I got a few things over Christmas which will hopefully help kick start the year. I got a lovely new scanner and mechanical pencil. Also, a personal present from me, to me: an electric eraser. My girlfriend also got me some nice frames to hang up some inspiration on my empty walls. Finally I can put up my Dan Mumford screen print and Wesley’s Ice Cream Man.

Not such a ‘Big Christmas Draw’ this year, though I did get a very important drawing done. A few years ago I was asked by a family friend’s son to draw Spiderman, while we were on holiday. I said ‘yeah sure, I’ll draw one as soon as I get home’. It kept getting put off and I was getting a bit worried about what they would expect after such a length of time.  Just before Christmas, I spent the best part of a day doing a few poses for him on an A3 sheet.

Below are some of the other sketches I did over Christmas.