Sketch trash/treasure

Sorry about the lack of new sketches on Patreon. I do most of my sketching watching TV, but due to the onset of short-sightedness as I enter middle age, I can't look at the TV and my sketchbook at the same time. Hopefully I can fix this with either bifocals or by sitting six inches from the TV, though I think it will have to be the former, as sitting with your nose pressed against the the TV is the sort of thing your mum tells you off for when you're seven.

The other place I sketch is on the train, but the same problem applies, I look out of the window in my reading glasses to admire the awesome beauty Hertfordshire (exaggeration my own) and give myself eyestrain. I had to put away the sketchbook after the tenth Saturday migraine.

So in lieu of something new, here are some weird, and mostly unseen, rarities from my hard drive.

Here's a sketch for Scary Go Round book 7 from 2007/8. It's a bit like Henri Toulouse Lautrec. But worse.

Here's an orange corduroy suit made with bootleg Scary Go Round fabric from China (one of my books was printed there, the chain of custody is clear). A few of these were walking around Brooklyn circa 2008.

A Christmas card, 2009.

"Moving the eyes of John Darnielle" (2010)

Envy Adams from Scott Pilgrim

The greatest leaflet that came through my door during the 14 years I lived in Chadderton:

No one wanted to buy this (never sold) t-shirt design but it's the rare design where I think, 10+ years later, that's actually quite clever (if unsaleable).

And finally... THE HE-MAN. In many ways, the first pronoun declarer.

Until I "have the power" (HA!) to sketch freely once more, I hope this will do. A very good day to you.