Art director Gwen Yip is known from Asia to Amsterdam for her Working Holiday In London blog. If you haven't read it yet, it's a funny illustrated diary of her advertising adventures in Europe. Gwen loves to draw and has the habit of sketching everyone she meets. Her pictures are always spot on!
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Gwen has recently published a book of her ad adventures and you can win an autographed copy!
All you have to do is draw a pic of a someone in advertising (it could even be a self portrait) and post it here. Gwen will pick her favorite and award the winner! We'll run this contest for a month so you have until February 28, 2009 to submit your drawing!
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Here's Dave Trott as seen in my scrap book.
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PermalinkI tried to sketch George Parker (from the infamous AdScam blog), but the doodle came out horrific! I'm not even going to bother to upload it. Copywriters really shouldn't sketch!
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PermalinkI want to see it... It can't be as bad as me in real life... Or the picture I keep in the attic... The one with snakes growing out of my head... Time for another Beskadroppa!!
Cheers/George
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PermalinkYeah, lets see it Robblink! :)
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PermalinkOh, sorry. I trashed that monstrosity a long time ago! It's now in heaven where it belongs!
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PermalinkWell, Let me see what else I got - oh haha, I had forgotten this one. It looks quite like him.
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PermalinkOh wait!! This one should make me the winner. Pretty Pleeez? Even Paul laughed at it man. Just his glasses. hehehe.
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PermalinkHonestly? Is nobody going to try and join in with their doodles here? Admit it, you've all been super distracted by the super bowl. Right?
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PermalinkHey Gwen, I read some strips of your comic and it's really funny! I'm still a student and I want to work in an ad agency as well. My "model" will be my doodling Japanese friend, she's an angel and she inspires me a lot. I tried to draw a memorable scene in a photo booth in Akihabara last summer...
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Permalinkyeay, more strips!
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PermalinkThanks for participating everyone. I e-mailed Gwen a few days ago and she picked a winner! It was me! I submitted an incredible sketch of Andrew Jackson and she loved it. Thanks again!
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Permalinkdoes the sketch look like this?
:-)
[Sorry, I'm a bit off today, I tried to embed a pic of a $20 bill]
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PermalinkHer illustrations are terrible. Only an ex W+K:er would have the gall to publish their crap in a book nobody bought.
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Permalinkjelly?
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PermalinkHeh. Anyway, to bring this full circle, here's Bruce Feilding I doodled (above), hanging out with w+k. Ta-dah!
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