the beatles

All my recent Beatling around led to this. I'm happy with the likenesses but perhaps I was a little too reverential and should have further exaggerated their facial features. I particularly like John and Ringo (John's nose is good), I haven't quite captured Paul to my satisfaction, and of all the Fab Four, George was the most difficult to get right, hence the countless attempts at a likeness in recent posts. The 'finished' illustration is in colour and can be seen over on the website, but I quite like the black and white version which goes some way to capture the Beatles in 1963/1964 (before colour was invented).

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one million george harrisons pt. 962

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one million george harrisons pt. 327

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i like kids. i used to be one

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college conference

Three portraits from the college's Christmas conference yesterday. From left to right: some bloke I've never seen before, the back of Annabel Waterman's head and a portrait of Sue Sanders who sat opposite me as we conferred about a great number of things.

Unpin fineliner on photocopier paper.

university challenge – balliol

Lock up your daughters menfolk! These four stud muffins from Balliol College, Oxford graced our screens on Monday night's University Challenge...

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second hand pomegranite

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one million george harrisons

First of a million pages where I try to draw George Harrison...

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university challenge

These four gentlemen made up the team from Wolfson College, Cambridge on Monday night's University Challenge...

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donald's trumps

First in a series highlighting some of the more malodorous views of the President Elect. I'm not sure how universally the word Trump is used to describe a fart (would Americans get this reference for instance, or is it exclusively an English slang word?) but I couldn't resist the pun and it seems entirely appropriate given Mr Trump's history of talking out of his arse.

At the same time as I was working on this, my daughter was drawing at the table next to me.

"I can draw better xxxxx [whatever it was she was drawing at the time] than you", she said.

"Oh, yeah?" I said. "Well, I can draw Donald Trump better than you".

"No, you can't", she said, and promptly dashed off the following sketch. With perhaps, the tiniest bit of coercion from me, she added a poo and some wee to the top of his head, thus making her father doubly proud.

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(Hers) Koh-I-Noor Polycolour coloured pencil on photocopy paper.

hello kitty brush

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king of the comb-over

A double spread of Donalds – sketches for something I'm currently working on...

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