Monthly Archive for October, 2008

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A little cross-hatch creature.

Published on October 21, 2008 in Plain Paper and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch - a little cross-hatch creature lept upon my idle page, he settled down quite peacefully, to sit there for an age.

It was one of those mornings in which I just had to set pen to paper and let it do its own thing until something peeks its little head out at me and says ‘I’m what you have to draw’. Trying to draw something with perfect lines and enviable form was just not on the books today, so, I started hatching. A tail became apparent. I started hatching a little more and a little body appeared, soon to be topped by the most adorable cross-hatched muzzle you ever did see.

Above is the little cross-hatched creature that snuck onto my page to settle down for a spell. I think he’s actually rather adorable, for all that he is just a mess of lines all bundled up together. Sometimes the mess of lines all bundled up together are the best.

Just another Monday closer to the end of the semester.

Published on October 20, 2008 in Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch - just another quickie face on a simple pad of pink paper... nothing stunning today, sadly.

IOU one rambling, meaningful post. I’m taking a sick-day from them: blame the Mondayitus.

Invading space monkeys from the planet Mars.

Published on October 19, 2008 in flies, Plain Paper and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch - When all else fails, find one note-pad of pink paper, one blue biro, apply flies liberally.

Its a Sunday afternoon and despite the fact that I was spending a nice amount of time sitting down and watching Numbers with the husband, I have cut into that to make some time to do today’s post before it gets too late. How’s that for dedication for you? I’m not even letting it go on a Sunday.

Sorry for the random post title, but I didn’t think that ‘More freakin’ flies on a piece of pink paper’ was going to capture anyone’s attention. Next time, I might even draw some invading space monkeys from the planet Mars… I think that would be fun.

Anyhow… this is really a nothing post today… flies were drawn because I needed to put something up, and they are easy to sketch out while watching Numbers… and suitably more significant for the fact that Numbers often talks about the non-existence of randomness, while I am ‘randomly’ putting flies down on a piece of paper. I know it isn’t random – I think of where to put each, because of how it will link up here, or generate space around there, or how putting one in this location gives more room for me to put one over there later… but it is still drawn with a desire to appear ‘random’, even though it really isn’t.

I wonder if someone with an incredibly mathematical mind could sit down and actually plot out where I would place things dependent upon the first few lines I draw when it comes to positioning flies… I think it would be interesting to see.

Ok… that’s enough of my randomness today… I’m off to watch another episode of Numbers! Tomorrow: Something with a touch more substance… I hope.

Cashectomy.

Published on October 18, 2008 in 'The Hubby', Cartoon, Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch - I started with the eyes, then went from there... I think she's starting to take on owl-like properties.

The above was a quick sketch I did earlier… I think she might have something in common with the owls I have drawn before. No big story about her today, but I am going to post another little story, since my hubby was reminding me of it again last night.

The other week, the hubby and I went out to get some lunch together. We went to this little shop called ‘Magic Chicken’ where the chickens aren’t really magic (lets face it, they got caught and are about to get eaten) but the taste of the food sure as hell is. Best hot chips on the north side and I may just venture to say in Brisbane, too.

Anyhow, we got to the store, went inside, made our order, then the alarm for the car started spontaniously whirling and burling its siren. James tossed me his wallet and scampered off to check on it and switch the bloody thing off. I must admit I decided to be opportunistic about this wonderful situation laid before me. I took a good $80 in notes from the wallet, stuffed them into my own, and just as I sneakily made to close his wallet he comes back inside. ‘What are you doing?’ says he. ‘Cashectomy,’ says I, as I toss him his wallet and skip next door with a merry little jaunt in my step to order a double thick-shake with all the extras. Then, skipping back in to retrieve my meal, James had to pay for the original order. The moral of this story? If you are my husband, don’t leave your wallet unguarded when there is ice-cream for sale close-by. Mmm… ice-cream…

Kittens, smittens, another pointless post.

Published on October 17, 2008 in Kitties, Lined Paper and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch - Cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I meow meow meow and I meow meow meow.

Its days like these where I wonder if I should post something… because I really don’t have anything to post. Yes, there is the picture, but even that is not the greatest: its just a quick sketch and not a masterpiece by any account. But I’m throwing it up anyway. I committed to a creative product a day, so be damned if I am going to not do it just because the picture isn’t great. Gotta take the good with the bad, really, or at least the good with the ‘not so great’.

Lets call this a dry-spell, shall we? The past week or so has certainly not been the greatest example of steller sketches being thrown up. It is average at best. I suppose, though, that something is better than nothing even when assignment work is sucking the drive out of me, and apparently, the creativity. I must admit, I sometimes find it a little difficult to be ‘artistically creative’ when my mind has to get into ‘analytical writing mode’ for assignments. Its not the analytical thought, I think, that does it: I actually think it is just the focus. When my mind is so pre-occupied thinking about how I am going to write this, or position that, for a few days it just drives out everything else. I can still sketch and draw, I can set aside time to be ‘creative’, but for some reason, inspiration for my assignments seems to strike at that time and I get drawn back into thinking about that again. Its quite infuriating, really.

Ok… that was one big mass of boring. I need to go sketch something decent to throw up tomorrow. Perhaps an owl.