[EDIT: I’m one of 20 finalists (not counting the under-12s)! Voting for the People’s Prize runs 11-22 March in the Royal Arcade off Bourke Street in Melbourne, and at http://www.kokoblack.com . Although I’m not holding my breath, because all the other finalists have turned out incredibly beautiful work… ]

They gave us this to start with:

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And this is what my fevered imagination came up with:

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(I’ve had to Photoshop the final image because the office scanner didn’t pick up some of my very delicate rendering…but this looks almost nothing like the actual thing anyway)

getting to the No Vacancy gallery for an evening life drawing session, only to find out that they are indeed living up to their name…

Taking another stab at the annual Koko Black fill-in-the-blank art contest. What’s rising up out of the giant crater? Blurry mobile phone pics to follow!

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Some of the result of another Dr Sketchy’s session, but only the ones where the anatomy construction wasn’t quite so shonky! Trapeze artist/burlesque dancer, in various stages of undress, either in calligraphic felt-tip pen or lithographic crayon.

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And this one won me a $10 voucher for [Redacted] Bookshop (way cool, because I pretty much never win anything!):

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Looking at these again, most of them could do with a ground line, they’re just floating around on the page…

picking up models in the park: UR DOIN IT RONG

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Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko / aoi umi kara yatte kita

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Drawn sitting in the airport departure lounge, a recollection of the scenery out the train window en route to a site visit in The ‘Rat the week before:

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Self-portrait, with fringe. I drew page after page of sketches sitting around in one glitzy shopping mall after another, but nearly all of it is unspeakably bad…

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Lost in the mists of time, until now:

Thumbnail is not showing up on this one for some reason, but apparently I drew this at the age of six:

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Angsty painting, most likely inspired by Les Miserables:

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When copying famous angsty paintings, be sure to include hearts and/or flowers:

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And I copied a *lot* of Disney pictures back in high school:

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And there’s plenty more Disney copies where these came from…

Also?

Happy holidays, y’all!

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Poke me with a fork, I’m done! It’s not as well-executed as I’d like, but I’m exhausted and liable to melt down like a three-year-old at Disneyland…

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Redesigned, still in progress; still playing fast and loose with anatomy, ballet technique, and the laws of physics, but that’s art for you. Probably not going to be one of my better works, but I’m tired and have a heap of more important things to do. Laundry, physio exercises, sleeping early, shoving things into a backpack and hoping it’s all under 7kg …

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