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Month: June 2022

Sketch A Day: brake, near, operate, accident, crescent, iron, enemy

June 27, 2022June 29, 2022
drawing: black background with a white pedestrian crossing. A sylized mama duck (white) and two stylized baby ducks (yellow) are crossing.
brake
drawing: a blue monster (who is NOT Grover, despite the similarities) close to the front labeled "Near" with a second, inverted, blue monster in a window behind with the caption "Not really far, just an illusion due to size and perspective.'
near
drawing: the Operation game's man drawn with his parts in place. Yellow background. Traced the man & the openings. Free-handed the items in the openings.
operate
drawing: black line drawing of smiling cat on a table with two glasses of water (illustrated with blue(. There's a third, broken, glass on the floor below the cat, with water spilling out.
accident
drawing: black background, light and dark gray circles, half circles, and crescents representing the phases of the moon. Captions: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent.
crescent
drawing: cartoon-style drawing of IronCat (a cat in an Ironman-style costume).
iron
drawing: dog sleeping with arm around a kitty. Traced.
enemy
Sketch A Day: brake, near, operate, accident, crescent, iron, enemy. Traced on “operate” and “enemy.”
Written by: trinalin
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Sketch A Day: elvis, beat, lunch, circus, axis, johnny, may

June 20, 2022
drawing: Evis, but with pointed ears and a pointier nose and wearing a greann vest & shirt. Caption "ELVIS(H)" (traced with elvish modifications)
elvis
drawing: a red drum with two drumsticks, stylized.
beat
drawing: black line drawing of a lady trying to eat a sandwich while two cats on the table mew for attention with the closer one reaching for the sandwich.
lunch
drawing: crayon-brush drawing of a ring in a circus being watched by an audience. In the ring is an elephant standing on hind legs & playing with a ball, a clown, a lion & tamer, and a trapeze artist overhead.
circus
drawing: black line drawing of a partly shaded sphere with an axis that isn't parallel to the shading. (Like the earth & its axis vs sunlight). Caption: "Axial Tilt is the Reason for the Seasons"
axis
drawing: a mirrored view of Johnny written in cursive and then a design colored in. The design is a purple and green bird. Caption: "The Johnny Bird by Trina Short (age 51)"
johnny
drawing: Linus (my cat) laying in the grass with a dandelion plant held between his paws. Traced a phot of Linus lying on the bed.
May
Sketch A Day: elvis, beat, lunch, circus, axis, johnny, may (traced on Elvis(h) with mods, and May – from a photo of Linus laying on the bed and johnny is a drawing made from a mirror-image of cursive “Johnny”)
Written by: trinalin
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Sketch A Day: design, fail, boss, ask, length, scene, dice

June 13, 2022June 15, 2022
drawing: radiating lines and offset circles made with white lines with various shades of purple shading in the shapes made. Somewhat symmetrical on the diagonal.
design
drawing: Wile E Coyote holding onto a bit of cliff edge for dear life, only the cliff edge has been separated from the rest of the cliff. Large "FAIL!" on the sketch as well. Traced & colored.
fail
drawing: black line drawing of two cats with "My cats *ARE* the BOSS of Me!"
boss
drawing: black line drawing of a cat displaying its belly (and feetsies with toe beans!). Text: "Is she asking for pets? Or is it a TRAP?!" Drawn using instructions from Draw 50 Cats by Lee J Ames.
ask
drawing: black background, yellow chalk drawing of a meter long stick with object beside it, a decimeter-divided stick with same object beside it, and a centimeter-divided stick with the same object beside it. Text on the 1 meter long stick is "object is .1 m long." Text on the 10 decimeter stick is "object is .13 m long." And Text on the 100 centimeter stick is "object is .136m long." A study in precision, in other words.
length
drawing: kitten holding an empty bowl with the caption "Please miss, I want some me-ore!" a la Oliver Twist. Kitten traced.
scene
drawing: black background, two cubes decorated to look like dice. Five and two pips showing on the faces.
dice
Sketch A Day: design, fail, boss, ask, length, scene, dice. Traced fail and scene. Used Draw 50 Cats by Lee J Ames for help with ask.
Written by: trinalin
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Sketch A Day: detective, broadway, globe, rating, myth, appear, sudden

June 7, 2022
drawing: black line drawing of a cat wearing a deer stalker cap and with a pipe in its mouth. Cat drawn using instructions from Lee J Ames' Draw 50 Cats.
detective
drawing: street sign with "W 42 St" and "Broadway" and lots of colored smudges behind it on a black background.
broadway
drawing: globe showing Asia and Australia. Traced the continents.
globe
drawing: yellow-brown background. Tiger head drawn with white and back pencil brush. Text on the drawing says "Best Kitty! 4/4 stars" Drawn using instructions from Draw 50 Cats by Lee J Ames
rating
drawing: the gorgon Medusa with her cell phone telling the snakes that are her hair "OK, girls, smile for the selfie." (I hope she doesn't look at the picture or she's gonna be stone!)
myth
drawing: top panel: can of "special gooshy food for kitties" with pop cap. bottom panel: can now opened and two black cats are now also in the drawing.
appear
drawing: lightning in a night sky lighting up clouds behind it. "BOOM!" written near the top of the lightning.
sudden
Sketch A Day: detective, broadway, globe, rating, myth, appear, sudden. Detective cat & rating tiger both drawn with instructions from Draw 50 Cats by Lee J Ames. Continents on globe traced.
Written by: trinalin
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