choc and awe
October 6, 2008 10 Comments
A quick one; a cup of tea and a chocolate bar. My illustration friday entry for the theme of “sugary“.
The chocolate bar is a Milky Way, but don’t let that deceive you, British friends – American Milky Ways are nothing like our Milky Ways. They are in fact almost exactly like our Mars Bars. They also go very well with tea. The Milky Way/Mars Bar thing is one of many instances where our two cultures look different and call itself different things but are in fact the same. I can’t be bothered to name any others.
I got that mug at the Getty in LA. And you know what? I didn’t actually drink this cup of tea from that mug, I drank it from a different one, with my name on it. I just thought the colours and pattern would be better next to the milky way. I used to have a funny way of eating Mars Bars: I’d eat the sides first, then I would nibble off the top, and then the rest. A friend at college once gave me a king-size Mars Bar for ny birthday with a big note on it saying “eat it properly”.
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sweet drawing
I think that sounds like the perfect way to eat it. I like to freeze Snickers bars and then I do the same thing. Mmmmm, now I’m craving some chocolate.
Cool drawing!
I love tea and chocolate. Not at all the same as coffee and chocolate. Tea is much better. Thanks for the sugary inspiration!
Hmmmm…that breakfast is in the mail straight to me, right. Great illustration. Love the shadow lines.
Very nice drawing !!!
This is great pen work!
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Very attractive drawing; love the lines and the good solid colour and the way the mug ‘escapes’ the frame. Cool.
Nobody I enthuse to about the just-rightness of the tea/chocolate combo ever quite seems to understand. Cute drawing.
thanks for all the comments! Silly drawing really but I wanted to do something loose-ish, been reading one of them danny gregory books, I’ve been overdetailing lately. Oh yes, and the chocolate + tea thing, oh man, so good. I look forward to being back in the UK at christmas with all of that. And a nice mince pie.
Hang on, karen, you freeze snickers bars?? They’d be like rocks!