whoa. so that december thing came and went, huh? i trust this post finds you having had a very merry christmas and gearing up for some bananas craziness to see in the new year!

this month has kind of been spent somewhere in a black hole of organizing stuff. it wasn't very exciting. BUT! we've pretty much got the bulk of the press out of the way for curiouser and curiouser (the group show opening on the 24th of january that you should TOTALLY cme to. there will, at the very least, be wine- more on that HERE) and things are coming together for the art competition/exhibition i'm helping the twenty something london crew put together ( CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN GET YOUR FINGERS INTO THAT PARTICULAR PIE . we're giving you intrepid art types the chance to be in our two-day show at drink, shop & do and the fold gallery.but wait. there's more. winners will also be featured in macs magazine, fourth and main, sleek and suitcase online. not too shabby, huh?).

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THAT. LET'S LOOK AT SOME GOOFY STUFF YOU GONE AND DRAWN.YEAH!



jeeze. remember back when you used to draw things with backgrounds? that weren't based on tenuous word play? but yeah, this is the last one of these... well, for now at least. there might be a very long list of potential pun-based doodles sitting in my sketch book. i don't think i can resist them.





front and reverse of a business card for a friend who just so happens to be re-goddamn-diculose at the whole music thing. he's currently renting out his mad piano/saxophone skills so if you've got a wedding/birthday/batmitzpha/book group meeting on the cards that you think would benefit from a little background music, you should totally shout him a holar.


and here's something for all the folk who have been working in retail this festive season. i don't know if this segment of a recent this american life episode struck a chord just because i've been doing the whole day job thing in a toy shop but it's definitely worth sticking in your ears

pun stuff. given the tragically long list of potential silly drawings in my sketchbook, i'm very tempted to try and get enough of these done to make a wall calendar for 2014. who knows. you could maybe even sell them in that etsy store you keep swearing to god you're going to make one of these days...

BUT ALSO. REMEBER HOW I WAS ALL LIKE 'O HAI GUYS WE'RE DOING A SHOW'??

well. what do we have here?



for more information, check out the site for the show: http://curiouserandcuriousershow.wordpress.com/

it should be pretty rad! if you're around on the 24th of january, come on down to the curious duke gallery. it's litrally a hop, skip and a jump from old street tube. there will be wine. not to mention a ton of bitching art.

some stuff i'm working on. WHOA TOOCOOLFORSHCOOLINSTAGRAMALERT:





the first one's acctually licked, but i'm going to need to eat a ton more soup to get the second one ready *hint*possible instillation *hint*

aaaaaand some more doodles/snaps.

despite quite possibly not being what they seem to be, owls make much more co-operative life drawing models.

oh man. i can't even begin to tell you what a trip it was being able to get so up close with these animals.










BONUS CONTENT!

do you like to see terrible things happen to super cute animated characters? then i strongly recommend giving this cheerful youtube jem.



WHA??? PSA FOR RAIL SAFTEY???? BETCHA DIDN'T GUESS THAT ONE COMING!

OHSHIT. IT'S OH-MAN-YOU-HAVEN'T-UPDATED-THIS-IN-A-WHILE-SO-LET'S-STUFF-A-POST-TO-THE-GUNNELS TIME.

depending on how much blogger let's me cram into this thing, this might just have to be a m-m-m-multi-post job.

so.

thing the first!

a few weeks ago, i helped set up a rather unusual life drawing day for the illustration department at that university i swear to god i've left. asides from mike and emma, we had the pleasure of spending the day with a pair of owls, a lizard, a skunk and an armadillo. oh man. those last two were quite possibly the most adorable/impossible to draw things ever (asides from being disgustingly cute, skunks are hyper-drive-active.)