Tag: psychology

  • Insta-Distraction

    Why aren’t you cartooning? “I’ve been keeping up to date with my Instagram feed.”  I don’t care who you’ve been feeding. You should be cartooning.   “But Mum there’s so much stuff to look at on here.” Gordon Bennett! Give me strength.

  • Big Rabbit

    Sometimes it feels as if things are a bit of a struggle.   Still. Today I saw 20 curlews in the field opposite the house … which was lovely.  

  • Back to the Animating Board

    “That’s it. No more drawings of heads. Time for me to animate something.” Jolly good, dear. What’s your cartoon going to be about? “Well I dreamed of a rabbit the other night. It wasn’t in good shape and I picked it up to take it home and look after it. But it grew and grew…

  • Limbering Up

    What are you wiggling your fingers for? “Exercising. Limbering up for drawing. I’m thinking of doing another challenge: Ahmed Aldoori’s – 100 Heads in 10 Days.” Is that why you made a Pinterest board full of photo portraits? “You’ve been spying on me.” I am your long-dead mother, part of you and therefore know everything…

  • For The Birds

    Look at us! We are all colourful again. “I grew tired of black and white. Nothing seems black and white at the moment.” “And I heard a rook singing. And I wanted to say so.” Rooks don’t sing. They just caw. “No. They sing. A bit like a monkey calling and whooping from your chimney pot.…