I am going on holiday and now my toenails are blue so that proves it. And yes my legs are that pastygreen, thank you.

Also my doodles are going to be photographed while I’m away so apologies in advance – I will scan them when I get back!

A Certain Boy has done Emily Fanart!

Look at the amazing colouring people have done from pictures in my gallery! (They are not actually from the book, just doodles from the blog blown up to a larger size.)

I admit they would look even more amazing if I could hold my hand still while taking pictures, and/or remembered to make sure the lens hadn’t just had my thumbs on it, but eh. ^_^

 

 

 

So I was trying to redraw my Coffeehug picture to make it look more interesting. First I tried just adding some hearts in the background:

Then I changed the colours a bit (well not the colours, you know what I mean!):

 

I thought it was a bit better but by then I wasn’t sure I liked the picture that much anymore at this point and then I came up with this:

 

It’s very simple but I think I like it best of the three – what do you think?

Also, if I pour coffee into my computer that will help with it being so outrageously slow, right?

 

I did a version of this ages back but this one is better and also one can never have too many Unisheep. And I am so making this a card I do not care if no one else in the world wants it ALL of my correspondence will be in Unisheep and it will be glorious. I mean imagine the possibilities! From “Hoorah!  You have graduated Uni-versity” to “I love Ewe”, it is eeeeeendless.

Not exactly the caption you want to be using in a blog devoted to, well, pictures – but I was having a bad drawing day, and alas, sometimes things just do *not* work out.

So yes, I am well aware that this looks like a man in a full-on snog with a rather unconsenting lion. Sorry about that. HOWEVER. In my defence, it is not in fact an endorsement of bestiality, nor of any type of unwilling or even slightly hesitant snoggery;   I am not even sure about mutually heartfelt and ecstatic snoggery, given my uncertainty over whether lions are actually able to give any consent in such matters, beyond eating the snogger I suppose. So, no. Instead, I maintain that this is my brave attempt at rendering a confused lion tamer putting the lion’s head into his mouth (instead of vice versa.) Yes yes I know. It doesn’t work.

I did try to do it from the side but the poor lion tamer had to thoroughly unhinge his jaw and it was creepy; then I did it with the lion tilting its head sort of sideways from the front, which looked like it had had its neck broken and was horrifying; then with a tiny lion only that was like something out of a nightmare. So really, you got the best out of a series of increasingly disturbing images and should be grateful it’s no worse than it is.

The take-home lesson? Sometimes you’ve got to try, try, try again and then …STOP. Really, it wasn’t very funny in the first place.

 

Hello and happy Monday! Here are some actualdoodles and also me and my colouring stall at the shop – I’ve added more coloured pictures to the board which makes it look a bit brighter but that’s pretty much it. The gallery is having us for an extra two weeks though so I am thinking of having some cards made from my favourite doodles – OH if I did, I don’t suppose anyone has any that they remember and think I should use? I mean otherwise I’ll just do 150 of Hildegard of Bingen riding a Plesiosaur because I have no idea why but it just fills that aching void in my soul…

Aaanyway about the actualdoodles, if you look on the bottom right of the top doodle, apart from the fact that I *want* strawberry Christmas to be a thing now, you might poooossibly notice that the ends of the girls hair and the whateveritis on her jumper are actually the inside of a monster’s mouth, from a doodle I posted a while back. I’d torn out a piece of paper (on the left side of this picture; the left corner of this picture was actually already on a previous doodle) to make a note about something. So if the edges look weirdly familiar, well done on your exquisite visual memory, I am in awe and also abject fear of you!

Oh and on the second doodle the scary insectmonsterthing was originally a scuba-diving cat but I have discovered that cats wearing scuba masks look very wrong, at least when I draw them.

I forgot to take a picture of Barry so here are two actualdoodles instead (as always, click for the bigger image). And yes again sorry the giraffish thing seems to have developed sentient mobile earwax this is NOT my fault it’s the pen’s.