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!

Apple Tree - Jones

Hello, just found a minute to post this (early, but using the clever delayed posting feature!) and not knowing when I'd next get a chance I grabbed it with both hands!

Here's my interpretation of the title 'Apple Tree'. I expect that the other fellas probably had similar thoughts (or at least relating to the Apple computers theme), so I'm not claiming to be original or particularly cryptic with this one! But I am really chuffed with the end result and would really really love to screen print it as a big ol' poster!

Hope you like it too. I'll post some close ups on my website soon.

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January 2009!

Apologies again for slow posting. I've realised I'm meant to have provided the new title, and here it is...

Apple Tree by Wolfmother, off of the album, Wolfmother...

Sorry, it's not a great title I know! But at least it's less morbid than some recent ones!!

Go!

Roses for the Dead - Jones

Oh gosh. So it's 5 days into the next month, and there's me thinking 'oh they won't have got round to it either, I'll be ok...'.

WRONG

Both Reeko and Gallusness have managed to post, and therefore so shall I. With regret...

It's a long long way from being the finished article but I'm afraid I didn't even get round to thinking that up - this is very early stages. Excuses and bull aside, I also realise that Gallusness has produced a sketch based on the Cadbury's Roses idea, and that it may seem that I've nicked his idea.

I honestly didn't. My sketches were based around the idea of the mystery gift under the Christmas tree wrapped in deathly wrapping paper - I didn't intend to use the Cadbury's branding etc, as the shape (as it always does) gives away the contents.

Again, apologies. Hopefully I might get more time this month but it's still looking unlikely...!