Mexican Video Games Party

I had a party with Mexican food and video games. That's a perfectly normal combination. I also drew this for it!

Burr-Wii-to? 

Happy 200th Post!

Sir Gentleman Unicorn approves this post.

Super-HOT-girl, AMIRITE

Fancied having a go at drawing a super-pin-up-girl:

It ain't perfect, but it was fun :)

Vulpixtures

Too cute. TOO CUUUUTE.

Do you hear the Porygons sing?

Pokémis. It's a new thing. I invented it. Yeah.

Adventure Time! C'mon, grab your friends!

If you haven't seen Adventure Time, GO SEE IT NOW PEEPS

Lumpy Space Princess. OH MY GLOB.

Finn!

Gotta Catch Them ALL? ...Really?

Pokémon X and Y, the newest Pokégames in the Pokéfranchise, were announced a couple of weeks ago. After initially expressing my complete indifference, excitement began to creep up on me like a Shellder on a Slowpoke. Then I spent a couple of hours drawing Pokémon, and now I feel I should probably admit defeat, because POKÉMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Here's the trailer for all of you who haven't seen it yet/don't care: 

And here's my favourite. I tend to always pick the cutest starter Pokémon because IT'S ALL ABOUT BONDING WITH THE LITTLE GUY K. Plus, it's always worked for me...

This one's the new fire starter Pokémon and it's called Fennekin and it's ADORBABABLE.

And a little Squirtle enjoying his tiny bathtime because he's adorbabable too. 

If you're a fan of Pokémon, puns, and me (of course you are) you'll love this article I wrote on one of the Pokémon spin-off games. The game isn't important, what's important is the puns, of which there are many. I love puns.

It represents almost everything I am!

Decided it was high time I designed myself a family crest.

Prizes for anyone who can translate my motto.

Veg Week, Part VII

And finally...

Splinter Cell Broccoli

All of these were done by request, so if anyone wants anything drawn, feel free to ask me or comment on here. I'll probably do it, because I have nothing better to do :)

AND BECAUSE I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH

Veg Week, Part VI

And then I moved on to video games (by request)

Don't get spud. Get even.
Ezio, from Assassin's Creed ,as a potato

Veg Week, Part V

And of course, it's not a run-through of historical figures without...
Hitlercarrot!

Veg Week, Part IV

Ignore the huge rack, I was feeling generous.
Queen Vicky as a lettuce!

Veg Week, Part III

"Neep" being the Scottish for turnip. Obscure puns are the best.
Stalin as a turnip!

Veg Week, Part II

Happy New Year everyone! My New Year's Resolution is to continue with Veg Week.. And I'm already doing it. YES.

A request from a friend:
Asparagandhi.

Veg Week, Part I

Vegetables. As long as they've been around, we've had an obsession with them. Whether it's carving faces into pumpkins at Halloween, or playing the traditional Christmas game of "hide the carrot in grandad", we do love to play with our food. With that in mind, I've recently found a somewhat niche talent for depicting well-known figures through veg. I know, I'm so employable.

This week, I fancy treating you all to my efforts, for which I definitely deserve a celery...

It all started with a doodle from year 12 history lessons that I decided to turn into a proper drawing:
Robespierre, French Revolutionary, as a potato.

Christmas... A time of loving, sharing, giving, and unicorn faeces.

It's Christmas! Now that you've eaten everything possible, and you're lying near-comatose on the sofa watching absolutely dire Christmas TV, I thought I'd treat you to something a little special.

Having run out of money for Christmas presents this year, I had to go all primary school on my loved ones and give the gift of baking. Now, I'm not going to be all modest and humble here - I bake like a boss, so realistically, my family and friends got a much better deal than they would have done if I had bought them socks and ties like the original plan. 

However, I just thought that, in the spirit of giving, and in the incredibly British Christmas tradition of showing off (I'm sure all of you will have had at least one of those "my family is so bloody fantastic we put Bill Gates to shame" letters) I present to you one of my proudest moments:

The Unicorn Poop Cookie.

The official label, because the Food Standards Agency required one, obviously.

Given to my good friend Lucy as a Secret Santa present.

Begin with six bowls full of e-numbers...

Chop into chunklets!

Roll into worms!

Stack the worms!

MORE WORMS!

WORRRRRMMMS!

RAINBOW WORMS!

Delicious AND scientifically accurate. Sometimes, you can have it all.

Roll into one giant worm...

Twist...

Make one end all pointy like...

...And coil into a perfect poo.

TA DA! Unicorn poo, fresh from the... arse oven?

Here you can see the addition of sprinkles, glitter and a very hungry gal.

And, of course, the recipe:

A few points:
American sugar cookie dough is used for this recipe. It's firmer and more workable than British cookie dough, which tends to be fairly gloopy, but you need a dough that will hold its shape and NOT SPREAD IN THE OVEN - or else you get the result of a unicorn with digestion problems.
I would also highly recommend gel food colouring - more expensive than liquid, but actually lasts SO MUCH LONGER, and you get beautifully vibrant and slightly hyperactive colours like this. Awesome.
I've also used US measurements (cups) because I realised that cups are so much easier to deal with than scales, but feel free to use an online converter if you prefer.
I also decorated with edible glitter (seriously guys, EDIBLE, don't skimp on this or you'll be spewing sequins for days) and sprinkles, but you can customise any way you like - silver sugar balls, stars, or just leave 'em plain. Up to you!

3 cups flour
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup caster sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt


Preheat the oven to 175C.
Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
Beat in the egg and vanilla.
Sift in the flour and salt.

Here's the tricky part:
Roll the dough out on a floured surface (you can also use wax paper).
Cut as evenly as you can into the number of different colours you're using.
Mix in the colours.
Divide each coloured piece of dough into about eight (you can do more, for smaller cookies).
Roll out each bit of dough into a worm about four-six inches long.
Add the next piece of dough (see pictures above) and so on.
Squidge all the bits together and roll into one big worm.
Twist the opposite ends with the flat of your hand in opposite directions to get a nice swirl of colour.
Pinch the end to make it pointy. This is the top.
Coil into a nice poo shape!

Bake in the oven on a greased tray for 6-10 minutes. They should be firm, browned on the bottom, but not the top.
Leave to cool, and then decorate to your heart's content!

Love you all, and a very merry Unicorn-filled Christmas to you all!

BONUS:

Where have you BEEN?!

The more observant of you may have noticed that I haven't posted for two months. Now, I know that you've probably all spent that time wailing and mourning my absence, so I thought I had best explain myself.

You see, I've been doing REAL ART.

I can't even say how happy I am that doing a ridiculous pun/drawing blog for two and a half years has actually improved my drawing. I realise that I'm no Leo Da Vinci, or even half as good as any other proper artists out there, but just to know that practice actually does help has given me confidence to do a whole load of new things with my life (coming soon: How Not To Bake?!)

I now present to you my poster designs for a Jazz Orchestra Christmas gig at my University:

Thank you so much to everyone who has followed me over the past two and a half years, and I hope I can keep on updating when I can... Until I get a proper job, at least!

What happens when nerds with bad hearing have a roast dinner: We're having Leg-o-las!

THE. HOBBIT. IS. OUT. THIS. WEEK.

I'll be watching the whole of Lord of the Rings in an epic marathon this week, and to prove how excited I am/was/will be... I wrote this post in May. This post, like me, has been waiting excitedly for this week and NOW IT IS HERE. So, for your chortles, enjoy some LOTR drawing love.

Even Leg-O-Lamb is excited!

More drawings from real life, yo

Pub Quiz question: "What President of the United States is the FBI headquarters named after?"
Me: "PRESIDENT...PENTAGON"

...Hence the following doodles off the back of the quiz, made to prove my point.

How Not To Draw goes Black and White

Apologies for the lack of post last week, I have managed to get over my tech problems and will hopefully be resuming posts as normal (as long as uni doesn't get in the way - I have my priorities all sorted out)

*hilarious Beatles reference*