And Here I Stand - Jones

Hello. I've struggled this month. Really couldn't get to grips with the race war/anger/rage of the lyrics and feel of this song, and encountered a busy period at work (and an 'annual' review where, although in the best part very positive, I was certainly 'encouraged' to spend less time doing my own illustration/web browsing when there's work to do!!).

Anyway, as you know, I support Plymouth Argyle. And as you may be aware, we suck. A poor run of recent results left manager Paul Sturrock perilously close to the sack but the board love him too much and bottled sacking him. I personally think it should have happened a couple of weeks ago but now fear it is too late and we are in serious risk of relegation anyway. We might as well keep him because he's as good as anyone in the league below so if we do go down, he might be the man to get us back up.

Well he's come out and made it clear that he's not going to quit, and so here he stands.

Aaagh.

February 2009

Ok chaps, shuffle done and this month we have…

And Here I stand by the seemingly recently reformed Skunk Anansie.

And in a true Brucie Forsyth stylee Keep drawing.

Apple Tree - Gallusness

Howay, ok a little bit late but you know blame the Superbowl.

This month I had a hum and a haw and then on Thursday the 8th of January the brief for me solved itself. This was when the Bank of England cut interest rates to the lowest they've been since 1694. The year Newton had his theory about gravity and generally apple trees became involved in a child's education for every more.

I thought of the medium and felt pen and pencils would be a little wrong. Instead I've done it in a style of a piece of graf to reflect this event. And yeah the world is ever so slightly screwed so lets make it a little bit more pretty.

Just to check guys, am I on February's shuffle duty?
That'll be 26 days and counting (gulp).

Apple Tree - Reeko

I had 5 goes at this one. This one sucked least.

I was a bit under the weather one dark January day and decided to spend it doing my entry for this month. Several expensive sheets of Fabrianno that I may as well have just wiped my bum with later, I came up with this.

It's the result of chasing my self into a cul de sac with an idea bubble diagram. I think the train of thought was something about trees being factories and GM crops... oh well.

It's about a bazillion times better that the Adam and Eve stuff I was coming up with originally, so at least I got one point off the shop floor creatively. Roll on February!