Twenty-four Things -Thing Twenty-four

After William Blake.

Now, I do see how that this might look a bit bleak for a New Year’s post. But I don’t know. The new feller looks a bit friendlier. Or, at least, maybe a bit more tameable? Might take a while, but... by the spring, maybe? Let’s hope so. Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas! And if it wasn't... well, here's to next time.

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 A placeholder? Really? How very 2017.

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I think I’ve said before that the more tight, tortured and over-worked the marginal doodle, the harder the writing. So, even without the helpful notes to self in the bottom right one, you can tell this is a record of a... tricky three days in May.

 (I normally redact more of my scrawl in photos like this if the project has not yet aired or- in this case- not yet been made. But I’ve just read through everything visible on this page, and if you can get any sense at all of what I’m working on from it, then good luck to you!)

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This one was not based on anyone, but yes, now it’s been pointed out to me elsewhere, I do see the Simon-Pegg-ness, and indeed the Marc-Warren-ness. To which I would add, the Joel-McHale-ness. Three of our finest intense-eyed, high-fore-headed, lean-faced actors. This drawing, as I say, is of none of them.

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This little scribble-sketch isn’t very good, and I wouldn’t have included it... except that it was drawn on the 12th February this year. Which makes it an accidental recording of the last days of casual, maskless, crowded indoor life. And also about the last time I got to work in one of my favourite ways: at a notebook in a quiet corner of a busy pub or cafe. 

 

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After- such a long way after- Carl Larsson. 

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I know, I know. Pictures of various middle-aged men and the occasional animal are all very well... but the Christmas season can’t truly begin without a rudimentary diagram of the bone and cartilage structure of the nose.

Well... ding dong merrily on high. 

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Scribbles from the US election night coverage. It was freeing to know I only had two to five minutes to spend on each face. I now can’t remember which were Republican and which were Democrat. Though in the case of the lady bottom left, I’d be willing to take a wild guess.

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This character design is entirely the result of my spilling coffee on my good paper, and not wanting to waste it, so trying to draw a face around the stain...

 

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This was a quick field sketch...

...in preparation for this report, made to a (future) professor of natural history of my acquaintance, regarding a curious anomaly...

 

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 Couldn’t decide which colouring worked best for her, so here’s a selection box. That’s Christmassy, right?

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 Not very Christmassy.  But I never said they would be.

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 Sorry about yesterday - I got distracted by something. So, this one is for the 2nd December: 

It’s a sonrise.

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