Happiness is Relative

[tealin]

I'm sure glad I like drawing, because otherwise today would have been unbearable.


First on the menu is Stanley. There is something to his character that reminds me of a number of people I've suspected of having a crush on me in the past, and I wanted to capture that quality that makes me want to run away screaming "AAAH! Stop staring at me!!" I like the design on the left as a drawing but it's not quite Stanley ... the loose little thumbnail gets a bit closer.
Then we have Crispin Horsefry, whose personal footnote makes me wonder what Mr. P's been reading lately:

It is wrong to judge by appearances. Despite his expression, which was that of a piglet having a bright idea, and his mode of speech, which might put you in mind of a small, breathless, neurotic but ridiculously expensive dog, Mr Horsefry might well have been a kind, generous, and pious man. In the same way, the man climbing out of your window in a stripy jumper, a mask and a great hurry might merely be lost on his way to a fancy-dress party, and the man in the wig and robes at the focus of the courtroom might only be a transvestite who wandered in out of the rain. Snap judgements can be so unfair.

Going Postal pg. 71, UK edition

I think I'm going to change his nose.

What is more annyoing than a library without an iPac system? A library whose iPac system, to which one is addicted, refuses to work!! I don't know if I can survive the night without knowing if the copy of Reaper Man (unabridged on cassette) that I have on hold has been returned on its due date!

I am in such incredibly, inexplicably, indomitably high spirits today that I fear I may rupture something. I'm so giddy I may stay up all night just ... being happy. I wish I could bottle some of this and stick it in the pantry for when I've got the cannonballs.

Comments

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

Your Stanley to the left bears an uncanny resemblance to my English teacher, minus 20 years and glasses. And he wears that SAME expression when he talks to people. It's creepy! I can't look at it any more! Gah!

Crispin's shoes make me very happy - they're so small, and neat, and wonderful.

*reads footnote* Hmm. Hmmmmmm.