zb has become a shell of what it was, i am not a good person at updating you. well, not any more, i was better at it before.

but just because the website hasn’t been updated doesn’t mean i haven’t been doing things. i’ve temporarily slowed, but i haven’t stopped.

the reason why zb wasn’t updated very much is because i have been working on other things that don’t belong here. i’ve been teaching myself piano (i am still not very good), been writing a lot, and generally been farting about. i have been watching a lot of television and i normally don’t do that. my brain has accidentally turned to mush recently and i am trying my hardest to get it back to normal but it is not easy.

here are the things i didn’t put up here in the last month and a half:

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there are several other things i should also put up but they can’t be scanned (too big/too outside) but i don’t have any high quality photos of them yet.

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i hope you are enjoying your january, i know it’s hard but you can do it i believe in you

i got out my oil paints the other day, and painted this:

click that picture or this sentence to see a zoomed in version.

anyway, in other news, 2011: it about to end, so everyone quick get drunk and make bad decisions

it’s just that i keep forgetting to put things on here. here is a crocodile:

i have more to put up but i’d prefer to stagger it rather than dump it in one big go, and also because it’s half past 4 in the morning and my new scanner scares me.

(i have been working on things: some are secret, some are crap, and some are both)

merry christmas

went down to london over the weekend to get my stuff so now i actually have proper art supplies! it is now far easier to slack off from doing work to draw stupid pictures: this is a good thing

pictures!

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i don’t know why but drawing in blue oil pastel is so satisfying.

extra:

i thought i brought my paint brushes with me to university: apparently i didn’t? every time i sat down to paint stuff, i would end up just riffling through my bag trying to find them and then getting distracted and ending up eating toast, unable to remember how i acquired it

so that’s kinda why i’ve been neglecting zb. but yesterday i really wanted to do stuff so i painted with my fingers instead, which was messy and fun:

also it’s my friend ben’s birthday today, so yay happy birthday

i inherited a giant pad of graph paper not too long ago, and it is fun to draw/paint on.

i’ll do some scanning and post stuff that i did today tomorrow (if i still like it by then)

some things from my sketchbooks:

the quality of these didn’t come out too well? i think i messed with the settings on my scanner when scanning old photos and now it looks wrong for pen and paint. i’ll sort it out at some point.

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in other news: i got into my university! in about a month i’ll be at the university of warwick meeting people/pretending to learn things