Trivia in the Pub (14)

I realise this is late, but I have good reason, I swear! I won't tell you what it is, you'll just have to trust me.

Trivia this week was Halloween themed. In fact, some of the questions were the same from last year, in November when we went there for my b-day. It was the first time I'd ever gone to trivia and I got free birthday cake when Rita found out. Rita's awesome that way.

So enjoy the halloweeny goodness, and until next time, beware of zombies.

Trivia in the Pub (13)

I'm posting these up a few days late because I'm tired. Zzzz. See? Actual snoring.

Anyhoo. Here they are finally.

Enjoy.

I'm off to have a nap.

Zzzz...

Halloween pic.

This was a drawing done for a friend's Halloween/B-day party.

Now that the invites have gone out, I can post it up.

The final version was tweaked so that the information would fit nicely on the page. And by tweaked, I mean the speech bubble was moved.

Enjoy.

Trivia in the Pub (12)

Trivia in the pub, waiting for everyone to get there. There was a Marilyn Manson concert due to start at 8:00, so when I got to the pub at 6:45, it was full of goths. Some nice outfits were on display. In fact, some of them looked like they must have taken a lot of time to put on. Specifically those really tight, torn jeans. Unless they were torn because they were pulled on too quickly.


So obviously the first sketch was inspired by the hundreds of goth people I'd either walked past on the way to the pub or the thirty or so in the pub around me. Then I had fun drawing a snake tattoo-ey thing. Meh. Then, a necklace whose reflections I completely messed up, but ignore that. A raven (or crow, to taste). Then the mandatory asteroid and dinosaur pic. Dinosaurs are more curious than you would think. They sadly lack the ability to make tools though. Sigh. We still love you, dinosaur.


I was asked to draw a poster idea for a friend, doodles in the top left hand corner as I got ideas down. Then I drew the Beatles from memory. This is impressive, since I have never seen them. I tried to draw Dame Edna, again from memory, with arguable success. It's haaard to draw without references, damn it!

Then, a pictorial representation of the eternal struggle between mammal and dinosaur. And by eternal, I mean, until, you know, the asteroid kicked their arses. Dinosaurs 0, Mammals 1. Thank you very much.

We came tied second in trivia and had to play scissory paper rock to determine who got 2nd or 3rd prize. We got the second prize!! Woohoo! More drink vouchers for us.

We art being of the smartt!

Some Sketches (Or: The search for a profound title)

Some sketches from Sunday night at the pub.

Caesar's salad. The origin of a classic.

A quick sketch of Napoleon.


Notes and sketches. I didn't draw everything on this page, by any means. I would tell you which, but it's more fun to let everyone guess.

Trivia in the Pub (11)

This week, something or other was happening at the theater near the pub. Probably a show or something, since that's usually the type of even that happens at theaters. One could almost say it's their function. In any case, this meant that the pub was busier than normal. We weren't able to grab a normal table, or even group of tables, large enough for our team, so we had to sit at the pool table converted into a table by having a board placed on top of it.

This table is uncomfortable, since your legs cannot fit under it. Anyway, enough griping.

The first thing I was asked to draw was Asterix. There he is top left. Oh no, wait, that's an asterisk. Very different. Then Obelix was requested. It's been years since I'd read any of the comics, so I'm relatively happy with what I managed to recall. Makes me want to go and read them again though. Ah, nostaligia.

I was then asked to draw Tintin. Moderate success here, Milou doesn't look like Milou. Then I drew my friend Dan's head. Couldn't be bothered drawing the rest of him, so it remained a disembodied head, dripping blood, for effect.

Next was a mermaid version of me. Happy to oblige, it's nothing like the Little Mermaid, but that's ok. Continuing the fairy tale theme, Sleeping Beauty, followed by a Picasso rendering of a woman's face. Finally, Rapunzel's tower. A friend then drew her hair and the prince, prepared to rescue her.

Here we have a water nymph. Got into a bit of trouble from the requester for drawing her in a schooner :). Still, was funny at the time, and still is. I was then asked to draw a dryad. Not a problem. The magic of Paint also gets rid of the horrible lines that I couldn't erase on the night. Ah computers, how I love thee...

That was Trivia.

We lost, sadly. We were doing very well until the last all-or-nothing question. "Which author had an asteroid named after them in 2006?" The answer was J. K. Rowling. Who'd have thought? They name asteroids after anyone these days...

Six Prompts Drawing Meme

Found and completed this drawing exercise.

Had a lot of fun doing it too. Enjoy!