So, apart from the fact that my wife was sick as a sick pig today, and it was my dad and daughter’s birthday, I drew this on Brushes. It reminded me that it was drawing a card for my dad’s birthday that started me off on Brushes in the first place so here’s a post with the first image I drew in Brushes (two years ago? One year? Wow I think it was only a year… ) and the most recent one I’ve done today. Hopefully they’re pretty easy to work out which is which.

Yesterday was comic museum, Forbidden Planet, GOSH and Saatchi gallery as part of the take the kids out of the classroom where they all get grumpy day. Was a LOT of fun, mainly because I like the class and the other teacher a lot.

Today, I’ve just been informed, is International Paul sorts out some of his junk day. So if it doesn’t start with coffee then it’ll not go well (this was doodled while having a coffee in the newly (ish) opened Jamie’s Italian in Guildford… It was too busy to stop and eat in but a friend and I had a coffee there anyhow, which was OK and a pudding, which was less so – a little cloying and imbalanced imho).

A smorgasbord of possibilities and entertainment angles, provided I can evade the kids and family long enough to keep up with them. Was going to watch Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (awesome film – up there with the best 3d adventures and proof finally that Mr T can act rather than just be Mr T) with family, with one eye on the Apple tablet announcement, but that’s postponed til tomorrow so that some members of the household can go out and cheer up other family members not in the household. Which leaves me on child end of day duties, with one eye on the Apple tablet announcement.

These things WILL happen:

No-one will talk to Mr McGraw Hill. He’s either a twit or a shill and everyone will shun him and he will stand in a corner alone eating canopes.

Stevie J will take to the stage wearing an artists smock and beret.

The naming game will end. It’ll be called the Apple PaintSplodge.

The PaintSplodge will eat newspapers for fun.

It will be the best comic reader known to man.

My wallet will cry.

It will have Pixelmator and Brushes built in, or easily buyable from the SplodgeStore. I will be very happy about this.

Molly Wood, CNET’s Apple antagonist par excellance (and the person who sings the word ‘awesome’ better than an-e-bod-e), will be the Chun Li to Stevie J’s Ken.

The internet will buckle and crash and burn as a million twillion uber nerds refresh Engadget every four seconds. Twitter will cease to exist after the first four seconds of the iNote under a deluge of mostly related hashtags. Lots of people will say it’s just a bigger iPhone.

Apart from that it should be quite a quiet evening I’m a guessing. I’m also guessing I will end it substantially poorer than I started it.

Couple of images from Project Wombat… The first is the starter image – the 80% complete one I’ve now got for all 17 pages of the first part. The second one is the 95% complete one which has had a certain amount of mucking around with it to tidy up the rough parts and add more detail. Just thought I’d post some wips.

Nearly…

Pics to come in a couple of mins.

www.boston.com/bigpicture has been unusually heartbreaking of late. Strong, stunning pictures – very thought provoking as well. Worth a look  but not just prior to going to someone’s birthday party or something.

Beginning to try and clear off existing jobs at the moment, while worrying about the amount of work that’s stacking up for the teacher training… Oh well, I guess if I had nothing to do I’d be bored.

When I take a break I’m still drawing, still thinking, and this is a preview of a project that’s bobbling around in my mind. It should be fun – it’s a collaborative, community thing again much like the Big Book Draw but this time with teens totally in mind from start to finish. I’m trying to get a proof reading copy sorted of the first part which leads up to the community section. Anyhow, thought I’d upload it before getting onto the other stuff I have to get onto.

About three of four posts ago.

I say that because my first phrasing of that sentence was pretty poor. That’s changed also.

Does the tag line thing always turn into a totally awful time? Sigh….

May post some later for you to have a look through but at the moment they exist only to cause frustration. May well go for “Paul Kercal’s seventh ignorable book” at this rate.