Headphones On

I did something rare this morning, I spent four hours drawing. I never have the luxury of that kind of creative exploration on projects but as my g5 was getting a proper inspection and cleaning, I didn't have much choice. Oh the joys of tracing paper and a pencil! Here is where if I was 10 years older I would expound on 'the good old days' of designing pre-computer world, but I'm not 10 years older am I? I've worked on a computer since age 7 (or at least jumping up and down next to my brother while he played with it and I went 'ooooooh lemme lemme lemme!'). It was good fun to pull out my erasers, pencils and prop up the drafting table. I think my Mac guy was just amused at me humming along to the music pumping through my headphones. Every once in a while I'd turn around to find him giggling at me. Either my G5 makes some damn funny jokes or I am an entertaining person to watch draw. It might have had something to do with the lil animated conversation I was imagining between the shrimp I was drawing and the Kings of Convenience I was listening to.

I can't sit down to draw without picturing an old Peanuts strip where Charlie Brown is sat at a table... markers and paper spread about him... and in the next frame he's drawing furiously and in the third frame he looks up and you discover more of the marker has ended up on him than the paper. I can't tell you how many times I washed the lead off my hands today.