Richard Johnson tells us what it's like to be sketching in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Michael C. Hayes is back with another artbook on Kickstarter. Check it out at https://kck.st/20J50r8

Campaign ends 29 Feb 2016.

Ira Sluyterman van Langeweyde, aka Iraville, shows you how she mixes skin tones using watercolour for her cartoon characters in this video tutorial.

I forgot to mention that fixative may change the colours of coloured pencils and graphite. As always, test first on scrap paper before using fixative on original art.