#030 The gradient is always uphill

Plus: Diagram Club innovation - Spot the difference

Hello, and welcome to Diagram Club, Issue #030. Thanks again for your patience in the light of somewhat variable newsletter frequencies.

This week: a favourite cycling drawing, a Diagram Club innovation, and a remarkable piece of furniture. Yes, quite a bold set of claims.

On to the diagrams…

Cycling cartoon of the week

This week: The Gradient. One of the images I like the most from my book From A to B, published by Bloomsbury Sport [All books]. Any similarity to the well-known M C Esher drawing is because I directly copied it.

Spot the difference

A Diagram Club innovation! Something I’ve not done before I don’t think, and yes, possibly worthy of an exclamation mark. It’s a ‘Spot the difference’.

Can you spot the ten (10) differences between these cycling cafe scenes?

The original cafe image is taken from my book, The Cycling Cartoonist.

A link to the answers will be in a paragraph-or-two’s time. [Editor - punctuation looks suspect.]

There’s good news for Diagram Club Paid users, who can download a printable pdf version of this image. Details below the Orange Line of Mystery.

Largest chair drawing for several years

This isn’t the newsletter for my ecclesiastical diagrams, but when notable events happen I’m going to assume you would want to be notified. Last week I drew a cartoon containing the largest chair I’ve done for [made-up statistic] a decade or more, and this is a snippet from it. You’ll find the whole thing here (Church Times website - paywall, but you get two free articles).

[For anyone who likes my church-themed work, by the way: You’ll now find regular cartoons appearing on the CartoonChurch Facebook page.]

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Additional notebook sketch

I’m doing a lot of writing on multiple projects at the moment. This is a snippet of the kind of thing you’d have seen in my sketchbook were you to have looked over my shoulder on the 10.04 Newport-London Paddington on a day this week.

I’ve written a little bit more more about this drawing for Paid subscribers, below.

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Spot the difference answers

Download the answers to the Spot the difference (WARNING - IF YOU CLICK THIS LINK YOU WILL SEE THE ANSWERS): Spot the Difference Answers

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Colour of the week (filler) and that sort of thing

Pale green (spring)

Well, that’s more-or-less it for now, I think. Thank you for reading this far down. Content for Diagram Club Paid members continues below The Line.

If you’ve missed any Diagram Club emails and would like to catch up you can find the complete archive here: diagramclub.substack.com.

The plan is to be back later this coming week with issue #031. Speak to you then.

Dave
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