Breakfast

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Diamonds and Hearts

New in the shop.
Painted yesterday afternoon and sewn together last night while watching Hellboy II.

Now we're going to the bank which is never fun, but at least the weather's nice today :)

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Mask

I drew this vaguely in my sketchbook a couple of weeks ago and wasn't really sure where to go with it but I'm pleased with how it turned out.

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Day Out

Myself and William met up with Tom and headed over to Kemistry for the Saul Bass exhibit. I love his film posters. Every poster I'd be 'ooooh this is my favourite one' then I'd look at the next one and be 'ooooh this is my favourite one' then I'd go back to one I'd already looked at and be 'oooh no this is my favourite one' and so on.
Then we essentially just wandered the day away which managed to include a free taste of saki at the Japan Centre.
I was glad we managed to miss the rain until the short walk home and I was even more glad to rest my sore walking feet and have some miso soup :)

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Desk

My desk today.
Sketchbook and a work in progress.

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Black Swan

Yesterday we finally got to see Black Swan.
Oh my. When the credits came up at the end I realised I was literally a little out of breath.
Amazing film.

Also have you seen the special teaser posters?
Our Odeon had one up before the more 'normal' poster came out and then William told me there was a whole set.
They're beautiful. I wish more posters still looked like this.

See the whole set (and where I got the above image) here and here.

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Rain Cloud Badges

What I spent yesterday evening doing is now available in the shop.

Blue
Grey
White

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Instax Feet

My feet getting pretty on Saturday night.

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Painting

What I've been up to.
Painting old style tattoos.
I love old school stuff, nice and simple.
Although I wouldn't say no to more modern complex tattoos either.

I'm planning to offer personalised versions in the shop.
I think they'll look really good once I find a decent frame for them.

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Dancing to the Beat

I love her.

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Sketchbook

I spent Sunday (the top 2) reading and drawing from Tank Girl 'Visions of Booga'. Also one of my 'draw a hand a day' and 'draw a face a day' that I started recently.
And then on Monday I drew from this months Dazed and Confused and another little bit of Tank Girl.

When I only do sketchbook stuff I always feel like I've been a bit naughty and not doing any 'proper' work but it's all practise, the more I draw the better the 'proper' work will be and I've always had trouble with how I should draw people, it's never come as naturally as drawing other things so that's what I'm concentrating on at the minute and I think it's working.
I've had a lot more ideas and thoughts of things I could do while I've been just sketchbooking than I do when I just try and get on with 'proper' stuff too which can only be a good thing.

It's silly, I don't know why I feel like I have to justify drawing, it's what I'm planning on doing for the rest of my life whether it's in a sketchbook or not. I think it has something to with the fact that I enjoy it so much and it's so ingrained in me that jobs are horrible and no one enjoys their job but what I'm going to do for a living is something I enjoy and that shouldn't make me feel guilty.

Anyway, thoughts over. I'm going to go google what a twitchy eyelid means because it's been driving me crazy for the last 10 minutes and google might come up with something ridiculously funny.

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p.s. Visions of Booga was drawn by Rufus Dayglo. You should check him out.

Antlers

New brooch/badge available in the shop.

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