TNT and World Peace

I like the idea of non-verbal comunication: human people, even when they speak distinct languages, still have enough in common to communicate through images and gestures. Monkeys and dogs are able to play together, I even saw a video of a dog trying to imitate an elephant! Even though English is the common language on the web, non-verbal videos are much more likely to go viral than verbal ones. If I could generate non-verbal educational material (e.g. in mathematics), having a larger audience would permit to spend much more time for each material (and to distribute it for less). I want to explore ways for TNT to comunicate non-verbally some abstract concepts. And what better abstract concept to begin with than "World Peace"?

TNT and Today's peace

My mother is easily worried. I found this quote on the web and sent it to her via our shared Dropbox folder, and forgot about it. She liked it so much that she asked me to write it on a wood spoon. I told her that the text was a bit too long for a spoon, so she brough me... a cutting board :)

My mother had complained about the knife falling from the other cutting board when one admired the drawing, so I reversed the design for her, and did not draw on the knife this time.

As for the previous one, I enlarged the eyes to make it more "chibi", and left simplistic hands to not take away the attention from the text. TNT looks like she is wearing gloves, but at least people focus on the essential!

I like the result a lot!!!

And it fits very well in the kitchen with the wordy wood spoons =OD

Careful with that axe TNT!

Another drawing on a postcard, from Normandy to a Britton whom I met in Chile but who lives in Brittish Columbia in Canada! I tried to imagine a Normand Viking TNT. I doubt the viking warriors did bother themselves with such horns on their helmet, or that any viking girl carried her axe with such ease, but I like the resulting TNT nevertheless ;)

I had just received my Moo! stickers with pictures of my art in copper, so I could not resist the urge to show of and stick one on the postcard: it looks just like a stamp! After reflection, I think I will keep the stickers to decorate and personalize my laptop, keyboard and various geeky stuff, unless they are truly adding something to the card or letter!

TNT Messages

In this age of instant communication via electronic media, I still like to send postcards across the world, something for people to hang on their desk or fridge to make them feel warm and think of me when their eye fall on it. Yet I am always at a loss when I have to write on the postcard, given that everything worth saying has often already be said electronically. So I draw instead, changing the postcard into a small token of my affection, a small present without wrapping paper but a cute little girl instead.

I have trouble imagining TNT speaking: she would have to stop smiling to be able to say a word or two!!! She expresses herself in a non-verbal form by her posture and her large smile, yet sometime it seems that you need words: I found that making her wearing a sign permits the use of words, yet forces me to chose them wisely and make them few!

I can even make TNT carry two signs, with the main message on the largest, and a secondary message on a more discreet sign. The secondary sign is in bias, which I think will force the viewer to read it after the other one, and to give it less importance.

From the postcard to a small note, I drew this one and hid it in my mother's purse the evening before her final day of exams at the university, for her to find in the morning when leaving. She found it in the evening when preparing her bag for the next day, but liked it anyway, and kept it with her all day long as a good-luck charm. Kawai!