Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

it’s been way too long since I uploaded random doodles from my sketchbook so here

I feel like this is the one guy I could have an in depth enthuse-off with about animation without freaking him out

Sorry for the near total absence of actual drawings lately but the combination of ACNL, work and uncommonly hot weather was something of a killer combination.

Aaaaanyway, I’ve been considering doing a short story book for a long time now (I never know if I hate the term children’s book or just the inverted commas that inevitably go with it) and there’s this one idea about a puppet that was never finished that has kept coming back up in my mind.

So yes, there, maybe this will become a thing some day.

A few people have asked what kind of animal I would be in ACNL but really chaps this is kind of a no-brainer by now, surely?

HYENAS. ALWAYS HYENAS.

Also I would totally be a dorky Museum assistant and spend all day helping Blathers to document all the exhibits by drawing them because skeletons are awesome

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

so I did the thing

the problem with Yes Man is he’s so default smiley I can’t imagine his ‘angry face’ getting past a sort of snap before diving straight into loco 'well hey there mind if I rip out your spine’ crazy grin mode

in the far, far away future of ‘when I’ve finished TPoH’ I have an idea for another comic where Alice ends up in Oz and Dorothy goes to Wonderland and everything ends up being quite different and perhaps a bit terrible on the side

so, yes, there’s that on the 'to do’ list

Just a doodle that the weather brought on. Once upon a time my sister was given a chocolate tortoise. It was so pretty and cute that she refused to eat it, and for a while it lived on the top of a large cupboard with the rest of our toys, but one fateful day the summer came and we awoke to the tragedy of a tortoise with a rather large and sad hole melted through the top of its shell.

Fortunately this inspired the creation of a much beloved tortoise puppet (created primarily from a pair of tights if I remember rightly), but it does raise the rather philosophical question of whether, if one happened to be a chocolate creation, one would prefer to be eaten or left to succumb to the sun or mold?

sorry I haven’t posted much lately I was pretty ill this weekend, so here this was me trying to explain directional pull on expressions to someone really badly

I’m not very great at descriptions but yeah, basically remember that different areas of the face have mass which is only ever shifted, not increased and decreased, also a niftly way to remember how faces crease is that you can actually see the ‘arrows’ of direction in the flesh if you look for them