Effin’ off (updated self portrait, with Pip) (Patreon)

Y’know, there aren’t even THAT many backgrounds on this next Elephant Town update, but I’ve been looking for any excuse to avoid drawing them this week, even though I really like what they contain.

So I fucked off today and sketched an updated self portrait, after finishing the copy of the Dirty Diamonds anthology I bought from Anna Sellheim, because I perused the artist bios at the end and thought to myself “I don’t know what image I’d have used if I was part of this anthology.” So I drew one.

It’s amazing how empowering it is to draw your mouth creases, brow furrows, threadbare favorite shirt, bedhead, and scrappy stray cat with his clipped ear and leftover scarring from an eye infection. I hope my generation paves the way for embracing every sign of age and every smile and story we wear on our bodies.