Meet Mr. Lion

I have a t-shirt that my friend Andy gave to me when we lived in New York. It's got a screen print of an old sketch that he found in his desk one day. I love that t-shirt. Partly because my friend made it, and partly because it's just so odd. It's just this crappy drawing of a one-legged dude on a bicycle, but there's something a little alternative rock about it, I guess, and I have a soft spot in my heart for that stuff. I am from Athens, after all. (Come to think of it, Andy is from Athens, too.) Anyway, I started wondering if I could apply this crappy doodle principle to other things. In particular, I like the idea of using old t-shirt scraps and a magic marker to make stuffed animals. Here's my first one:


I think he's cute, but he's not quite alternative enough for me. It's like he's straddling the fence between being alterno-awesome and regular-type cute. I think maybe my drawing is too structured. I will work on this. So this one goes in the nursery along with Flat Guy.

My poor kids. They get all the leftovers.