The Premise of Pasta Disaster is Inaccurate

Merry Christmas from Pasta Disaster

It's winter! So I'll probably update this blog again for a few weeks before going back to my creative summer home.

Biro Doodles

I've taken to drawing in Biro a lot lately. I like the idea of not being able to remove one's mistakes, but rather  working around them with a flagrant disregard for conventional notions of perfection, or some other deep and meaningful concept.

I started off drawing Success Kid in the top corner of a page in my diary because I had achieved something that week I was particularly proud of.

Success Kid

This, of course, erupted into another bout of pen drawings. 

This one took up a whole page in my diary. I had been writing about the idea of a buzz/hangover cycle, a series of unsustainable successes immediately followed by failure. I had come across the gorgeous song Hangover Payback by one of my newer J-Pop obsessions, singer MAA. I listened to it while doodling her. I tried to see how far I could get in the sketch before having to restart the video I was copying from (it was a still image, audio only). I didn't get that far... luckily I like the song enough to loop it indefinitely.

I didn't really get her eyes (or nose, or lips, or jawline) right. Her East/West genetic mix makes her a challenge to draw in pen. Too many subtleties to be captured. A rare beauty.

MAA

My last picture was drawn tonight. I thought I'd break out the ol' sketch book to prove I'm still a real artist or something. I showed Dave and he was all like, "it's Sarah." So I know I must have achieved a reasonably good likeness. She's not online yet. I hope she likes it.

Sarah LaCroix

Ribbon

It was quite beautiful

Hey! Welcome into my life bubble

No one can lie in Helvetica

I listen to music weird

Actually they just cancelled the 8am showing, sorry

The Fabulous Return of Pasta Disaster

Pasta Disaster lives on in the form of Mr. Candle

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Evening Trees

Yucky colours...

Walking Away...

Captain Teabag Prevents In-Cup Staining

Anything

Word Cloud for Pasta Disaster

This was made at http://www.wordle.net. Go check it out, it's kinda fun.

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Stop it with the makeoverings!

Today's comic is inspired by something that happened while I was out Christmas shopping with David the Blog-Jacker.  We were in the St. George's Shopping Centre headed towards The Pier which was having one of those crazy 50% off sales (probably connected to the Woolworths situation) and had to walk past one of those small business stalls to get there.

Unfortunately, this stall had something to do with luxury mineral facial treatments or something like that, and the lady at the stall aimed hopefully at me while I tried to hide behind Dave, "Excuse me, can I ask you a question?"

And Dave was like, "No..." in that classically grumpy way I find hilarious, and I was like, "Um... No?  Not really?" then ran red-faced into Pier.  When we got in there I was like, "I don't want to buy your face products!  DON'T MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL!"  And Dave found that to be hilarious too.

Ever wonder where I get my ideas?  Random stuff like this, readers...