tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71566019930011861242024-03-05T05:50:17.454+00:00The Cartoonist's Hatharry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-9337604085714805052020-10-03T20:20:00.001+01:002020-10-04T20:28:07.951+01:00Inktober2020 - Wisp<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeJpmskvRJ8DG773D80Dylz68ea_jUQVvQWv4EU9Ah7Y9YmRSTISH3ZWYkVe_vDbDHltnC7IbExUWE325_yAmH11D5TkpEbfHlU2gkyKQf14iNczctYol_260soL9ntIpkvoMPMk512to/s600/Wisp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeJpmskvRJ8DG773D80Dylz68ea_jUQVvQWv4EU9Ah7Y9YmRSTISH3ZWYkVe_vDbDHltnC7IbExUWE325_yAmH11D5TkpEbfHlU2gkyKQf14iNczctYol_260soL9ntIpkvoMPMk512to/s320/Wisp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Wisp Revisited</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>(markers and digital colour)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So far, I'm enjoying following the official prompts from Inktober2020, though there's no doubt that with my determination to revisit each black and white drawing and apply colour, I'm giving myself quite a bit of work to do.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdekRVhN_i47tTjVZ4vzaOFTF_BprLfy4U7auGv2zQSI_pFuhIToOTNtSkRH70W0n_RCtdQ6SF9VXHHUiU3M7VfIq2IuHBIGu39rXCLw_fM1I6q8f8gcOni1exwyUIcj3wjdzW5DIxV3r2/s600/Inktober2020_Wisp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdekRVhN_i47tTjVZ4vzaOFTF_BprLfy4U7auGv2zQSI_pFuhIToOTNtSkRH70W0n_RCtdQ6SF9VXHHUiU3M7VfIq2IuHBIGu39rXCLw_fM1I6q8f8gcOni1exwyUIcj3wjdzW5DIxV3r2/s320/Inktober2020_Wisp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Wisp</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>(markers in sketchbook)</i></span></div><br /><p></p>harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-52188549064180590942020-10-01T13:54:00.001+01:002020-10-02T14:07:29.322+01:00Inktober2020 - Fish<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6pNLG781nZdbKewnUvWXh_jfmCBgyQ_89_muIQtLf5dbXdILf0QOVG1RZVjyeu_lFBMWgW-0JFjKQ0ZPqez3GinW5EZBHA6ZrkDX8BJ_Z6FN96IrVcYrfF4U770RMxo1HTyuTmAHKq-7c/s707/Fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="569" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6pNLG781nZdbKewnUvWXh_jfmCBgyQ_89_muIQtLf5dbXdILf0QOVG1RZVjyeu_lFBMWgW-0JFjKQ0ZPqez3GinW5EZBHA6ZrkDX8BJ_Z6FN96IrVcYrfF4U770RMxo1HTyuTmAHKq-7c/w319-h400/Fish.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Fish (Revisited)</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i>(markers and Photoshop)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's hard to believe it's been a year since I last drew a cartoon, but then it's been a pretty weird year so far. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Despite all the <a href="https://www.palomar.edu/telescope/2020/09/29/the-entire-inktober-controversy/#:~:text=Inktober%20is%20a%20worldwide%20event,of%20Inktober%20himself%2C%20Jake%20Parker." target="_blank">controversy around Inktober</a>, I thought I'd give it a go again, so following the first prompt, I drew the <b>Fish</b> below. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 14px;">And that's how it went for a week, but I became conscious of how much thought I was actually giving to each successive drawing, willing it into a series. And so, after a week I gave up. I'll post the other six drawings below, but as they're so clearly cartoons rather than serious drawings, I'm also posting them here on <b>The Cartoonist's Hat </b>as well as on <b>Boogie Street</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 14px;">All were drawn with a Pilot disposable fountain pen in a <a href="https://www.the-pink-pig.co.uk/">Pink Pig</a> square sketchbook.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's my "Whimsical Town", produced quite quickly this afternoon for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SketchbookRevival/"><b>Sketchbook Revival </b>Facebook Group.</a></span></span></div>
harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-37804388182666133102019-04-23T19:57:00.000+01:002019-04-24T19:58:46.198+01:00Pavement Crack Creature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm having fun with some projects set up by the Sketchbook Revival Facebook Group. The challenge here was to find a creature by following the cracks in a pavement photograph. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet"> <i>Monster <span id="goog_1112620159"></span><span id="goog_1112620160"></span>from the Id</i></a>, he's not too frightening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did this for a fanzine article but sadly missed the deadline. So here it is, devoid of context, just because I like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Illustration Friday provides another opportunity to rake around in the cartoon barrel and dig up this old one for this week's topic - <i><b>Olympics.</b></i></span></div>
harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-38424598547754171092018-02-03T18:32:00.000+00:002018-02-03T18:32:01.454+00:00Illustration Friday - Mythology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still digging into the archives for this offering to <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/"><b>Illustration Friday</b></a> for their topic - <i><b>Mythology.</b></i></span></div>
harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-5032969610776678822018-02-02T14:39:00.000+00:002018-02-03T14:39:56.947+00:00Illustration Friday - Blue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The logo I did for a convention, now slightly reworked for last week's<a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/topic/blue/"> Illustration Friday's topic: <b><i>Blue.</i></b></a></span></div>
harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-28432403100784629092018-01-08T15:06:00.000+00:002018-02-03T14:25:18.709+00:00Illustration Friday - The Letter A<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Previously published here as <i><a href="https://cartoonhat.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-definite-article.html">"The Definite Article"</a></i> just for the fun of it and now conveniently recycled for this week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/"><b>Illustration Friday</b></a> challenge -</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"The Letter A".</i>harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-18728502642379243682018-01-03T19:06:00.001+00:002018-01-03T19:06:47.177+00:00Map<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I'm waiting for the flood of comments on my recent suggestion, here's a contribution to this week's <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/"><i>Illustration Friday</i> </a>brief - <b>Map.</b></span></div>
harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-89309504133040955692018-01-03T17:29:00.000+00:002018-01-03T17:29:57.072+00:00Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy New Year to one and all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Another Place, I took a little time to count up the paintings and sketchbook drawings I did in 2017. For various reasons, the grand total came to around 30, not a particularly impressive number but I expect next year's to be better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then I thought:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<i>Maybe I should do the same thing for my cartoons</i>." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hmm. Can it really be that I did none in the whole of 2017? I know I reworked one or two and added some digital colour to some others but it does seem as if my Cartoonist's Hat fell down the back of the sofa at some time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the top of this post is yesterday's sketchbook drawing of a cake. I've posted it here because I think it could also come under the heading of <i>"Illustration"</i> and one of the things it illustrates is the way I think the strands of my work are gradually drawing together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So: does it make any sense to continue running two separate blogs? My inclination is to close this one down and simply post everything on Boogie Street. Cartoons and paintings are just as much a part of what goes to make me as were last year's daily entries from My Dad's Diary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comments welcome.</span></div>
harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-18544312438338865272018-01-02T14:11:00.000+00:002018-01-02T14:11:10.241+00:00YouTubers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-24426717697410891522017-11-08T14:45:00.001+00:002017-11-08T14:46:20.911+00:00Greetings Cards<div style="text-align: center;">
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Time to announce that you can now buy <b>Greetings Cards</b> based on my paintings and cartoons from <i><a href="https://www.lovefromtheartist.com/Artists/gateshead/harry-bell">LoveFromTheArtist.com </a>. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Go on, you know you want to!</span></div>
harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-38193400715444316312017-10-02T18:44:00.001+01:002017-10-02T18:56:53.301+01:00Illustration Friday : Time Travel<br />
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harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-45203928287881470872017-07-26T18:41:00.003+01:002017-07-26T18:41:59.898+01:00The Definite Article<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-82787422478461151172017-01-01T00:06:00.000+00:002017-01-01T00:06:02.935+00:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-36152260417295990112016-08-12T13:26:00.001+01:002016-08-12T13:27:36.054+01:00Beam <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last month I was asked to provide a cover for the tenth issue of the fanzine <b><i>BEAM</i></b>, edited by <b>Nic Farey</b> and <b>Jim Trash</b>. Nic gave me the general brief (and the photograph of the crossed searchlight beams) and left the rest up to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I realised this was an opportunity to use some pages from my <b>Sketchbook Circle</b> book (see <i><a href="http://boogiestreet.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/sketchbook-circle-my-seconds-out.html">here</a></i>) , so I combined the photo and the drawings, in the process having to work with umpteen Photoshop Layers for the first time, then coloured the whole thing in Photoshop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The fanzine has now been issued, so I can show the cover here. I'm pretty pleased with the way it's turned out, as I hope the editors are. B</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">y the way, f</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or those slow on the uptake, or without Nic's Classics background, the crossed beams show an "X" for the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tenth</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> issue.</span>harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-71734808291272544272016-07-04T16:55:00.000+01:002016-07-04T16:55:47.589+01:00Michael Foreman Masterclass<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One Saturday in May I went to <a href="http://www.sevenstories.org.uk/">Seven Stories</a>, the National Centre for Children's Books based in Newcastle, where I'd paid for a Masterclass with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foreman_(author/illustrator)">Michael Foreman</a>, the great children's author and illustrator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was great fun. Michael told his life story, illustrated with family photographs and pictures from his books. He's a good storyteller with a fund of stories from his life and it's clear that his childhood has informed much of his work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The final part of the day was a workshop and Michael admitted this was the first he'd held for adults. That became clear when he asked us what we wanted to do, rather than giving us a project. What he eventually settled on was "Draw yourself as a child, then draw who you thought you'd be when you grew up".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't think he could quite get to grips with what I drew (see above). I had to explain that I never had any idea of what I'd be when I grew up, and that's pretty much how I feel today. When I grow up, I might have a better idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not knowing what I wanted to be, I drew a monster next to me, because that was what I liked when I was that age (and, of course, I still do).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't have time to finish the watercolour work, or even get the feet right, but in due course I will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the potential difficulties with having my work split between this blog and <a href="http://boogiestreet.blogspot.co.uk/"><b>Boogie Street</b> </a>is that occasionally there can be an overlap. Were it not for having completed this image in a sketchbook in a <a href="http://www.sketchbookcircle.com/">Sketchbook Circle</a> which is definitely at the <i>Fine Art</i> end of the spectrum, I'd almost certainly have posted it here as an <i>Illustration.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back on the ..er.. treadmill, as it were. This is for the latest challenge from the Cartoonists' Forum Cartoon Competition. <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.ccgb.org.uk/q_and_a_forum/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=09&topic_id=1453194762">Caption Competition No 337</a> asks for a cartoon on the<b style="font-weight: bold;"> </b></span><span style="background-color: white;">Theme: </span><b style="background-color: white;">AT THE GYM.</b></span>harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-70661367099081851492016-01-21T01:09:00.000+00:002016-01-21T01:09:22.141+00:00Theme Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">Trying my best to keep this thing going, here's another another challenge from the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/illo52weeks"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">52 Week Illustration Challenge</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">. </span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">This is Week 3 :<b style="font-style: italic;"> Theme Park</b> (Black markers and digital colour)</span>harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-23813206952246141382016-01-13T18:58:00.000+00:002016-01-13T18:58:24.184+00:00Outdoors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another week, another challenge from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/illo52weeks">52 Week Illustration Challenge</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In yet another effort to push myself along, I've signed up to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/illo52weeks/"><b>52 Week Illustration Challenge</b></a> on Facebook. They also have a blog <a href="http://illo52weeks.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week, the Challenge is <b><i>FANCY DRESS</i></b> and while I intended to hand colour my black marker drawing, I let things slide and ended up using the easy Photoshop alternative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Must do better.</span>harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156601993001186124.post-80450922190943895952015-08-26T11:39:00.000+01:002015-08-26T11:39:37.280+01:00People<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a long time since I posted here and even longer since I contributed to <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/">Illustration Friday</a>. So here is my contribution to this week's challenge - <i><b>People.</b></i></span>harry bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853116370799042788noreply@blogger.com0