Will Prince is a 19 year old artist from Cumbria an is my new artist addiction. His work is phenomenal. Will uses he own technique of drawing and computer graphics to make his stunning pieces . His work is very expressive and his lines in the work seem to have a life of their own, which create exaggerated yet real portraits. What I like the most about Will Prince’s work, is that his style is completely his own. Its wacky, serious, charming and funny. Please be sure to check out his work at Will Prince Art.

Hey people, now I’m not a cat person – at all. Their evil stares, pompous attitude and general disregard for your feelings doesn’t do it for me. However this video, made by Marcus Noble is so funny I had to share it with you. Enjoy!

Happy new year! Hope your all well. Thanks for all your support, and comments. This year I’ll be posting much much so keep visiting x

So as we say goodbye to 2011, I’ll just tell you a few things I want to see in 2012 and things I wish 2011 would die with. Hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and all the best for 2012!!

Don’t follow us into 2012:

• The word ‘ swagger ‘
• Big Brother and American Idol
• Film remakes, prequels, sequels, trilogies
• UK rioting
• Annoying crazes eg. Planking

Hopefully see these things next year:

• less dance euro pop music – much less
• more community outreach schemes
• cheaper London transport
• More people preaching the gospel and not about getting stuff
• loving each other like the brothers an sisters we all are                                                                           

I get so many questions about this, so I finally decided its time you tell you all about my historic sittings with H.R.H. Prince Charles. I was invited to H.R.H’s home throughout 2009, to do the sittings which lasted between 40-60mins. I couldn’t quite believe at the time, that I was going to his house but he settled my initial nerves by being so nonchalant. His home was beautiful and kinda what you would expect. There are ornate objects, fascinating sculptures and large paintings everywhere which I would look at uninterrupted while I walked the corridors of his home. There’s even red carpet in the bathroom!

Sitting with Prince Charles though was fascinating in itself. His stories, demeanour and presence don’t make you feel like a subject. It feels more like being with your kind uncle. He talks very passionately and gets quite shy at times. He was very interested in my life an career which was a shock to me and he asked me all types of questions. When he saw the work his reaction was priceless and he was shocked what I noticed about his face. H.R.H. Prince Charles was a pleasure to draw, he didn’t complain once in the periods he sat for and was one of the most gracious an intriguing people I’ve ever met in my life. The sittings where conducted in over 6 months and the work now resides in his home.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Matt Morgan who kindly agreed to do a sitting for me. You may have seen him in Ed’s video for ‘ynmidny’. I was actually quite excited to meet Matt as some peoples faces are so unique  they are simply exquisite. What I like about drawing Matt was his eyes. They are as big, round and quite piercing, innocent and startling. Here’s some sketches i did of him, unposed and raw. These were done using a chunky graphite stick. If you don’t have one please go out an buy one. They really free up your drawing.  I will be doing some more drawings on Matt, so stay tuned in!

So I tend to watch Sky News really late at night and I’d thought I share their newest newsreader with you. Now if your reading this in the States your probably thinking, what’s the big deal? However the last Afro/Caribbean male newsreader I remember in the U.K. was Sir Trevor McDonald. An finally on Sky News here he is Gamal Fahnbulleh, I don’t know much about this dude but I was so happy to see him up there reading the news. You can get inspired from anywhere.

I had to post this amazing drawing by an Ed Sheeran fan called Ashleigh Charlton. Sometimes you can’t own an album or poster enough an you have to draw it to truly make it your own. This is something I used to do with all the albums I owned back in the day. Other than being a fantastic drawing, I felt hugely flattered, so keep up the cool work Ashleigh! You can follow Ashleigh @Ash_Charlton1

Here’s the second single from Ed Sheeran’s number 1 album  + .  I made this portrait after I visited the video shoot for ‘ynmidny‘ and did the drawing from a composite of stills from the video promo. I was originally going to do a portrait of the guy featured in the video Matt, but I changed my mind in favour of this portrait of Ed.  However, I still will be making some work of Matthew Morgan, which I will be posting later this year. This portrait I feel captures the mood and rawness of the video. Thanks for all your comments, I read them all and reply all my tweets x

So I recently was asked by the Community Channel team to feature on London 360 as Londoner of the Week. I jumped at the chance and you can see my interview on the Community Channel Sky 539 on Mondays, Thursdays and Sunday throughout the day or online. This is my first ever televised interview, thank you to Jasmine Dotiwala, and the whole team and I hope you enjoy it!!!