Kitty Bing & Caption 09

Ladyspy!

Kitty Bing, stealing glamorous fashion secrets, 60s-style!

I was at Caption on Sunday, the excellent convention on comic creativity in sunny Oxford. Although I missed out on Saturday’s events, Sunday still had various treats in store, including talks from Sarah McIntyre on the way children’s picture books are making use of comic style art in interesting and innovative ways, and Asia Alfasi on her autobiographical manga about moving from Libya to Glasgow and what that meant for a comics-obsessed young muslim girl. There were loads of other things too (including cake!) but the most important part of Caption is meeting enthusiastic creators and readers. I was particularly pleased to meet Jason Little, creator of the ligne claire-style Shutterbug Follies. I’m also very pleased that my cake fairy picture, that was part of the art auction, found a happy home with one of Caption’s excellent organisers, Jenni Scott.

Mariscal

doodlings

A week or so ago I went to the Mariscal retrospective at the Design Museum. These are some doodlings I did on the spot, plus a quote which I think might have come from a children’s workshop run as part of the exhibit.
It was a great little show but then Mariscal is one of my favourite artists. He’s had a go at designing and drawing just about everything from restaurants, logos, packaging, typefaces, magazine covers, comics, textiles and is most famous for the mascot of the Barcelona Olympics, Cobi. He has a wonderful energetic style and bold use of colour and has really left his visual stamp on Barcelona.
Here are a few snaps from the exhibition:

snaps

The exhibiton blog is here with many more (better) photos.

CSI: Little Chef

It looks bad, Horatio

There should probably be a caption or speech bubble here but I couldn’t think of anything other than “battered to death” which isn’t right because it’s more of a lightly crispy crumb coating. Plus he has obviously been cut. I should be a CSI! That pea on the left looks suspicious – book him, Horatio.

nomnomnom

Gravity permitting, this fairy will be winging her way to this year’s Caption for the exhibition and auction. Potato-faced scrubber/British female role-model Jordan was on the TV at the time, which may have influenced this drawing.

Speaking of monsters:

Monsters!

I recently bought a book collection of David Weidman‘s work and really love those clashing 60s/70s colour schemes and the way he layered colour. Groovy.

Lastly, I was on the train listening to a family who were off to see Oliver! so ended up drawing Oliver and nasty Mr Sykes:

Oliver and Bill

Almost caught up with myself!

Boogie Cat Wants to Dance

Boogie Cat!

It is hard to draw a cat moon-walking.

What else have I been drawing lately?
Some of my neighbours:

Local People

It’s an interesting mix of types around here. Plenty of people-watching to be had.
More dancing. Slightly more formal this time:

Quickstep!

I had a lightly-boiled egg with soldiers for lunch the other day. Consequently a lightly-boiled egg soldier.

Coming out of his shell

More to come!

Daily drawings catch-up

I’ve been neglecting my daily drawings. Here’s a few to catch up with.

Batboys

The Bat Chaps. Robin was eight years old when he joined Batman fighting crime. Have you hung around any eight-year-olds lately? Not much good when it comes to foiling bank robbers I can tell you. Unless you count vomiting up chicken McNuggets as a super power.

I went to the Isle of Wight last week to visit family and had a walk around Carisbrooke Castle. Much fun and excellent views to be had on the battlements.

Ruins.

I drew a couple of Norman chaps having a dust-up after that:

Calm down, boys.

It put me in a bit a of a fantasy mood:

Geronimo!

Back on track now, I think!