It’s been well over a year since I last updated this blog: my job as a lecturer in English literature and my responsibilities as father to two young children barely leave me time to make drawings, let alone spend time blogging. However, I’m hoping to use the summer to bring this site up to date and put up - in a series of weekly posts - some of the images I’ve made since I last wrote.
A good place to start is with Inktober, since that was also the basis for the last post I managed on here. If you don't know what it is, Inktober is the creation of artist Jake Parker. The idea is that every day in October you make a picture using pen (or brush) and ink, rather than digital means, and then post it to twitter. During 2013, I only managed to participate in this a few times, but last October in 2014, I just about managed to complete one drawing in ink every day. This was exhausting and usually involved putting together something fairly derivative from reference material found via Google.
Since I was tweeting these images, Twitter also served as a source of inspiration and I also cobbled together versions of photographs posted by individuals such as Richard Coles and Simon Day:
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| Young Richard Coles / Simon Day dressed up |
And then, finally, a picture of Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg and a goose.
The goose is there because of a long-standing joke with an old friend about the consequences of inserting the word ‘goose’ into Dylan lyrics (Subterrenean Homesick Goose, Goose of Spanish Leather etc.). Let’s just leave it there, shall we?
