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an old work I've always left on my desktop screen for a reminder

A stylized and comically extra long, fast food fry container with the text 'Only Fries Kind of Day'.

I collected quotes for the role models from a bunch of people, and compiled them into this...

Drawn in pen and ink, colored pencil, digitally altered to illustrate the Thai quote: Even a Rabbit Dreams of the Moon.

"The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it" -Laurence J. Peter

“All good things are wild and free.” ― Henry David Thoreau.

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." ~ Duke Ellington

"Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise." ~ Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle To Temple, line 69. I really had to ponder this quote and figure out how to illustrate it. A spider came to mind...so tiny and fragile in comparison yet invokes so much fear. Then considered a daddy long leg.

Digital Typography inspired Doodle Quote using paper by 53 app on IPhone.

Here's my Coffee & Quotes Challenge... with the sleeve removed ;) I thought it would be fun to continue the doodle underneath the sleeve! To see submitted version, check out my 'Drawing Challenges'... this contest has been awesome, it combined 2 of my faves: DOODLES & COFFEE!

quotes. and hand lettering

One of my favourite quotes from Nat King Cole, Nature Boy...

“We’re living in a re-issue world, filching from the past like magpies with a Tardis.” - Mark E. Smith.

“If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there.” - Sterling Holloway.

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” - Bruce Lee.

“I don’t know much, but I know a little about a lot of things.” - Oliver Hardy.

“I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything." - Captain Beefheart.

“Edinburgh is home. It’s like everything in the world that should be is in Edinburgh and its surroundings.” - Bert Jansch.

"If there are things that haven’t aged well, I’d be grateful if you laugh them off with a forgiving heart.” - Hirokazu Hikawa.

“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.” - David Bowie.

“New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.” - David Lynch.

“You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.” - Tove Jansson, Comet In Moominland.

“I remain old, but younger than I’ll be tomorrow.” - Richard Kind.

This quote from Voltaire rings true, no doubt about that! “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

“It seems that, like plants, we do need the shit of others for nutrients.” - Robert Hughes.

Rest in power Philip Seymour Hoffman! Your words ring true for all creative minds, no matter what they make.

Wise words Gavin!

Taking time after all things festive to scribble some more… and of course, test out even more washi tape I got gifted!

“The politics of the world frustrate me. I control my frustration when I write, but it explodes when I perform.” A quote from a Benjamin Zephaniah documentary I caught not long ago on BBC iPlayer’s been resonating with me as of late. Granted, I tend to keep politics light here (if anything) but I stand by what I’ve just said regardless.