'Plane' boredom

Well, after a little pause, I'm back with two examples of how the most useless moments of our daily routine can become something productive. A very dear friend of mine makes cute, but above all, very portable and user-friendly (double meaning) hand sewn 9x12cm sketchbooks. Most importantly, he assembles them out of scraps of Fabriano and Canson paper of the highest quality. Quite the ecological and touching feat, I may say!

No matter how silly drawings like these may look, they're precious for me. I doodle and sketch a lot on restaurant mantels during lunch - I can't help it, the pen seems to fly on its own on their surface! It may also be a bit of a brag sometimes to sketch on a table mantel on a full restaurant. Here, on the other hand, the drawing is very intimate and nobody but me sees it. Now you too.

Little tattooed Pin-Up

Well, I hope this friend won't mind getting exhibited here. A new attempt with drawing directly in vector, but this time I must admit, lacking some discipline. Warming up for better works, I hope! I'll try to work more on my original medium in the future, the pencil!

Get on Your Boots

Quite a few workpads around here lately...

Lemon tree

A little bit of nonsense. The station's right, but I haven't been in Brussels for a while...(so I guess this is pretty much cheating)

A little technical

A little sketch for a small urban vehicle. I simply love to meet the right combination of pen and paper. When the ink flows, the drawings get done all by themselves. It's a pleasure to observe the dancing pen forming images.

Two local symbols

I must admit the angry bull image was a drawing from memory, from a beautifully crafted grafitti like those which used to populate the streets of Barcelona a few years ago (before the city hall apparently decided to wage war on them, pasteurizing the cityscape for tourists from tv-land). Based upon it, I decided to create a character inspired by the local Catalan donkey ('burro') as opposed to the Spanish Bull ('Toro'). Sideburns and a cigar were elements I thought could match the catalan type of guy. Though the second donkey carries a Greek flag tattooed on his arm, his basically a variation of the first. Enough blahblahblah for tonight!

Silver hair

A post-it note sketch. It reminded me of those fantastic women as drawn by Bilal.