More literal sayings and other things
Well, hello! I hope everyone had a great week!
After my previous post on portraying the literal meanings of words turned out quite popular, I thought I might as well draw a few more. This time it is…
Taking Sayings Literally.
Enjoy!
And that’s it for drawings today! But I still have a few more things up my sleeve! Or rather, up my computer fingers!
Seeing that it is (almost) the last day of March, I wanted to make a graphic representation of what my month looked like. Let me introduce…
Really, that 23rd truly was a nightmare day. And the 27th was not much better. Now I just want to go to sleep, but I can’t. I’ve got a few more assignments and stacks of homework waiting for me. Blargh!
However, I should hope that I was still able to laugh as I struggled through the 3rd week of March. This is what made me laugh:
Yes, those are sticky notes all round my laptop screen. It’s my references for said HUGE assignment. I stuck them there because I kept forgetting which author wrote what article and in what year. And then I had to page through everything again when I wanted to quote. That got annoying.
Lastly, I recently saw some bloggers making typography images with all the fonts that they regularly use and I thought it was a very good idea. I try to use only a handful of signature fonts in my cartoons, but if you’ve been around for a while you’d know I have a slight font obsession. So… this is mostly only for my own benefit to remember which fonts when/how/what, but maybe someone could find it useful. So I’m sharing it!
All these fonts are available as free downloads (obviously). Actually I don’t use Elven Common Speak or Lime Glory Caps in my cartoons as they are too hard to read, but I only included them because I use them in my blog signature.
Have a great weekend!
I love the style of the cartoons. Can I pitch you some ideas for more “literal” phrases? Well, I’m gonna do it anyway and you can ignore them if you wish.
“I got a million things to do!”
“This is gonna cost me an arm and a leg!”
“I’m dying for some spam!”
That’s awesome to hear! Sure, go right ahead if you have any ideas for me!
Not quite sure how I’d draw “a million things”, but the other ones are great! I’ll add them to my list, thanks!
Love the drawings, LOL! I wonder if those fonts can be downloadable to a Mac and can be used in Pages.
I know hardly anything about Macs, but I think some of those fonts are Windows-only. The font websites would probably indicate for what operating systems they are though.
I loved Don’t fly off the handle. I don’t blame you for having a font obsession. There are so many cool fonts in the world. The graphic artists I work with are font fanatics. I wouldn’t mind being one too…but they boggle my mind and make my head spin.
Yay!
That’s true. I really should avoid font websites, because I simply have no resistance to them.
Haha! I love these!
And congratulations for surviving such a crazy month!! The sticky notes are so me. I can never remember sources.
That’s great to hear!
And I’d rather have my screen covered in sticky notes than get accused of plagiarism! 
You’d think that I know better than taking extra subjects by now… not!
Yikes! What a busy month. Well I’m here happy as a fish in the sea.
~Eli
Hehe, rather!
your march calendar remainded me of my engineering days
… good luck with all the up coming stuffs 
…. cartoons are very good as always 
Sometimes everything just happens at once, right?
Hehe, thanks!