Most of my designs are just the central cartoon figure. This is basically laziness. I kid myself that it’s all to do with simplicity of the main image, not wanting to add unnecessary detail or just that I can’t draw backgrounds. Really though it’s because creating an effective background, simple or detailed, takes a lot […]
I can’t really claim a deep interest in manga as the inspiration for this and much as I like Japanese artists like Hokusai (my toilet wall is a giant mural of the Great Wave) neither is his influence evident here. I’m afraid the reality is that I was a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja […]
Definitions of platelets often describe them as ‘fragments’ of cells and in figures they are often small blobs with little indication of what they actually do. At the turn of the 20th century they were even dismissed as ‘the dust of the blood’. This implication that platelets are passive bits of cytoplasm floating through the […]
