Generally my commuter bag has so many drawing pens with varying sizes of nibs in it, I’m hard pressed to find something to actually write with!

After knocking half my coffee into the saucer, the resulting stack of soggy napkins underneath it turned into a nice contrast to the heavy ceramic of the cup. Drawn on a very sunny April day in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Drawing in the desert in January meant drawing right by the fire for warmth, so my attention was only on this particular jojoba bush beside the fire pit.

The red lettering in this sketch is from an alphabetical plastic stencil that came with a laundry tag marking kit. Condensed sans-serif letters had no fill in the middle of them, allowing for loopy interpretations of “D”, “P” and “O”. It made for appealing titles and wording on drawings, I’m still using it.

This little panda is from the V&A museum shop in London. His bright, slightly inane smile and the soft curved plastic suited being drawn with markers, I found myself grinning in a maniacal way back at him as I drew.

Mounted on a dark wall at the Natural History Museum in NYC, this fossil skull entranced me. The shape of it was like an elegant, refined arrowhead. That it belonged to an cetacean ancestor made perfect sense.

Also from the Natural History Museum in NYC, this is from a case of taxidermy raptors above one of the big halls. So many gorgeous curved beaks!