From the sketchbook

I have a print for sale at this event. You will go and buy things won’t you? You can donate here too.

www.egaku.org.uk

Buy a slightly shorter version of this at Print Okushon and help raise money for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. My print is here and there’s loads of other good ‘uns to buy there too. Bid big please.

In some countries (eg Italy and Japan) placing your hand in this position and waggling it back and forth means ‘come this way please’. In Hong Kong a man in a temple did this to me so I could have a look at some statues. Even though I knew what it meant, it was still a little confusing at first as nobody does this in England.

That’s right I’ve been having fun just now in 2009. Drawing on a little bit of parcel paper purely for enjoyment. I watched a horribly violent Japanese film last night and everyone had nice hair like these people. Some of them had a strange strip of baldness in the middle of the head combined with a ponytail. I may be losing my hair, so I’m weighing up the options. It’s either going to be a hat or transplant. Maybe a hatplant