Toni Le Busque's black, white & coloured doodles

2013-05-06

Summer is on its way and so are these styles.

2013-04-24

Justine admires my work.
Here she is seen in the act.

I was talking to Tall Lee one night and he told me he was writing his life story and that everyone should write one.
So I did.
However, I didn’t write a typical, long winded 300 page thing going into great detail about toilet training and school bullying and drunken escapades and sham marriages.

I wrote very short paragraphs and illustrated them accordingly.
Much less time consuming and much more amusing, for the author and the audience.

So now, I too think everyone should write their life story in this way.

In fact, coming soon are my friend Andrew’s The Truth, The Half Truth and Nothing Like The Truth.
He writes, I illustrate.

In the meantime, here, read some reviews of mine, Pictorial Recollections of a Life Partly Spent.

And now buy a copy.

You never know, you might be in it.

2013-03-11

Four Letter Words are Good.

2013-03-08

When the sun comes out, so do the pastels.
The first pastel of the season is a portrait of a plant my friend Andrew gave me.
I thank Andrew for the plant.
Who I should thank for the sun is not clear.

2013-03-01

Remember being a child and doing something you thought really worthy, exciting, something that made you feel happy, pleased with yourself?
Like a drawing, and then you show it to an adult, or a teacher who proceeds to criticise, belittle and pick fault.
I was reminded of this today.
And then the following came to mind-

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
“He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven”

So lets remind ourselves to encourage rather than embarrass, inspire rather than intimidate, delight in rather than dismiss.

And if you can’t say something nice, you can…..(see above photograph)

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Join The Club, tonilebusque.com/the-club, and you mayhaps win a copy of my new comic book, Pictorial Recollections of a Life Partly Spent.

It’s the comical version of my enthralling life.
If you know me, you might be in it.
Have a look, it’s here-bit.ly/XKqwtw

Happy Friday!

2013-02-23

Today I uploaded this pictorial version of my life to completelynovel.com.
It’s fascinating and you can buy your own copy to see if you are in it.
Not that many people other than me feature in it.
Some people do, but not as many as I’d like.
I wanted it to be short, not some godawful overly-long drawn-out dull thing.
So it’s only 80 pages but you could double that to 160 if you’re of a mind because each story also has an illustration to accompany it.
Get it.
You won’t be disappointed.
Or you might be, if you’re expecting to be in it and you’re not.
Or you might be disappointed that you are in it and don’t really want to be.

Here it is.

2013-02-21

My life story, Pictorial Recollections of a Life Partly Spent is done.
It’s POD and there will also be an e version coming shortly.
But, you know, who wants an ebook when you can have the smell of paper in your nostrils?
Well, uh, lots of people, it seems.
Therefore very shortly there will be 2 versions of this utterly thrilling 80 page combination of doodle and word.

Here’s what a man called Jeff said about it-
“Toni, just been reading your pictorial life jottings on the bus on my ipad….comic and tragic in equal measure, but mostly had me crying with laughter and spluttering out loud…quite brilliant…and fascinating.”

So, very soon you’ll be able to order your own copy.
I’ll alert you when it’s ready.

2013-02-15

I’m working on the print version of my life story.
It will be available on.

If you’d like to know when it’s ready, so you can buy a copy, here’s the link.

2013-02-05

Today’s good thing was beginning a new drawing.
It’s a different size to what I usually do, but I found a frame with some mount in it so I’m drawing to fit the frame.
Approx 23cm by 58, I’ve asked Facebook friends for their favourite 4 letter words.
Bang
Fuck
Fool
Shit
Word
Good
Muff
Cunt
All the old favourites are there, along with pool and mate, from the lovely Shandy, always thinking laterally.
So, here is bang, as in ‘bang em under’.
The next?
Maybe baby….who knows.
But bang baby has a nice ring!
Bang
Baby
Ring
Nice
See, whenever you open your mouth, a four letter word falls out.

The idea for this drawing leaked out of an earlier work called, You My Friend Are a Four Letter Word And It Is Not Love.

2013-01-29

“This is what I’m stitching on my @craftivists #ImAPiece - think it’s something my MP could do with pondering…”

I’m not, but I made this badge today for my studiomate and comrade, Laura.

She came across the phrase in one of my drawings and I think I came across it in a TED talk, don’t remember which one now.

Source: statigr.am

2013-01-21

There are some kinds of white that I like.
The white hot sun on white pool steps at midday.
White walls in a bedroom.
All white crockery.
White sheets and white tee shirts.
White shirts.
Cockatoos.
And now I also like powdery white snow.

*This drawing was done in Florida. A4 pastel.