r2d2

so friday night we had friends over.  yay!  at one point during the evening someone said something to me, but my ears heard something about c3p0 of star wars fame.  which made me think about r2d2.  which reminded me of the time we went to a wedding in springfield and they had those awesome r2d2 mailboxes in honor of the upcoming re-releases.  


well, saturday morning rolled around and i was on kid duty.  thankfully the kids were much more interested in playing with my husband's castle grayskull and all of the accompanying he-man and she-ra characters.  that meant i had some time to sketch.


with the previous evening's r2d2 reference on my mind, i thought about how neat it would be to make a mean, nasty mailbox.  one that would eat your hand when you put a letter in.  and that would never have bird poop on it because it would smite any bird who had the audacity to land on it.


it turns out that i do not know how to draw a mailbox.  sad day.


and it turns out that my potentially fatal mailbox looks a lot more like the view of an oncoming whale.  so i went with it.


the whale seemed happy enough, but i figured he needed a friend.  and what better friend than someone with extra arms to give good hugs?

friends, pen & pencil, september 17th, 2011


i smeared the stupid ink on the friendly whale, so i had to make them bigger to hide it, hence the deep, soulless, dead eyes he has.  sigh.

r2d2!