Most recent letters
065 / You Don't Need To Make Art Today
Some thoughts from the first days of lockdown - should you be making art out of all this chaos? Don’t feel guilty if you can’t.
064 / We're The Extras
I don’t know about you, but I feel insignificant in the face of extraordinary events.
063 / Eating Toilet Paper for Coronavirus
This week I made a satirical video for The New York Times about this new coronavirus thing.
062 / Spirals
I’ve just finished my first sketchbook of the year! Here are some things I’ve learned.
061 / Once Through, Cleanly
Some solid advice from designer Frank Chimero on how to make the most progress in the early stages of a project.
059 / Ink And Gifts
Your hand-painted postcards are on their way! Here’s a step-by-step process of how I made them.
058 / A Kind of Aliveness I Live For
A crucial distinction for all artists - you don’t think in order to draw, you draw in order to think.
057 / Endings
My life has a lot of endings in it right now. Some reflections on the passing of Kobe Bryant.
056 / Negative Capability
On the inevitable uncertainty of making art and how filling sketchbook pages is helping me to tolerate it.
055 / Sequential Art
A look inside Berlin - one of the best graphic novels I’ve ever read and my thoughts on what filmmakers can learn from comics artists.
054 / Rock, Chalk and Ink
You share your advice on keeping a daily sketchbook practice and I try to do some simple drawing exercises.
053 / Fill Sketchbooks!
My plan for 2020 is to fill as many sketchbooks as I can, starting with filling pages of collage. Plus some advice on keeping a sketchbook.
052 / End of Season Finale
I have published a newsletter a week for a whole year! But what next? Plus an update on my postcards project.
051 / Banksy And The King
A story about the time Banksy squared off against London’s greatest graffiti artist - and lost.