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Six Boxes of Telly: Drawing the Small Rituals of a British Evening

Six Boxes of Telly: Drawing the Small Rituals of a British Evening

The weather map with its stubborn little cloud. The soap pub that everybody's been in but nobody's been in. Six ordinary bits of British television, sketched and argued about, and a case for why the telly is still the best life-drawing class in the country.

The Pencil Doesn't Lie: Keeping Illustration Slow, Wobbly and Visible in 2026

The Pencil Doesn't Lie: Keeping Illustration Slow, Wobbly and Visible in 2026

There's a drawer in my studio that will never make it onto the grid — filled with roughs that didn't work and the evidence of someone changing their mind. As polished, instantly-generated imagery floods every feed, I'd argue the smudges are the most valuable thing an illustrator has left to sell.