Gung Hay Fat Choy!

WELCOME IN, PIGGY!

I have now officially survived the last vestiges of 2006. Hooray, me! Here's hoping Mr Friendly Pig will be nicer than that mean old dog. I should have known not to trust a dog; they smell funny and slobber and smack my 2-year-old face with their wagging tails. Whereas pigs ... have really stinky poo. But they're smart. Apparently. And are closely related to bears, I believe. This is pretty much all I know about pigs.

IT'S FOUR IN THE MORNING!

I should ... probably ... get some sleep now...

Piccy Dump

So many pics, they have to be in link list format!

The Ought to be Life Drawing Collection:
Vorbis - I listened to the Small Gods radio play earlier that day. The model looked disturbingly similar to a former classmate of mine so I spent more time doodling than usual.
Vorbis again - I really need to stop doing this whole make-up-the-pose-as-you-go-along thing. It's a bad habit. Bad. One should always keep the whole pose in mind, so all parts of the drawing can reinforce it. this one was like ... 'Hmm, I feel like drawing a hand, let's put one there ... oh, and he can tuck his arm behind his back, I know exactly what the anatomy and drapery should look like for that!'
More Vorbises - Here he looks a bit too much like Brett Helquist's take on The Bald Man With The Long Nose. I was immensely amused to learn that the 'Vorbis' part of the Ogg Vorbis file format is, in actual fact, and I am not making this up, named after this character. Unfortunately 'Ogg' seems to be jargon from an online Star Trek sort of game thing. It's still an amusing juxtaposition of characters, though.
Brutha - Mostly identical to all the other drawings of Brutha, but I liked him more than the model, so there.

The Who Let Her Read Going Postal Again? Collection
Jim 'Leadpipe' Upwright - Eh? Damn right! (I might colour this one because I have so much free time right now. Someone smack me.) Yeah yeah, liberal doses of TP's Long John... Fewer than five hundred chins, though. This could probably do with some angularizing now that I look back at it...
Joe Camels - Mayor of Sto Lat, who is 'a short, bird-like man, who'd either become mayor very recently and immediately after the post hd been held by a big fat man, or thought that a robe that trailed several feet behind you and a chain that reached to the waist was the look for civic dignitaries this year.' Not quite how I see him in my head, but fun enough to post...
Moist Bath - 'It was only a hip bath, but at least there was an ice house in the city. Moist sat in a state of bliss amongst the floating ice, drinking a brandy, and listened to the commotion outside.
    After a while there was a knock on the door, and a male voice enquired: "Are you decent, Mr Postmaster?"
    "Thoroughly decent, but not dressed," said Moist. He reached down beside him and put his wingèd hat on again. "Do come in."'
I thought this was just an amusing little scene but my sister saw it and recoiled in horror at Moist pr0n. It's not that bad is it? I'm so desensitized to naked people I just can't tell anymore.

The Odd One Out

Exploiting the Ignorance of Strangers - a.k.a. observational sketches, which I don't do nearly enough of. This is how you learn to draw clothes! The trick is to remember how to simplify it.