Mad as a March Hare

Hares are really hard to draw with simplified lines. For added difficulty I also tried with Early Medieval Pictish carved stone-style curled joints and Lindisfarne Gospels-style inner lines.

Haring After Picts

The Picts carved many different beasts on their stones in the Early Medieval. Some real, some imaginary, a few somewhere in between. I set out to learn how to use the style to draw animals that they never did…

Zoomorphic art

A project to create black and white zoomorphic images based on insular art

Hild’s bynames #4: Hægtes

What exactly is a ‘hægtes’, and how do you draw one if you don’t know what it is?

Making my own Hild art

While writing both Hild and Menewood I drew dozens of maps to help work out everything from travel routes to weather events to Hild’s thinking to battle tactics. These sketch maps are full of private code and wouldn’t make sense to most readers. But every now and again I like to post one to illustrate a point. So I started […]

Gemæcce

The story of making the novels about Hild of Whitby