[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-doodly-doo":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarahdave-004d6eb7ca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nToday I was doing character development for a picture book, and since it involved just lots and lots of doodling, I decamped to the big sunny atrium at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nmm.ac.uk\">National Maritime Museum\u003C/a>. About three hours in, one of the doodles started to look distinctly like my friend Dave, which made me giggle, and so I finished it and coloured it in when I got home. (I'm not so sure he's going to like it, he looks downright cross. But I look like a primate, so perhaps we're even.)\\r\n\\r\nAnd then I found in my Inbox a marvellous Vern and Lettuce picture by the magnificent \u003Cb>Warwick Johnson Cadwell\u003C/b>! If you haven't seen his work yet, \u003Ca href=\"http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com\">have a look\u003C/a>, the guy is insanely talented. Some of the best drawing I've seen in Britain, I'm serious. I met him for the first time at the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/186618.html\">Thing\u003C/a> and had a bit of a fan girl moment.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vl_wjcadwell-469257e7d2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDon't forget, you can bring your DFC questions to the \u003Cb>DFC panel at the Oxford Literary Festival\u003C/b> at noon this Saturday! You can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events_04april.htm\">book tickets here\u003C/a> to see a lively discussion with David Fickling, John Aggs, the Etherington brothers and me.","2009-04-02T18:52:00.000Z","doodly-doo",[],"doodly doo",1776628731671]