…so, flicking thru the sketchbook I came across a series of these tapa cloth inspired doodles that were drawn over a period of three or four days and decided that they should be reproduced in colour….
…and at twice the size that they were doodled at… A4 instead of A5….
…am kinda wishing that the manic-sans-nicotine state that they were created was still available to me in a non nicotine consuming way…
…’cos they sure are laborius to do.
….(finished article makes it all worth while!)….
…from the sketchbook at that time…
…ideas waning…line work loosening up…composition drifting…
…spending way more time on finished art and manic posting on WordPress…
…oh, and day job stuff.
…(if you’ve arrived here late….this blog was started as part of my journey to exorcise the demon nicotine from my system…”sketchbook” was (still is) largely what I did with my hands instead of smoking…”finished art” is a direct result of that burst of creativity and this blog is an ongoing record of all three…welcome to my nightmare…)…
…something something…
…blah blah blah…
….blah blah blah.
…something like…”The Proletariat Disappears Up The Right-Wing-Banker-Tax-Breaks-For-The-Rich-Interest-Hike-Petrol-Price-Rise Arse Of Our Current Government”
..but I changed it to “Give Me A Goddam Cigarette”.
…from this to this…
…to this then this…
…and tomorrow the finished article….
…no mess, no fuss…no nicotine.
…more smoking cessation related instability…
…this turned into an obsessive numbers game involving how many variations I could get with limited expressions and colours…
…not entirely sure who won….
…don’t really care…
….so long as it wasn’t the demon, Nic- O-Tine.
…without nicotine mainly…
…sketchbook dated 06/01/13 ….(01/06/13…for our American cousins)…
…that’s no nicotine for a week….
…allegedly I’m better now.
…Yoof & Arty, refugees from my U.K. ‘toons category…
…older, “established” characters usually appear in the sketchbook when I’ve not got current ideas kicking about in my head…
…date in corner indicates that this coincided with the last nicotine patch…I had some personal concern that my writing/drawing “skill” may dissipate after the removal of my favoured stimulant…
…in some ways it has, the sketchbook is not getting the attention it deserves…
…on the other hand my work ethic surrounding the production of finished articles has never been better…
…long may that last.
…every time I visit my sketch book for finished art ideas…
…I’m reminded what a wonderful thing it was to be infused with the madness of nicotine withdrawal and how explosively creative it made me….
…would you all think ill of me if I re-started so that I could re-quit…
…to paraphrase a local health professional….
“tobacco, a marvellously stimulating drug, shame about the delivery system”.
…now sing the next bit in a Jim-Morrison-from-the-Doors voice….
…and that, boys and girls, is why you shouldn’t take up smoking in the first place…
…nicotine withdrawal is like tripping in a Saigon Hotel room at the end of the Vietnam conflict.
Bored with a record shop. 