Jonas and Dieter are pirates. Very romantic pirates.
Dieter once fell in love with a catfish named Molly. But Molly moved away, or disappeared (we don’t know). Since then, he and his buddy Jonas have been roaming the waters on a mission to find Dieter’s Pretty Kitty.
Today is a unicorn day!
Why?
I can’t tell you! It’s a little bit of a secret.
But it has to do with the magic of pink skies after sun set and moon shine over early morning waters.
Well, anyway – meet Little Unicorn!
This is Rüdiger snowshoeing on his day off.
Rüdiger is red and holds a great job with lots of responsibility in a traffic light. His intersection is used by a lot of people every day. Rüdiger takes quite some pride in letting them know when it isn’t so good to cross the road.
Well, today, I might be stretching it – but I couldn’t resist after I had met Rüdiger this morning, crossing the street on the way to the pool.
The first day of school.
Three new friends made.
Half a banana traded for apple pieces.
Four songs sung.
One soccer game won.
Two dinosaur band-aides on the left knee.
Marcie decided, that she’d like to go again tomorrow.
The long weekend is over (it was great, thanks to my good friend and fellow graphic designer Beate Wichmann) and it is time to post today’s character:
Hasim owns a little shoe shop in the souk in Marrakech. He loves numbers and sweet tea and knows everything and more about all his neighbours.
When he was only four years old, he was already able to do the math for his Grandfather and draw an auto bus from memory.
It has been 3 weeks of the Character Development Challenge – yeah!
I find it interesting to see how I switched from just posting a rough idea for a character to wanting to post a more refined version lately.
I have been enjoying the process a lot and am already thinking about a new challenge after this one!
Today’s characters are the group of little Tweeties.
They are a cocky flock of little trouble makers that are suffering quite a bit from looking very much alike.
And since the season is kinda demanding it – I have to add the following….
This is Henley. He is not only a dog – he is a bulldog.
Henley’s girlfriend’s name is Piper. Currently she is on holiday with her owner Kathy, but will be back in town very soon.
Henley can’t wait to see her again!
Yesterday’s character was Ms Flavia de Luce (also in the picture her bike Gladys). I like that Flavia names her vehicles – I do that, too. The car I am driving at the moment is named whale, the last one was Lotta and I own two bikes, named Wheely and Dafodile.
The creator of Flavia, Gladys and the series of great murder mysteries they are starring in is Alan Bradley – a Canadian. I can’t wait for the next book to come out in 2013, when I will finally get to spend some more time with the very witty and British Flavia and her friends!
Today’s character is my own creation:
It’s Little Mammoth.
Little Mammoth is really slow. His bones are creaking and moaning.
Therefore everything Little Mammoth does, takes a little bit longer.
I might have come up with Little Mammoth now, because today I am feeling just like him…
Can anybody guess who I was drawing today?
A hint: She is the main character of a series of murder mysteries by a Canadian author, but she herself is British.
I am a big fan!
Something different today…
Meet Ginger.
Ginger is a student of design – and she is a little tired. As a scholar in the creative field, staying up all night, working on just anything remotely related to creation, is seen as a sign of future genius.
Ginger has just printed out her newest night shift creation – a splendid piece of typographic work – and is on her way to school.
When she is not challenging her pre-school teacher, the neighbours and her parents, Sheena can be a very sweet young lady – a very noisy one though.
Today’s character is a girl!
Her name is Annabell.
Annabell lives in a little white house just outside of the forest. Some of her owners friends say that she looks just like a fox.
Annabell likes that, since she likes foxes a lot.
Alistair is working in a very hip part of the town in a very hip coffee shop and is showing off a very hip moustache. You can find him at work on weekends, but also on Wednesdays and Thursdays, when he is not taking courses in Art School. He was born in the year Magnum P.I. was discontinued.
Today was the last day of my visit to Alberta.
I checked out Calgary’s centre this morning and saw lots of men in suits (many with ugly neck ties). It could be that all the testosterone was inspiring today’s characters – although I ended up drawing men with boots, not suits.
Does anybody have any ideas for names and stories accompanying these images? My brain is blank…
On the weekend I went camping with friends in the Rockies. We were looking for bears, but didn’t get to see any (which I think was a good thing).
Although in the city (Calgary) today, I kept thinking about bears. Therefore…
…meet Albert from Alberta today!
Albert is a tired Grozzly Bear. Yes, you are reading correctly: Albert is a Grozzly.
Grozzly Bears are rarely seen. They hide better than their relatives the Grizzlies. The reason for this is that they can become see-through. Even eager tourists won’t become aware of the presence of this kind of bear – not even when he is sitting right next to them on a rock, while they are having their lunches at the creek.
Below two very special images with Albert from Alberta visible.
This is how some of my bear hunting journey looked like…
© Christina Leist, 2012
