Things can feel a bit slow sometimes. One of the difficulties with leaving college and trying to rev yourself up is the lack of someone kicking your bottom to make you do work.

Being faced with a blank piece of paper and trying to make it into something interesting... I feel like I'm four again and whining 'Mum, what can I draw?'.

So I'm making up stories, and collecting stuff, and drawing from life: anything to keep pen on paper! A friend has now emailed me a link to an organisation called Illustration Friday, who set a new brief each Friday, surprisingly enough. Working to someone else's brief is good ongoing practice as well.

Another way of sparking myself up is to redraw stuff that was good, but kind of 'studenty' in style. Here's my first effort:

Old and new, respectively. The old just has more personality somehow at the moment, for all that the new drawing is technically better. Back to the drawing board (literally!), and keeping on redrawing and redoing. Having fun trying, as well and, really, not that bad a thing to complain about!