Like I say, I’m just gathering ideas here. Some kind of drawing brain storm. Not sure if these are characters in a story that I’d like to write or not. When I drew this I was imagining that the lads were from different families that had different traditions of facial hair and paint. I will draw more with beards and things rather than just bum fluff moustaches like these ones.

The stand is for people to lie on after they’ve passed away. I think I’ve seen a photo of a real one in a book about Native Americans or something. Not sure what the point of it would be in real life, but in my story they’d build the stands really high to help the spirit of the old dead person climb up to the heavens.

From the sketchbook

Been sunning  myself in the Lakes oop Narth. You should go there too, it’s the bee’s knees. Here’s some drawings from the sketchbook I took with me. Didn’t do as much drawing as I’d planned because I was wrecked by the end of each day. Walking and navigating those hills is hard, especially in the summer.

“Be formless… shapeless like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash. Be like water, my friend…” Bruce Lee 

Here’s a portrait of Bruce I did a while back. I posted it on my old blog before it disappeared, so here it is again. I enjoy this picture quite a lot because it doesn’t look very much like him.