Pencil, ink and ballpoint pen drawing. L—R (behind): Sergei Skripal, Alexei Navalny, Yulia Skripal, Boris Nemtsov, Nikolai Glushkov, Stanislav Markelov.
Vlad the unfriender
La battaglia che può cambiare Amazon
A cover illustration for this week’s Internazionale magazine.
Many thanks to Maysa Moroni.
Professor Whitty
Animated portrait of Chris Whitty, possibly the world’s most worried man. (Also shown is the original drawing, plus an early first version.)
Sketching a tomato plant
Reykjavik from the hotel
Ink, pen, pencil, coloured pencil sketch of Reykjavik from the hotel on Rauðarárstígur.
Self portrait
Sunday afternoon self portrait
The rear view
Watching them stops them landing
Nearly Hembrug
If you’re cycling from Zaandam to Amsterdam (which takes about 45 minutes and includes a ferry) you’ll go through a small underpass just before you reach the Hembrug ferry point. As you emerge from the underpass, these sweeping diagonal lines leap out at you. This is what you see here. This is actually the 4th attempt at this picture, each time whittling it down more and more. Eventually drawn in Kyle brushes.
Bonnetje me?
‘Bonnetje me?’ sort of means ‘do you want a receipt?’ in Dutch. This picture celebrates that frozen supermarket moment (probably in a branch of Dirk van den Broek judging by the livery). I’m also slightly fascinated/horrified by people who do that funny thing of closing their eyes briefly when they talk. It’s an unconscious thing, and the people that do it don’t believe you when you tell them they do it.
This was painted directly into Photoshop using the various digital brush tools. Click it to look closer.