Aren’t pears beautiful?

I miss the days when illustrations were hand-drawn in pencil and ink! I’m going to bring that back.

Artists, make sure you don’t sign away your rights!

Plant portrait with field notes.

I used to use quad paper for my knitting design 20 years ago. Forgot I even had it. Now I can use it for my inking lessons.

Sketchbook work

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Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013)

Click on the cartoon to listen to NIgerian playwright Biyi Bandele talk about Achebe and the profound influence Achebe had on younger NIgerian writers, like Bandele.  And listen to Achebe himself in earlier interviews… 

Cartoon: Taylo Fatunla, Nigeria/UK (Courtesy: Africartoons)

Great drawing. And if the artist put this together just since word of his death yesterday, and if hand-drawn, boy do I feel lazy! Well done!

“You must draw, draw, draw, draw first, draw last and all the time, and until you can draw well, you cannot illustrate.” Joseph Pennell