Day #259 - Where I'd rather be right now

broken sleep, a busy day and a job interview have made me incredibly tired, falling asleep on the train probably didn't help either.

Throw into the mix a 10:15pm tip off for basketball tonight and I'll be lucky to be asleep by midnight.

Right now I wish 2 things, that I didn't have to draw this picture and that we had a BYE tonight.

Day #258 - Scooby and Shaggy

For some strange reason the kids choose over everything else on TV to sit there and watch episodes of Scooby Doo each morning.

They choose this ahead of Dora the Explorer and Ben 10.

It's a little disappointing because it's such a crappy cartoon but it's actually the first one that they both like.

So I decided to draw this for them.

I hope they like it, it's almost right.

Day #257 - Clown Boss

today was stupid hot and so as a result I didn't really move too much but instead just soaked up some hours playing with the kids and the PS3.

Drawing something was the last thing I felt like doing today, so I left it to the last minute.

I've been thinking about anime a lot lately and especially Akira.

Akira is one of my all time favourites and it's mainly because of the first 20 minutes.

The Neo Tokyo setting with the bike gangs is amazing and I always want more, but, there's no more. I wish they'd do a prequel highlighting the gangs and how they came about.

My favourite is the Boss of the Clowns, he looks like Michael Clarke Duncan on a bike and a half, it has 6 or 8 exhausts and tyres as thick as car tyres.

This is not how I'd imagined this picture turn out but I'm too tired to care to be totally honest.

Day #256 - Happy Birthday FB

7 years ago today Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook.

What more can I say, it changed the world by reconnecting lost friends and families.

Say what you like about the founder but it is one amazing piece of work, I mean the thing has millions of concurrent users and it doesn't go down! Imagine those SLAs!

Who would have thought that 1 little social networking website would change so many lives.

and the movie about it is very cool, especially the JT role.

I won't apologise for doing a quickie here as I'm so tired from both the week and last night that I just need a solid 8 hours and seeing as though the kids wake at 6 I'm going to bed now.

Day #255 - grumpy boy

I quickly whipped this out today as I am going to Secret Wars with Marty, Ed and Les tonight.

Today I took Hawk for his assessment and we hung out for the rest of the day. It was super cool.

For fun I said I draw him, I told him I'd draw him grumpy and show him how ugly he looks when he's grumpy.

He hasn't been grumpy at all, in fact he hasn't been grumpy since before xmas.

He did very well at his assessment, I'm very proud of him.

We celebrated with Subway for lunch and I bought him some Star Wars Lego.

Day #254 - Mr Turnip Head

Tonight on SBS aired Howl's Moving Castle.

Hayao Miyazaki is easily one of my favourite directors, animators and story tellers.

every single one of his films is an automatic classic.

It's funny, the first that I ever saw was My Neighbour Totoro, which is still my favourite, closely followed by the castle of Cagliostro, I still cry every time I watch Spirited Away.

What can I say, he just doesn't make a bad film. ever.

Howl's is a very cool movie but the character the really moved me was Mr Turnip Head, he was a scarecrow, consisting of a stick with a ball on it and an inanimate face but somehow he conveyed emotion and movement, only a genius could do that.

And it was ironic that Mr Turnip Head saved them in the end and subsequently stopped the war.

Like No Face in Spirited Away.

Hawk has his assessment day for Kindy tomorrow and I'm so excited for him that I can't sleep. I can't believe that my little boy whom I used to hold in one arm is going to big school, he probably isn't even bothered about it but I plan to have a special day with him tomorrow. I am truly grateful that my work and my boss allows me the flexibility to be able to witness these once in a lifetime happenings, I'll miss his first day of school next monday but Vic will be there for that.

Day #253 - Gong hei fat choy

I was watching 'Warlords' on SBS 2 tonight and it got me thinking about Chinese New Year, I think the thing I love about Chinese New Year is the animal assigned to the years and how people associate to each other.

It's probably the only time I can openly tell somebody that I'm a rat and get a positive response and sometimes a "ooh me too".

It's only tonight that I realised that Mika and I are both rats.

Anyway I was going to draw obscure cartoon characters all this week but I couldn't get the rabbit out of my head, damn rabbits, they tend to multiply until you can't ignore them.

Tomorrow I'll draw the Maxx instead.

I think Chinese New year begins on thursday? I love how it's a different date each year.

and everything is red, which is the coolest colour.