Have you been out today?

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998











Don't know what's going on with those chaps with giant heads on their backs. Too much cheese close to bedtime maybe.


Bigness of picture may be achieved in the usual fashion, if desired.

You probably thought you were safe from any more book-plugging from me for a while but I've just seen these kind words about A Boy and a Bear in a Boat and I'm not so modest that I don't want to share them.

Been enjoying drawing an old favourite character in the latest bit of Good Dog, Bad Dog 2 (starting its appearance in The Phoenix pretty soon). Here's a sneaky peek of a sketchy sketch in a sketchbook.







This time, she sings!

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998












Bigness of picture may be achieved in the usual fashion, if desired.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998






That there on the right was done as a cover for the proper 7" vinyl single Fiery Fields by Mercedes (Stupidcat Records 1998). Attentive readers will recall that Stupidcat were Rachel and Andy from downstairs and that I drew their logo too (a stupid cat). A brief bit of Googling reminds me that the Mercedes tune was their first ever release, a split single with another band, Freeboy. I think the excellent Mr Mike Irwin provided artwork for their side of the sleeve. One long evening we all - Rachel, Andy, Mike, the excellent Mr Nik Tuliani (my other flatmate at that time) and I - sat in Stupidcat HQ (Rachel and Andy's front room) handcolouring the sleeves with felt tip pens. At time of writing there's an example on eBay, complete with rubberstamped company logo, here.

[UPDATE: It transpires that I did the cover for the Freeboy side too, as you can view here. The excellent Mr Mike Irwin, of course, did the cover for the later Stupidcat release These People by Spraydog. Ah, rock & roll.]






As noted above, I lost this sketchbook (outside a pub in Brighton - the big one on the corner up near the station, where they used to have the open mic nights on a Tuesday - Chris, what's it called?) but it reappeared, cosily clad in a jiffy bag, back in Cambridge the thick end of two months later. Whoever posted it back to me enclosed no note but whoever they were I thank them now for their kindness (and stamps).

Bigness of picture may be achieved in the usual fashion, if desired.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998













Bigness of picture may be achieved in the usual fashion, if desired.

This fella's making an appearance in chapter 7 of Good Dog, Bad Dog 2 and I've been rather enjoying drawing him.

Seawhite of Brighton A6 sketchbook number 12, begun April 23rd, 1998

And here we are at the start of another new sketchbook. At this point I must have been just into the final term of my first year of the MA at Brighton.













Bigness of picture may be achieved in the usual fashion, if desired.

Daler, A6 sketchbook number 11, begun 2nd January 1998.

Ah, we're into the boring, noteful, back of the book pages that I probably shouldn't put up here at all ... so here are all of them at once to get them out of the way.






























All pictures go big if clickified.

I am proud to announce that one of my favourite blogs, Caustic Cover Critic, has an entry on A Boy and a Bear in a Boat, detailing how the cover came about, here.

Yet more shameless self-publicity regarding A Boy and a Bear in a Boat:

Daily Mail review(!);

Cambridge News article:

YouTube clip of me reading a short extract of BBB. (Never realised I sounded so posh. Slightly ashamed of myself about that).