dr sketchy's

will and i went to dr sketchy's on saturday afternoon. we really enjoyed it, it was so much fun. the performers (buck fast and annette bette) were brilliant and the compere (spencer maybe) did his job wonderfully and kept it all really easygoing and comfortable. and the pub it was held in, the paradise, was beautiful. i could go there just to look at it for an afternoon. it was amazing.
here are a few of the drawings i did. i didn't do anything amazing but i didn't care because i enjoyed it so much anyway.

this is spencer maybe. we had one minute and weren't allowed to look away from him or take our pencil off the page. he told someone off for looking down and i got confused which is why his body ended up shifted across slightly.

buck fast 5 minutes.

annette bette 1 minute

the last pose, annette bette for 10 min and she sat down so all i could see was the guy that was sat at the front in the middle. hence him making an appearance in the drawing. i'm sure he got more in the way as the afternoon went on.

this is will with spencer maybe winning free entry to a future dr sketchy's with a drawing of buck fast being wrapped up by an octopus. well done will :)
by the way, the guy at the side in his pants is buck fast, in case you couldn't guess.

this blur of light is annette bette.

this is annette bette during her performance. the guy in the pink shirt is the one that's all black and in the way in my drawing.

and this is kensal green tube station.

overall, it was awesome and we're definately going again.

christmas cards

someone asked me to design some christmas cards and these are what happened.
these are also my proof that you don't need to spend 4 weeks doing 'research' in a sketchbook before you actually start any finals. you just need to get on with it. and keep getting on with it until you're happy with what you've got. which i think should have been allowed to happen at uni. but what do i know.
now i just need to find some good thick paper to print them on.

the devil is a loser and he's my bitch

will and i had a cinema day (3 films) and it turned out quite an amazing day what with the free coffee and a £50 asda voucher.
and none of the films sucked which is always nice.

we went to see the fourth kind which wasn't make you jump scary but 'oh my god it might actually be real if you really think about it why can't i completely disregard it' scary.

then we got free coffee because we were looking at the sandwich's and the coffee maker lady said 'if you buy one of these sandwich's your drinks will be free' and pointed towards the till so we purchased 2 of the 4 going out of date sandwich's which was awesome because free stuff is always awesome.

then we watched fantastic mr fox. i'm in love with that film.
'even these apples look fake. but at least they have stars on them'

then we watched jennifers body. which should have been better than it was but i still enjoyed it. i have a funny feeling we've ended up with a cut up version in an attempt to make us like it better than america did when really all i noticed it did was cut out some of the bits that are then repeated later as though you're meant to remember them saying it before but they didn't. and that's just stupid.
what wasn't stupid though was the sticker toilet.
diablo cody is a genius.

what was also stupid was the group of girls sitting near us. really, do i need to hear you squeal 'sweetie time' before you eat your pick n mix? one of them thought megan fox was a boy at the beginning when it does a close up of her scratching her arm and then chewing a piece of her hair before it zooms out and you actually see her. and then her friend laughed and said 'yeah like a boy would have long enough hair'.
imagine that. a boy with long enough hair to put a bit in his mouth.
i can't even comprehend it.

also at work there has been an incentive to sell as many opc cards as possible. they put us in teams and the team that sold the most cards got prizes. i don't work on the tills anymore so i didn't sell any. our team leader won us the competition on his own. literally. we had a total of 422 cards sold. he sold 405. the team that came second sold 400 i think. or something like that but he would have won without a team. and i got a £50 asda voucher for it!
which is amazing because we got a gastricity bill the other day and i don't even have enough money in my bank account to pay it so not having to pay for food for a few weeks will be nice.

p.s. amanda seyfried is better looking than megan fox. by a big margin. just had to throw that out there.

remember, remember

will is at work tonight (as one of us always is on days we want to do something, or just generally when the other one is off) so we couldn't go to the fireworks display at hatfield house. i could hear them and see them from our kitchen window. this made me sad. but i still couldn't stop myself from taking a few photos.
there was a tree in the way of the fireworks from my house hence the silhouette in the top picture. but i think it's quite cool, looks like a tree made out of sparks.

and it wasn't too bad because while i was sitting by myself feeling lonely my mum harnessed her psychic powers and phoned me which cheered me up a bit. and she told me it was all sorted that they were coming to take me out on graduation day. i have decided not to go to the ceremony, will decided not to go either but then his mum said she wanted to go so he's going for her so i'm really glad mum and dad are coming down because it would've been another thing i had to spend on my own otherwise. not that they would've let my graduation pass unnoticed if i wasn't going to be on my own.

i read the back of this bottle of mead the other day and was amazed.

i just purchased some envelopes for some christmas cards i'm making for mum. i was quite excited deciding which ones to get.
maybe i need to get a life.
or maybe i like that i get excited by envelopes.

halloween

will was at work for most of halloween but in the day i made a load of cookies and cakes and when he got home we iced them before i fell asleep and it was fun.