Comics

I remember Beccy once suggesting I draw comics while I am in Ireland, and lo and behold, that is what I have been doing!

I totally stole Kate Beaton's idea of making comics about one talking to a younger version of oneself and this is what I got. I just did it to illustrate just how judgemental I was as a child... I would have totally disapproved of my life now. I had fun with the poses. :D


This is a comic borne of frusteration over stupid hostel people. It's more or less true, only less stabbing and more closing a door in someone's face.

Some drawrings.

I am bored and so you will now have to put up with some more of my sketches. Haha!


This is the chair that was in my living room in Galway. :)

This is a pen drawing of my shoes, no pencil!? SO EXCITING. What else can I post, lets see........

This is a random sketch in PENCIL CRAYONS of the view from the front of the hostel, which has been titled "The forever unfinished sketch" because I will probably never get around to finishing it.

Yep.

So, a while back Beccy posted a meme about drawing oneself as a teenager, which I found interesting. As I am 19, I decided to draw me as a 15 year old in all my braces, acne, and flat-chested glory.

Squid Boy

Augh I am soo bored... today has been so generic. I have become accustomed to that whole 'every day is an adventure' concept, but today hasn't exactly been an adventure... its been boring.

Haha, listen to me complaining about having a boring day while I'm living on the Aran Islands... woe is me, right.

Anyways, due to this boredom, I am posting more stuff that I have pictures of.


So, um, this is Squid boy, who came from the depths of god-knows-where. He has troubles drinking tea. Its drawn in charcoal. He was an angry child.

Charactery sketches

More sketches!? These are all of non-original characters, so like, characters from books that I absolutely needed to draw.

I read Animal Farm by George Orwell, which was excellent (although not as good as 1984). My doodles of Boxer, Napoleon, and the sheep aren't worth putting up, but I liked my drawings of Squealer because I managed to put on paper exactly what I had in my head. Hurrah!



When I read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (which, by the way, was excellent. Neil Gaiman is my hero. <3) I fell in love with the characters of Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar. I loved their relationship with each other, the dynamic between them, and their sadistic nature. They may be my favourite characters in literature, maybe.

This is a scene in the book when Mr. Croup is pissed off at his boss for wanting the two of them to be 'scarecrows' instead of 'assassins', and Mr. Vandemar has got his hand stuck to the wall with knife.

I guess I lied.

So, I guess I lied, maybe I will post my art here, I can take pictures and stuff, right? This entire blog was spawned out of boredom because so often I have to sit in the office and wait for the phone to ring, but sometimes I have nothing else to do. And its been rainy so I haven;t been outside so much. Today I am going outside after I am off. ANYWAYS. here are some sketches from my sketchbook for you to enjoy if you want:

So I was sitting in reception with my sketchbook and picked up a magazine and randomly started sketching one of the models and this is what came of it.


This is my second attempt at drawing fashion models. I am a little annoyed with the coat... shiny leather is my newest arch-nemesis. I am actually still finishing the photo, I have gloves and pants drawn now too.

Anyways, this is what I do with my spare time... drawing. I've started drawing all over the booking book too... I hope Joel doesn't notice.

I have nothing to do, so look at these photos of my friends.

I have nothing to do really, because I am supposed to be answering phones but they are not ringing. So anyways, these are the crazy peeps I hang out with on an almost daily basis. (These pictures were taken by Annie, by the way, not me.)

This first photo is a picture of me, Mandy, and Mandy's german friend. Mandy is the one who I am talking about. She stayed at our hostel and was on the islands for two weeks, went back to dublin, and now is back for an undefined period of time. She is very high-energy, from America (but her mother is from Cork), and generally awesome to be around.

These two fools are Padraig (pronounced 'Porrick'... rhymes with 'Yorrick') and Tom. Annie and I met Padraig at Watty's, and when I went away for the week, he and Tom (from Dublin) became Annie's substitute drinking buddies and kind of stuck around. The dynamic of their friendship is hilarious. They once performed the song 'You're the one that I want' from Grease, with dancing. Padraig was Sandy.

This photo is of me and Annie, my co-worker, and roommate for about 5 days. Annie is from the states and plays a mean fiddle. She also knows the Ditty Bops, which makes her awesome. She knows a lot of good music, actually. She is almost always happy, and if not happy, she still manages to retain a sort of cheeriness about her. If you looked up adorable in the dictionary, you probably would not see a picture of her, but I think they should put one in anyway because she is a pretty accurate description of 'adorable'.

Glen also works and lives at Mainistir, but for some reason I have no photos of him. He is awesome, though, and as Melissa put it, whenever he is around there is sure to be a party. He is very, very Kiwi, and is super-proud of it. Do not mention any love of Australians around him. He loves blondes, especially scandanavians, specifically swedes.

Bonfire Night

General drunken debauchery plus gigantic mega-bonfires? YES.

Bonfire night was last night, and it was totally grand. Basically, its a west-coast-of-Ireland tradition to commemorate the birth of St. John by burning things in massive amounts. The islanders use this as a method of getting rid of old furniture, clothes, and other such garbage, as we are not allowed mega-super-ginormous bonfires on any other night. The heat was so strong from the fire it cancelled out the rain that was hitting us. (I was dry on one side and cold and wet on the other.)

So I changed my mind, I can use this to post photos for the meantime. This is I in front of Slieve League Cliffs. I wish there was some reference in this picture to get an idea of how tall they are... let's see. If there was a person standing on the peak up there, you probably wouldn't be able to tell in this picture, they'd be too small. Yeah.

So, very pretty cliffs. :D

Yep

I will probably use this after Ireland/Europe... I'll scan all my sketches or something. I wanted an art blog too...