[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-christmas-card-procrastination-doodles":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Here's the angel who's going to flap down from heaven and miraculously write all my Christmas cards for me.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmascard_angel_zpsd520ca47-f1f8d13350.jpg\" width=\"550\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more lots more doodles under the cut...-->\\r\nSo you know how, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/674850.html\">in the last post\u003C/a>, I gave you free Christmas cards to print out? Well, the problem with that is that you still have to WRITE them yourself. I'm terrible at writing cards. I don't want to write something short and meaningless, but it takes forever to write long customised messages to lots of people and it just makes me feel bad, because I haven't seen most of them recently enough. So I've been procrastinating. \\r\n\\r\nLast night after dinner, Stuart and I were going to sit down and do our cards. But I crashed on the sofa and asked, 'Is it okay if I just doodle for ten minutes or so... to warm up?' First I drew Stuart in his slightly silly apron. (Good man, he was doing the washing up.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stuart_apron_zpsc8f31305-07599538ca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd then I browsed Twitter, as you do, and kept seeing all these cool kids' drawings of animals and people with these kinds of eyes:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stuarteyes_zpsac3dcb4a-c99ea20049.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI thought I'd draw a picture summing up the allure of the Internet:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmascard_cat_sausage_zps3f97aa0d-63a226d9c4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBut I REALLY needed to get to work on those Christmas cards. So I drew myself writing them, a very attractive drawing.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmascard_hater_zps5809d0fb-22b84032b1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis is what it FEELS like to procrastinate from Christmas cards. (Also, it's a Titian painting copied without looking at the paper.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmascard_blur_zpsdd3969ce-56281349da.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBut really, wasn't I going to crack down and DO the cards?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmascard_no_zps630c8e24-cfd94dd3a0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSee this lady? She's so good, she's writing her Christmas cards. Good lady. I love drawing that lady.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/xmascard_writer_zpse155cf91-4842991584.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIn other news, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nanali.com/\">Nana Li\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnaggs\">John Aggs\u003C/a> posted this Instagram:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/johnaggs_tubeposter_zpsbaf6bee8-cfbc8c679a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYay! And \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nicolettejones.com/\">Nicolette Jones\u003C/a> has done her Sunday Times roundup, with lovely illustrations today by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.samusher.com/\">Sam Usher\u003C/a>...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/timesroundup1_zpsbe54dfef-122337791a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n...\u003Ca href=\"http://www.rebeccacobb.co.uk/\">Rebecca Cobb\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn40kz2DSNs\">Tony Ross\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.emmachichesterclark.co.uk/\">Emma Chichester Clark\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/timesroundup2_zps54cd90a5-bb623b05f5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd hooray, she gives \u003Ci>Cakes in Space\u003C/i> a mention! Thanks, Nicolette!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/timesroundup3_zpse0cbea17-041457914a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI guess I should get started on those Christmas card, huh? Or I could watch what happens when someone dumps a huge bag of balls at the foot of an up escalator...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2944\"/>","2014-12-07T17:04:00.000Z","christmas-card-procrastination-doodles",[],"christmas card procrastination doodles",1776628727051]