Category Archives: On the Drawing Board

I take my humourous illustrations as seriously as I do my serious illustrations

Posted on 01/03/2015 by Miko

It's very odd,creating an idea and an image which make people laugh, is actu­ally taken very ser­i­ously. Not a smile comes to my little face, while I'm work­ing on what will make my audi­ence smile. This is one of my vari­ous … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Get to know your audience.....

Posted on 14/02/2015 by Miko

When you work with a magazine for a while you get to know what illus­tra­tion con­tent will be accept­able to the edit­or, art dir­ect­or and read­ers. In oth­er words you get to know your audi­ence. So Rory Mackenzie's art­icle is … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

I had to make a comment in support of Freedom of the Press and of Speech!

Posted on 08/01/2015 by Miko

Wed­nes­day 7th Janu­ary 2015 was a shock­ing day for Par­is and Free­dom of the Press. This is my con­tri­bu­tion in sup­port.

Two new illustrations, I'm pleased with. What do you think?

Posted on 16/12/2014 by Miko

These 2 illus­tra­tions are of, yours truly, 'Moi!' Miko and my eld­er son, Toby, the pho­to­graph­er. I cre­ated them for our 'About Us' page on the brand new Miko greet­ings card and art print site.       Feel free to be … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

I Bring Great News, My Fine Feathered Friends

Posted on 26/11/2014 by Miko

My young­est daugh­ter Zoe, with a little help from Alex, has giv­en us and the rest of the world to share, one of these: Click on Hugo to enlarge Allow me to intro­duce Hugo, born on the 1st of Novem­ber 2014 … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Do you know a sick little someone?

Posted on 13/03/2014 by Miko

Put a little smile on their face, cheer them up send them this Miko car­toon. This is a very quick sketch using Sketch­book Pro. A great pro­gramme, espe­cially for quick pen­cil roughs. Does any­one else use it? 

First it was 'Space Critters!' and now it's a Baby Alien!

Posted on 16/01/2013 by Miko

You may remem­ber the sur­prise I had one recent morn­ing, when I awoke to find a chat­ter­ing (whatever the col­lect­ive noun is!) of Space Crit­ters on my draw­ing board. Well it's happened again!! I am work­ing on a cute baby fun … Con­tin­ue read­ing →