| Occasionally I'll get out a sketchbook and draw something properly, but more often than not I find clean paper a bit intimidating and I end up putting the book back in a drawer until the next time I get the urge.
As a consequence of my sketchbook phobia, most of my doodles and illustrations end up on scraps of paper, receipts, council tax reminders and beer mats.
Often these surfaces provide their own interesting backdrop for the drawings, so things sometimes turn out better than if I'd got over myself and put some marks on one of my immaculately vacant sketchbooks. |
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One book I have managed to fill without feeling like I've spoiled it is the one I kept with me on long journeys when I used to drive a lorry. Inside there are the germs of an idea I built upon with a couple of exhibitions and a published book of illustrated stories.
The stories were taken from the original hurried scribbles; drawings that were often punctuated with having to deliver fourteen pallets of binbags to Aldi, or five tonnes of spray-tan to Home Bargains. |
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