Koalafications

KOALA 01 gul og lys orange

KOALA 02 om natten

KOALA 03 bleg

Playing with image editing today resulted in these 3 versions of a koala doodle I made a couple of weeks ago. I’ve never seen a koala in “person”, but I had a sudden urge to draw some weirder animals to mix things up since I mainly draw birds, cats and dogs. My first try at doodling a koala was ridiculous, so I actually had to google what it looked like to get something recognizable. Yay Google!

Note: After posting these 3 images together I’m realising it looks kind of like a sequence. Koala just hangs there on his tree all through summer, day and night, his fur turning white in the winter season (the very rare snow koala!). Maybe he climbed up too high and is scared to crawl down, like Tigger in A. A. Milne’s stories about Winnie the Pooh.

Koalafications

Better Safe Than Sorry…

'AKA I'm trapped in my own preparedness, please let it start to rain soon.'
‘AKA I’m trapped in my own preparedness, please let it start raining soon.’

”You’re really… Prepared!”, A British lady once said to me when I walked into a room at university completely soaked in my rain suit. My polite response was: ”Hah, yeah!” but I was thinking: ”HELL YEAH I AM! I’m so utterly and completely prepared for ANY type of weather, ESPECIALLY RAIN, and who are you to kind of judge me for it, and why doesn’t everyone wear rainy pants when it’s rainy outside?!”

Anyway, that was a while back. And my rainy clothes (as I still like to call them for lack of a better word in English) have long needed an update. So after a very rainy couple of weeks and being soaked to the bone several times (even while wearing said rainy coat and rainy pants), I spent a whole afternoon looking for the most waterproof and not too idiotic looking new set. And I got it. Aaaand it hasn’t rained since. But I obviously insist on wearing my raincoat whenever I go outside, because I’m always SUPER PREPARED, like the lady said. And her comment made me want to OWN IT! I recently found the above doodle. I don’t remember when I drew it, but its facial expression perfectly expresses my feeling when I walk in the sun with a raincoat on, quietly mumbling to myself like a lunatic: ”Just start raining, just a little bit. Come on. Okay don’t, but I’m PREPARED.”

Better Safe Than Sorry…