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30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 6, 7, 8

By Susie Day on May 9, 2011 in blog

Day 6: Favourite Book Character

I’m starting to think I don’t have a ‘favourite’ anything. Not even about really important things, like cheese or Doctor Who. So this is a ‘book character I really like and if you’d asked me on a different day I’d say someone else, probably’ sort of answer.

Cassandra Mortmain, from I Capture the Castle

Day 7: Favourite word

I know. An adverb. Novelist Kryptonite. I don’t care, I like it, it is understated and simple and lovely.

Ceci n'est pas un drawing. Bof.

Day 8: Favourite Animated Character

At last, an easy one. I luff him. All stories should have a toy who doesn’t know he’s a toy in them.

To Infinity, and Beyond!

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30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 3, 4, 5

By Susie Day on May 4, 2011 in blog

Day 3: Favourite Food

This presented a challenge, as I am a) indecisive and b) a bit piggy. The only logical result was to create a delightful medley of all my favourite foods. So, ladies and gentlemen, I present

THE ULTIMATE SANDWICH OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Contains nuts. And sprouts. And Milkybar.

Delicious!

The make your own Ultimate Sandwich of Doom at home, you’ll need:

1 slice crusty white bread from High Street Bakery, Penarth

Bacon and tomato sauce

Peas

Yorkshire Pudding and Roast Beef

Ginger Tablet

Prawn gyoza

Brussels sprouts

Peanut Butter (crunchy, obviously)

Milkybar

1 slice wholemeal GI bread from High Street Bakery, Penarth

On reflection, I have forgotten to add raspberries. And stilton. But that’s probably OK.

Day 4: Favourite Place

Clue: it's quite big.

Got it?

Anyone suggesting I am bailing out on actual ‘drawing’ here can argue the finer details with Eliot from Leverage.

(He’s nothing to do with the challenge, he just seemed to want to be drawn on the wall.)

Day 5: Best Friend

OK, now, I’m a grown-up, so I don’t really have one of these. Therefore here is a picture of my best friend when I was about five.

Her name was Chloe, she moved away, and all I remember about her is that she had loads of lovely hair. (Which is why she hasn’t got a proper face. Sorry Chloe.)

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30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 2

By Susie Day on May 3, 2011 in blog

Day 2: Favourite Animal

I love giraffes. They’re just so improbable: like camels that went through too many washes, lost all their elastic and went splotchy. Plus they do that lopey running thing, where they look like they don’t really know how to do running, and I can soooo relate to that.

Giraffe drawn from memory, because I do not have a giraffe.

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30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 1

By Susie Day on May 2, 2011 in blog

This is SO not my fault. The ever-fabulous Keris Stainton mentioned she was tempted to try Show & Tell‘s 30 Day Drawing Challenge – and I am nothing if not suggestible.

I drew a lot as a teenager (still have v fond memories of my watercolour of Colin the Leopard Lily for my GCSE coursework, painted while listening to Ned’s Atomic Dustbin on cassette: good times), and I don’t really know why I stopped. I think at some point I decided words were ‘more my thing’, on account of my drawing being actually a bit rubbish.

Luckily, now I’m a grown up I don’t care about such finicky things, and will foist it on you anyway. Do please join in at home, interwebular friends!

Day 1: Yourself

Now I’ve thought about it, probably I could’ve done something clever here with a collage which interpreted the inner workings of my mind through the use of colour and triangles and stuff. But instead I just picked up a pencil and tried to draw my face.

For the uninitiated, here is my face:

Yes, I am in my dressing gown on the internet, wearing an earring made out of chalk. Shush.

(Also: yes, I know, the To Fringe Or Not To Fringe debate rattles on; no, I am not really that yellow, etc etc. This is sort of vaguely my general face, anyway.)

The results were… varied.

My first effort started well then veered into ‘I look a lot more like a half-Taiwanese five-year-old than I thought’, so I did a lot of rubbing out and correcting and decided my lips were particularly in need of attention, and…

Uncanny, no?

So I started over, and apparently decided to entirely ignore my face and draw Fiona Allen‘s face instead.

I blame the pencil. Pencils have a mind of their own.

Anyway, I started a 3rd time, and because I’ve put it last after those reprehensible efforts, it actually looks pretty good – even though in the real world it is an indeterminate set of features that, while it could plausibly be a person, still doesn’t in any way resemble me. Hooray!

At least I have fully captured the way one holds one’s lips when deeply amused by one’s own epic crapulousness.

Come back tomorrow, when I will have to draw AN ANIMAL (presumably from memory, unless I can procure a giraffe this afternoon). You know you want to!

In the meantime, do make sure to visit the utterly lovely new blog Girls ♥ Books, because today’s post is by me and is even more dorky than this one. *takes a bow*

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