My Sketches: Common Dolphin

Here is a sketch of a dolphin, inspired by the old insignia of Hall Green Secondary school in Birmingham, where I grew up. Did you know…? Dolphins sleep with only half of their brain at a time…a phenomenon called uni-hemispheric slow wave sleep (USWS). This allows them to rest whilst remaining alert to utilise critical…

My Sketches: Black Cerva

Sketching nature has had a profound influence in imagining some of the beasts, monsters and hybrids, I depict in my books. Here is a pencil sketch of a hybrid stag, known as a Black Cerva, a nocturnal creature that roams the grounds of an orphanage in my forthcoming YA Novel – The Sweep… Did you…