Drawing words, and the tiniest snail! – Letter from the studio, April 2026

A highlight of my April was the completion of the first draft of my comic’s storyboard (in my last letter I was working on it and giving you a peek into my process :)). Yay!! Now I’m waiting for feedback from my editor. In the meantime I’m going to experiment with the final style for the comic – and work on more stories with Loukoum & co. that I can pitch to my publisher. But first, I’ve started a little side project 😁.

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Days 3-5

I’ve made it to the test print! …but let’s first pick up where we left 😌️

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Day 2

So I’ve reworked the base hexagonal tile for my repeat pattern.

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Day 1

It’s been a moment since I last tried my hand at repeating patterns, or stamp carving. Today I’m diving back with an obviously much too ambitious project: carving a stamp for an hexagon-based pattern – also, small enough to repeat on the “end papers” of my A6-size sketchbook 😅️.

Process / WIP: Designing an illustrated calendar

Portrait, landscape, or something else? That is the question!

Red poppies + wolves sketches (Power in Numbers 8 WIP)

I’m planning on taking part in Gallery Nucleus’ classic open submission show, ‘Power in Numbers’, again this year (my piece from 2021 is still available, by the way ;)).