This drawing came to me due to what is hopefully the end of my smoke issues.
No, I don't smoke. I stopped smoking over half a life time ago, at the age of 19, after having been a so called 'event smoker' or weekend smoker for only two years or so and without ever liking it.
Let's not get into the lung issues that I've had, since I was a little kid. It was probably stupid to even start smoking but hey, I have been a teenagers too and teenager do stupid things ( and so do adults and little kids without being aware of this ).
What I was referring to with 'smoke issues', and something I briefly mentioned in my recent write up Dino Dragon, is related to my woodburner, that I started using recently due to cold nights in a somewhat humid house without any other kind of heating.
To summarize it: I have been inhaling smoke for quite some nights now, leading to loads of coughing, as well as a huge amount of snot and some slime throughout the day.
I thought this was due to either my chimney pipe being very dirty on the inside, or by the B-grade wood that I have been using temporarily, until quality firewood would ( wood wood ) arrive.
Today, after trying to get hold of a chimney sweeper for the umptieth time, I discovered something on the inside of my woodburner.
Without wanting to bore you too much, let's say that there was some kind of metal ceiling in there. I knew it was there, but I didn't realize that if I slide it towards me a lot more, it opens up the exhaust pipe in such a way that the smoke will indeed go up, directly, instead of toward me, haha!
I am happy to have discovered this, as it really wasn't much fun any longer.
Every single time that I opened the door of the wood burner, to throw in another log, or even when I tried to make the fire ( burn better ), plenty of smoke would come my way.
I have been burning wood with an air cleaner machine nearby with its fan on, but even that didn't really seem to do the trick.
Right now, I'm waiting for my brother in law and a colleague of his, to deliver two cubic meters of quality firewood.
I expected them to be here before dark and it's dark for about half an hour now, but hey we're in Portugal.
They can arrive any minute now.
In fact, I think I hear a car coming...
False alarm.
I didn't mean to make this a long post but - by now - I guess you can understand the idea behind this drawing. If you didn't already get it by reading the title ;<)
"No Smoking" signs have always made me laugh ( having been spoonfed on word jokes ) and even more when they are placed at posh restaurants and so on.
P.S. Loads of people are smoking, here in Portugal. It always surprises me that poor people smoke a lot, even though cigarettes are getting more and more expensive. I can't help but feel that smoking has become a poor (wo)man's habit, eventhough it has always been marketed as something for tough guys / girls and movie stars. What a joke!
P.P.S. The dino on the left, can be seen as the tough guy version of Hypersensitivosaurus also knows as Dino Dragon. Although Hypersensitivosaurus is already being a rebel and breaking the rules by wearing a smoking, Dino Dragon is even making fire.
I now realize, that it would have been funny to make him light other reptiles' cigarettes with his fire, but I'll save that for some other time.
TO BE CONVINUED...
FYI:
I didn't even use the coloring pencils on the right. I used watercolor pencils but they were positioned on my table, next to my drawing and I liked the extra layer of creativity that they added to the picture.