Drawings About Things

Drawings About Things is a new strand of our work, which has its own dedicated portfolio website. Alongside running Then Try This, Amber is currently doing a part time MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice at Falmouth University. Many of our projects at Then Try This have perhaps unexpectedly been hand-illustrated using traditional media, for example the WaspLove game we made for UCL and Nergal with the University of Edinburgh, so the MA is a way to up our skills in this area. It also opens new avenues for more ambitious illustration work, and for taking on print, editorial and book-based projects.

We are over the moon that this has already led to being longlisted in the World Illustration Awards (editorial, New Talent, 2026).

Print of stack of books squashing a person underneath - the books have titles like 'heavy topics'

The course runs from 2024-2026, and during this time we have been taking on illustration-based projects at lower than our usual daily rate, so do get in touch if you'd like to work together!