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My daughter will be three tomorrow, and motherly affection overcame a lack of ability in the baking skillset. I found that food-colouring behaves much like watercolours, and that icing, even lumpy icing, is a very forgiving medium. Fortunately, she will be three, so her aesthetic judgement is not yet fully developed. I have a year […]

Draw Anyway is based on the principal that whether or not you can find the time, whether or not you think you can, you should put pen to paper and see what happens.
However, even I have to concede that there are not unlimited hours in the day. I have recently been given an excellent opportunity […]

No art post today since during my normal slot for writing, I was swanning around sipping wine at the Brighton Web Awards. Rather too much wine if truth be known, but you can’t blame me: everyone was at it! The speeches got slightly more raucous as the evening went on.
The arts category was given […]

 Sudoku City copyright Andrew and Chris Judge
One of our most-visited and certainly the most-commented-on post in Draw Anyway’s history was the round-up of entries into the Observer/Random House/Cape graphic arts competition.
Just a quick note to say that the list of links to entrants’ work has continued to grow. We now have over 30 strips, more […]

Draw Anyway is proud, delighted, and a little embarrassed, to discover that we have been not only nominated, but shortlisted, for a Brighton Web Award. Hearty thanks to our anonymous nominator. If you’d like to vote for Draw Anyway, you can do so by clicking on the logo in this post, or the one rather […]

Thanks to everyone who entered the competition last week - far more people than I expected. Congratulations to Gina M, who wins the Art Doodle book.

I’m going to make some changes to Draw Anyway. You might have noticed that recently the whole idea of daily tasks has kind of fallen by the wayside, partly because I get the impression that a task a day is just too much to expect from people.
So I’m going to tweak the format slightly. I’ll […]

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but this is just to announce that there is a brand new category on the ‘reason for contact’ field of the Draw Anyway contact form: suggest a topic for a post.
So, if you would particularly like to see a topic covered on here, drop me a […]

I’d like to apologise to Drawanyway readers because for the last two weeks, you may have noticed that I’ve been slightly less engaged on the site. It’s had to take a back seat while I’ve been preparing an illustration for a competition - with only a set number of free hours available to me each […]

This is Drawanyway’s 50th post! That’s if you include the round-ups and the weekly links posts and the couple of maintenance announcements. Which, in my desire to unroll the bunting, I ‘m gonna*.
Would you like to send Drawanyway a birthday card? 50 is quite a landmark…

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