The Third Something

How are you doing? Sometimes during the week I think about you all, my small band of Third Something readers, scattered around the globe. Many of you w…

Apr 5

Today’s letter is for anyone feeling like they should be making art out of what is happening right now. I feel it too. I am locked down in an apartment…

Mar 29

Do you feel it too? On top of everything else, I’m struggling right now with this sense of insignificance. In the metaphorical apocalyptic disaster mov…

Mar 22

These are strange times. Depending on where in the world this letter finds you today, you might be in forced isolation in Italy or looking out of your …

Mar 15

I finally finished my first sketchbook yesterday! As I wrote back in January (#53), the goal for this year is to fill sketchbook pages, as many as poss…

Mar 8

I have thought about this advice, from designer Frank Chimero, a lot over the last year: once through, cleanly. It’s very simple: when you are first be…

Mar 1

The little comic journals I have been filling my sketchbook with these past few weeks are bit personal to publish here, but I’m finding them a pleasing…

Feb 23

Back in December I had this idea for a project: using inks and brushes I had just bought, I would offer to draw and paint you lovely Third Something re…

Feb 16

Thank you to everyone who wrote to me after last week’s difficult letter. I printed out all of your emails and glued them into my sketchbook in a page …

Feb 9

Rather than a time for new beginnings, the first month of the year (and the decade!) has been one of endings - none of them wanted, or even expected. M…

Feb 2

A short letter from me this week. I have things I want to say but they are still delicate seedlings and need more time to develop. To try and articulat…

Jan 26

On my desk is a framed page of storyboards from Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. Spin the frame around and on the other side is a print from Scott McCloud’s g…

Jan 19

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