opening a book into the artist’s soul

When he has no deadline to hit, Rob’s sketchbooks are where he enjoys making art for the fun of it

“On the rare occasion that I’m not working, I have to decide how to use my time to be as constructive as possible. I either look at new software or I treat myself to a week of pissing about on a new sketchbook page.

Drawing is the complete opposite to any work that I do for film. I give myself the absolute freedom to draw whatever I fancy, and aside from wanting to post the work online I have no pressure from a deadline. In addition, my work in film rarely calls for me to be humorous, so it’s also a chance to wheel out that aspect of my character.

For years it was the last bastion of natural media in my work (I switched to digital about 20 years ago), but eventually I just decided to dump my pencils and create the pages digitally, because the main point of doing them is to relax and to enjoy myself. I love the added freedom that doing them in Photoshop gives me. Photoshop also enables me to go full colour (occasionally, mind).”

Rob’s exclusively told us that he’d love to publish a book of his sketches one day… Kickstarter campaign anyone!? Sketch 2

Though his free time is scarce these days, Rob likes nothing more than to sketch out ideas as they come to mind. Sketch 1