Work

Drawing

The drawing underneath the design. Expression heads, observational sketchbook pages and construction studies, kept to a small selection.

Heads & Expressions

2020

Caricature and expression studies. Different skulls, different ages, and the same face pushed from neutral to disgust.

Pencil: a heavy bald man with an underbite beside a laughing woman in round glasses. — Two skulls, two attitudes.

Pencil with green construction lines: the same young woman's face, neutral on the left and pushed into disgust on the right. — Neutral, then disgust.

Pencil: a girl laughing with teeth bared and eyes squeezed shut. — Laughing.

Pencil: a balding man with his mouth wide open in surprise. — Surprise.

Pencil on grey paper: a man with a wide-open mouth and raised brows, mid-shout. — Shout.

Sketchbook

2016

Observational drawing. People asleep on trains, reading face-down, falling over. I try to see the acting before I draw it.

Watercolour and pencil: two passengers asleep, one with a dropped jaw, leaning into each other. — Sleeping passengers.

Pencil: a person lying face-down on a bed, reading. — Reading face-down.

Coloured pencil: a girl in a red cap and a dark dress caught mid-fall. — Mid-fall.

Sanguine pencil: a figure collapsed face-down, hair spread on the floor. — Collapsed.

Pencil: a sketchbook page of eight small heads at different angles. — Heads page.

Studies

2015-2020

Construction studies. A clothed torso in four passes and a page of hands.

Pencil: a clothed male torso drawn four times in progression, from gesture to finished form. — Torso, four passes.

Pencil: three studies of a hand in different positions. — Hands.