Colouring!

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. ^_^

 

25a.06.2016  25b.06.2016

 

25c.06.2016 25d.06.2016

Coffeeeeeee

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:

23a.07

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

 

23b.07

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:

 

23c.07It’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?

 

The Unisheep

21.06I 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.

This is not what it looks like

20.06Not 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.

 

Not a spigging Stickleback

17.06So my Sources (thank you Springwatch) tell me that there is a fish called the stickleback which, during the mating season, uses anal secetions to glue sticks together to make a nest, and that this process is known as “spigging”. The above is not a stickleback because sticklebacks are not in fact goldfish, but sticklebacks look kind of murky and dull and also I could not be bothered to look up a picture for reference. BUT point being: “spigging” is now my new favourite word and I would like to introduce it into common usage as a mild swear word, as in “You spigging fool!”, “Alphonse, turn us round immediately! I’ve left the spigging tap on!”, or even “OW spigging spiggity spig” for when you have dropped something on your foot.

Please do, ahem, spread the word.