How to THINK When You Draw, Issue Four!

By John Freeman on August 25, 2025

The Etherington Brothers launched a free monthly How to THINK When You Draw digital magazine earlier this year and the latest issue – available for a limited time only – is available now.

The Etherington Brothers How to THINK When You Draw digital magazine Issue Four

The brothers, longtime contributors to The Phoenix comic, who 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 offer their indispensable guides through this new magazine.

It includes brand new tutorials a year before they appear online, plus loads more, so if you want to get the magazine delivered free to your inbox each month, just send “Magazine, please!” To ThinkDraw@yahoo.com.

The Lorenzo Brothers – Robin and Lorenzo – are British comic creators with a longtime presence on the independent comic scene, creators of characters such as Malcolm Magic, Long Gone Don and Von Doogan. Their books have raised over millions of pounds on Kickstarter, and have been translated into eight languages.

(We previously noted their books were the most-funded art books on Kickstarter for three consecutive years: 2019, 2020 and 2021, and their book, How to Think When You Draw, Book 5, is still the highest funded comic project ever on that crowdfunding platform).

• 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.