Meeeeeee! Self portrait as an action hero. Dip pen, April 2025.
Ack ack! Ack ack ackackack ack!
What a lovely thing to say! Thank you very much. You rock!
I'm so glad you like it! This was from a photo.
I draw in evenings after work. It was about three evenings, so maybe five or six hours total? I remember this was really fun to do!
I've briefly spoken with I think three Nobel prizewinners in chemistry: Lehn, Feringa, Sauvage. Feringa and Sauvage hadn't won when I met them.
Lovely of you to say so! I haven't done one of these but I'll have to give it a try!
A portrait of my friend looking very professional. Dip pen, April 2025.
I loved it! I've only been the once, years ago, but I remember seeing this one and loving the look on her face.
Thank you! Though having both my version and the original side by side makes me see how wonky her anatomy went for me...
+1 received, woop woop!
Not often a drawing makes me laugh out loud. Outstanding work.
Experimenting
For me I always feel like I add one line too many and ruin the whole thing, so I admire people with the discipline to hold back!
Experimenting
Beautifully minimalistic.
Why thank you! I've been doing this with a few pieces Still feeling the technique out, but I'm enjoying experimenting!
Oh you absolute hero! Thanks. Do go see it if you're in town, it's breathtaking work!
Hahaha, I'm nervously proud!
Why thank you!
I think that's a very sensible idea!
Holy crap, your last few have been awesome!
Thanks! I drew this with a big goofy grin on my face.
My poker face. Self portrait in dip pen, December 2024.
This is so good!
Gulls. Dip pen, December 2024.
Adding birds to my list of things I don't know what they look like despite seeing them every day.
Voting clusters in the UN General Assembly 2015-2025
In the UN General Assembly, do some countries consistently vote the same way?
This plot lays out patterns of similarity in voting behaviour in the decade starting in January 2015. Countries that are close together in space on the plot tend to be similar in their voting.
Clearly the countries are divided and united by certain political themes, but the analysis is blind to these: all it sees is the votes themselves, not the topics voted upon.
Nevertheless, it has picked out a cluster of European nations in the top centre, joined by Ukraine and, more loosely, by Japan, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. The United States and Israel are a pair of outliers, voting almost identically to one another and often very differently from the rest of the world.
The technique used is logistic PCA, a decomposition method for use with binary data. Data is from the UN digital library. Visualisation done in R.
Construction worker on a break. Dip pen, December 2024.
From life, technical pen, December 2024
I ran out of big paper halfway through the session, so had to pull out the backup sketchbook. Only A5, but good things can come from constraints! Technical pen, 15 minutes from life.