Bethanny and Grapefruit, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle
© 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Bethanny, On A Diet (Again)
August 21, 2007 by ybonesy
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Bethany doesn’t look like she needs to lose weight. Interesting angle. Did you use ballpoint? I love how you filled in the spaces with lines. It contrasts with the circles. 🙂
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Liz, I was thinking the same thing about Bethanny. Doesn’t she look like she has an 11 inch waist? Great observation on the circles. I was so busy checking out the red dress and portrait of the suit-clad boyfriend, I missed them.
ybonesy, once again, I love your drawings and doodles.
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I love the way Bethanny has a death-grip on the spoon and a firm grasp on the plate holding the grapefruit – the circles in the background provide a great rhythmic echo of the grapefruit’s roundness, almost imply empty plates that are never filled, and Bethanny’s smile seems to be one of satisfaction – great drawing! G
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She’s about to plunge that spoon into the grapefruit…the poor thing is starved! But pleasant at the same time.
I just thought of something I used to do in high school. I drove my dad’s newer Valiant to school, and I’d tell my friends (in a sickly radio promotion voice), My car is boxy yet sporty. Then I’d say, My flannel shirt is practical yet fashionable, Algebra is hard yet easy, Mr. Brummel is manly yet womanly… and so on.
Bethanny is hungry yet satisfied.
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Liz — I use Sakura pigment ink pens. Fine tip (01).
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I just love this, ybonesy.
Every chubby girl knows not to let them take a picture of you from any other angle than THAT one!
That is a DELUXE doodle.
Do you doodle when you’re on the phone?
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Can I order the stamps for my letters? They really should make this into a U.S. postal stamp. You should send it as a suggestion to the Postmaster. Every woman in the country would buy them.
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I enjoyed this drawing very much. The circles compliment the lines, and the colors bring the scene to life. Her expression is kind of dreamy. Could she be thinking of adding some butter and brown sugar to the top of her grapefruit?
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Hi Leslie. I was thinking about your question this morning, remembering that you had asked it and I had forgotten to respond. No, I don’t doodle on the phone. When I’m the phone on work I usually am looking at a presentation on my computer. When I’m on the phone at home I’m usually wanting to just lie down or sit down, a throwover from being a teenager and talking on the phone while sitting on my bed. Really talking.
How about you? Do you doodle while talking on the phone?
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tiv (cool acronym) — i love your postage stamp idea! I’ll have to look into that. Or magnets for the fridge. Just as you’re opening the door to grab a Dilly Bar. (Do they have Dilly Bars where you guys live? I ate two yesterday. Chocolate Mint.)
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mariacristina – i just want to say, a friend of mine from Sweden once made my husband and me a breakfast of baked grapefruit with melted brown sugar on top and blueberries in the middle. It was heavenly. I didn’t remember it until you mentioned butter and brown sugar on top.
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Love the doodling!! 🙂
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ybonesy, I used to talk for HOURS on the phone to my girlfriends when I was in Jr High and Highschool. I even asked my parents to buy me a Ma Bell, light blue, rotary phone for my bedroom. I didn’t have my own line. But I did sneak under the covers and talk late at night. I wonder if my Mom’s reading this? BTW, she had a pink rotary. I think I might still have it. 8)
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Hi, ybonesy! Yep. I’m a doodler on the phone. What I’m doodling is effected by who I’m talking to. (whom?)
If I’m listening to a client talk about a commission that they want, I have the preliminary sketches done before I hang up. If I’m just yakkin’, I do series of patterns as a rule. Stars, hearts, squares, checkerboards, and stuff that looks like “penmanship” exercises.
When you were talking about ‘just talking’ on the phone, my mind went to the phone scene in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
Mmmmm…dilly bars, raisinettes…mmmm…you are gonna make me fat….
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ybonesy, Bethanny is proving to be quite popular. I wonder if there could be a Bethanny doll? Though I’m smitten on the postage stamp. 8)
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If she were a doll, I wouldn’t buy her for my girls. Too skinny. (I don’t buy Bratz or Barbies, either.)
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[…] I’m making an effort to do the same. When I drew Bethanny, I hated her. Where did she come from? She just showed up on the page, and that smile of hers. And […]
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Wow, I love this. While viewing the picture, I have forgot everything I know about the line and space – I was transferred into the world of people, who live there and now and worry for there and now because they love to live and live
We can muse on what is worthy more than that, but that would be just musing/the philosophy. Meanwhile your Bethany has returned a smile to my eyes – that’s the gratitude. That’s much more desirable than rejoice over some goof thought on a bookshelf… THANK YOU for a sip of fresh air
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