Back in 2020 I was determined to get to one of the jousting events near me during the late spring ... we all know how that turned out. Now that events are back on I still haven't made it along, but one of my colleagues did! Here's a sketch from some of the footage he...
Here's a look at some of the process I went through drawing the title page for Kinsey's Sword. As it was the first spread I painted for the book I was still trying to capture the style of the illustrations. Initially I'd thought I'd add a lot more detail and move...
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...
I'm back in Edinburgh for a few months, working as a Clean Up Artist (if you don't know what that is, here's an example) on a feature film I can't talk about yet. It's a really exciting project and I'm looking forward to sharing more about that, hopefully soon. One of...
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...
I've been busy with work and a family wedding, so it's taken me a while to post anything new! Here's a group of studies from one of Muybridge's wonderful sequences.
I keep mentioning on this blog that I want to do more drawing from life, so when the stable I've begun riding at advertised an informal show jumping event I went along to sketch the participants. At the beginning it was hard to put more than a couple of lines down,...
I've been referencing horses for a project, so I've spent some time drawing them in order to figure out how they work. Using Line of Action I did some quick gestures, and then I searched for various images through Google to sketch in more detail. The hooves are...
Some wind-down sketches from this afternoon. Also, the first little bit has been released about the project I've been working on for the last eight weeks. I've been a Story Artist on the Animation Base Camp, a trainee programme with mentorship from Sony Pictures...