Sketchbook Mojo

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New sketchbook ... time to try and get some of that recreational sketching mojo back that somehow got drowned out in all the paying work ... 

Schroedinger's Elephant

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Every now and then, on a Friday morning a really silly idea pops into my head ... this one kicked off by a random Facebook comment from a friend on another elephant sketch ... and a quick drawing results. Happiness. :-)

Corporate Bird of Prey

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A quick pencil sketch this afternoon in amongst this afternoon's "real work".

Fetch!

Butterbean wasn't exactly "man's best friend" before his first morning coffee...

Quickie scribble from my sketchbooks...

The Queen's Colonial Forces

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Colonel Edwina Warrington of The Queen's Own Frontier Light Horse Brigade...

(pencil sketch with digital colours)

Selfportrait with Bird

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Doodled pencil self-portrait with bird and digital colour dropped in.

Birds on too much coffee

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It's quite hard to reverse the effects of two much coffee...especially on our feathered friends.

Something from the Silly Drawing of the Day Department... wired birds on a branch... made me chuckle to myself a little.

Questionable aerodynamics at work

Not letting the laws of physics get in the way...quick little drawing on the theme of "In Flight" in my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project.

Old Fashioned

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Nothing like a bit of old fashioned jazz to soothe the soul...

Illustration Friday: Atmosphere

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Loose pen, ink and watercolour sketch for this week's Illustration Friday theme: Atmosphere.

Big Hair Monday

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Big Hair Mondays... also available on Tuesdays or any other day of the week, for that matter.

Illustration Friday: Giant

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Inquisitive giants in purple swimming trunks can be a real menace on the beach these days.

Quick brush and ink doodle with photoshop colours for Illustration Friday's theme: "Giant"

All Quiet on the Western Front

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From yesterday's late night sketching session... sepia added in photoshop.

Thought for the day

Leopold the Lion's thought for the day... it's remarkably concise, deep and philosophical... if you speak Lion, that is.

Pork is the word...

Pork Chop meets Andy Warhol... sort of... maybe not.

Maria opened the door...

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Maria opened the door... and I could immediatedly see she was having a bad day ... (loose pencil a-doodling...)

Vot did you say?

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Mr Bohlwinkel couldn't believe what he was hearing... (close up of loose pen sketch... and even looser watercolours)

Doodles, doodles, doodles, noodles...

A couple of recent sketchbook pages... nothing fancy.

A little something I found in the archives, which I had doodled and coloured up a few years back...

Rock me Amadeus!

Cape Town Book Fair -- lekker- hectic - Mamba Comix launch - book signings - meetings - lunches ... and damn, could've used another day just to look around properly and actually look at BOOKS!...LOL

Here's quickie doodle sketch... coloured in ... was actually trying out quite fine pen i might want to use for a new project (no monsters in that one though;-)

Gigabyte me!

Detail...Never got round to posting these brush-pen sketches last week -- here they are... enjoy :-)