Wet sketchbooks, cats, balloons & other stories

My sketchbook was left in a damp tent & seems to have remained irrevocably soggy

Cats & dogs

A (fighting) cat & dog rescued from a sketchbook left in a tent in a rainstorm - there is a moral here somewhere re. camping & illustration...probably. A memento of a particularly British summer.

bird hat

These are going to be EVERYWHERE in 'London'strendyDalston'™ by about next week - you saw them here first kids!

Cerberus the hound of hell (or a hell of a hound)

 

I had the delight last week of seeing some very talented kids at the Discover Childrens Story Centre drawing their versions of Cerberus after some superhero / Greek mythology related drawing workshop shenanigans. Have been pondering the disadvantages of owning a three headed dog since then... imagine the food bills : (

Cat with balloon

Yeah, yeah claws & balloons don't mix etc. etc. They certainly do in MY world!

Celebratory dinosaurs

Pictorial evidence to prove dinosaurs went to birthday parties

'insert war here'

Glass half-full

Butcher's Dogs

'When it gets too hot for comfort
And you can't get an ice cream cone
T'ain't no sin to take off your skin
And dance around your bones'

Tom Waits

Aminals...

Crittur of indeterminate species

Elephant jazz

Infinity

My dad taught me how to write the sign for infinity.
One night when I couldn't sleep I attempted to count up to it thinking it was like other numbers.
It wasn't.

Eyeball man

Spotted & drawn in pub in South London pub. I don't know if Eyeball is a band, but if it isn't, it bally well should be! Who wants to join?

Rock star hair

Drawing somewhat inspired by Dave Hill of Slade's '70s haircut, A stunning (if rather unwise) barnet that of of late I've become become rather obsessed with for reasons beyond my understanding. There's a certain rather brilliant home-made quality to '70s British glam rockers which makes it all the more endearing...

ssssssnake...

(forgot his ssssssssatchel!)

Topiary haircut

I always ask for the 'bird' at the hairdressers

Noises...

A page of obscure noises

'Look Mom, no hands!'

...this would be very ruinous to my career.

That's all.
(maybe eschew the pork mittens next time?)

tall stories...

taptaptaptap...

It's Onomatopaeia Monday™ folks!*

(*this is a made up day, any resemblance to any other day living or dead is purely coincidental, don't all start going out to buy Hallmark cards for the occasion)