I've packed just a few brush ink pens and a thin sketchbook. My little pans of travel watercolour tin was corroded during travel, thus needs replacing. That's not all. I seem to be leaving the fashion illustration in Singapore, and haven't felt inspired to draw anything too specific, and doodling aimless seems to sit rather awkwardly in my mind. Maybe aimless is good?

Last week, while stuck indoors because of bad weather, I revisited these two illustrators I've been following for a while, Julie Houts (Jooleeloren) and Liana Finck (lianafinck) on Instagram and found their style of using text to express a meditation of people and their thoughts, sometimes satirical, sometimes funny or sad with their drawings, quite entertaining and sometimes poignant. I do love me some poignancy.

It was cold in the house, so I thought a hot cup of tea after dinner would be good. This doesn't happen in Singapore, but the caffeine in that tea kept me awake and helped my brain process ideas about conversations Tom and I had that could be turned into some kind of comic. The next day, the first sketch came out. Our friend Cindy calls us Tits and Sass, and I thought it would be fitting for a comic strip.