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In between comedy and mockumentary lies Bobbles, the friendly alien.

Published on September 27, 2008 in Plain Paper and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: alien, assignments, Sketch, Sketches, spotlight.

Just a quick one this evening… I have named him Bobbles. He was drawn yesterday between editing the formatting for scripted scenes. This assignment was fairly interesting to do: one scene, presented as a script in three different genres. I decided to do comedy, mockumentary, and erotica. ‘Why, Kat?’ you ask? Because the scenario worked for all three, because I needed a good chuckle, and lord help me the lecturer said she was up for anything. Lets test that theory, shall we? Don’t worry, I did actually run it by her before going ahead with it. She loved the idea.

Phew! Only three more assignments to go. Only, I say? Hardly. But its just so much easier to try and think of it as ‘only’ rather than ‘ok, the ‘easy’ ones are over and done with, now for the big, bad, nasty ones’. The first description has a much better ring to it, yes?

Another day, another sketch.

Published on September 24, 2008 in dandelions, Interesting Links, Lined Paper, Portraits and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: dandelions, Girl, green, Interesting Links, mushrooms, portrait, Sad, Sketch, Sketches, swirly things.

Another random sketch and one I do not yet think is complete. She’s telling me she wants more and I’m telling her ‘later’ because I need to throw something up onto the site now! So I will throw up a ‘completed’ one later, if a completed one later happens to exist. It started off with the face, and then the curves down below… then things sort of started growing from there. Where it will go… I actually have an inkling or two, but I’m going to keep them to myself and leave it as a surprise when you see more of her.

A little interesting link today, because I know how much I love finding these little gems of the internet: One Mile Scroll, which I discovered through my twitter feed thanks to @caroline, another twitter user. It turns one whole mile into a scrollable webpage, complete with the option to contribute height markers along the way to make the scroll more interesting. A novel way to deliver little factoids alongside transforming “virtual space into an actual, physical distance”.

I must admit, I wasn’t expecting Twitter to be of much ‘use’ to me when I started playing around with it, but I have actually been finding it incredibly fun to get involved with it. Yay Twitter! Oh, if you happen to want to join me on twitter, the username is KatJohnston (original I know), or you can just click here to see my Twitter profile. An incentive for joining me there? I send out an update on Twitter automatically each time I post a new entry on here – so you can be the first to know when something goes up!

Edit: just adding in another interesting little link because I am sure that some others would enjoy it as much as I do. Before I die I want to… is a project that takes snapshots of people with polaroid cameras (who have stopped producing their materials and is thus ‘dying’ in its own right) with their hand-written statement of what they want to do before they die on their photograph. The site then states that it wants to go back and actually find out if people have done what they have set out to do after a good period of time has elapsed. I love the concept behind this, and the execution is also just great. Well worth a look. Uhh, and if anyone happens to have a polaroid camera and some film in Brisbane and doesn’t mind taking a shot of me, I’d love to have my picture up there too! Can anyone hook me up?

Better late than never.

Published on September 21, 2008 in 'The Hubby', Plain Paper, Sketch and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: Big Eyes, Cartoon, hubby, Personal, Sketch, Sketch-Book, Sketches.

Here we go! Another little sketch-book post today, since I didn’t have much time to sit down and do much (ok, any) sketching today.

The hubby and I had to go pick up my sisters from the train station – they’re staying for a week and a bit over their holidays. Hopefully I can bribe the younger of the two to draw something to go up here – I can give her a guest-spot! She really is a talented little minx.

Anyhow, as we were waiting for the train to arrive, we were doing a few blocks to avoid parking, and got to speaking about the different materials and little stories (that naturally involve him) that appear on this blog. He’s even taken to saying ‘oh dear, I’m going to see that in a post tomorrow, aren’t I?’ after he’s done something hilariously ‘wrong’… at least by conventional standards.

Just in case it wasn’t obvious from my postings though, I actually find it rather hilarious when he ‘zings’ me with a great joke or ‘insult’. Its a bit of a game of ours and does make for fantastic stories afterwards to share. I suppose we are rather delightfully dysfunctional like that… but you know what? I don’t think I’d want it any other way. Love you sweetheart.

Edit: If you give me any more grief for being sappy, dear husband of mine, I -will- turn the stories on here about you into far more interesting ones. Ones with nice, juicy details *snickers*.

Henry is a blob. But don’t think that that keeps him down!

Published on September 16, 2008 in Cartoon, Plain Paper, Sketch and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: Art, Big Eyes, blob, character, cunning, drawing, Sketch, Sketch-Book, Sketches.

Schemer, conniver, all-around awesome blob. Henry truly does just rock. Just because he wasn’t exactly blessed with legs doesn’t mean he’s a step behind; nay, for someone that can’t even really walk (more of a wobble, really), he always seems to be a few steps ahead, if anything. Anyhow, Henry here is my little sketch-book picture for the day (as if you couldn’t already tell). I love him. He’s cunning.

Just on a more personal note, my hair is back to being a nice shade of pink! Light pink, in case you were curious – the last colour was more of a hot reddish pink. Ohhh, it feels so good to have no regrowth again…

Buttons. His name is Buttons.

Published on September 15, 2008 in 'The Hubby', Cartoon, Interesting Links, Personal, Plain Paper, Sketch and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: automatic drawing, Big Eyes, Cartoon, hubby, Humerous, Interesting Links, Sketch, sketchbook, Sketches, spikey.

Today’s littlest sketch-book page. His name is Buttons. I have no idea why. Cute little mite, isn’t he?

Only read on if you want to be bored with my ranting… I’m in a ranting mood today.

So, I am all alone at home today, kept company only by my two self-serving cats who are quite happy to ignore me all day, so long as I’m not walking to the kitchen (Oh my, she means food doesn’t she? Dinner time? Now? Now!) or laying down somewhere. Apparently I make an excellent cat-cushion. Lolita is the worst of the two in that way – if I’ve popped upstairs to shut my eyes for a few moments, she’s often only a few seconds behind me. She waits until I am nice and settled, drifting off into blessed unconsciousness, before bouncing up, purring like a mack truck, and batting my nose with a paw to get pettings. Cheeky little wench.

Penny, meanwhile, has set up camp in the closet for the day, making entirely sure that all my black clothing (which accounts for most of my clothing, by the way) is suitably exposed to as much of her cream-coloured cat fur as possible. Isn’t she sweet? I think I’d better put another lint-brush on the shopping list

Darling hubby is away for a few days doing something or other. Him calling home to say ‘oh sweetie, I have to bring you here, the beach is just beautiful!’ isn’t helping either. I’m seriously considering glaring at him from here with my laser-eyes-of-doom and seeing what affect it has on him. Meanwhile, I’m stuck writing assignments and glancing wistfully towards my bed, counting down the hours until I can retire to it without feeling incredibly guilty that I haven’t gotten more work done during the day.

Just on a side-note, I’ve just joined Digg (about time!) and discovered this when browsing through some of the items on there. I laughed out loud. I think you might also. So check it out, safe for work, I promise!

Please feel free to Digg any of my posts, just click to enter into the post itself and down the bottom is a ‘share this’ button. Click, and go to town!

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