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...

Emmy The Great: no relation of Tony The Tiger...

This week I have mostly been listening to Virtue, the new album from Emmy The Great. I was also lucky enough to see Emma-Lee Moss and her band play live at St Pancras Old Church last Friday, and at an acoustic gig at Rough Trade East on Tuesday, both of which were awesome!

Anyway, here is my cover version of the album cover. Who doesn't love playing with dinosaurs...?

Happy 30th Birthday Melanie McClure!

It was/is my friend Mel's birthday yesterday/today/tomorrow [delete as appropriate]. Due to some confusion involving time-travel (or just the fact that she lives in Australia and so is in a completley different time zone to me), I'm not entirely sure when exactly her birthday occurred, but regardless, I made her a card for her birthday!

I was trying to decide whether to draw her something with dinosaurs or something with Zelda (both of which she loves). So in the end I decided to combine the two and draw her a Dino-Link...



[edit] ...It was today! [/edit]

Dino-FAIL! Happy Birthday Mel!

So, despite the fact that I had it written in my diary and on both my calenders (yes, I have two calenders. One upstairs, and one downstairs!) that her birthday was today, "apparently" it was my friend Mel's birthday yesterday (and I guess she would know best).

Anyway, mysterious date discrepancies aside, I did manage to draw her a birthday picture...



Maybe that's why the dinosaurs really became extinct – because they weren't able to reach the cake!