Doodle Time: the Art of Self Torment

One of the exercises on the drawing course is to develop a “selfie” cartoon … a character self portrait. This caused me to use up a lot of pages in the sketch book. And to get really upset. Vanity struggles with realism. Ageing is not a good look for me, never mind the artistic challenge of frizzy grey hair.

Brain Chaos Apologies

two plasticine heads and cat

“I’ve been blown a bit off course by this 12 week quarantine thing. Staying at home …”

two plasticine heads and cat

” I mean … self-isolating is what I do all the time.”

plasticine head on sketchbook looking to camera

“But I am sorry that my Inktober52 prompts and drawings have become non-existant. As soon as my self-isolated brain gets organised I will tell it to get my blog back in order.”

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“But maybe without the Inktober52 prompts!”

“Take care. Keep safe. Keep well.”

 

Insta-Distraction II

closeup of 2 plasticine heads and smartphone

So why don’t you show me what you drew for that “Folktale Week” thingummybob on Instagram?

closeup of 2 plasticine heads and smartphone

“Huh?”

closeup of 2 plasticine heads and smartphone

I know I’m long dead, dears. But I might as well talk to you direct because my daughter has become some kind of zombie.  I certainly never spent this long on the phone.