Happy Birthdays!

Birthdays are like buses: nobody wants to sit next to the ranting drunk person. Also, you wait for ages and then three come along at once! And so it was at the start of February when my brother, his girlfriend fiancée and my auntie all had their birthdays within a few days of each other. To be honest, this has been happening for years, so I shouldn't have been so surprised...

Firstly it was my brother's birthday, and I drew a picture of him doing what he does best: sitting on his butt playing on his PS4! ;)


Next was Patricia's birthday. She's a big fan of Harry Potter...


And last, but not least, my aunt was turning 50 this year(!) so I drew a picture of her sitting on a bus (she gets a lot of buses) reading a book by Terry Pratchett, one of her favourite authors...

Happy Unbirthday Yuki Nishimura!

Today my friend Yuki Nishimura had a picnic in London Fields to celebrate her birthday. Except it wasn't actually her birthday. Her birthday is in 2 weeks time! (But she did something today because some of her friends won't be around for her actual birthday).

Anyway, I thought I would make her a card to celebrate her Unbirthday today. And as she likes dinosaurs and Harry Potter, I ended up drawing Jurassic Potter...



I tried out the watercolours I bought the other week to colour the card, and am pleased with the results for a first attempt. I'll have to experiment a bit more with them...

HP7.2 (Harry Potter and the Half-Cut Prince)

The final Harry Potter film is released very soon and in an interview with GQ magazine, Daniel Radcliffe has revealed how he recently gave up drinking after becoming increasingly dependent on alcohol during the filming of the last few films in the franchise.

Obviously, alchoholism IS a serious subject, but I can't help imagining what a drunk Harry Potter would be like...

Happy Birthday Arina!!

Didn't you have a birthday this time last year?!?

So today was my friend Arina's birthday! As she recently spent a whole week watching all the Harry Potter films for the first time, I thought I'd make her a magical birthday card...



...she wasn't able to magically produce a birthday cake in real life though. What a shame.