I’ve updated my portfolio for 2024. Do have a little look through! (Click on the image below to open it.)
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Inktober2024
This year, I wasn’t too grabbed by the official Inktober2024 prompts. So I decided for October to do an alphabet: an Alphabestiary of Badly Stuffed Beasts – seen mostly in Natural History Museums over the years. So here they are. Ok, yes, it’s very difficult to stuff a jellyfish or a skeleton..(And they’re in the Shop here on Sketching Weakly.)
The Greatest Show on Earth is HERE!
I’m so excited to be able to share with you my new book, The Greatest Show on Earth.
This book began in the Oxford Museum of Natural History, about 10 years ago. I was hanging out with my small son Herbie, and admiring the iguanodon skeleton, when I realized I didn’t know how long ago it was that the dinosaurs went extinct. Or even how old the Earth actually was.
Well, I discovered it’s 4.6 billion years old. But what does that 4.6 billion year timeline look like?
I wanted to tell the whole 4.6 billion years roller-coaster ride story of life on Earth in one book, so my readers could see ALL of this amazing and incredible story. I wanted my readers to be able to see each piece of the story at a glance, but also be able to dive deeper in to discover the unfolding inventions of evolution. I hope this book can bring Earth’s WHOLE story to young readers – in the company of Rod the Roach and his insect Troupe.
So come and take your seats for the ENTIRE history of Planet Earth, as we take a whistle-stop tour: from the birth of Earth, to the age of bacteria; from the era of dinosaurs to the moment of people…and beyond!
Find out more about The Greatest Show on Earth here.
Make your own Insect Theatre!
The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice
Brought to you by the Onion Power of AF Harrold with scribblings by me, this book has something for everyone and not entirely useful advice for every occasion.
Join the RestOfTheWorldists!
Bonzetta, Sketching Weakly’s Animals Correspondent, writes:
This Empathy Day, let’s not forget all the non-human inhabitants of Planet Earth. The RestOfTheWorldists can’t talk, but someone needs to give them a voice.
Sorrow at the Supermarket
Sketching Weakly’s new investigative journalist, Agatha Frizbee, is on the trail of another food-related mystery…
Draw Me a Story
The Draw Me A Story exhibition is now on at the Story Museum in Pembroke Street in Oxford, with pictures and all sorts from Quentin Blake, Emily Gravett, Korky Paul, Yasmeen Ismail, Nick Sharrat – and me. There’s artwork, sketchbooks, things to find and do, and even a tame illustrator at work in the Illustrator Zoo!
