Past self, you are so not helpful with the note taking, let me just say. Leaving "swans" on the list for future illos and failing to elaborate even so much as a smidge. Harrumph.

So let us play a game of word association and see if you are better at thinking like me than I am, because clearly I am not. Let's see . . . I'll start you off:

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Hey, did you hear? It was Pollinator Week this week! This illo is an idea that's been floating around my head for a while, but a week of celebration was the impetus it needed to get on to paper.
(Sorry, bats, beetles, butterflies, hummingbirds and all the other pollinators. No illo for you, but not because I don't think you're great at seducing ( Read more... )

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It took me ages to work out how I could have owls manning a lighthouse and for the viewer to still understand that it was a lighthouse. The conclusion is that I don't, and that lighthouses are only recognizable as lighthouses from the outside. Unless you work in one on a daily basis, which probably is not the case ( Read more... )

Out of the myriad of things I need to be doing right now - many of which I am under some obligation to finish - what do I choose to do? I draw cockatiels with muttonchop sideburns. Blame goutwort and his owls. I do and you might as well join me.


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By and large, an in-joke perpetuation for spiralsheep. She's broken the record for getting me to illustrate dangerously nonsensical things when I really ought to be asleep. You can blame her. (Or thank her - your choice.)


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Originally I was saving this scrap of paper for some more fashion duotones, but it is such a perfect leaf green. How could I squander it on that when there are better uses for it?


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