Wizarding Wednesday #12

Thank goodness! It's Wednesday again! We can finally enjoy some time with everyone's not-really-favourite wizards. I mean, there are lots of wizards that are more popular... but these wizards are so cute. Maybe they will be popular wizards one day soon.

This is possibly the longest Wizarding Wednesday so far. One of the nicest things about the festive break was that I had the time to try out longer strips. And look! The wizards have even brought a pal along. I hope you like her. I bet she likes you!

IN OTHER NEWS: I finally got the correct ratio of tomato sauce to pasta for Tuesday's dinner. HOORAY! And I did some mock ups of what the new website will look like. Fingers crossed!

Real Life: Burgers

If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know how much I love a good burger. For future reference, I'm especially keen on having extra bacon and cheese in my burgers! Oh! And if it's a chicken burger then I would not be upset to find pineapple inside as well.

I wish burgers were officially healthy for you. As it is, I'm trying to eat less at the moment. I don't think I've had one in 2011 - and it's already ten days into the year! Wow. In fact, I need to clear up my act with food in general. I should learn to cook real food - not just cookies or toast.

Ugh. It sounds like I'm going to have to become a grown up this year. Wish me luck.

Monsters: Picnic

It's Monday! The weekend is gone! Boo hoo hoo. I didn't do much besides worry, draw and sleep. Oh and I ate lots of toast. I don't know why but I just had the urge. The Toast Urge! Plus my iPod broke! Boo hoo hoo. There weren't even any warning signs - it just stopped working. Lame. And the sad thing is (even sadder than this being my second or third iPod) is that I'll probably just get a new one because there don't appear to be any decent alternatives...

Sigh.

Anyways - enough of me crying. Look! A drawing about two of my favourite things:picnics and monsters! I want to draw more monsters! But I don't know when. I hope you like them though!

Confessions!

It's Friday and no - there are still no wizards! None for you! You'll have to wait until next week!

But here is a drawing about people with confessions. This was totally drawn whilst watching television - you can tell because the lady's head keeps changing shape. Hahahaha. And they are wearing green and red - Christmas colours!

I'm having a bit of a tough time with things at the moment. I'm not sure it's even worth writing about (or whether I'd feel comfortable about writing it down) but hopefully it will be sorted in the next few weeks. Ugh.

Julie #1

It's Thursday. No wizards for you! Instead, you get to meet my friend Julie. Julie and I met years ago when I kept calling her the wrong name by mistake. She is lovely and came to visit last week and we had a great time. But no one wants to read about great times so I decided that the drawn-version of Julie is quite mean. I cleared it with Real Julie so it's fine.

IN OTHER NEWS: Here is a drawing I made for a friend's Christmas prize! I think it went down well and I was really happy with how it turned out. It's just as well we are both happy though since I worked hard on it.

Wizarding Wednesday #11 (and my 400th blog post?!)

Hello! It's Wednesday which means we can expect a visit from those wizards. I'm starting to really like the wizards. In fact, and this is some exciting stuff, they will probably be here next week too! Also, they will be bringing friends along too! You've already met one of them for the Christmas one - who you'll be seeing a lot more if everything goes to plan...

Oh - it's all sort mysterious.

IN OTHER NEWS: I'm back at work. And I'm determined to get into a proper/respectable sleeping routine. No more 3am bedtimes for me! Although, it meant I got lots of drawing done...

FUN FACT: I'm halfway through the pencils for People I Know #12!

UPDATE: And I did a guest strip for Private Study

Real Life: Cold

It's Tuesday and I don't know about you, but quite a lot of the festive period was spent huddled under blankets - because it was pretty cold! There was lots of snow and I had to wear a scarf. I even did a drawing about it!

IN OTHER NEWS: It's back to work today!

Toby: Resolutions

Happy New Year! 2011 is going to be ace! I don't know what's going to happen but I know that I will work hard! The website is going to have a makeover at some point so keep an eye out for that. And I've got an exciting surprise up my sleeve too!

More importantly, I hope you missed me for that whole week...

Jessica Fletcher Week 2010: An Update

Oh! One more thing! I forgot to upload these two Jessica Fletchers. They were too late to be part of Jessica Fletcher Week 2010, but I'm uploading them now because...well...it's my blog and I can do whatever I like!

This is a drawing by Howard for Marc Ellerby's Chloe Noonan... but it gets uploaded here because there's a Jessica Fletcher reference. And because Howard is nice. But mostly because of the Jessica Fletcher reference. I mean, even as a ghost, Ms Fletcher's allure is so powerful, you can bet that all the other ghosts would be impressed by her. In fact, I can't believe no one has made a supernatural spin-off of Murder, She Wrote. Why is this? It would be amazing, with Jessica Fletcher floating through walls and fighting vampires and stuff...

This Jessica Fletcher was sent in by the lovely Bing! I had to pester him for ages to do one but it all paid off in the end...because now I have one...and it's really good. I have no idea what the text at the bottom says but I imagine it's something like "OMG! Jessica Fletcher is SUCH a fox." Oh! Or maybe "THIS IS MY FUTURE WIFE!" Or perhaps "Watch our murders! You're about to get Jessica'd!" Either way, Bing is ace, his drawing is ace and everything is swell.

If you want to send in a drawing of Jessica Fletcher then please do. I'll probably run the week again in November 2011 (talk about forward planning) so you should start thinking about what you'll want to draw... I mean, eleven months isn't that long to capture the beauty and grace of the Jessica Beatrice Fletcher...

Happy New Year!

Oh em gee you guys! It's officially a NEW YEAR! In this case, it's now 2011, which means that we're nearing teenage-tantrum-time - my favourite sort of time. Hooray!

But yeah - it's a Saturday so this isn't a normal update, I just wanted to have something up for the first day of the New Year.

I've had a brilliant time these last few weeks. I got lots of drawing done, I saw my friends, ate so much unhealthy food and slept a lot. But it's back to the real world next week which will be a shock to the system. I hope you lot had a lovely time too! Did I miss anything exciting? Tell me everything!

As for what 2011 has in store, well, I have a lot of plans... My friend is going to redo my website and another friend is going to help set up and run an online shop for me - although I don't know when either of those will happen. As soon as possible?

I think that every print comic I make now will come under the People I Know banner - which means I'll need to repackage my mini comics and the like. That sounds quite dull doesn't it?

There's probably other stuff too but I need to enjoy my last few days of daytime television and drawing. But I'll be back to update properly on Monday! HOORAY!

Happy New Year (again)!