Illustrating

Spiral snakes

Some experiments with inks, snakes and spirals

Circular Tree of Knowledge image

An image inspired by The Tree of Knowledge in Genesis, created over the Christmas holidays

Colourizing a photograph of my great-grandfather

I colourized a photograph of my great-grandfather, Frederick William Johnson, standing next to a magnificent orchid.

More hatching practice

As usual I drew this with a fiber-tip pen on my morning commute, photographed it and then colored it on my iPad. What is different here is that (after changing the layer to A…

Hatching practice

I’ve been experimenting with hatching. I learn that I should do pencil sketches from references and add shadow-lines before inking.

Tree of knowledge image

I created an image of the Tree of Knowledge, based in part on sacred geometry

My seal

King Charles has a seal, and I wanted one for myself. So I set about designing one.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell image

This work is inspired by The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Fungi collected in Cataluña

Photographs I’ve taken of fungi over the years in various places in Cataluña

How I improved my digital handwriting

Neat handwriting helps memorization and achieving goals. Here’s how I improved my digital handwriting when writing on the iPad

Somnium by Johannes Kepler

I illustrated the first few pages of Somnium by Johannes Kepler

Drunk Schrödinger cartoons

I think the points Schrödinger makes in his book What is life could be made much more succinctly by a drunk Schrödinger.

William Blake postcards

These postcard-sized images are inspired by quotes from his work The marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake.

Paradise Lost cartoons

I drew illustrations for the first three books of Paradise Lost

Abiogenesis pictures

Some little drawings I did around the concept of abiogenesis, using a fiber-tip pen and coloured pencils.