​Towards the end of 2024, I found myself settling into a steady rhythm of working in Procreate on the iPad. Something clicked, and I found myself heading toward a restrained, intentional way of working. I set limits: a single brush with modified settings, a nod to the diametric loose-precision of Crumb’s early pen work. My colour choices became deliberate, stripped back to controlled palettes with an increased sense purpose that are anything but literal. Digital textures provide the rough, imperfect, grainy charm of cheap, tactile print.
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Like most shifts in my practice, this wasn’t planned. It began with a single drawing, a small experiment that hinted at something worth exploring. That led to another, and then another, until I realised I’d stepped into a new phase of making—one that, like all the best creative detours, had arrived unannounced but felt entirely natural.
The digital drawings below serve as developments toward the more refined work above, tracing a progression from sketchbook-like digital studies to more considered "final pieces". This evolution feels (to me at least) organic - one stylistic alteration leading to another, perhaps influenced by my experience as a commercial illustrator, where refinement and clarity are always part of the process. At the same time, it reflects my ongoing search for a visual language that feels distinctly my own—one that balances spontaneity with intention and unencumbered gesture with considered composition.
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