These first posts began as emails posted to a couple of friends, sent as we shared photos of our latest sketches. We still exchange some sketches by email but it’s more convenient to save it all on a website where it can be a record of discoveries made and techniques learned.

As with any learning process, it’s often the mistakes that are the most instructive. The sketches shown here are more a record of what works and what doesn’t, rather than a showcase of finished pieces.

So the expected audience is rather small, but even so, when posting on a public website it is tempting to be more thorough and exhaustive with the information given than when writing a personal email, often to the point of paralysis. Instead, these early posts are kept short (if incomplete) to pass on brief thoughts or observations, with occasional links to other sites of interest.

The dates of the posts have been altered to match the time the sketches were made, which makes more sense when reading in sequence but that could mean new posts are buried in the pile as I add old sketches. Use the Recently Edited list on the right to find the latest posts. There are also a number of dead links which have accumulated over the years. As they’re corrected they’ll also appear in the Recently Edited list.