[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-surrey-kitchen-table-drawings":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Saturday was very full-on, I ended up working a 16-hour day and almost falling to pieces. So it was great on Sunday, going out to the pretty town of \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godalming\">Godalming\u003C/a> in Surrey with Stuart to visit friends we knew from when we lived in Moscow. Since two of the kids are Stuart's godchildren, we've had them subscribed to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/davidficklingbooks_dfclibrary.asp\">The DFC\u003C/a> comics magazine and they've been sent most of my books and a lot of my friends' books over the years. (This Christmas, I think \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/\">\u003Ci>The Rainbow Orchid\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com\">\u003Ci>Mo-Bot High\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com/\">\u003Ci>Monkey Nuts\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/the-dfc-library-mezolith-beautiful-stone-age-horror/\">\u003Ci>Mezolith\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com/\">\u003Ci>Tall Story\u003C/i>\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/\">\u003Ci>Fever Crumb\u003C/i>\u003C/a> featured prominently.) And funnily enough, they're all very big comics fans!\\r\n\\r\nAfter lunch, we had a great time at the kitchen table, drawing, making comics and generally mucking about. Here's a portrait I did of Jamie. He loves \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_%28comics%29\">\u003Ci>The Avengers\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, just like my studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a>. (Sometimes Gary gets me to buy his \u003Ci>Avengers\u003C/i> when I go to \u003Ca href=\"http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/\">Gosh!\u003C/a> and I always say, \u003Ci>They're not for me, they're for Gary!\u003C/i> and they say, \u003Ci>Yeah, right.\u003C/i>) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming17-c4b0b59b52.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI think I was supposed to go have coffee with the adults, but I hadn't been doing morning sketches for the last week and the thought of doing silly drawings was too tempting. It's nice drawing stuff when it doesn't matter if it looks good.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming5-4829f3ae52.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Lots more drawings under the cut!-->\\r\nHere's one of our comics jams:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming2-d5e7697c7a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHannah pulled out a big sketchbook of comics she'd been making. Here are the adventures of Super Granny! They are episodic, just like the DFC used to be before David Fickling started publishing it as books in the DFC Library.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming13-746bd68f21.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming14-7eb382c555.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming15-a0633a8753.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's my drawing of Super Granny, with a few accessories.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming9-da25cb3f05.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's another comic Hannah made, with stickers, which I thought was a clever idea.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming12-9dd10fd0e0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA portrait of Olivia. Her brother said, 'That doesn't look like you, that looks like \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Piper\">Billie Piper\u003C/a>,\" but Olivia wasn't very offended by that.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming7-40c2a43368.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a drawing by Olivia, who's very into manga-style comics.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming3-2a0c4defae.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe also did some drawings of Warhammer pieces.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming1-21d5de5107.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming8-cb7281a912.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWarrior drawings by Jamie and me.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming4-c65eea466e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's hard drawing a portrait to look like someone when I make them wear a big helmet.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming16-230adbbab4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA bunny comics jam:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming11-31df44e374.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nJust before we left, Jamie ran off to get his sketchbook and drew a portrait of me, which made me laugh.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming10-091edaccca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'd been planning to revise a picture book text on the train ride back, but I caught up on zzzzs instead, and Stuart took a photo. I think I needed a day off, that was fun. I know it sounds a bit nuts to say that a day drawing is a day off work, when I draw all day for my job, but it's a totally different kind of drawing when there's no deadline pressure, no e-mailing, and it's with friends.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/godalming6-9f300dc52f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks to the FPI blog for posting \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2011/vern-lettuce-off-to-the-farm-and-you-can-join-in/\">an entry about Vern and Lettuce's tractor and the Booktrust Consequences game!\u003C/a>","2011-02-07T10:32:00.000Z","surrey-kitchen-table-drawings",[],"surrey kitchen table drawings",1776628719690]