The First Date!

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Saturday night, after I’d sang all the karaoke songs I could think of, sat in my bathroom, getting more and more lightheaded from trying to sing so high and loud and then lying on my back, on the floor of my room listening to Paramore’s new album, I realized I was bored. It was the type of boredom where everything just seems more boring and you just can’t even be bothered to muster the energy to try and find something to do.

When my back started to hurt from lying on the floor I decided I’d draw, even though, at that point, it didn’t really appeal to me as a way to pass the time. Recently I’ve been writing stories because I know at some point in the next three years I’m going to be asked to write and illustrate a story of my own creation and I’m not going to be able to think of a single good idea. I’ve been wanting just to doodle a narrative for a while now and I thought I’d give it ago about nothing of importance and of a snippet of a story that I’m writing or more the feeling I’m going to try to achieve.

I drew the first square and actually amazed myself by doing something that resembled what I saw in my head. The pure delight from that spurred me on, out of my bad bored mood and into a creative frenzy. I spent then next four hours and most of today pottering around with a really short, almost comic.

I was writing it as I drew it and I wanted to portray a first date and the excitement that you get from going to meet someone you really like. I’m not really sure if what I’ve drawn is the first date but it definitely is a date and I’m pleased with that.

I’ve been using a lot of blues at the moment. I don’t really feel like I’m going into Picasso’s blue period although it does seem that way. Anyway these are just some images of the sketches I did first and then the full Photo shopped version too. It’s not brilliant but I’m pleased to have created a little story and hey! Maybe some good things come from being bored!