktober 2018 #01 – Elsa

Inktober is an annual drawing challenge which I've taken part in before, but this year I've decided to do it a little differently. As the name suggests the drawings are supposed to be in ink, but this year I'm going to cheat and draw digitally. My aim with this...

Sketches at the Museum

Sketches at the Museum

I was in Edinburgh yesterday for an animation event, so I spent some time drawing in the museum on Chambers Street. I sketched a sperm whale skull and a haughty-looking llama as well as some of the visitors. The sketches are pen on paper, but the tone was added...