in praise of blogging

It has become the 2nd law of blogging (the 1st law is that if you aren't addicted by the second week of your inevitably world famous blog, you give up) that once in a while, the blogger blogs the reason that that blogger blogs... and since today I'm a bit snowed under with real life, and trying to think of a way to make several million euros, and doing a few non-my-blog-but-other-people's-blog things, I thought I'd do one of those I-don't-have-to-think-TOO-hard posts.

So, blogging. Blogging for me is a wonderful miracle drug that will change the world, bring about world peace and find a cure for the common cold and ... well...it HAS made me less of a lazy sod. For years and years I smoked fags and didn't blog and didn't use my spare time for drawing or writing nonsense. Now I blog, draw loads more than I used to (for non-profit, that is) and know a load of e-people (much cheaper than real people cos you don't have to buy them drinks) and write drivel that entertains at least me.

And I was thinking about this and I thought "wouldn't it be nice to see the drawings I've done for this blog in its ten months of life?" (I know this really is a rather blogbirthday kind of post, but hey, I have other things up my sleeve for that) but since most of them aren't real drawings and I can't spread them out on the floor or anything like that I'll put together a composite of a tiddly square thumbnail of each of them.... so I did. (and talking of how computers/pcs/macs have changed the world... when I was an art student, the only people in the world who knew what a thumbnail was were artists, illustrators, designers and printers. everyone else would look blankly at one when one mentioned a thumbnail.....hmmmmm... she's off again).




I've missed a few out, but there's 197 thumbnails here of drawings I wouldn't have drawn if I didn't blog.

Ain't blogging wonderful?