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This chaps work is great. If you have the time, go take a look at it. Very reminiscent of Bruegal and Bosch.

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A friend of mine sent me a link to these beautiful designs for alternate Tintin titles. A graphic designer by the name of Muzski has added one of my favourite writers works’ to one of my favourite comic characters and created some new Tintin adventures, which – if they played out like the actual stories by H P Lovecraft – would end very badly for Tintin, Snowy and the Captain…

So being probably the last man on earth drawing artwork with a mouse, i’ve finally bought a Wacom Intuos Pro drawing tablet. I’ve been hankering for one for the past year and finally took the plunge with the large model. It arrived yesterday and I have just test drove it on this pic. The pen works perfectly with my screen and only took a short while for me to get a ‘feel’ for it. This is 1 and a half hours work. This tablet is going to speed up my workflow a lot.

Always interested in finding new historical military artists, I came upon American William Trego. He mostly depicted scenes from the American revolution and Civil War. The paintings are excellent, and I was drawn to his drawing skill too, a snippet of which is here.

Stumbled upon several of Ernst Haeckels prints from his book Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of Nature). Lovely images and  all the elements are laid out with great symmetry. Here is a selection of Cephalopods that struck me as quite Cthulu like.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War. The word anniversary doesn’t sit well – its a celebration of something. It’s much more worth respectfully looking back, remembering and reflecting on the enormity and tragedy of it all. I found this sketch in my old papers from the early 1990s recently. I think i’ll be sketching a fair bit of WWI stuff this year.