Friday, September 01, 2006

Illustration Friday: "Safe"


Here's a quick drawing of my sister Amy and me when we were little playing our twisted version of Strawberry Shortcake -- remember those dolls that each smelled like different fruits/desserts/whatever? Anyway, ours were stored in an airtight chest so they all smelled exactly the same (like a chemically sweetened airtight chest, I suppose), but I digress. I won't get too specific, but our version of playing "Strawberry Shortcake" cast the eponymous character as a ghost, only consulted in emergency situations...a sort of deceased oracle. Amy's playing the part of the apparently distressed Lemon Merengue here; I'm doing the creepy Strawberry Shortcake graveyard voice and being my controlling big sister self.

Okay, I've already said enough. What, you may ask, does this have to do with "safe"? Uh... good question. I guess we were safe in our little world of bizarro child fantasy? Yup, I'm stretching it. I just drew this and wanted to do something with it. Feel free to confess your own bizarre childhood games in the comments.