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I've been experimenting doodling on fabric with Sharpies an turning that fabric into pencil cases...I'm getting a good response from people so I think I'll get good quality fabric pens and create some unique items with doodles....

When life gets tough just close your eyes....inhale the good...exhale the bad

Sometimes I just need to vent. This is my sarcastic take on our fallible humanity and one of my ways of dealing with absurdity. My therapy.

The complete first task of my lettering course. I thought maybe wait for the critique and refining it it before uploading here. Yet the suggested changes would make a whole different work.

black and white on paper

One of my favorite things about being a parent is listening to the stories my daughter makes up and really trying to encourage her imagination. She has named a bunch of the cacti which line our windowsills, while our cacti are very accustomed to their suburban lives they also like a bit of adventure, this is a group of them taking a family vacation to the desert.

Some late night doodling with neon pens, pity the camera couldn't pick up the colours coz they are lookin' mighty.

Hunchback of Notre-Dame watches as his home burns to the ground.

I need to decide which one is going to be the final work as my first task for a lettering course i’m taking. Already hate them all - 3 sketches was too much

Scratchboard, 5x7”.

Holey Sandwich, part of an ongoing series of sandwich bag art since 2008

Original painting by YUKA

Ink drawing on canvas with acrylic background

Sky is not the limit anymore...

This is a pencil and charcoal drawing of my daughter Eva

Still reeling from that fire; totally unnecessary. Cover and inside illustration from my book, The Moth and the Sun.

Hustle and bustle outside one of Stoke Newington's finest cafes

watercolor on paper