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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.
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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.
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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)

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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)
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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)
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Sketch A Day: erode, wetland, blimp, figure, approach, violet, tint

August 29, 2022
drawing: a deep canyon with a river running through it. Well, that's what I tried to draw. Not sure it looks like it. Heh.
erode
drawing: black background, white charcoal heron with orange legs (one leg in the water, one bent ala flamingo) and orange bill. (traced)
wetland
Drawing: a gray blimp with darker gray rudders and a brown gondola below.
blimp
drawing: stick figure dragons (2) in the skies over a burning stick figure house with a stick figure person in hat shouts "help!" while a stick figure dog says "woof!" and a stick figure cat says "mow!"
figure
drawing: a side-view mirror for a car with a large green dragon eye (which is yellow & slitted) in the mirror view.
approach
drawing: several violet shaded petals (or guitar picks - your preference) positioned around the screen.
violet
drawing: a top black to bottom white gradient background with a stylized cat that is colored in the opposite gradient (white top to black bottom).
tint
Sketch A Day: erode, wetland, blimp, figure, approach, violet, tint (traced on wetland).
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Sketch A Day: download, million, stern, agent, buggy, before, frank

August 22, 2022August 21, 2022
drawing: a black line drawing of a cat using a computer keyboard and monitor. One the monitor is a rear-view picture of a cat with little X for the bottom. Text on the monitor says "Download? Y N" with the cursor hovering near the Y. At the bottom of the monitor screen is kittens.com.
download
drawing: one thousand instances of 1000 on the screen in a sloping pattern.
million
drawing: black line tracing of Paddington Bear giving one of his "hard stares." It has been painted with a watercolor-style brush to be similar to the original drawing by R W Alley from Paddington and the Grand Tour.
stern
drawing: the cat from the previous entry "donate" now wearing a black suit and white cuffs. (The donate cup is no longer present). With the sunglasses, the cat could be a secret agent.
agent
drawing: stylized red & black drawing of a ladybug in the center of the image with several smaller (of varying sizes) copies of the original ladybug.
buggy
drawing: black line drawing with a picture of a flower pot with flowers and the caption "Before" and below it a line drawing of the pot lying on its side with dirt and only one remaining flower. Through the doorway behind it you can see a cat's tail.
before
drawing: black line tracing of Fozzie Bear who was voiced by Frank Oz.
frank
Sketch A Day: download, million, stern, agent, buggy, before, frank (traced stern and frank). Just in case you were not aware, Fozzie Bear was voiced by Frank Oz.
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