I decided that between teaching Design & Media Apprentices at a college, Writing picture books and stage plays, being a dad and a husband, carrying out End Point Assessments for Apprenticeship Standard Learners, the mountains of ironing and teaching myself how to resin cast, I… Read More »Website Revamp…
Your latest picture book work is done. Your agent is at the Bologna Book Festival promoting your stuff. You’ve finished all but one of your Cadburys Creme Eggs, and you’re idly browsing fonts on www.dafont.com. “That looks easy! I can do that,” you think. After… Read More »Build a Font or Invade Russia During Winter?
Give a man a crayon and he’ll shove it up his nose. Give a man a pack of crayons and he’ll write a ridiculous story about a secret agent dog, a goose hell-bent on world domination and a dad who just wants to make dinner.… Read More »Waterstones Children’s Book of The Year Award 2024
Today is a big day for me. It’s the day when I can officially say that I’m not an idiot with crayons sat in my bedroom. I’m not just some muppet who doesn’t know when to quit. I’m not just a whimsey merchant, pedalling picture-booky… Read More »FCBG Awards 2023
There’s one very important thing every author needs to know if they’re going to do a book signing. It’s incredibly important. Super duper important. And that is the answer to “Where the heck is the bookshop?” You see, as a breed, authors are not always… Read More »The Whitby Bookshop
Last week (2020-05-13) in our livestream session we had an absolutely fantastic time drawing pirate ships on the high seas! You can view it (and all my other Learn to Draw videos here )I love drawing curvy waves and old wooden ships – there’s just… Read More »Avast Me Hearties!
I am fantastically excited to announce that this Thursday (28th February) I’ll be presenting Awards to a bunch of talented young folk at the JVenn Young Writers Awards Ceremony. The long and the short of it is that the JVenn Foundation is a fantastic organisation… Read More »JVenn Young Writers Awards Ceremony
If you’re looking for something awesome to do with your kids: try baking. For those of you not in the know, baking is like buying a cake, but you end up much more mess, washing up, and stuff for the dogs to lick off the… Read More »Baking with a Little Bear
Thought Bubble is packed with a mixture of professional established artists and writers, enthusiastic amateurs, cheeky kids who have photocopied their own comic and everything in between. Every single person there is at a different point in their creative career, with different backgrounds, values and… Read More »Thought Bubble – Connections
It Starts Small Creating images is something we do instinctively; give a one year old a crayon, and you’ll see unconfined joy as they clumsily rub it against paper, leaving delicate scribbles as they go – the happiness that spreads across their face when they… Read More »Ethical Responsibilities of a Designer