Art O brother fan art process Last week, I got a hankering to watch O Brother, Where Art Thou? and after I'd watched it, I got a hankering to draw some of the characters. As I did most of the work digitally, it was fairly easy for me to export the various steps as
Solo: Saving the cat A while ago, I was chatting to some friends about Solo: A Star Wars Story, along with more Star Wars nerdery. What we liked, what we didn't like etc. Overall, I didn't hate Solo, but there are a few things that didn't quite sit
Reading 20 in 2020 In the years prior to 2020, my reading habit had taken a bit of a nose-dive. I'd pick up a book every so often and work through it, but I wasn't reading nearly as much as I wanted to. With 2020 being a nice round number,
Week notes Week notes #25 I've done 25 of these week notes now so I think it's a good opportunity to reflect. If I'm honest, I'm struggling to keep up with them. Those who've been following along may have noticed I've gone from
podcasts Make it then tell everybody with Dan Berry It's not me just chatting crap when I say this podcast is my favourite podcast. I've been listening for years since I was introduced to it back in 2014, I've even been back through pre-2014 episodes so I can honestly say I've
Drawing with Tom Sparke Last Wednesday night, I put aside my comic project for one night to do some silly drawings and chat comics with my pal, Tom. I'm not an eloquent person and still don't feel too comfortable being recorded for the internet but I'm caring less
Week notes Week notes #24 Another week gone by. Well, sort of. I wrote my last week note 5 days ago but let's round up for the fun of it, eh? Well, I guess the first thing to say is our youngest took his first steps this week. He's been crawling
Week notes Week notes #23 These week notes are getting later and later each week! I guess the next one will be slightly shorter, since there's only 5 days left this week. I guess the biggest news of all doesn't directly affect me, but like many others, I've been
Week notes Week notes #22 It's been a while since I last did a weekly update! A few things have happened, not all great so I'd let the updates get pushed to one side for a little while. A few weeks ago, my Aunt passed away after battling cancer for the
Sad day for comics... Today it's been announced the publisher I've been working with, Fair Spark Books, is closing its doors. This year has been rough for many and the knock-on effect has been an affect on sales since the beginning of lockdown which means it's no longer
Week notes Week notes #21 Another week and another year older! It was my 35th birthday last week which I kinda forgot about in the last post. I guess I'm at the age now where birthdays aren't really noteworthy events until I start hitting landmark ages. 5 years to the big
Week notes Week notes #20 I think this will be another short and sweet one today as there's not a great deal to report. It's been a week since my aunt passed away and now local lockdown restrictions prevent us from visiting any of our relatives which is a bit shit
Week notes Week notes #19 I'm a couple of days late with this one but I'm struggling to find time to slot this in so it's gonna be a short and sweet one today. We've had a rough week. My aunt was diagnosed with cancer last year
Week notes #18 After a little break, I'm back with this weekly reminder of what I've been up to. In general... We've had a busy few weeks. Getting our eldest ready for his return to school, re-arranging bedrooms to allow both our kids to have their own
Personal All alone I've had this on my "to write" list for a while. I honestly don't know why I feel compelled to write this, I just do. My late father-in-law's ashes are buried in a cemetery in my wife's hometown. He passed
Week notes Week notes #17 This last week we've got somewhere closer to Summer weather again which has been quite nice, though as I write this, we're melting slightly in the 26ºC evening muggy weather. The result... Last week, I mentioned we had to take the COVID-19 test, which was pretty
Week notes Week notes #16 This last week, our area got put into local lockdown again. Though it's been confusing as chuff since we can't have people visit and sit in the garden, but we can go see the same people in a pub (??). Anywho, that means we're back
Post-COVID working I was the first hire at my company and from the very start, we baked remote-working into our working practices. Until Lockdown was announced, we worked 2-3 days a week remotely so switching to 5 days-a-week was an easy switch to make. Now offices are slowly opening up again, discussions
Week notes Week notes #15 Aside from picking up a new car, this week has been fairly uneventful. I've been working while the rest of the family went to parks and things. The new car we picked up is a Toyota C-HR, our first Hybrid car. Our first automatic too. Having never driven
Music Gary Clark Jr, Live North America 2016 I don't intend on making this a regular thing, posting about music I've been listening to but this is one of those albums that just hits me on a visceral level. I'm not entirely sure I can pin-point why but here are a few
Week notes Week notes #14 Weeks seem to be flying by faster and faster! Here's another quick round-up of things in my life. Wednesday was Lu's birthday so I took the day (and the rest of the week) off work. We didn't get up to much to be honest.
Music Re-discovering Nirvana Yesterday, I was looking through Spotify for something to listen to and decided to stop on Nirvana. As I posted to Twitter [https://twitter.com/nocturnalmonkey/status/1282761099838992386], I was excited to discover Nirvana's Live and Loud set is now available as an album. When I was a
Week notes Week notes #13 This will be another brief week note entry. Later this week, our eldest finishes school for Summer, concluding his first year. As is often the case with most things these days, Lu and I remark how fast time seems to be flying by. Around time last year, we were buying
Week notes Week notes #12 On this here Monday, we continue to have typically British weather. Pissing rain one minute, then sunshine the next so naturally we've all got something to complain about. Last week, I took delivery of two new books. The first being Haru by Joe Latham [https://www.etsy.com/
Week notes Week notes #11 Ok, so here we go again! I'm going to try stick to updating on the same day each week from now on but I'm not going to stress too much if I'm a day or so out either way. This week at home we&
