I've Been Doing Quite A Lot Of Work That's Not Ready To Show, Along With Frantically Getting Ready For

I've been doing quite a lot of work that's not ready to show, along with frantically getting ready for Bristol Expo this weekend while doing many, many shifts at a tea room, so here are some old-ish sketches I did in spare time instead.

I don't think Andersen has appeared on here before, but he's a shape-shifting cat who is found by Jessie in a forest, and seems to have been abandoned by his people for some reason. He's mute, but he does understand speech. (Although he doesn't speak English.) It never really comes up in the story, but he hooks his tail over his leg like that because when he was little someone trod on it.

You should all recognise Coda, she's in white because she's participating in a ritual.

As I said, I'm also going to Bristol Expo this weekend with Inspired Comics, I hope some of you can stop by and see us. We'll have our new anthology, and with any luck I'll be bringing a new issue of What's the Time, Mrs Woolf? and an 8-page comic called The Bad Fairy Bakery.

*rush rush panic panic*

Since I had very little time to prepare for the farmer's market this Saturday, I decided to do some more originals to sell instead of trying to make a comic or a book.

These sets of six are tags for presents, they're threaded with red embroidery thread now, but my camera is out of battery so I can't take a photo. 

The top set are my favourite spring flowers. The bottom set are based on tsukumogami, an item in japanese folklore. Supposedly when a tool or belonging reaches 100 years of service, it gains a soul and moves around the house.

I'll also have free mini-comics and mini-zines to give out, the latest issue of What's the Time Mrs Woolf, and a few copies of Science Fiction Octuple Feature and Eat Me! from Inspired.

Yes, yes I sketched my blisters again. Look at the size of that thing! Wouldn't you want to record it for posterity? Originally it was much smaller, but it was on the sole of my foot, so walking around forced the fluid up the side and made it almost three times its original size.

It's weird to look at my toes and realise they've developed in the shape of my shoes. I'd rather have natural ones, I think.

In other news, I am so tired. I've been working a lot more hours at the tea room than I was contracted for. Not that I'm not happy to have more money, but there's a reason I only applied for part-time. We're hiring new people soon, so hopefully then I'll be back to my contracted hours and I'll have time to do drawing again. With any luck the Summer will be over early too this year, so I can stop being in such a bad mood.

HAHAHA my Mum's been spreading Hermans everywhere! And she works at Cambridge University! XD

HERMAN THE GERMAN - the sourdough invasion…

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.