Nice Hat

Ever tried on a hat and immediately loved it? This guy has:

I'm not really sure how to describe this latest picture. Some kind of lizard thing (who has made a personal appearance on my Magna Doodle) decided to wear a turtle to work today. I think it makes him look fierce. 

Or maybe the turtle got tired of waiting for a Giraxi and decided to jump on the head of particularly docile t-rex. Makes complete sense. Turtles, giraffes and t-rexes all lived in the same area, it's common knowledge. 

And just for your enjoyment:

I was eating Goldfish and realized they had the same smile. 

Tea Time

Donna once asked me if I was open to suggestion for drawings. I responded "Of course! Is that not how this whole thing started?" and so she gave me a very extensive list of all kinds of things that I definitely could not draw. This list included a bulldozer pulling a red wagon full of all my characters pushing an evil semi-tuck into a punji pit which is apparently a "pit of sharp sticks pointing up that look sharp and painful". Oh Donna....


 I was in English when I decided it would be a good time to draw and I guess some of her ideas went deep into my subconscious because the only thing it was missing was some boxing gloves and antlers. 

Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs must've wished for a pet tiger. Personally, I would've gone for a lion cub. And named him Todd. 


What a cute tiger! He's so happy!

The Answer

First day back to school after Reading Break and what do I do? Wake up half an hour before my class starts. Of course. Good thing I look good in hats and sweatpants.

As it turns out, economics is pretty easy and I destroyed my midterm and got my first "A" of the semester. This basically translates to "I'm not going to pay attention for the rest of the class because I rock and I'm sleepy and I'm awesome". So instead of listening to the teacher go over all the questions I already knew because I rock and I'm awesome, I drew my feelings.

And our result is a Sleepy Dragon.

He's dreaming about succeeding in life because he did so well on his fire-breathing midterm.

In other news, Fire-Breather Elephant Legs is a karaoke star.

Time to Bust Out the Nerd

At Boston Pizza last month you could donate a dollar to this charity and you got a heart that you could draw on which would then be put on the wall. Me and Alex debated over our entire dinner what we should draw on our hearts. The first ideas were mostly Disney related including "AHHHHHSIBENYAAA!!!" from the Lion King. After awhile though we let out our inner nerds and drew some truly amazing artwork. Well I did the amazing drawing, Alex did the writing.

So what you're seeing in this picture is Octomom, happy as ever, and a Creeper from the game Minecraft. If you don't know Minecraft you should go to YouTube and search "Yogscast Minecraft" and watch any of the videos. They're quite funny and will give you a pretty good idea of what Minecraft is about. 

One of the guys in those videos is hilarious and always does funny voices especially for creepers and says "that's a very nice everything you have there". So we stole his quote and turned it pizza related so anyone eating pizza near it will freak out and anyone who knows Minecraft will squeal with delight.

And if you don't know Minecraft and you didn't bother to look at those videos you can just pretend that it's a penis or a fist giving you the finger and it becomes quite terrifying.

The Look-a-Like

I know I claimed to really enjoy my advertising class this semester, but I just wanted to set the record straight: I like the class, not so much the teacher. Sure, she keeps me from falling asleep by interacting with us and making us do stuff and junk and scaring me into not texting during the class (I'm honestly scared she's gonna call me out in front of the whole class for texting and cause me major humiliation) but it's the topic that's interesting, not her. Frankly, she's a bit crazy. And looks like Sarah Palin.

Anyways, in our last class we were working on something that the Look-a-Like didn't explain very well so I asked her a question hoping she would explain it a little better. Nope. Instead she asked my question right back at me in her loud teacher voice for the whole class to hear and then stared at me. As if I'm supposed to have some great insight into the question now that the whole class is listening! 

Well jokes on you Sarah-Palin-Look-a-Like because now a dragon's going to burn you up!

Ahhh sweet revenge!

Now Safe for Turtles!

It took me two and a half years to figure out what I actually wanted to study in university. Marketing is kind of the only interesting part of a business degree and this semester I'm taking an advertising course. It's Reading Break right now and I still haven't drawn a single picture in that class, that's how much I enjoy it. Crazy right??

Well, I drew this picture in my English class (because English is boring) and I think it really shows off my talents in marketing:

Not only did I create a cool new way to travel around in the animal kingdom, I made it safe for turtles!

Think about this for a moment, you really need to get to the watering hole but it's so far away, you just hop on the nearest Giraxi and soon you're cruising above all the other animals with a great view all the way to your thirst-quenching destination!

I think this is a very appealing advertisement and I'm considering just showing it to my teacher so she can give me an "A" right now and I won't have to do any more work the rest of the semester.

It's a Celebration!

Way back in elementary school, on the last day of school, we would always have a party. Always. Well, elementary school was really easy and fun and the party was more of a "yay it's summer!" party than a "yay we're done school!" party. Now, being in university, I think there should be more "yay we made it through the semester without getting caught on Facebook/texting/sleeping/ or fighting anyone!" parties.

And there must be one party for every class you attended.

And one party for every class you passed.

Well this is the party I threw for making it through my accounting class:

Everyone came out to celebrate! Octomom even shaved her head for the occasion and you can tell the giant whatever-that-thing-is-on-the-left was dieting for weeks to get his/her figure in shape for the occasion.

And in case you were wondering, this was not the end of accounting for me... the final exam didn't go to well.

Turtles Can Jump

NOTE: This blog post is dedicated to my mum who is out buying me popcorn right now :) Thanks mum!

Did you know turtles can jump?

More than just jump, they can jump rope. I've always hated saying "jump rope" but it's the only way to explain what's happening in my latest drawing.

There once was a snake, he liked rabbits. There once was a turtle, he liked to jump rope. One day, Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs and a monkey were walking along when they saw the snake in the middle of digesting a rabbit! Right off the road they saw the turtle who looked like he really wanted to jump some kind of rope. Suddenly Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs had a great idea and proceeded to grab one end of the snake and directed the monkey to grab the other. The turtle knew exactly what to do.

Clearly my short-story skills are also at a third-grade level.

Toy Story Uno

Last year me and four of my friends went to Mexico for a week. It was probably the best week of my life. This drawing tells the story of how we prepared ourselves for that trip.

Now, it's probably a little hard to understand how this is a couple friends preparing for a Mexican vacation so, please, let me explain

• Me, Alex and Donna were in the middle of re-watching all the Harry Potter movies
• Toy Story 3 was going to come out in theaters shortly after we got back from Mexico so there was a lot of TS3 junk in stores, including a deck of Toy Story Uno cards.
• Donna figured it would be a good idea to buy a deck of cards so we could play Uno on our flight
• I forgot how to play Uno and suggested we practice
• One night we decided to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince while playing Toy Story Uno to prepare us for the flight to Mexico
• We are animals
• The two animals outside the box weren't included and were sad

And that's the story of how three animals surrounding a round table with Harry Potter in the background with two more animals watching is the story of me and my friends preparing for Mexico.

And, if you were wondering, Donna's the giraffe, Alex is the panda, I'm the puppy, Hailey's the kangaroo and Taylor is the walrus (even though he didn't get to go to Mexico).

The Destruction of Mr Sniffles

This is the situation:

1. You're in a class that you hate
2. Your in a class with people you hate
3. You're about to write a quiz
4. You didn't study for the quiz
5. Someone behind you has a cold

If you've ever written an exam maybe you can agree, a Sniffler is THE single most annoying thing during a test. And once you've noticed the sniffling, there is nothing that can block it out again! It is all you hear and it makes it impossible to concentrate on the test.

Mr Sniffles had a cold the entire semester. And I noticed.

One day, after barely passing another test, I was extremely frustrated with Mr Sniffles. Taylor wanted me to draw a penguin making an omelet, I wanted to destroy Mr Sniffles.



Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs burns Mr Sniffles while a vicious Tyrannosaurus Rex gets strangled by an octopus while trying to chew him up. Meanwhile, a penguin fries up an omelet.

Drawing this didn't make Mr Sniffles healthy again. It did, however, make me feel better every time I pictured a dinosaur, an octopus, a penguin and Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs strolling into the classroom and begin to destroy him. And make omelets.

The Championship

The picture you shall feast your eyes on today remains unfinished. I suppose it was a detailed piece of work that I didn't quite start on early enough in class. Once again, Taylor had a ridiculous idea for what I should draw to keep myself entertained during accounting. A bunch of marshmallows playing beach volleyball with an otter.

Really.

I threw in a school of fish, a dolphin and a couple starfish because, obviously, this game is a big deal in the ocean-world. I mean, with such great competitors it has to be some kind of championship game!

Oh ya, the marshmallows have big pink arms too.

It's a bit tricky to see all the great details but, more importantly, Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs came by to catch the game too.

Stats

For some unknown reason, me and a select few of my friends were fascinated by Octomom. The name was, of course, the Hollywood nickname for a woman who, for some ungodly reason, decided to have eight kids all in one go. To our great minds, however, Octomom was a octopus mother. And we were her children. 

Note the motherly haircut.


The following comments are what my wonderful friends thought of this picture:

• Hailey you dont even understand how happy this makes me
• Alex  HAHAHA this is WIN. We all look so happy to be in octomom's grasp
• Hailey octomom is holding donna a little to tight shes turning blue!
• Alex  and me taylor and brandon are all a little green from the bumpy ride
• Hailey and me, dom, treen, court have been tanning too much so we are orange
• Taylor  we look like gummy bears.
  and octomom is looking quite favourly on donna!
• Dominique  she just has to keep her eyes on that one cuz she's a lil trouble maker!
• Hailey  who doesnt look at Donna favourly
• Taylor hahaah those 2 comments collectively made my night.
• Hailey YOUR MOTHER MADE MY NIGHT
• Taylor annnnnd now my night is ruined.
• Alex  HAHA lolface
• Hailey OH ME TOO! IVE JAJ A FEW TIMES NOW
• Donna  wow you guys have really out fone yourselves here, makes me feel quite loved actaully. and i just think that she favors all of us since we're all in her grasp.
• Donna but it is interesting why you made m the only blue one now that i think about it. why am i the only unique one??
• Dominique  i dunno hahaha i wanted to add some color?
  PS go to awkwardfamilyphotos right now and laugh out loud at the one of the kids on the swings!!!
• Donna  BAHAHAHAHA I totally did... how embarrassing...

I think it's pretty clear why we're friends. Also, that picture on awkwardfamilyphotos was hilarious. 


Just in case you were worried about Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs absence from this picture, please, put your mind at ease. 

She's just busy doing yoga. 

Vancouver 2010

I drew this next beauty shortly after the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I was going through Olympic withdrawal combined with the After-Reading-Break Blues and it was not a fun time. All I wanted to do was gather my friends and make another trip into the city to enjoy the atmosphere and listen to (and sometimes join) some more intoxicated citizens sing Don't Stop Believin' and Oh Canada on the skytrain. I wanted to give out more Free High 5's and take pictures with random people in the street just because we were all wearing the same flag! I also wanted to get interviewed by some more weird news crews who didn't even tell us what station they were for. So many good times....

As you can tell, I loved the Olympics so please understand that this next drawing is not a terrorist plot.

You can see how someone could reasonably misinterpret it as a plan to kill hundred on the skytrain. It is not. It is a giant Killer Whale eating a skytrain that is falling off a broken track into its mouth while Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs fights it.

Obviously this is a fantasy since whales cannot live out of water and the skytrain does not go out over the ocean. Also the fact that it's a giant killer whale eating a skytrain is kind of a major hint. And Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs, who, by the way, appears to be wearing a new necklace. Maybe another one of her three wishes from the Green Genie?

Time Thief

One of the weirdest requests for a drawing that I ever got from my friends (and looking back on what I've shown you so far, that's saying something) was to draw an over flowing pot of beans.

I mean, honestly, how do I work with that? I guess it was a slow day in the idea factory. I drew it anyways.

So, let's take a look at what we've got here

• Green Genie stirring the pot
• Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs doing some kind of dance
• Fat little guy who hates this class
• And, of course, the over flowing pot of beans

Also worth noting is my accusation that they're all Time Thiefs who distract me from my precious learning time! I mean, how could they do that to me?

...There's also the possibility that I had recently watched a certain episode of The Office and was remembering a particularly funny Jim/Dwight moment.

That's a Very Nice Face You Have There

This drawing needs a lot of explaining so I'll just show it to you right away.



Once again Taylor was full of ideas and once again I drew them at a third-grade level. I think Hailey might've added some ideas to this picture too. But here's my explanation:

• The Genie is supposed to be Taylor. Wearing overalls with no shirt and holding a pig.
• Fire-Breather Elephant-Legs is MILKING a chocolate milk cow. Nothing else is going on there. I just have poor drawing skills and it didn't turn out quite the way it was supposed to.
• And that's a baby pterodactyl getting snatched up by a bigger pterodactyl.

SOME people may have interpreted this fantastic piece of art incorrectly and definitely in an innapropriate manner. We are no longer friends.

I like the pterodactyls. Enjoy.