I’ve always dreamed of a sketchbook that will handle anything I throw at it, that will take all of my favourite mediums well and without compromise. Regular cartridge paper sketchbook is OK for charcoal, conte, and dry media, but terrible with pens and ink. Smooth writing paper is brilliant with inks, and might be OK […]
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been taking up so much of my time since it came out that it would be lying to name this post anything else and pretend like I’m not neck deep in this beautiful, legendary adventure engineered by Ubisoft. I’ve only played a little bit of Syndicate before, and was thoroughly enjoying […]
Yesterday my mum and I went to what is by far the most expansive and well stocked art store I’ve ever been to in Delhi. I felt like a kid in a sweetshop, drool and all. Sketchbooks of every size, type, colour, binding and brand lined the walls. Open stock varieties of charcoal pencils, drawing […]
I love getting my hands and face smudged with pastel dust just as much as my mum hates it. I have an original 2015 iPad Pro that has served me very well over the years but has now developed a screen discoloration issue that makes it unsuitable for illustrating on. As if I needed any […]
When I was 18, young and naive and arrogant, I used to regard fountain pen collectors with a touch of disdain. How could these crazy people justify spending tiny fortunes on tools that essentially fulfilled the same function as a £0.50 ballpoint pen? Especially when these expensive tools required regular maintenance and cleaning, and needed […]
I had no idea that the reddish brown stones and bits of clay you see lying around outside are actually what the modern day pastel stick or pencil evolved from. Chalk is calcium carbonate and can be used in its most natural, organic form straight from the earth to draw, although in this form it’ll […]
It took a great deal more effort than I care to admit to get myself to calm down enough to sketch again. Slipping into the total focus zone is so easy sometimes, and so frustrating at other times when you feel like you have a point to make, and you need to make it fast. […]
