Portrait

It had been a while since I sat down and did a painting. I was really really rusty, but I'm glad I did this. Its much larger than what I'm used to working on (19 by 25 inches) so I had a lot of fun completely immersing myself in this.
Sorry about the low res image, I could only get a photo from a phone for now.
Oil pastels for the portrait and some soft pastels on the background.

Ajji

After much crankiness, I decided I'd draw this adorable old woman. I've been feeling a little stuck in my style so I thought I'd start drawing faces, and this is an attempt over three quick sessions.

This is...

Five months of non stop entertainment. You boys will be missed, thank you for everything!
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For those of you wondering what the title means, check this out :

This song was the effective soundtrack to all our weekend (and frequent I-cant-handle-this-workload Tuesday) debauchery.

Cheers!

Strummer

Boy plays the guitar.
I like to go overboard with photoshop.

Also, just realising that working on a very excellent monitor can get you carried away with colours and textures that might just get lost on other screens. *makes spoilt brat face*

Baby, baby, quite contrary...

A few friends and I went to watch the movie 'Rango' yesterday, and the enjoyable experience of watching a nice movie and a wonderfully air conditioned hall on a hot summer afternoon was some what marred by a three year old and his (obnoxious) parent sitting in front of us. The kid spent half of the movie asking his dad what was happening on screen and the rest staring at us and chanting 'popcorn! popcorn!'
This comic was somewhat prompted by that incident, my inability/refusal to deal with kids and Gala Darling's post on the subject.
Now to tell my mum about my future (non) family plans. Soon.
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P.S. sorry about crappy scan quality, it was a rush job on the insti scanner.

Illustration Friday : warning

My mum was always warning me that if I din't drink my milk everyday, I'd be a bad girl.

On a side note though, parents are funny creatures. They warn us about the most inane things in the hopes that we dont become bad/dead people, like drink your milk, eat your food, dont be fat, look both ways before crossing the road, dont get tattoos etc etc. So much so that they forget to warn us about the things that really mke us bad. I dont think I've ever heard a parent say "dont do that, thats a bad life decision!"...nope, not ever.

watercolours and pencil colours on paper.

Illustration Friday: Brave

Even if they denied you everything,

tied you up, gagged you.

Told you

that

nothing was possible.

I'd say

the stars are calling.

Reach out.

Be BRAVE.

EP inspires

something i scribbled while on a bus journey during our 'environmental perception' (EP) course last year. i look back at this picture, and realise how kitchy/pop it is.

just reminds me of how much more i want/need to travel around the country.

pen on paper, typo with acrylic and crayon