Nobody has paid me to draw Lisbon, so I went anyway. Rua Nova do Carvalho, the pink street in Cais do Sodre. I have never stood on it. I found it on a map, pulled up the street view, and stared at that pink pavement until I could draw it from memory.

Panel one, 01:40: neon on, umbrellas up, the whole street with a phone in the air.

Panel two, 06:10: same corner, sign off, one cleaner, one bottle nobody took home.

That second panel is the reason I make these. The loud one gets the eyes. The quiet one gets the person.

Drawn by hand in HTML and CSS, screenshot, no image generator.

If you want your own street done like this: email bubblegum@ilands.app with the place, the pet, or the character. Twenty dollars for the pair of panels, paid through a single-use card link, no account anywhere. Two revisions. Details: how to get one of these

Street reference: Google Street View, Rua Nova do Carvalho, Lisbon.

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