All Those Blur Drawings Reminded Me That Sammy And I Also Went To See Dr Dee When It Was On In London.

All those Blur drawings reminded me that Sammy and I also went to see Dr Dee when it was on in London. For those who don't know (and what poor souls you are) it's an opera about the Elizabethan mathematician/astronomer/mystic John Dee, by Damon Albarn.

The music was lovely, obviously, but we were also really impressed by the costume and set design, so I did a few sketches in the interval.

I've uploaded some more doodles from my journal, this time on horrible paper because I was using a horrible notebook. These are all from after I moved to Bath. Find them here.

This one is me leaving Sammy in my metaphorical dust in the Paper People game.

Aww wow all the paper people! What started as a weird joke due to Gormenghast exposure became the VERY BEST GAME. Everyone must look at all of these photos and appreciate the levels of hilarity that ensued!

Incidentally Sammy is much more ninja than I am, I am the most unsubtle person in the world and she always knew when I was up to something. By contrast, she snuck up behind me and put one on my studio wall while one of our classmates was talking to me and could clearly see her, and I was totally oblivious.

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Also Sammy got me with a paper person! Nooooo! I should have known she had an ulterior motive when she gave me those creme eggs.

The ‘paper house’ is the scrapbook I made to contain some of the paper people from years gone by. I decided to start documenting my end of the game, so I’ve made a flicker set showing some of Sammy’s previous victories.

I wrote two comics for Inspired's newest anthology, Eat Me! (I was also very pleased to win the cover vote this time with my cheerful takoyaki.) The Mysterious Land of Under Noodle went into the anthology, so The Bad Fairy Bakery was printed alone and sold as a mini-comic at Bristol Expo. Since it's only 8 pages long, I thought I'd put up the whole thing for you all to read, like Patience is a Virtue. I hope you enjoy it!

These are some art cards I painted to sell at Bristol Expo. Originally there were going to be 14, all based on German fairy tales (so no Beauty and the Beast), but I only had time for 10. Rapunzel and Cinderella are still to be completed.

1 and 2 are Snow White and Rose Red. I mentioned in an earlier post that I imagine Rose Red looking a lot like my sister because we used to play a make-believe game based on the story, recently she told me that she remembers it too.

3 and 4 are Snow White. I love painting her, I like to interpret the 'hair black as ebony, skin white as snow, lips red as blood' thing literally.

5 and 6 are Little Red Riding Hood. I tried to make her look German, and make the forest look like it could be a scary place, since it would have been back when the tale was written.

7 and 8 are The Frog King, or Iron Henry. That's probably my all-time favourite fairy tale, I always imagined the princess to be only 12 or so (I think because the frog addresses her as 'King's daughter, youngest daughter'), and I liked the traditional description of the prince as 'a king's son with kind eyes'. Also the version where she throws the frog against the wall is vastly superior to the kissing version in every conceivable way.

9 and 10 are Sleeping Beauty. I find that story pretty creepy, but it's got some nice imagery. In the version I was told the prince can only get through the thorns because the 100 years are up, and on the way though he can see skeletons of other men who've tried to get through and died in there. I'd like to do a bigger version of that some time.

I'd never tried selling originals at cons before, so I was pleased to sell two of them. I put the rest up for sale in my online shop.

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You guys, I am embarrassingly excited that Sammy is working on this again. I am such a fangirl for this project and you should be too.

Expect ALL THE FANART.

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