could be in a dream

Here's another sketchbook that I've just about finished. I'm not sure of the brand, I bought it because I wanted a different page shape and size from the Moleskine and this had nice thick paper too. I've really enjoyed working on a more panoramic (?) page and will need to replace it with something similar if I can't find another of these.

I made the top drawing at a field day that had all sorts of events going on. I'm really happy with some of the lines I achieved in this drawing. I used a fine liner and a calligraphy pen to get them. And, the one below is from one of our Dr Sketchy events.

The rest of the drawings from this book can be viewed HERE.

up the Gherkin

Recently I've been organising the scans of all of the drawings I've made over the past few years and put them into folders and onto memory sticks etc. It's amazing the things you find to do when you have no internet. I came across a  bunch of drawings that I did for a job a few years back. It was for the launch of a new Cross pen (yes, THAT Cross pens). It was a great job. I was approached by Cross to make a series of drawings and to attend their launch night, at the top of the Gherkin (yes, THAT Gherkin). I had to draw a series of iconic buildings and I drew them in the only way I knew how - back then - in the form of souvenirs.

I remember it was a real quick turn around job and that I went right down to the wire with the deadline. Hell, I was still drawing them on the train down to London! So, unfortunately I didn't get to scan all the drawings. I'm particularly annoyed that I didn't scan the New York Museum of Modern Art in a snow globe. Still, it was one of those gigs that was a joy to do (and, let's be honest, it's not often you get to say that). Plus I got to watch the sunset at the top of the Gherkin and to see all the lights go on over London town. 

deconstructing a daydream...

 Here's a brand new drawing.

It was never really actually meant to be a drawing, if you know what I mean? No?

Well it started life as a series of little drawings...

They were just individual drawings of individual pens.

Some of may favourite pens to be precise.

That's all they were ever meant to be, but sometimes I cannot leave a page be.

I cannot rest until I've filled it full of stuff; words, doodles, daydreams...

 I originally drew the pens to decorate the pages of my latest little zine.

But then it grew and grew and grew.

Into one big daydream.

 You can buy the original drawing HERE.

Or if your budget does not stretch to an original (I know mine doesn't), then you get buy the zine HERE.

 

Cheers, my dears.

Happy daydreaming.