Last week, I ran into this super nice blog called What I Wore Today. Yes, I know there are plenty of blogs with pictures of random outfits of random people, but this one is different: it's a blog and a flickr group for those who don't like posting photos of themselves on the web, but do like drawing. Hence, no typical fashion blogger poses here, just heaps of illustrated outfits drawn by different people.
I love the idea and the way Gemma Correll, the brain behind this project, has put it all together, and today whilst idling my Sunday away the itch to contribute got too big.
FYI, I quite like drawing insects! In an "eeeew, look at that" kind of way, googling inspiration images is also a lot of fun.
Here're some tech-bugs in progress, the friends of the ant-face featured in the previous post. All of these guys are part of a project I've been working on to illustrate an entire deck of playing cards for Drawing Room. 52 cards means the same amount of these creepy-crawlies, so I guess my room will start buzzing soon.
Here's one of the guys I've been playing with for the past few days, sending geeky greetings to you! I'm working on a project that involves drawing a lot of technological characters, so most likely this one won't be the last to come and say hi. :)
The day you realize that your level of happiness is directly proportional to the number of bulldog figurines you own, you might as well
a) question your sense of style
b) start calling yourself a crazy bulldog lady
c) be happy about the fact that if you all of a sudden choke to death, your face won't be eaten by cats. Instead, it will rot safe and sound with porcelain dogs, which is a lot less nastier.
I know this doesn't have anything to do with illustration at all, but I need to channel this ridiculous amount of excitement over that white dog(left) I found at a market today to accompany the doggy(right) I already had.
Once again, pigeons. Having been a bit worried about their diet lately, I sketched a Pigeon Health Awareness poster whilst sitting in a park today. If someone wants to sponsor this campaign, I'll promise to make "Fly high, keep your cholesterol down" and "Eat seeds, drink fish oil" posters free of charge.
Not sure if Bratz dolls were inspired by pin-up (their lips certainly hint more towards Botox), but it goes without saying that if Toy Olympics existed, those modern barbies would get the highest scores in flirt. We at Drawing Room thought this was a little unfair and - being big fans of old school toys - decided to show it's not only the Bratzies that can compete in the seduction category.
Hence, introducing to you my latest illus: innocently kittenish toys, soon to be printed on postcards. Was so much (nostalgic) fun drawing them, made me want to find my own good ol' collection of My Little Ponies and put them in a glass vitrine. On a royal velvet pillow.
Not much news from my headquarters lately, I've been busy trying to synchronize work with getting an overdose of vitamin D. So far, it has resulted in living on tea and working through the nights after all the sunny hours well spent on chilling outside. Today I actually managed to burn my cheeks, which is clearly a hint from Spring suggesting that I should either go hardcore with my SPF 50 sun block or spend more time indoors, drawing. Spring has a point there.
Talking about spring, the pigeons in Amsterdam seem to be in the mood for it, spreading their bird love all over the parks. Like Big Time. It's quite a lot of fun to watch, though I don't think pigeons chasing each other will ever reach the same level of sweetness as the animal love in this animation by Julia Pott.
Pretty much anything looks fascinating through a microscope, but I've just discovered something that beats even dead flies 6-0. A microscopically tiny but monumentally cute animation:
The story about the making of is so unbelievable that I could even describe it as jaw-dropping. Yep, big words for a teeny-weeny animation, but seriously: the guys who made this should be awarded a Nobel for their patience.
