Bleu Hope's Uploads

As it does!

Nothing much to add really...

Essential pre-Beltane activities!

Post-Beltane open meeting scribble time!

Sperm whale time!

Yum-yum in some monster's tum.

A remark someone at the fire spinning club I go on Monday evenings during chat I had with them last night got me doodling again!

Words of wisdom that a friend came out with during a Lord Of The Rings Extended Editions film night over the weekend jumpstarted my creative juices this time around. :-)

Phew! What a fortnight it's been here. Been engaging more in my photography as of late, but the day-job's had me on 'go' mode all Easter quite frankly. Thank the maker for those moments to yourself when you can just.. well, indulge really.

The best way to finish off a good weekend? Some creativity of course!

More whale songs for the winter time.

It was a Damien Jurado kind of evening last night!

As far as things that I can’t seem to shake off are concerned, it’s this fact that a place like Edinburgh where I live is akin to a village where everyone (artist folk in particular) seems to know everyone, and the patterns or quirks that emerge from this said thought process. In most collectives I’m a part of and/or are associated with, there’s what seems like an endless sense of crossover and overlap with fellow artists etc for lack of better words, which is lovely as it is insane... you know? All in all though, even if it drives me mad it does so in a strangely positive way and I’ve learned to live with that. So yeah, make of that what you will. :-)

“By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.” - Billy Connolly. Happy new year Doodle addicts!

And that concludes another sketchbook! Got through this one quite quickly…

Had another drawing in progress I started at my art club tonight that I finished en route home… and here we are!

Before social hijinks earlier last night, more ideas needed to explode onto paper...

After a productive couple of days, it’s a Mark Lanegan and manga kind of night here.

Another seal of approval? *ba-dum-tss*

New sketchbook time again? That it is. Credit to one of my workmates for inspiring the title here, hehehehe. It's been a busy few days here at Bleu HQ... '^^ :-)

Figured I’d try my hand at something fan art flavoured for this one… namely in the form of my favourite tiny fictional character, Kirby! I can’t ascertain when exactly I became a fan of the Kirby franchise, although playing Super Smash Bros as a young boy may have something to do with that. Whatever the case, I got hooked on the pink (or blue in some cases) puffball very quickly!