Hazel and Augustus

In honor of that coming Valentine's holiday... Hazel and Augustus from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, which I read this week.



Terribly lovable characters and beautifully written.

(And in case you're concerned... Augustus doesn't actually smoke. He carries the cigarette around for "metaphorical resonance" incidentally... the book is dripping with metaphorical resonance.)

Fanart Friday: Divergent

Tris (or as she came out here... Dystopic Rapunzel):


And her friend Christina:


From today's audiobook, Divergent by Veronica Roth. Doodles occurred. Seems to be inevitable.

I find girl-fighter stories really entertaining... not sure why... I'm a terribly pacifstic person myself (If you've read Divergent- I'm Amity, no question). Can't say I have any desire to pick up a weapon myself. Except maybe a bow and arrow. Cuz those are cool. And once I won the archery contest at girls camp, so I think I have some latent ability.

Cricket

The boy next door, from Lola and the Boy Next Door.

That book made me want to go back to San Francisco.

Fanart Friday: Anya Balanchine

Okay, so it's not Friday, but I meant to post it yesterday... so it counts.



From All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin, Russian mafia princess, New York seventy years in the future.

I thought it was a cool book, an alternative take on the "dystopic" trend so popular in YA lit these days, though it's not itself dystopic. And you know, I always love a good girl power book.

Also... I kinda want to see the movie.

Harry Potter vs. The World

Can you guess which graphic novels I've been reading this week? In combination with which audiobooks?

The inevitable result:



I owe a lot to Harry Potter. He's one of the reasons I wanted to draw... And most particularly illustrate. Because when I finished reading I didn't want that world to end.

So I drew.

I drew a lot of Harry Potter.

However, I find that when I draw any HP these days, I fall back into old habits. So I decided to shamelessly steal from do an emulation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's work, which I really love. So there you go.

Happy Fanart Friday.