Written by lainie at 10:51 PM on May 19, 2008 in work?, Arty stuff.

A few days ago, I did some sketches to let the Disarseter boys have an idea on what I wanted to do for their illustrated ad - pressed for time, I was thinking of ideas while I peed. Sorry, was that too much info?.

Hence! Pee and toilet-related sketches.

all my characters drawn on automode tend to have the same sort of visual appeal. or, end up looking like Dragonball knockoffs.

This sketching style is most directly related to when I am short of time - Simple lines because my scanner doesn't get pencils very well, so I have to trace over it with a black pen (not to be mistaken with the art of inking comics).

I'll upload the final version next time. If Disarseter sounds familiar to you, it's because they were mentioned recently in my first and second Exabytes post. The final advert that I've done so far for Disarseter....references.... the Exabytes issue, a bit of a wink wink.

I'm not doing it to be clever, just most of my ideas are plucked from things happening around me. And complaining about Exabytes / peeing (not simultaneously) happened to be what I was doing around that time.

Meanwhile, I've started working with Bernice everyday on the KL Insight Guides thing (she's got an ultra geeky big piece of brown paper stuck on her living room wall, with our schedule laid out).

Writing a travel guide makes me wonder how best to tactfully inform tourists of dodgy things to watch out for, without it sounding deeply unflattering about Malaysia. It's iffy.

And it's hard to stay serious when Bernice talks in a sing-song Hong Kong accent because she thinks it's funny (and it is, very much so).