on May 21, 2017
I feel like the festival was brought to me by Ivan Coyote, a wonderful person who is older than they look. Honestly, there is no way to draw them without making them look 12 years old. What’s that about?
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on May 20, 2017
“I cannot draw Hera Lindsay Bird’s face” sounds like the title of a Hera Lindsay Bird poem. I think her resting face looks like generic-pretty-brunette and her uniqueness, what makes her striking, is in her smile. Others disagree. Others say that she could be any pretty girl when she smiles and what makes her fascinating is her non-smile face. Such is the enigma of Hera Lindsay Bird.
In any case, people don’t hold smiles in these things. They stretch up and are lost so the smile I tried to capture was already a memory. I couldn’t check it against a reality. At least I know what went wrong with Bill Manhire. I made his lips too big and too close to his nose.
(The spoken word drawings are me leaning into the fact that I really couldn’t see them. I think they are kind of fun in a people as inaction figures way.)
on May 19, 2017
A lovely woman gave me her daughter’s ticket to Nick Bollinger when it was supposedly full.
Andrew Johnston is so smart. I’m really hoping his book arrives so that I don’t feel compelled to buy another one today. Courier Post has a very small window of opportunity, here.
on May 18, 2017
I missed the first half of Jennifer Niven’s talk and then really gave her a zombie face. I promise she isn’t a zombie.
Ivan Coyote is cool.
on May 17, 2017
More drawing heads in the dark. Floating, incomplete heads. Like a bad imitation Star Wars poster, without a lightsaber focal point.
You’d think, considering I saw the most of MC, Michelle A’Court, that I would have captured her better. Instead, I became mesmerised by the beautiful comic book certainty her hair had under lights and drew her twice.
The consequence of the nominees reading their work is everybody is looking down and, in the case of some, are more hair than face. The consequence of two minute readings is that my drawings are missing skulls where their heads met the dark and are undressed. Now, if the consequence was them undressing, that would be more interesting.
