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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And so the Monthly Gargoyles Contest is at its last-ever edition. I’d only ever entered a handful of times, not being a particularly avid fan of the Gargs, and also being a champion procrastinator … but inspiration has just struck 4 days before I fly out for my Christmas break, and fingers crossed I’ll get it done in the next 3 or 4 evenings.

Theme from November 2006, ‘Black and White’. Odette, Odile, white, black, grey. The idea’s been kicking around my head for years,off and on.

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I went to the ballet tonight - and scribbled all over the cast sheet during intermissions:

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And because I’m caffeinated and wide awake past midnight, some sketches of a comical character from Alexei Ratmansky’s new version of Scuola di Ballo for the Australian Ballet (and it takes a lot of work to dance that badly!!):

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I’m done! (sticking to a project for a month is murder on my attention span…)

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… to the land of sweets, on the back of a goose.

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Drawn after the Australian Ballet production of Peter Wright’s Nutcracker (with a little help from promotional images). More to follow!

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Signature pose from Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake:

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And one of the merchandising ideas that didn’t make it past brainstorming:

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