Be love!

 This is Kuryan Pereira one if the few that worked on the bootlegger open Mic night

Ugochi

Managed to drop this sketch out super fast whilst Ugochi was chatting with her friend and Mervyn who had been at the bucks new uni acoustic night.

Slightly odd night as by the time I got there it was all over!
 

Harry Quinn Bootlegger open mic

Hi Harry - Now in colour.  Hangs together a bit better now!

Polar pic

Did this a while back - It's a bit Quentin Blake if you ask me!

6 nations rugby England 47 Italy 17

Jonathan Joseph scoring try number 2

Cipriani scoring shortly after coming on!

Missed tackle for England lets Italy through

Chris Robshaw

George Ford preparing for a kick

Quick tap and go for Ben Youngs

Morisi Gets a try at the end

Nick Easter - Oldest ever scorer for England

 Jonathan Joseph running in for try number 1

Merida

Second sketch etc based on Disney infinity figurine. 4 minute sketch again - I like the pressure and if you sketch live you only get a few seconds, so it's a useful exercise.

The Hulk!

He's incredible. 4 minute sketch of figurine plus a good bit longer for the colour.

Followed some of the advice from Marc Taro Holmes - cheers Marc!

Bootlegger linesketch - Ben

Ok so I was down at an Open Mic event at the Bootlegger Pub, High Wycombe, opposite the train station.  I was getting a bit fed up with some of my drawings so I thought I would experiment with a single line drawing and came up with this.  It's Ben, the guy that organises the even doing his thing!  I've just notice the seat has only 3 legs - don't fall over Ben.

Ogre's Journey

Read at the bootleggers on Will 's birthday accompanied by Pirate Joe

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The Ogre Grimnut approached the wood
Club trailing behind he was up to no good
He had a sore throat and was all of a blunder
And now searched the forest to stave off his hunger

There was a rumour if you went deep inside
You would find tasty fairies, and more besides
So in he went through the gathering gloom
Hoping his stomach would be filled soon

The trees were great and their trunks were tall
But grimnut was afraid of nothing at all
His club did drag over root and stone
And the ogre walked on starved and alone

On he trekked deeper and deeper
through swamp and marsh
till the ground got steeper
and though the track wore soles of boots
no food did he find, just tiny red fruits

Grimnut stopped and sniffed the air
The fairies were close but he couldnt tell where
So he searched until he saw to one's side
A path that would take him to where the fair folk reside

He trekked and then passed through white flowerfall
And ducked under rocks made for someone less tall
Sunlight then fell on his grizzled face
he'd finally found their hiding place

Grimnut then passed through a sunlit glade
He spotted the sight of an elfin maid
Hunkering down he wasn't seen
by the winged fairy all dressed in green

Pulling himself up he grabbed his weapon
He would do this quick, in less than a second
But as he readied his deadly swing
The fairy shifted and he noticed something

2 sycamore seeds she held in her hands
tying them together with 9 silver bands
           'What are you doing' he said with a grunt
'I'm making some wings' and held them in front

'They're for a friend that's not here yet'
'I couldn't decide what it was I should get
          'Nobody's ever given a present to me'
'That's a pity but I think
there's still time, you see'

'it's too late I'm starving and dying of thirst'
          'drink this' she said 'don't fear for the worst'
And with a wave of her glittering wand
she revealed the most wonderous and clear blue pond

The ogre bent down and drunk his fill
and didn't stop
his drinking until
the pool was dry, his thirst was sated
whilst across from him the fairy waited

He said that's better now I need to eat
'No, you need sleep, before such a treat'
So he lay his head down and closed his eyes
And as he slept she then chose to arise

He awoke much later cold and bare
lying on a bed of the coarsest hair 
Looking around he saw the fairy
she looked much bigger and no longer seemed wary

Beside him a bunch of red berries lay waiting
their crimson coats looking so appetaising
he tried one out and to his surprise
the fruit was so tasty it lit up his eyes

'I only eat meat, so how can this be'
'Things will be different now - here come and see'
she refilled the pool with a wave of here wand
and bid him come forward and look in the pond

there he could see in the glassy reflection
that changes were made in his grizzly complexion
no longer a face that was hardened and worn
but soft and now elfin for he had been reborn

'does this please you?' she said with a smile and a sigh
          'It does but how can we live here you and I?'
          'I don't have wings, where you're able to fly'
'so I cannot follow you up and into the sky'

Oh you're so very silly I've thought of these things
I made them before they were always your wings
and she fastened them on and held them on well
before uttering the sounds of a magical spell

He flapped his wings and came off the ground
his eyes were smiling, and he fluttered around
'where shall we go?' And looked into her eyes
'This way for now, we'll watch the sun rise '

Allosaurus - Natural History Museum

This is Big Al, who can be found at the Natural History Museum, London.  I think everyone think's he's a T Rex, but he's not, so there!

Bit of waffle from Wikipedia here - FYI they lived 155-150 million years ago, roughly about the length of time it takes to buy an overseas product from ebay (my son is currently waiting for a Slytherin tie!):-

Allosaurus was a large bipedal predator. Its skull was large and equipped with dozens of large, sharp teeth. It averaged 8.5 m (28 ft) in length, though fragmentary remains suggest it could have reached over 12 m (39 ft). Relative to the large and powerful hindlimbs, its three-fingered forelimbs were small, and the body was balanced by a long and heavily muscled tail. It is classified as an allosaurid, a type of carnosaurian theropod dinosaur. The genus has a complicated taxonomy, and includes an uncertain number of validspecies, the best known of which is A. fragilis. The bulk of Allosaurus remains have come from North America's Morrison Formation, with material also known from Portugal and possibly Tanzania. It was known for over half of the 20th century as Antrodemus, but study of the copious remains from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry brought the name "Allosaurus" back to prominence, and established it as one of the best-known dinosaurs.

As the most abundant large predator in the Morrison Formation, Allosaurus was at the top of the food chain, probably preying on contemporaneous large herbivorous dinosaurs and perhaps even other predators. Potential prey included ornithopods, stegosaurids, and sauropods. Some paleontologists interpret Allosaurus as having had cooperative social behavior, and hunting in packs, while others believe individuals may have been aggressive toward each other, and that congregations of this genus are the result of lone individuals feeding on the same carcasses. It may have attacked large prey by ambush, using its upper jaw like a hatchet.