My Friends,
What can I say about this sketch. Today I subbed as a teaching assistant in an English class. I had the privilege of listening to an intelligent teacher discuss, William Golding’s timeless masterpiece, Lord of the Flies. And since listening only requires ears, my fingers kept a pencil and paper bizzzyyy.
Mr. Golding never ceases to inspire.
Thank you. May your dreams be free of buzzing bugs.
For some reason I think Fly Lord should be playing a fiddle.
anntogether 
Great sketch!! Pop it in a photo app and see what you can do with it. 🙂
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Hi John,
App popping sounds like a grand idea. Perhaps I shall pop this bug at some point and when I do you’ll be the first to know. Thanks for the inspired idea – I appreciate it!
AnnMarie 🙂
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He looks like he should be hanging out with a grasshopper and an ant! Beautiful! – Fawn
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Sometimes I get a look from a teacher when I’m doing a kooky sketch – but this fit in with the class theme today 🙂
Thanks, Fawn – I appreciate 🙂
AM 🙂
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“The Fly” 1986 – Jeff Goldblum, will always be my favorite.
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Awesome movie – was it “Brindle fly” or “Brundle fly” ? I can’t remember. It was a most excellent movie and awesome special effects – I liked the teeth in the medicine cabinet.
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I haven’t a clue what you’re talking about. LOL
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What kind of Fly fan are you, Sir. 😉 And I’m sure you know the actors trivia – this movie bonded Jeff and Gina.
Hope you’re feeling terrific today!
AnnMarie 🙂
Have you ever taken insect photos?
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Bees mostly. I don’t know what category a slug fits into. Steve McQueen, “The Blob”.
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Okay, you’re scaring me. The original Blob, you know the one that starts with the Blob crawling up the old guy’s arm – that freakin’ Blob scared the livin’ stuff outta me in 4th grade. I sweat the entire summer and it wasn’t that hot. I wouldn’t go to the movies, I placed my cherished stuffed animals in front of vents and stuffed towel under my bedroom door at night – all in the hopes that the man-eating, vicious, heartless Blob couldn’t get me. True story!
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I don’t scare easily but that blob thing dissolving your flesh got to me.
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To this day I can honestly say, that was my greatest, ‘Summer of Fear!’ Darn that stupid man-eating jelly roll 🙂
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Then draw more as you listen 😉 Amazing, you are!
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Ah, thanks Heather.
I love drawing just to draw – with no intention of doing anything until it becomes something – if that makes sense. I think I stop making complete sense at 8 pm 🙂
Thank you – too kind you are 🙂
AnnMarie 🙂
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I always crack up whenever I see Golding’s title because I always think of a student writing a book report about “Lord of the Fries,” which might be the McDonald’s founder bio. But anyway, AM: This drawing is FLYtastic! I mean, I looked at it and did an audible gasp. Then I thought, “Man, if I tried to draw while I listened to someone lecture about a novel” — well, my “drawing” would look like squashed flies on a sheet of paper. Mr. Golding definitely inspired — and you hit a home run! This is brilliant.
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lol! I actually read Ray or was it Roy Crocs (sp) bio – McD’s founder years ago. I can’t remember why. I think I purchased the book because the golden arches were on the cover and it probably smelled like something fattening 😉
This fly was fun. The teacher was reading from chapter 11 – terrible things happen in chapter 11. Without his specs, poor Piggy was doomed. I don’t know if I agree with Golden …man reverts to animalistic behavior in the absence of authority…and we are really rotten at the core…
I like to think we’re only really rotten if we allow worms into our souls…
After I had this post finished, I thought, gosh – this chap really should be playing a fiddle – next time. Thanks for the kind words, Deb 🙂
AM 🙂
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Besides judging a book by its cover, I often buy a book for its smell. 🙂 LOL You know, I read Lord/Flies for my 1st blog (about books) because I’d never read it and felt that I should. I will go on record saying that I really did not like the book, and in fact felt sort of grouchy as I read it. I can’t remember all of my “problems with the book,” but there were many — and I agree that Golding presents a very pessimistic view of society (an understatement, that). Your chap does look like a fiddle-player! 🙂
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Way back when I was an art director the cover approval process was an arduous process. It never ceased to amaze me how the cover of a textbook – and remember back then school books were covered with brown grocery bags – mattered more it seemed than the actual text! Whether a mass market book, a text book or a car it’s all about curb appeal. Perhaps, we should have added a scratch and sniff component to the literature series 😉 I agree, Deb, Lord of the Flies puts one in a foul mood. I often find myself transported to that island wanting to yell at those boys.
AM 🙂
It’s Thursday!
I think at some point he does need a fiddle 🙂
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I learned a very similar lesson about “curb appeal” when I worked at an advertising agency, AM. One day I was fussing about copy when the art director walked into my office and told me that what I wrote didn’t really matter — it was the visuals, the picture (=1,000 words) that mattered. And she was absolutely right. For worders, it’s sad; but it’s true, too. I still think if you marry wonderful images and wonderful words together, though, you’ll get amazing progeny! LOL
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I just had a scary thought – we could have an ad agency and call it DEBAM! With the sub line – Get DE most advertising BAM for DE buck 😉
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Now you’re scaring me, AM. (It does have a lovely ring to it, though.) 😉
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😉
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Great drawing. Perfect for the book:)
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Listening to Golding’s words while drawing this was interesting. 🙂 Thank you.
AnnMarie 🙂
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This is excellent!
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Thank you, Geo. Hope the ‘arting’ is going well …
AnnMarie 🙂
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Absolutely love this.
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Thank you 🙂
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