Wild Ink

Scrooge

richardsmyth — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:27:20 +0000

Scrooge’s nephew

richardsmyth — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:08:05 +0000

Attila the Solicitor

richardsmyth — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:56:52 +0000

Been a while, hasn’t it? The place is looking a little gloomy and cobwebbed. So here’s a cartoon – in colour, very unusually for me – I was commissioned to draw this month. Hopefully, there’ll be more to follow.

Acrylic inks (dip-pen and brush) on Bristol Board.

Christmas cards!

richardsmyth — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:30:59 +0000

Finally, they’re here. And by ‘here’ I mean here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/CartoonInk

Hand-drawn, hand-lettered, hand-inked, hand-everything really (except hand-delivered), and professionally printed and eco-friendly and everything. They’re lovely, even if I do say so myself. I urge you to purchase them.

A slice of the profits will find its way to the good people at Roadpeace.

While you’re browsing Etsy, you could do far, far worse than check out the excellent stuff produced by Hilke Oetjen at The RetroSquare. Any money you haven’t spent on my cards, you should spend there (but you should ask yourself, why haven’t you spent it on my cards?).

I take the liberty of wishing you all a merry Christmas in advance.

Spinoffs and Clutterbuck

richardsmyth — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:58:45 +0000

If this blog is Happy Days – and God I wish it was – then Clutterbuck is its Mork and Mindy. Go there. Go there now, and return day after day after happy, happy day.

Coming soon: Christmas Redux

richardsmyth — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:58:12 +0000

There are only 52.51 shopping days to go till Christmas, and I’m really quite excited to announce that this year my hand-doodled Christmas cards will be available not only to be gawped at on here but also to be held in your very own hands, posted to your very own friends and relations, and installed on your very own friends’ and relations’ very own mantelpieces.

The production lines should be humming busily in a week or two, so postpone your card-buying for now and watch this space for further details. The cards will be roughly based on last year’s designs, only brighter, neater and generally souped-up, and a proportion of the meagre profits will go to the charity RoadPeace.

In the meantime, happy Guy Fawkes’ Night, all.

Legerdemain

richardsmyth — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:45:32 +0000

NOVEMBER UPDATE: another of my stories made an appearance at this month’s Liars’ League, again read by Greg Page:

Legerdemain

A story by me, read by the marvellous Greg Page, all thanks to the marvellous Liars’ League:

Lie There, My Art

The title is culled – somewhat undiscriminatingly – from The Tempest.

Liars’ League is an inspired initiative. There aren’t many better things to do on a Tuesday night than sit in a warm pub and listen to people telling stories.

Particularly when the likes of these recent highlights are among the stories told:

Listening To Reason by James Smyth

Old by Sammy Wright

Or, if there are (and to be honest, yes, now that I think about it, there probably are), you can’t do them at the expense of nothing more than five pounds and a ticket to Oxford Circus.

Haiku

richardsmyth — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:22:09 +0000

Fame, of a sort

richardsmyth — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:37:59 +0000

Ridiculously, I’m now Exhibiting. Kyla Bullows is curating a show at The Gallery at Willesden Green and four of my efforts are on display. Selected highlights:

Obviously, I’m a bit-part player in the show and don’t really belong in the esteemed company of, among others, stuckism’s Chris Yates, funism’s Norm Magnusson and Goodallism’s Simon Goodall.

There are many good things to see and everyone ought to go. It’s on til April 9.

This is what Chris Yates makes of it:

Christmas (again), again

richardsmyth — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:11:55 +0000

This year’s Christmas cards. Pen-and-ink and washable coloured pencil on smooth-surface cartridge paper. These are the originals, hence the school-project glue-and-card look.

'Hark The Herald Angels Sing'

'The Holly And The Ivy'

'Little Drummer Boy'

Merry Christmas everybody.