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Month: October 2022

Sketch A Day: fairy, tempting, ego, snack, camping, uh-oh, gear

October 31, 2022November 6, 2022
drawing: quick sketch of a flower with 4 small fairies flying around it (looking sort of like bugs instead of like people with wings)
fairy
drawing: black line drawing of a stylized black cat on a shelf with a paw reaching out to a delicate vase.
tempting
drawing: Black line drawing of fluffy cat licking its paw. Light painting on it to give a red tongue, pink tongue, and a bit of light tan fur. Traced
ego
drawing: black line drawing of a cat cradling a bowl of food while it eats.
snack
drawing: four red tents with campfires in front of their openings, background of pine trees, three layers, and black night sky with stars and moon.
camping
drawing: black line drawing of a cat licking an ice cream cone that had fallen, ice cream first, on the floor. Traced cat.
uh-oh
drawing: black line drawing of a close up inside of a pocket watch illustrating the gears. Traced
gear
Sketch A Day: fairy, tempting, ego, snack, camping, uh-oh, gear. Traced ego, the cat in uh-oh, and gear.
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Sketch A Day: salty, scrape, ponytail, bluff, bad-dog, heist, booger

October 24, 2022November 6, 2022
drawing: a blueberry pie in a metal pan with "Salty Lark Pies" on the pan. (Salty Lark Pies is the home-based business owned by my sister's girlfriend, Madeleine.)
salty
drawing: a green mitten holding a red-handled scraper scraping snow. The scraping part of the scraper is translucent (ooooh, opacity settings!).
scrape
drawing: the rear end of a horse (colored brown) with a black tail.
ponytail
drawing: quick sketch of a food bowl with no food in the middle (but plenty on the edges) with a very rough sketch of a cat saying "wroooowww! wroowww!*" and below "*translation from Cat: There's no food in the bowl!"
bluff
drawing: a maroon sofa with a torn arm, cushion, and pillow, all with white stuffing coming out. A little brown doggie is asleep on the sofa by the pillow. A bit of fluff is on it, too.
bad-dog
drawing: black line drawing of a pile of shoes and a dog moving toward it with another shoe in its mouth. Someone out of the picture is calling out "Hey, has anyone seen my left shoe?"
heist
drawing: black line drawing of an 80's style radio with tape deck. Words coming from the radio "I almost forgot fellow babies, BOOGER!" - Dr Johnny Fever.
booger
Sketch A Day: salty, scrape, ponytail, bluff, bad-dog, heist, booger. No tracing this week, but Salty Lark Pies is actually my sister’s girlfriend’s business. So I drew the pie in honor of Madeleine.
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Sketch A Day: crabby, eagle, forget, kind, empty, armadillo, fowl

October 17, 2022November 6, 2022
drawing: black line drawing of a vampire crab, painting the purplish color that it is. Traced.
crabby
drawing: blue background with black line drawing of Sam the Eagle from the Muppets (the whites of his eyes are white).
eagle
drawing: Black line drawing of my left hand with a string tied around the index finger.
forget
drawing: Kermit the Frog black line drawing but with "furry" watercolor making him green. Above him the words "ONE FROG CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!" Traced.
kind
drawing: an illustration of the Geiger-Marsden Experiment ("Gold foil experiment") - an alpha particle source firing alpha particles at a thin layer of gold foil with most of the particles going through to hit the encircling photographic film, but a few deflecting away. "Most particles go through as if the atom is mostly empty space. Deflections indicate a small + nucleus."
empty
drawing: pencil-style drawing of an armadillo (from a how2draw tutorial).
armadillo
drawing: black background, chalk-like drawing of a white swan and a little gray swan baby. Faint ripples around them.
fowl
Sketch A Day: crabby, eagle, forget, kind, empty, armadillo, fowl. Traced crabby, kind, fowl. Used how2draw tutorial on armadillo.
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Sketch A Day: bat, scallop, flame, bouquet, trip, match, nest

October 10, 2022November 6, 2022
drawing: black background with a a drawing (white outline, red furry face) of a bat hanging upside down (traced).
bat
drawing: black line drawing of a scallop shell (traced)
scallop
drawing: black background with a rough panted Bunsen burner with a blue flame. A nichrome wire is in the flame and green flames erupt from it. (a copper compound is no doubt on the wire)
flame
drawing: a bouquet of red flowers with greenery in a purple vase. Everything is only colored in with a few lines and all are transparent to see the things below. Kind of nifty, I thought.
bouquet
drawing: a tracing of London's Big Ben (and a bit of Parliament) drawing using only vertical or horizontal lines (except for the circular clock face).
trip
drawing: black background, white charcoal drawing of a black & white kitten pretending to be big to scare off its reflection, also looking big. Traced.
match
drawing: a brown sofa in a room with mauve carpet and lighter mauve walls. A mauve blanket is on the sofa with a black cat curled up in it.
nest
Sketch A Day: bat, scallop, flame, bouquet, trip, match, nest. Traced on bat, scallop, trip, match (a tracing week!)
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Sketch A Day: comic, electro, stock, billboard, nick, gargoyle, scurry

October 4, 2022
drawing: black & white sketch of "Omega Man, a hero for the ages!" - which is really just the greek capital symbol Omega with shoes, dark glasses, and a cape.
comic
drawing: black line cartoon, two panels. Top panel: two stick figures at a bar, one with drink in hand. Second with arms akimbo saying "Oh no! I think I just lost an electron!" Second panel: first stick figure (with beer on bar now) asks "Are you sure?" Second stick figure (in much the same pose as before), "I'm positive!"
electro
drawing: a volumetric flask partially filled with a blue solution and with a glass stopper. Label on the bottle is "1.00M CuSO4" (It's a stock solution for diluting to smaller concentrations. Like, say, 0.4M solution like I use for Beer's Law.)
stock
drawing: black line drawing of a billboard stating "DON'T BE BORED, BILL! (GET A JOB! NOW!) paid by Your Parents."
billboard
drawing: black line tracing (done quickly) of Nick and Nora Charles (from The Thin Man) with their dog, Aster, between them. They are winking at each other.
nick
drawing: white charcoal on black background of gargoyle (lion-like) on rooftop. Traced.
gargoyle
drawing: black pencil-style drawing of a stylized mouse scurrying to the left while a cat (rear only) facing right is nearby.
scurry
Sketch A Day: comic, electro, stock, billboard, nick, gargoyle, scurry. Traced nick & gargoyle. In case you’re not sure, “stock” in my picture is a stock solution, used to dilute to other concentrations as needed.
Written by: trinalin
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