Lions and Tigers and Pears

OK so I've been wanting to have a stab at hand lettering for a while - sketching out a typographic layout in pencil, inking it the old fashioned way, then scanning and tracing in illustrator, tweaking, filling, outlining etc etc and generally messing with it. I've been studying all my sheet music you see and all of that has been hand lettered and looks yum, so thought I'd give the old calligraphic skills an outing.

Anyway - I got the opportunity to try out the technique recently and this was the result. Its a bit rough still and I'd like to spend a few hours working on getting the type and the image interacting better. Maybe more foliage/tendrils and tings, and a bit more texture. Actually, looking at it now the top of the B looks a bit heavy. Hmmm. More practise required methinks.

I dunno. What do you reckon?

Gigantic, angry baby

Two and a half hours before 2007 ceased to be, Brodan McDonald made his weighty entrance into the world. Boy number two for my older brother and his partner Carol and eleven days overdue, Brodan tipped the scales at 11 pounds, ten ounces, drawing nurses from other wards to witness the hugeness.

So here he is in all his glory (filling a babygro designed for a three-month-old) and boy does he look f***ed off. Well if somebody had bent your head all out of shape with a set of forceps, you'd be mighty unimpressed too.

I wouldn't mess, personally.