Lost in the Maze

Lost in the Maze

Mina Boromand and Chris Bird
London, UK

“It was inspired by the music of David Bowie and is called ‘Lost in the Maze.'”

Sepideh

Sepideh by Chris Bird

Chris Bird
London, England

It was drawn while listening to music.
It’s called “Sepideh” which is the name of the singer I was listening to while drawing.

My girlfriend

“This drawing was made when my girlfriend was away to stay at her friend’s place for the weekend. I was alone and thought about her and drew this as she makes me happy.”

Rhyn Williams

24 years old

artist

Tudweiliog, Bangor, UK

About my drawing

What I was doing: Listening to classical music

Where I was: kitchen

Whom I was with: alone

Sunshine, shopping, sea, etc.

Cathy Styles
a young 46
currently unemployed, previously director of a biotech company
Munich, Germany (previously Dahab, Egypt; Newbury, UK; London UK; then Cape Town, South Africa where I was born)

About my drawing
What I was doing: I was supposed to be online job hunting, but got horribly distracted by the Brain Pickings post on Facebook.
Where I was: at my home desk
Whom I was with: alone with my cat Miro

Play fighting, planning, cocktails, Katy and more

Rachel
27 years old
Oxford, England

About my drawing
I was sat on my bed at home alone and just doodling while watching The Cat Returns for the second time in two days because it’s just so lovely to watch.

Woo the kitty

Miss Voja Lambert
30 years old
Web developer
York, United Kingdom

About my drawing
What was I doing: Listening to the rain outside and looking at pictures of Woo (kitty)
Where was I: Sitting at my cluttered desk in my caravan
Who was I with: With Woo (kitty) snuggled up in my poncho

The climb

Katherine Smith
21 years old
graphic design student
Manchester, England

About my drawing
What I was doing: Thinking about exactly what it was that made me happy, with my sketchbook in front of me.
Where I was: In bed watching TV.
Who I was with: My boyfriend, but he was busy playing games on his laptop.

Happy Lou

Lourdes Benitez
35 years old
media artist
Montevideo, Uruguay; Barcelona, Spain; London, United Kingdom

About my drawing
What I was doing: “Designing my new web page.”
Where I was: “At home at my desk.”
Alone or with company: “Alone.”

Double happiness: chicken looking and koi

1. Chicken Looking
Chickens make me so happy! I love the way that they fluff out their beautiful feathers, cluck contentedly and strut about, pausing every now and then as though a thought gets in the way and they have to shake it out. The fact that they hatch out of eggs is also fantastic! I sketched this happy picture whilst I was looking at a book called ‘Extraordinary Chickens.’ Just saying the word “chicken” makes me happy.

2. Koi
I have spent many happy hours just staring down into water and watching koi. Trying to capture that on paper is not so easy. A couple of crumpled, ink splattered pages later this koi flowed off my brush and I was happy!

Jane Halford
originally from South Africa, now living in the UK
graphic designer and copywriter

Strawberry in the middle of nowhere

Alika Dibyanta Viarti Tuwo
21 years old
Molecular bio student (who actually wants to be an elementary school teacher in some rural village instead of a researcher)
I’m actually from Jakarta, Indonesia but study in Singapore and currently on exchange to Zürich, Switzerland. Have lived in the US and UK, too.

When I made this drawing I’d just finished emailing my review of a scientific journal article titled “The Fragile X Syndrome Protein Represses Activity-Dependent Translation through CYFIP1, a New 4E-BP” to my lecturer. And then got bored.
All along I had been sitting on my bed, alone.