Sketchbook Drawings by Year

Archive of sketchbook drawings with additional captions.

Experimentations in mark-making, colour and composition, made by drawing from observation, imagination or memory.

100 Day Challenge

Using three materials to create a drawing from observation or memory every day.

  • Day 1

  • Day 2

  • Day 3

  • Day 4

  • Day 5

  • Day 6

  • Day 7

  • Day 8

  • Day 9 (more on Instagram)

  • Day 10

  • Day 11

  • Day 12

  • Day 13

  • Day 14

  • Day 15

  • Day 16

  • Day 17

  • Day 18

  • Day 19

  • Day 20

  • Day 21

  • Day 22

  • Day 23

  • Day 24

  • Day 25

  • Day 26

  • Drawings documenting my little brother and sister's bedtime routine.

  • Drawings at Bologna Children's Book Fair 2023.

  • Drawings of Piazza Magiorre at night time in Bologna.

  • 'Last morning with big sandwich' drawing in Bologna.

  • Wolf life drawings from sketchbook 1/2.

  • Wolf life drawings from sketchbook 2/2.

  • 'Many arches' Bologna drawing.

  • Drawings during a talk at Bologna Children's Book Fair.

  • 'Bird on the Table' Bologna drawing at a cafe.

  • Valentines concert at V&A Dundee.

  • 'Bus to Studio' observational drawing on a bus in Dundee, featuring an accumulation of different seen buildings out the window.

  • 'Climbing Houses' lunch time observational drawings.

  • 'At the Tay' observational drawings in Dundee.

  • 'Homes high in the sky' Baxter Park observational drawing, featuring dog with nice paw.

  • Drawings with @jillyjillystudio for her blog Wee Dundee, documenting a drawing day activity idea.

  • Drawing day with @jillyjillystudio for Wee Dundee.

  • Rockpool explorations 'building a dam at the rockpools'.

  • Drawings at the Studio.

  • Observational drawings in Dundee, in thumbnail format to experiment with compositions.

  • Drawings from Costa on Princes Street.

  • Drawing during lockdown, on the Law.

  • 'Sitting in Princes Street Gardens' sketchbook drawing in Edinburgh.

  • Sketchbook drawing my the canal in Cambridge.

  • Observational sketchbook drawing on the train back from Cambridge.

  • View from hotel balcony in Barcelona.

  • 'Tree on walk to studio' drawing in Autumn.

  • 'Cats' sketchbook exploration.

  • Drawing during lockdown, on the Law.

  • Drawing of the back garden.

  • 'Start of the daily walk' memory drawing.

  • 'Snow people here for a little while' winter drawing.

  • Sketchbook drawings exploring a tree.

  • Drawings from virtual 'on location' explorations on Google Streetview.

  • Rockpool exploration drawings.

  • Tree drawing explorations, from a combination of observation and imagination.

  • Mixed media garden drawings with my little sister Lauren.

  • Fashion drawings inspired by websites documenting street fashion in different countries.

  • @stillherestilllife week 5.

  • @stillherestilllife Live Drawings.

  • Observational drawings on the Law in Dundee, during lockdown.

  • Lockdown explorations by the stream.

  • 'Too rainy today' sketchbook drawing.

  • 'Duck family on the water' sketchbook drawing from memory.

  • 'Lots of fruit and vegetables' for @stillherestilllife

  • 'Such a fun selection of glass things' sketchbook drawing for @stillherestilllife

  • 'A small gap between two purple lands of fruit' sketchbook drawing for @stillherestilllife

  • 'The trees seem taller today' sketchbook drawing from lockdown adventures.

  • 'Yellow Day becoming Blue' sketchbook drawing from lockdown adventures.

  • 'Swinging from tiny plant to tiny plant' sketchbook drawing from lockdwon adventures.

  • 'Afternoon Walk' sketchbook drawing from lockdown.