Pac-Man Moleskine stuff

This is a mix of lots of very bizzare band names all of which i think are very excellent and 'Capactiy Alison' is an ongoing family joke because we are cool like that...



Very quick liney people. This black pen was my favourite one but it has gone missing, i offer a very rewarding reward if its found though.



Rubber bandy doodley things




Goblins knocking at our door is a strangely all too common event. The man probably in reality looked NOTHING like a goblin


Mostly VERY quick doodles and brain mess.

PIZZA!!!

What is oil spray?! These questions are still unanswered in my brain

Just some hand drawny stuff (i fear i am beginning to get typecast) of overheard conversations. This is nowhere near the finished piece which will remain under wraps.... However it is a glimpse. Some definitely work better than others



"Whats oil spray?" Yes, what is oil spray, such questions in life i fear may forever go without an answer. Or its just oil in a spray can. Who can tell?



I dont know, would they look pimp? What is it that could look pimp? I'm imagining maybe white loafers. They could look awful, or pimp. Or both, something that looks pimp has a high chance of looking awful.







"Oh sweet Boddingtons" I haven't uploaded the Boddingtons bit, but i have gone for the colours associated with it. I will have to try it in order to comment on whether such a phrase is applicable. I'd guess it isnt.



Again, What is oil spray? but this time with a darker H and L. Because the L and H are crucial.

Just 2 days left as a teenager

So i thought i would draw something which i hope to change in the upcoming adult years (sigh)



These are the foods i don't eat. Ok in reality there are far more foods i don't eat but i couldn't remember them at the time. I think i should now spend the next 2 days not eating these gross things and then start trying to eat them. Eww

I've been being held hostage by a dog

hence the lack of pictures. I wish i was joking.

Here is something from a while ago. It was an attempt to draw people (nooooooooo) and to use something that isn't a fine line pen (noooooooo) that wasn't black (noooooooooo)




I am not very good at teeth, there just ended up looking like there was millions of teeth that didn't really fit in the mouth. I know how to solve this though - don't draw open mouths

I can think of a few reasons why you would watch football...

I think this was inspired by hand balls..

Patterns are also fun - How a page on patterns can actually feature no patterns whatsoever

I think this is unfinished. After all what good is a page on patterns if there is no pattern. These go with an earlier piece on things that are fun.

Hand drawn type is surprisingly fun if you are the type of person who also finds train journeys fun

Don't mock me because my interests are slightly crap (a lot crap) but hand drawn type has become one of my favourite things to do. I just wished i knew what to write more often.

Laces suck unless they are in edible form

I can't remember when i drew this, or why i drew a bald egg type man in the corner. Both will remain a mystery i am afraid. What i can tell you though is that i will post a few more trainery things over the next few days or weeks but im actually getting bored of trainer drawings (for now anyway)

These will be my famous last words and i'll probably draw trainers again tomorrow. You can't teach an old dog new tricks and other such lame analogies.

I dedicate this day to drawings of less than respectable people

These 2 drawings were quick doodles and were heavily influenced by things around me. The first drawing is of a taxi driver. He looked kind of seedy and maybe like he taxi'd other things around too *wink wink nudge nudge* I quite like it as a drawing, i think i got his face just right for a change.

The second however can only be described as a monstrosity. Albeit one i am quite proud of. I overheard these two men talking on the number 5 bus just before christmas. The man i drew was saying about how he was buying his children their christmas presents and then went on to tell the other man about his friend, "the plastic gangster" who was all mouth and wouldn't do anything. He then went on to say he couldnt do anything because he couldn't end up in prison this close to christmas. I felt like a reporter as i snooped in on their conversation. The drawing is awful though, i was trying to show he had lots of wrinkles, greased back hair, was carrying several stones too many in weight and had these big eyes like a frog. I think in reality it looks more like Andrew Lloyd Webber <3

I have more drawings from buses with anecdotal stories to go with them which i'm very fond of. Maybe if i applied the same level of concentration and eagerness to everything as i have done other peoples conversations i would be more successful. Sigh

My mum is like a blue tit

This comparison was noticed by my little brother on Mothers day and i have to say its remarkably accurate. I think its the blue feathers that do it, they are uncannily similar to the blue feathers of my mum.

A public service announcement

A helpful and informative leaflet about what causes Sophie Roakes face to go red. A nation wide dispatch is imminent.

I hate old people and public transport

Ok, i don't hate all old people, i like my big Nan, she brought me drumstick lollies every Wednesday after school. But every other one...grrrr.

And i don't hate all public transport, trains are fun sometimes, and buses are even funner especially if it's a double decker and you are at the front. I like to pretend i am driving it (not improving the opinion of people who think im simple)

But in this instance, i hate them both, for these are two evil old ladies who did something outrageous (so outrageous i can't remember it now!) and it made me so bitter i drew this very quickly on a bus, i even used colour, this is almost unheard of.

Lets not point out the flaws with this picture, i am aware there are many. But my intention was to capture the meanness of these jowly, misanthropic grumps

I think I am an old lady in a young persons body

These are something i have found myself increasingly doing. I'll look at old crochet patterns and attempt to draw the negative space, mainly because i like patterns and i like old peoples hobbies. I think these were so much better in my head. I just found i didnt know what to do with them and that they looked so unfinished.

Things that are fun...

This is part of a larger set of drawings entitled "things that are fun" (that sentence seems so grammatically incorrect and childish - Win!) But i like it and it took a while so ta-dah!

It says:

but whats even more fun.... is train journeys, trainers, pizza express,sour sweets, quoting mean girls, the mr.reid stage fall, rain, silence, (things in brackets), wasting time, clown college, pointless bus trips, convincing acting, talking like a gangster, food with faces, uncontrollable laughter, harold bishop, tiny bow ties, crazy golf, crabbing, coffee stabbing, being panacheful, horatio knibbles, colouring in, collecting stuff, funny faces, stating the obvious, lists.

Obviously that list isnt fun to everyone. In fact its probably only fun to me, hmmm

I killed my old blog to start a new one

Maybe slightly bad taste for a title there, oh well.

I have decided that my previous drawing blog was shit and had too much shameful pieces on it. So here is a new one, which will have new work and will be updated [s]daily weekly[/s] whenever i remember.

It will have lots more drawn stuff on it, a lot of hand drawn type and small zines i have made. There will also be trainers in abundance.

Good stuff