“Do you draw people?” the editor asked me as she looked through my sketchbooks.
If I could draw gorillas surely it would be obvious that I’d be able to draw people too? But I decided to make a special effort.
I enrolled on a weekly life drawing evening, which I kept up for years and I set off to the local market and, over the period of several weeks, filled it with drawings of people. Wakefield had a large open market and a market hall and you got a full range of different people shopping or just browsing there.