Meanwhile in the hamster ball: No anatidaephobia

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The Beauty and the Beast. Now noone is allowed to say I don't know self irony.

I don't feel like drawing.

Period. I don't know what's happening, but since about a year or so it almost… hurts to draw. (like not in a my wrist is broken way or something) Therefore you haven't seen much stuff here lately.

First I was fighting with it, trying to think of ways to make myself draw anyway. But the more time passes, the less I can. I really don't know what is happening, but it seems like I have nothing to do with the whole drawing stuff. I mean I've always had doubts but which artist doesn't? It's different now, it's almost like with writing which never took me much effort whilst in my last year at the newspaper I experienced a similar pain trying to write. Maybe it was too much, I tried to do it too often, maybe I've burnt out. It's okay, it happens. Time might solve this. Or maybe not, maybe I indeed have nothing to do with drawing.

Actually, although it started out as a way to practise, this blog has always been a kind of therapy for me. But now I need another type of therapy because it has side effects.

So the following days I'll be posting probably the last drawings for a while. (Or maybe I'll keep the 'months like' series but done by computer, because I need to shout once in a while.) I had this project in which I missed to post two drawings in week 011, and it always kind of bothered me. I'll post the remaining ones as well as one 'meanwhile in the hamsterball' drawing.

And then, then I don't bloody know. I need a break, no idea how long, maybe I won't take pencil in my hand ever again, I don't bloody know, really.

April was like…

Meanwhile in the hamster ball: Miss me much?

This one is from January when I had this certain neckpain for a month that I blamed on the drastic change in my boss's height (see also: previous boss). It could have been an ADATOK post if I haven't been a lazy bum to draw MESEBOLT and CHIPS nr. 11. Well, one day, foks, one day...

March was like…

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February was like...

Now that March is almost over I guess it's about time to reveal February.

I'm in! Ha! I'm officially in! Take that, Life!

Meanwhile in the hamster ball: Carnival

New segment, because why not. (AKA I can't get myself to do anything else, but I need my visual diary back!)

Fun fact: people who seem to be living caricatures are actually not.

여러분…

새해 복 많이 받으세요!

January was like…

Specifically a neck- and backpain which continued almost all month, and made me think that maybe it will be like this from now on until I die, and I just need to get used to this. Fortunately it stopped about a week ago, nevertheless the fact these days my body is telling me through various things remains: ‘I don't know what you're thinking you idiot, but you're not an effing teenager anymore you know!’

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If those doesn't work you could always just learn Miranda's Reverse Triumph Excitement Sound and Guestures with the accurate pointing of course. But whatever you do, remember: Do. Not. Tell. Family.

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Sunshine.

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It's a very popular fairytale. Title is: ‘I'M FROZEN PLEASE HELP ME, OH GOD HOW WILL I SURVIVE UNTIL SUMMER?!’

(Quote stolen from inspired by this)

Guess what day it is?

(apart from the day before Humpday)

IT'S JANUARY THE 6TH – GLOBAL LEAF SWOP DAY!

What's better way to celebrate it than a global leaf-swop mug! Shipping is free worldwide when you use this link: http://goo.gl/VPHvX5

Haven't taken down your christmas tree yet? Lucky for you *cough*heathen*cough* the deal is available until January 11!*

*offer applies to any products in my shop actually (except for framed art prints and wall clocks)

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I know, it's been a while since A. D. A. T. O. K. was what the name originally represented. In my defense I haven't been much in an office kitchen ever since. But! Found a new job lately, got a new office and new coffee machine – although I still don't spend much time in the kitchen since there is literally no heating there (for deeper level of understanding what a great loss that is to me, see also i hate winter, thank you) – so it was about time I gave you a peek to the average days of my new office life. I present thee:

Well of course it's a bit of an exaggeration, I mean of course I'm not pointing or whispering to an imagine audience. That would be crazy. And I find that by time it's getting better, for example there are certain days lately when I don't even ask for his autograph.

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Colours. Colours are just the best!

And what better way to represent them than a painting of painting stuff? Actually that sums up my social life pretty well if you think about it…

But whoa! The pain of finding such picture to draw! I always bump into images of watercolor sets with water and brushes and all that, so I figured I'll just copy one, but when I decided it, I just couldn't find any of those! (and the fact that the word ‘painting’ both means the action and the result did not help much...) Are artists not doing that anymore? Showing off your fancy-pancy watercolor set near your Work In Progress? Anyway, as always, stealing from Shutterstock saved me… after 6 long hours of pointless searching.

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Another one from the Grimm Brothers: One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes.

(yes Two-Eyes accidentally became Clara Oswald but nevermind that)