Rendy Woby

Drawing Bums: A Masterclass

I have long been pestering The Little Dude to draw me a picture of a bum for my office, as my sister has a family bumtrait in her downstairs loo and I have admired it for many a month. After much hectoring on my part he relented, and I present the work above.

As I live by myself, I qualified for an extra rear to complete the composition; which I need hardly point out represents the bum of next door’s cat. Although strictly speaking and if we are splitting hairs, this means the work is not a realistic representation of the number of bums in my house, because next door’s cat has not actually been in my house for ages. I can only assume it has gone off me because like most cats she is a big furry slag. 

Drawing bums is a fine art, obviously, and like the rendering of wangs on all school or college books, whiteboards or desks it takes time to master. I also know from taking classes at the Rock School that it never, ever, gets old. But the main thing to take from all this is to remember that you should always have things in your office that amuse you - no matter how puerile - so that you can look at them at times of stress or torpor. Of course, I would not go so far as to say that the picture above reminds me of my own essential humanity, but I would be lying if I did not say it is regularly helpful in keeping my spirits buoyant.