Last Saturday I took an all day workshop on life drawing at the Richard Attenborough Centre and it was pretty hard, I gave up art at school at GCSE and as a result I know incredibly little about 'serious drawing'.

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I recently picked up a copy of Richard Layard's book on Happiness from the local library. I have been fascinated by positive psychology ever since I read Martin Segilman's Authentic Happiness and it worries me that it isn't top of the political agenda.

I caught The Lost World of Tibet on TV yesterday, it had some utterly knockout footage of the Tibet of the 1930s. The old Tibet literally is a 'lost world' the colour footage seems unbelievable like it was taken by a time traveler to medieval China.

Photo by Francois Schnell

This image started off as a doodle in my sketchbook. I've experimented a bit using the gradient map tool to give the line work a brown tint and added a slight fabric texture to the background too make it all look a little less 'computery'.

Click on the image to see a larger version on my flickr account.

I saw some really cool Fractal desktop wallpapers online earlier, they were created using Astrophysis free fractal generator.

I designed these little guys on one lazy Sunday afternoon using Adobe Illustrator. You can download the flatpack design below if you'd like to make them at home.

I recently watched a talk my Clay Shirky on his new book "Here Comes Everybody". In his talk he argues that automation developed in the 20th century has led to more free time than ever before and this was highly traumatic for our culture.