A calendar for life and other news

In order of importance of news I have the great pleasure that I am the new illustrator for Bananafish Magazine as well as having the fun of designing their new masthead. After seeing advertisement for an illustrator for there site and upcoming publication I approached them and have happily had the header accepted.

and all this after a year of keeping my notebooks with me and sketching for all I am worth. But onto that news as well. I have happily completed two months of The 365 Notepads Calendar and am working my way, whistling, through March.

I have specifically kept the day and year off the calendar so that you don't have to buy a new one every year and am looking into the options of publishing the whole lot at the end of the year. Most likely it will be a  day to a page (with some method to cover leap years).

If you have any comments please leave them here or on the Facebook fan page as I'm always intrigued which images people like (even like them if that's all you want to do). It is also posted on the

365 days of Sketches

My first project for the New Year, should last a whole year and revolves around a full calendar of sketches. For every six days of Black and white I'm also having a seventh colourful day.

Here are the first of the days:

Quick Update

I'm sorry but I don't often post 2 days in a row but I have just opened up one of my presents I bought for myself from Japan and am crowing about it now. All I can say is that if you are a designer/artist/desktop publisher you should get a Wacom Tablet.

My first effort doesn't do it justice but here it is below:


The smoothness, the detail and even the fun little things like turning the stylus upsidedown as an automatic eraser just make working so much smoother.




But try it out yourself. I'm just going to need more hours in the day to test it out.

Oh and look at my previous post for Lara Luz when you get a chance

Someones been sketching.

So I should explain that I've been sketching a little more recently. A little more excitedly and a little more fervently. But I have also recently tried to make my T-shirts look more interesting by adding the balaclava posing rocker to show off the styles.

So to introduce my sketches:


/\ The Flying Ship /\

/\ The Cheshire Cat Grin/\

/\ The Monkey Powered Tugboat /\


/\ Leap with Boots/\

/\ This Penguins Got a Gun/\

Sketching from the Notebook of Insanity - Animation

You can now watch me redraw 20,000 Leagues:


to a larger format (A3) in under 40 seconds (actual time may have been about 1 1/2 hours)