TART AND HORSE

Today: finished off this horse-based illustration while watching two episodes of Game of Thrones (because people keep telling me it's good, so I thought I should get around to watching it), did a bit more folio shuffling around, and successfully made my first ever lemon tart (a trial run for taking to my sister's on Christmas day). All in all a reasonably productive day.

 

Hopefully I can get another couple of drawings done before the end of the week. Possibly.

11AM vs. 8PM

 

top: 11am sun, waiting for the bus to work

bottom: 8pm post-rain rising forest fog, after getting off the bus home

TENTACULAR UNDERWATER EYEBALLS

from the bridge, looking down

I don't know what this plant is, but it's sprouting up all along the river, in clusters that remind me ever so slightly of those strange little eyeball plants that grew out of the walls in Labyrinth (as seen in this scene).

THERE'S PEOPLE OUT THERE

We escaped to the city yesterday. It confused me a little bit because there were all these...people...around. More so than usual, and it isn't even festival time yet. Then I realised it was a Saturday, a day many people tend to have free from work or school, and that since I usually work weekends I'm more used to escaping to the city on quieter weekdays. It took me a while to realise this, because I'm clever like that. And then I still kept forgetting and wondering why the streets were so busy.

 

I also really, really want a copy of this book.

 

 I've only really managed to finish one drawing this week, thanks to the Easter holidays making work busier, so now I'm off to do a bit of drawing.

 

These are just a few originals of the forty or so illustrations from the commission that kept me quiet for a large part of last year (more on that later), all ready to be sent off to the author now that I've finished a wee 'thank you' drawing.

I'm feeling quite organised today.

New spindly brushes! This means I can finally finish some inking...