Very sad news. As a Cure fan from the early nineties, Perry Bamonte was part of “my” The cure. RIP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A rather elongated Willem Dafoe. I started with my posh fountain pen and instantly smudged the initial lines. So I switched to a nice cheap biro. I rather liked it! I think I’ll do more biro drawings soon. #art #sketchbook #biro #willemdafoe #YouKnowImSomethingOfADrawingMyself

Two more pictures that I drew with Dylan Sara’s Advent draw-alongs. I’m rather enjoying this method of putting down a layer of pencil which works a bit like using coloured paper. #art #sketchbook #pencildrawing #portraits

This morning’s ten-minute advent draw-along. It’s interesting to me as it’s a technique I’ve not tried before. #art #pencildrawing #sketchbook

I was completely burnt out after #inktober and haven’t drawn anything since. That’s a month and a week without drawing. I was starting to get “The Fear” about putting pen to paper again. What if it was terrible? What if I’d forgotten how to draw? 1/3 #art #pencil #pencildrawing #sketchbook #neo

GLASSES-WEARERS: Do you have to take your glasses off every time you sneeze or blow your nose? I feel like this is my first winter with glasses and this is not something I foresaw. (Perhaps my foresight needs glasses too!)

Today’s letter is “w” for “Wordle” Wordle 1,603 4/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#inktober? InkOVER, more like! It’s the final day. Woohoo! I’m free! Day 31, “award” #art #sketchbook #sketch #penandinkdrawing #davidlynch #award #theend

#inktober Day 30, “vacant”. The penultimate drawing! I was frustrated that I didn’t get a better likeness of John Lyndon as he’s so distinctive. Adding colour is probably against the “ink only” ethos of Inktober but hey. Anarchy! #art #sketch #sketchbook #sexpistols #johnlydon #johnnyrotten #vacant

#inktober Day 28, “skeletal”. It’s a skellington. #art #sketch #sketchbook #bones #skeleton #penandinkdrawing #halloween #wooo

#inktober Day 29, “lesson”. I think I might have to do a triple whammy of pictures today! There’s two from yesterday. And then if I share today’s drawing today, I can post the final picture tomorrow on the final day of the challenge. #art #sketch #sketchbook #penandinkdrawing #jackblack

#inktober Day 27, “onion”. I feel a bit sorry for the lady in the reference photo for this drawing, who had to pose in an onion fancy dress costume with inappropriately positioned roots, but a job’s a job, I suppose. #art #sketch #sketchbook #penandinkdrawing #onion #fancydress #halloween

#inktober day 10, “sweep”. There are going to be a few days of double drawings as I get to the end of Inktober. Here, I’ve gone all the way back to day 10 which I skipped at the time. Day 27 in a bit. #sketchbook #sketch #art #penandinkdrawing #sweep #chimneysweep

#inktober day 26, “puzzling”. #art #sketch #sketchbook #penandinkdrawing #puzzling

#inktober day 25, “inferno.” Bruce Campbell in a devil suit... again. I was a bit hasty in sharing this yesterday. Here’s the improved version. #sketch #sketchbook #penandinkdrawing #art #devil #devilcostume #halloween

Inktober day 25, “inferno”. Bruce Campbell in a devil suit. #sketch #sketchbook #penandinkdrawing #art #devil #devilcostume #halloween

#inktober day 24, “rowdy” #sketch #sketchbook #art #penandinkdrawing #trainspotting #begbie #robertcarlyle

#inktober, day 22, “button”. A second drawing from yesterday. I chose to interpret “button” in the American way, as badge, and then found the most British example of badge wearing: Rik from the Young Ones. #sketch #art #sketchbook #theyoungones #adeedmondson #rickmayall #rik #vyvian #sitcom

#inktober day 21, “blast”. I thought of the phrase “blast off” and found a photo of the space shuttle, then, as I’m trying to focus on people, I found a photo of this astronaut. #sketch #sketchbook #art #penandinkdrawing #astronaut #space #spaceexploration #nasa

#inktober Day 18, “Deal”. Apologies to Kim Deal as it looks nothing like her! Day 19, “Arctic”. It’s Paul Hollywood making an Arctic roll! Day 20, “Rivals”. A drawing of a famous photograph called “The woman with the handbag”. #inktober #sketch #sketchbook #penandinkdrawing

#inktober day 16, “blunder”. #art #sketchbook #penandink #fountainpen

#inktober day 15, “ragged”. Sometimes, I get to the reference photo that I chose before the month started, & I just don’t want to draw it. For example, for “ragged” I’d found a homeless person playing guitar, but I found it a bit depressing, & I didn’t want to do a figure, I wanted to do a face. 1/?

#inktober day 14, “trunk”. I’m much happier with this one. Back to my usual pen and I did the grey first to avoid smudging. I didn’t really have to do much crosshatching. I just had to follow the elephants’ wrinkles! #art #penandink #fountainpen #elephant #elephants #sketchbook #drawing

#Inktober day 13, “drink.” Alright, I’m not very happy with this one but I’m sharing it in the spirit of this inktober thing. George and John’s faces haven’t come out well at all. Oh, well. #art #penandinkdrawing #crosshatching #beatles #tea #drink

#inktober day 12, “shredded”. This is the first time I’ve not used a reference photo from Pinterest. The idea came from there but the examples were too complex or too ugly. So I made my own collage. It’s still a bit freaky, but there you go. #shredded #art #sketchbook #fountainpen #crosshatching

It’s a double whammy of #inktober pictures from me today as I try to catch up a bit. Day 9, “Heavy”. I went for heavy metal & thus James Hetfield from Metallica. The reference photo cut him off at the ankles so I had to find a photo with him in a similar stance & transplant his feet from there!

#Inktober day 8, “Reckless”. I’m very pleased with this one. It’s Jason Lee, of My Name Is Earl, skateboarding. The reference picture had this cool slight fisheye lens effect. #art #drawing #sketchbook #ink #fountainpen #crosshatching #jasonlee @inktober @inktober_2025 @sketchbookskool

Inktober day 7, “Starfish”. Sorry to this random lady off Pinterest. I did a bad flat layer of hatching, added a worse scrappy layer & finally a third layer that might have salvaged it. I like the water and sky effects though. #art #sketchbook #pen #ink #crosshatching #starfish

#inktober day six, prompt: “Pierce.” Mainly to make my other half happy, I have drawn her favourite moment in cinematic history, which is when hairy Pierce Brosnan climbs out of the sea and walks into a hotel at the start of “Die Another Day”. #art #sketchbook #ink #pen #jamesbond #piercebrosnan

#inktober day 5. The prompt was “deer.” After the cross-hatching madness of the last picture, I wanted to do something very simple without shading at all (although a little but has crept in). Reference picture was off of Pinterest. #art #sketchbook #fountainpen #ink #deer

#Inktober Day 4: “Murky.” I drew Robert Pattinson from The Lighthouse which has a foggy background. Also, the job of a lighthouse is to light the way in the murk… right? Well, that’s my rationale! #drawing #art #fountainpen #sketchbook #thelighthouse #robertpattinson #roberteggers #alltheroberts

I have spent two days working on yesterday’s #inktober picture and it’s going to have to wait another day to be posted because after all that work I want to be able to photograph it under natural light! I am now behind schedule. In the meantime here’s a photo of my thumbnail pages! #art #sketchbook

#inktober Day Three: “crown.” I didn’t think too deeply about this. A person with a crown? The Queen! RIP #fountainpen #sketchbook #art

#inktober day 2

Hello! I’m having a crack at #inktober for the first time. Today’s prompt was “moustache” so I drew the owner of the most famous moustache in rock, Frank Zappa. I want to draw more people so I will be dragging the prompts that way whenever I can. #art #sketchbook #fountainpen #zappa #music

Bought myself some gouache paints. Did a painting of a trumpet. Found it quite relaxing. #art #sketchbook #gouache #trumpet

Tim and Daisy from my favourite TV show, “Spaced,” with ice creams in front of their faces. Posca pens. #sketchbook #drawing #art

Thomas Gainsborough, Untitled, 1819 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1132502

Mucking about with posca pens… #art #sketchbook #selfportrait

F U Ckkkkkk

I’ve been doing self-portraits recently and learning more about cross-hatching. #art #pen #fountainpen #selfportrait #drawing #sketching #sketchbook

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Two different watercolours of the same bowl of fruit. #art #painting #watercolour #ink #fruit #bowloffruit #stilllife

My wife suffers from this. I'm her 24/7 carer.

Here’s Rich Perry wrapping up our first #BrightonFringe show. I’m really proud of Rich and Kerry. It’s a great show! I am doing all new material on my experience of #LongCovid, a difficult subject & a real experiment, but it went really well! Two shows left: www.brightonfringe.org/events/aaand...

Only two days until our first show in the #brightonFringe! I will be sitting down, finding the funny in my experience of #LongCovid and reading a story or two. The other two will be doing stand-up. Get tickets here: www.brightonfringe.org/events/aaand...

We feel your pain my friend #TOTP