This has been a long time coming. I actually cannot really beleive that i still liked this drawing enough to finish it. I sketched it out first in august 2008. (yep... you read right, august, 2 thousand HEIGHT) When i met my friend Avy for the first time. I have drawn her a couple times since, but I remember her posing for me for this illustration, holding a nectarine! Then i waited about a year to start colouring it. Anyways.... i have had to come up with a couple of images that are more "set up" in terms of situations, lifestyle evoquing... and this image seemed quite à propos. First of all, drawing Avy is aways great because she is mad cute. And also, i have been missing my friend Geneviève a bit more poignantly lately, and this is set in London, in the part of town she lived in when i visited her last, close to Lavender Hill. (is that even right? Victoria train station....)
Anyways, hope you enjoy it, in the end!
Allo Avy! xx