Day 211

'Salt and Pepper Grinder concept', Pen on Paper

Day 210

'Pain in the neck', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 209

'Occupying a space', Pen on Paper

Day 208

'Mashed up', Pen on Paper

Day 207

'Disrobes', Pen on Paper

Day 206

'Keeping trim', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 205

'Whatever the weather', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 204

'Tents', Pen on Paper

Day 203

'Get your coat', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 202

'Peppered', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 201

'A shoulder to cry on', Pen and Marker on paper

Day 200

'Take Things with a Pinch of Salt', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 199

Day 198

'Tagged', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 197

'The Carrot and the Stick', Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 196

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Day 195

'Can't hack it', Pen on Paper

Day 194

'Formal Wears', Pen on Paper

Day 193

'Can't get the monkey off your back', Pen on Paper

Another day, another draw, another idea for a t-shirt design and another idiom as the inspiration. This time that age old expression to have a 'monkey on ones back', which refers to having a serious problem, habit or worry that you just can't seem to get rid of no matter how hard you try. You see some problems and habits are just too hard to kick as the severity how deeply we are affected means that it lingers in the mind long after a solution has been found, this could be because the probability of a relapse into a similar situation is too great for us to ignore. A further issue is just how easily we are affected by even the subtlest of things so an insignificant choice, a minor transgression, the most fleeting of observations and comments can plague our minds for an age as well. These seemingly innocent subtleties tend to grab a hold of us tightly and whisper in an unassuming yet relentless manor that pupates and slowly feeds of us until it grows to a point where it is unavoidable. It becomes an infestation of woe that swells and overwhelms us with a weight comparable to that of the density of a dying Sun. We perpetuate our problems, allow too easily for things to affect us and being creatures of habit and ritual we fall back into the same old behaviours that led us to repeat the whole thing again and again. In short sometimes just no matter how much you kick and scream that chimpy, little monkey bastard is going nowhere, with his opposable thumbed grip of death.

Day 192

'Drained' Pen and Marker on Paper

Day 191

'The Gloves are Off', Pen And Marker on Paper

Day 190

'Twisting my Melons man', Pen on Paper

Day 189

'Man I Can't', Pen on Paper

Day 188

'Scraping by', Pen And Marker on paper

Day 187

'These organs aren't vital... there Instrumental', Pen on Paper

Think I'm going to start working a bit backwards over the next week or so until I catch up in terms of the writing accompanying the text, starting with today as I think it needs a little bit of an explanation.

Essentially today's drawing is another concept for a t-shirt design, I've been toying with the idea of doing something involving the internal organs for a while. It just so happens after seeing one of those old diagrams that you used to see in science text books in school somewhere recently it brought the notion back to me, so I did a little research as I don't like taking someone else's idea. As suspected the idea had been used somewhere before so I took a slightly different approach to things, which led to thinking of the internal organs as musical instruments, which are as follows:

Trachea - Clarinet due to similar shape and it air having to pass through it to work

Lungs - Accordion, due to the vague similarity in movement and the inhale and exhale of air to make sound 

Heart - Chinese Hand Drum, it's the heart which beats so it seemed like a drum would fit best and this particular drum was small enough to fit with the scale of the rest of the instruments, also you may have seen in Karate Kid 3

Liver - Bass Guitar, again a shape thing and also because that's round about where you would hold a bass when playing it

Stomach - Bagpipes, a very similar shape and also partially because of links with Scotland which is also famous for haggis, so there was a logically step there somewhere.

Kidneys - Maracas, purely a size thing and the fact the normally come in pairs.

Intestines - French Horn, Intricate and continuous shape mimics that of the intestine.

 

Day 186

'Hold it together', Pen on paper

Day 185

'Bouquet'', Pen on Paper

Day 184

'The kindness of strangers', Pen on Paper

Day 183

'Stick it out', Pen on Paper

Day 182

'A Slip of the tong', Pen and Marker on Paper