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Month: September 2022

Sketch A Day: class, mill, golden, clan, poet, tale, publication

September 26, 2022October 4, 2022
drawing: black "chalk" drawing on white backgroun of a cat wearing safety goggles and holding onto a test tube with something in it. Caption "Chem-mew-stry"
class
drawing: black line drawing on scarlet background. Tracing of Michael Palin as one of the members of the Spanish Inquisition from the TV series' sketch. Caption, "Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition." The prompt was Mill and I thought of Graham Chapman's character coming in to his wife saying "Trouble at mill!" Only to eventually have the Spanish Inquisition show up.
mill
drawing: five golden rings in what looks like a spiral (but it's not).
golden
drawing: black line drawing of the Anderson Clan's (Scotland) crest - an acorn tree and the words "Stand Sure."
clan
drawing: a black line drawing of a fat cat on a mat with a hat.
poet
drawing: black line drawing of the words "Once Upon A Time" but each letter is a sketch of some kind implying a story. O - an eye, N - two trees grown together, C - a snake, E - A diver on a diving board, U - a kitty asleep in the curve of the U, P - helium filled balloons - some escaping in the P, O - a person with a furry hat (like a warm coat), N - a two story building, A - has a dragon behind it taking up the whole line, T - made from twisting vines, I - scary eyes on either side of the center of the I, M - Batman in the underpart of the M, E - book shelves with lots of books.
tale
Cover that I made for the book that my dad wrote. It's a chartruse shaded rough background with a teal rough question mark top. The title is "How Do We Know What We Know Is So?" and author Mike Short. At the tope is a quote for the book, "This is just the book we need in our current climate of disinformation gone rampant. - Bill Lehto"
publication
Sketch A Day: class, mill, golden, clan, poet, tale, publication. Traced Mill. If you want dad’s book, you can buy it from Barnes & Noble.
Written by: trinalin
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Sketch A Day: curse, rider, terrain, lottery, enter, oxygen, canal

September 19, 2022September 20, 2022
drawing: a calendar for a month that starts on a Sunday and has 31 days. On the saturdays there are icons representing third quarter, new moon, first quarter, and full moon. On the full moon is a drawing of a wolf with a frown using a red colored pen. Though other curses come every 28 days too...
curse
drawing: traced sketch of Kermit the Frog riding a bicycle with a picket fend behind him. A pastel-style brush was used and the drawing is intended to look rough.
rider
drawing: a treasure map with different terrain marked out with drawings and labels. A big red X lies within a grove of palm trees. Labels on the map include "SEA of TERRORS!" "Bay of Spiders" "Beach" "Rocky outcrop" "village" "spring" and "X = treasure if you dare!"
terrain
drawing: a rendition of Wonka's Golden Ticket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the book). I have most of the text from Wonka's ticket that Grandpa Joe reads to Charlie. It's a bit long for alt text - I suggest checking out the novel if you've not done so! The words get smaller each line down they they're illegible.
lottery
drawing: black line drawing of two stick figures (with hats) standing before a cave that has suspicious looking stactites hanging from above - kind of like teeth... One character says to the other "hmmm, think we should explore this cave?"
enter
drawing: attempted realistic panting of a candle flame (candle itself, not so much). Used a video tutorial to guide me.
oxygen
drawing: black "chalk" on white background drawing of the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland which connects two canals without locks but with impressive engineering. Traced.
canal
Sketch A Day: curse, rider, terrain, lottery, enter, oxygen, canal (traced rider & canal. Used video instructions on the candle flame for oxygen)

Written by: trinalin
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Sketch A Day: shrink, horn, melon, crack, slice, easy, drain

September 12, 2022
drawing: black pen drawing of a glass bottle with a colorless liquid in it and a stopper on the bottle. The label on the bottle says "Drink Me"
shrink
drawing: black pen drawing of a rhinoceros which was drawn by watching a How To video.
horn
drawing: a freehand drawing trying to look like Melon from Jeph Jacques' Questionable Content cartoon. She is a light blue AI with green messy hair and has a surprised look on her face.
melon
drawing: line drawing of a cracked egg, but with an opening in the crack and an orange scaled organism with a spooky eye showing in the opening.
crack
drawing: a triangular slice of pie (probably cherry) from immediately above it.
slice
drawing: black background, mostly white pencil of a corner view of a 3 story building in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Green ferns hang from the second & third floor porches and some flower pots with green leaves & pink flowers dot the porches too. Caption "The Big Easy." Traced a photo to get the lines right.
easy
drawing: toy tugboat in a body of water with a whirlpool made by a drain & the water going down.
drain
Sketch A Day: shrink, horn, melon, crack, slice, easy, drain (used How2Draw video to help with horn, traced the lines of the building for easy, melon is freehand but an attempt to draw Melon from Jeph Jacques’ Questionable Content webcomic)
Written by: trinalin
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Sketch A Day: droplet, iris, pair, berries, nominate, floor, ostrich

September 5, 2022September 12, 2022
drawing: a pencil-style drawing of a close up spider web covered in little drops of water.
droplet
drawing: big fat letters saying "Kiss Me I'm Iris" with a green shamrock below it. The "Kiss Me" is orange, the "I'm" is white" and "Irish" is green with the "h" crossed out with a big black "X"
iris
drawing: a pair of pears - one is yellow green in color, the other is more red and orange.
pair
drawing: a large red strawberry with green leaves surrounded by 4 blueberries - one each corner.
berries
drawing: badly drawn (well, I wasn't enamored of it) cat hugging its food bowl (labeled "kitty") while picturing its human with the thoughts "And the best human award goes to..."
nominate
drawing: a black line drawing trying to do perspective with a wooden floor and a doorway. Sort of works.
floor
drawing: black pen drawing of an ostrich. Used a How To video to guide my drawing.
ostrich
Sketch A Day: droplet, iris, pair, berries, nominate, floor, ostrich (no tracing this week – woo! Used a How2Draw animals video to help with the ostrich)
Written by: trinalin
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