What is a good day for you? 

Today as Vicky rested to see her cold off we decided not to go out. So I spent the day in my red and white striped pyjama bottoms, drew some illustrations for a work article and played Horrified.

One of the three illustrations is shown here, I will save you the social awkwardness of sharing the pyjamas. 

Horrified was great, and I am shamed it has sat unopened for some time on my shelf. A cooperative board game (which I played solo as Vicky was studying) you control a team of heroes battling some classic movie monsters who have invaded a village. Today as an Investigator I barely managed to save the village from a dual attack from Dracula and the creature from the black lagoon. It didn’t help that the villagers kept showing up right next to one of them so got killed. Idiots. In the second game the mayoress joined the team and we wiped the floor with Dracula (again) and a Mummy.

i really enjoyed it and I look forward to playing with a group.

Today we fried leftover rice for lunch and listened to what iTunes considered my top 25 tunes which included a lot of Journey, some Muppet tunes and the Teen Titans theme tune.

A good day.

I was commissioned by the Sevenoaks Supper Club to create their logo for them. A short brief on the club with a request to make as much as possible of the initials resulted in a number of designs. They chose this one.

Three months since I updated? Good grief. 

I am having to reach back to this Christmas card I designed for work which was sent out to all staff by our leadership. I was given a brief and asked to stick to the corporate branding. Those colours in the sky there that are supposed to represent the Northern Lights are part of our branding, as are all the colours in the crowd. I was quite pleased with this which I produced on Canva. The sky is reflected in the snow, the company is represented as a lighthouse and there are hidden elves in the crowd representing the company Partners. I love Canva, and by combining many elements I personally believe this was quite effective and met the brief.

That’s it! 35 cartoons completed for the songbook project concluding with this one I drew today. I am quite fond of this, it has been an enjoyable creative experience and my client is happy so everyone’s a winner. Can’t wait to see it in print.

Vicky’s brother Will and his mate James have launched their own coffee, and they asked me to draw something to use as the packaging branding. Here it is shown on a mock up coffee bag…I haven’t seen a real one yet to know how close this is. I’m looking forward to tasting the coffee!

You can check them out at www.dbroscoffee.com.

Yellow Monkey Emperor’s Classic of Chinese Medicine wot Damo and I wrote was published in 2016. In 2019 a Hungarian version followed courtesy of the good folks at lunarimpex. I finally got my hands on a copy thanks to my good friend Adam whilst in Sweden recently, and even better, Damo and I posed for a cheesy photo with it during a meal out with our partners Vicky and Roni.

My colleague Katie Deem has written an article on LinkedIn about strategy during a crisis for procurement and supply chain professionals. I illustrated it, and you can read the post on either of our LinkedIn pages.

If you follow me on LinkedIn then you will be fed up hearing about this book. If you don’t follow me there then I have exciting news!

Our book was published last week and I got my copy whilst in the office yesterday. I was part of the cover design team, wrote one of the chapters and drew all the cartoons inside. If you are in the public sector then you need this book. Did I mention it has cartoons in it?

You can buy it on Amazon.

I was chuffed to be invited back to the Royal Tunbridge Wells Art Society today to talk about producing art on iPads. I had a great afternoon sharing my passion for digital art with a very engaging group of artists.

Thanks for the tea and biscuits and I look forward to returning again.