A little thought on pirates. When thinking of story ideas I like to turn things on their head, change scale and imagine the apparently impossible.

As soon as you do this, reality gets turned inside out: The radio listens to you, the stairs take you nowhere,  hats are boats, boats are hats, computers are really good as carpets, your lunch eats you and instead of binning the bits of you it does not want to eat, it makes something of them…that's enough! There are some ideas. 

Two characters here. The two are close friends. I have been re working the start of a story, making the relationship of the two main characters more 'real' for the reader.

Digital this time. It is a strange sensation looking at the screen while your hand, out of sight, creates the image. 

I have spent today doing character pieces. Developing a character who is bullied in one of my books. Interestingly I have chosen to work in pencil here and in a particular style. The character might not end up rendered in this way but it is good to 'get to know' them in detail before deciding to go more abstract.