Saturday 1 September 2012

Elephants and Doodles


Elephant Fact # 21: Although elephant elders will eventually separate and form their own clans, they keep bonds between each group and still remember being once altogether.

So I had camp a few weeks ago—but this isn’t the blog about it; I’ll probably talk about that another time when I’ve actually drawn a few cartoons for that one. I just wanted to procrastinate a little before resuming study for my mock exams next week.

My friend introduced me to this book, ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, by John Green.

It’s about a couple of kids.

 With cancer.

OHGODWHYIT’SSOSADWHATTHEHELLAMIREADINGICAN’TCONTAINALLTHESEFEELS—

Yes, well.

I didn’t really think about the book for a while after I’d read it—and then when I sat down to draw my dad a card for Father’s Day, this came out instead:



WHY YOU SO SAD, HAZEL?! (AND WHY ARE YOUR HANDS SO DERP, AUGUSTUS?)


I’ve been practicing drawing shiny hair, lately. I’m such a beginner when it comes to drawing people; although they were my favorite subject in other art, it was something I’d always avoided when I was younger.

 But for some reason, lately I can’t seem to stop doodling them. You know--you accidentally draw a straight line on your Chemistry quiz. Then you tilt your head and suddenly it looks like the line of a jaw. So you add a neck. And a head. And a nose. Mouth, eyes, ears, hair. And then bam!


You’ve just failed Chemistry.

At least I’ve improved from my QCS quiz, when apparently I've just completely lost the ability to count—


What.

Seriously.

The Unlucky Elephant

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