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Travelling
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Little drawings for the for the #RiversOfLondon Moments inspired by the covers of the books and buoyed by my love for maps. I went down a few research rabbit holes to draw these and it was a lot of fun! #art
15 small drawings of maps, one for each of the first 15 RoL moments. 1: the Navy and Military Club's original location at Piccadilly. 2: Florence (Arizona) in the US, with signs pointing to the too many prisons. 3: the BKA in Meckenheim. 4: the ground floor of the Folly. 5: Waterlow Park, funnily enough there's a building (or organisation?) called Lux there. 6: Casterbrook, at least where I think it might be. I followed the descriptions in Moon over Soho and then just plonked in a field. 7: the Brocken; I wasn't quite sure where exactly the moment takes place so I went with the top of the mountain. 8: this moment is an interview and I wanted that reflected in the drawing, so there's a cassette tape. And the New York Public Library since that's where Stephen works. 9: I spent so so long trying to find Swinfaeder in the Chilterns and I failed. I just put it on the other side of Ambrose forest, so very close to Casterbrook cause that's where the talking foxes seem to have come from. 10: Kite/Parliament Hill. 11: couldn't find Allcroft so I made something up. 12: Fortnum and Mason in London. 13: another interview, this time at the Folly. 14: there's only so much you can do with an ocean tbh. 15: this one drove me nearly to desperation since try as I might I couldn't find appropriate maps of Pitlochry around 1978 but I knew that the hospital has moved since then. Finally I went with a guess ^^
January 25, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Eroica am Rhein - All of the Prussian breeds in one spot: Eroica (in the middle) with two other heavyweights, a Berghexe and a Mauerfuchs flying through the fog over the Rhine, with the building site of the Cologne Cathedral in the background. #temeraire #art #dragon
Five dragons flying through the fog over the Rhine. There are three heavy-weights of Eroica's breed, all grey or brown coloured with yellow or orange highlights and lighter wings, with Eroica, a brown and orange dragon, in the middle. Above him flies a Berghexe, a green middle-weight with beige and grey wing edges. And above the Berghexe flies a Mauerfuchs, a grey and orange courier. In the background the unfinished Cologne Cathedral can be seen through the fog.
January 25, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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An illustration for the end of chapter 10 of #RiversOfLondon. #art #illustration
A pencil drawing of Peter Grant kneeling next to Nightingale, blowing a whistle to call for help.
January 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Illustration of one of my favourite scenes of the #temeraire series! #art #dragon
Temeraire (the dragon) sees the Temeraire (the ship) for the first time.
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM