Originally this started as a means of working up some smaller drawings (something I don’t oft get to produce) so that I could post to Instagram and satiate the dreaded algorithm more frequently. Drawings #001 through to #009 were done on a roll, but then I hit a wall. I ran out of ideas. Me! An illustrator! Shameful. I’ve always struggled with coming up with ideas to draw, but 9 is a bit of a record low.

And then a year or so later I decided that I would start sketching during my commute. I realised out that if I just drew random shapes on a page it became a lot easier to assign scenarios to them than just coming up with those scenarios right off the bat. The same as looking at clouds and pointing out what they look like.

As such, #010 onwards were all created from small thumbnail sketches where I wasn’t sure where my pencil would take me. And as I’m doing these sketches on my commute, I now have a big backlog that I’m translating into illustrations whenever I get a spare mo’. Fun!