Despondent

posted by Julie Oakley at Monday, October 31, 2005
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The characters that crop up regularly in this blog are daughter – Flo, eldest son – Tom, second son – Hugo and third son – Xavier.
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10 Comments:
I'd have believed several titles:
concentration;
asleep whilst in a meeting - its the snores that are a giveaway;
wrapping a tricky parcel....
After our disturbed night last night he's probably doing the second of your titles
love the lines on this one! so beautiful, you have such a great drawing style. :)
Jenny - this was almost a throw away drawing, but I think sometimes when we know we have very little time and we almost scribble something, those lines can have an unexpectedly attractive quality
Certainly was despondent. It's sometimes difficult being married to a scatterbrain blogaholic illustrator.
Scatterbrain, you think not? Well the, let me give an example.Once we entered a restaurant and she memorably enquired, "Do you have any food?"
Scatterbrain friend at the Post Office asked for a 25p stamp and then asked how much it was!
I like the line drawing. If you squint it is even better!
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It's been years since I worked with Despondent Robin, and certainly that long since I sat thru a business meeting with him. This sketch brings back waves of memories... that boy can snooze thru even the most bombastic presentations. You've captured the essence of his unique gift. Brava!
I did a google image search for the word despondent, and this was one of the first images that came up. It immediately caught my eye. Not that I'm any sort of an artist, but it was very striking. I was ranting about my day and wanted something visual to ponder. I looked around at your other stuff, and frankly I love it. So I just thought I'd give you some kudos, because you definitely deserve it. It let me focus my writing, and kind of fixed my night. So thank you. :-)
Apologies for not checking with you before posting this image on my blog post. I hope though you did see that I credited the work as yours and linked to your blog. Best wishes in all you wonderful work.
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