Wednesday, February 5, 2025 The Workshop: Drawings of Food and Bog Lemmings

I decided to get back to the drawing instruction book I got in 2023: 50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful Ordinary Life.

Here are some of the beautiful ordinary things I bought at the beautiful ordinary grocery store.

Drawing practice of any kind seems like a good idea. Sometimes I think about whether or not I could publish anything I’ve written and do my own illustrations. These are mostly delusional thoughts, but it doesn’t hurt to give it a try, right? I’ve been continuing to work on my story about Saul, the bog lemming. His wife’s name is Borealis (Alis for short) and he has three children, triplets named Yogi, Kogi and Chogi. Let’s see how this experiment turned out.

I was trying to think of a way to make the triplets distinguishable from each other. Very challenging.

Then I moved on to draw Alis, who wears a leaf apron when she is cooking. As you can see, the first attempt makes it look like she is wearing a large green diaper. Alis, I done you wrong. We can’t all be Beatrix Potter, but I’d like to get closer to her work than this.

Thank you for taking the time to see what weird things I’m drawing these days.

This beautiful, ordinary blog post will self-destruct in the morning.