interesting dinosaur facts on a Saturday night...

Neil's been in the French Alps all week, riding his bike down some mountains.

He arrived back today. And the sodding World Cup has been back on the bloody telly ever since. 

So I drew this tonight.

new month...new colours...

I was on pinterest last week, getting stuff together for some client moodboards, and I kept seeing loads of my old stuff. 

So, totally inspired by my old self, I put together a little moody board of my own. All the little techniques I'd forgotten about will now be dragged back to life this month.

I also came up with new colours to welcome in July...

And put them all together...

 

what I learned from posting on instagram every day for 4 weeks....

I posted my alphabet on the gram every single day for 4 weeks.

I feel like at one point in time this was the advice for getting 'more views' or 'more likes' or 'more followers' ...or something?

But I can hereby confirm that it doesn't any more. None of the above.

Indeed the views were lower than a snake's belly. The likes were so low that I hid the county thing. And I lost more followers than I gained.

Luckily I didn't do it to feel popular with strangers on the interwebs. I did it cos my favourite thing is to draw my own stuff without a brief or any demands or deadlines or the need to be commercially viable. Or to "make it smile". I did it just for the funs.

It did highlight to me though that the instagram we loved is indeed dead. So I'm thinking I might have this blog as my main posty place again. I don't feel any stress if nobody sees it here. I never get likes or comments and I'm not sure whether anyone even sees it. So it feels like a much less desperate, shouty, salesy place. And I like that 😊 

and finally...

 I made it to the end folks!

Z is for zebra. Obvs.

Y is for...

 Yaaaayyyyyyy!

Yay it's the weekend.

Yay we're having a heatwave.

And yay I'm nearly at the end of this alphabet.

Also Y is for yak.

more letters...

 W is for Wolf...

And X is ...very limited. 

So I went for the obvious, tried 2, both a bit dull... but here we are..

U and V

The most overused and overrated creature in children's publishing.

And one who's not used nearly enough...

S and T

S and T from the weekend.

Longest day today. Oh how I love daylight! June is my most favouritest month.

R is for rabbit...

I could've done B is for Bunny, H is for Hare and R is for Rabbit, cos they are my faves.

But I stuck to just this one....

 

Q is for quokka

No clue what one is ...but the choice was limited 🫣

P is for panda...

O is for owl.

Obvs...

soz, it's a narwhal

A bit naff.... but it was either 'narwhal' or 'nest'. So...

KLM (not the airline)

3 more letters from this weekend... and I've reached the halfway point of the alphabet.

j is for jellyfish