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Now We Are Six: New How to THINK When You Draw available now

By John Freeman on October 20, 2025 • ( 0 )

The Etherington Brothers launched a free monthly How to THINK When You Draw digital magazine earlier this year and Issue Six has just been released – but be warned, it’s only available for a limited time only!

The new issue release comes ahead of the brothers – longtime contributors to The Phoenix comic – appear at Thought Bubble next month in Harrogate (Saturday 15th – Sunday 16th November).

How to THINK When You Draw Issue 6 (from the Etherington Brithers)

The latest issue includes tips about drawing dogs, running, gloves and more, plus a reference set for anyone drawing a Western. A heck of a mix, pardner!

Robin and Lorenzo – the creators of characters such as Malcolm Magic, Long Gone Don and Von Doogan – have published a series of phenomenal, bestselling How to THINK When You Draw and How to THINK When You Write books, sharing tips across their long-running blog, launched in 2009, tumblr and other social media for years. Now they’re also offering their indispensable guides through this new magazine.

It includes brand new tutorials a year before they appear online, plus loads more sign up and grab your copy now!

• If you want to get the How to THINK When You Draw digital magazine delivered free to your inbox each month, just email using the subject “Magazine, please!” To ThinkDraw@yahoo.com | Each issue will only be available for a limited time, so make sure you read and/or download before it’s gone!

• The Etherington Brothers blog

• Lulu is the only place online where you can get all three volumes of Lorenzo’s Giant Sketchbook Trilogy, the Deluxe Collection

• Boys Adventure Blog: The Etherington Brothers Comics – The Early Years

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.