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I’m a couple of weeks late with this one, but Bare Bones Issue 2 was unleashed on an unsuspecting public at the end of December.  There are 1000 copies floating around somewhere, with loads of lovely illustrations and writings in it.  And we give it away for free, because that’s just how generous we are.  Anyway, these were my contributions:

One of my old Uni buddies (Hi Hang!) asked if I wanted to do a drawing based “on the theme of Youth” for a Korean web-magazine (I’m not sure if it also exists in paper form in Korea) called FF.  So I did this.

“Right Walter, we’d like you to illustrate this article by AA Gill about mums secretly looking at their sons’ penises – NO COCKS PLEASE.”

With no pomp or fireworks, I did my 100th drawing two days ago.

Overall, I think it turned out alright despite the results being a right mixed bag of nuts. Now I just need to work out something to do with them.

Okay, it’s not a very original idea these days, but it might produce something interesting. Maybe. Or it might just be me doing a drawing a day for the next 100 days. Starting today.

Some will be experimental, some won’t.  Some will probably turn out guff, but that’s the nature of the beast.  And the quality of the finished drawing will probably vary wildly depending on how much time I have available to do it each day.  I’m not really bigging it up very successfully here, am I?  It’ll be great!

Today is a day that will live long in history – for as the world comes together to watch the first Afro-American president of the United States of America sworn into office, I decided to start a silly personal project by posting a picture of a ladybird on the toilet.