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Autumn creativity

  • Extending a challenge

    In November 2022 I did the microβˆ™blog November blogging challenge, to blog every day of the month. I completed the challenge and received my special achievement pin. Aside from writing a microblog of no more than 280 characters, I also added a drawing from my notebook. The latter was so much fun, … read more

  • Base

    As a self-taught artist I don’t have a solid foundation in art-making. I’m aware of the art fundamentals, but never studied them thoroughly. Even so, I didn’t want to go out on a whimper, so I gave it all I got.
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    mixed media colored sketch with a catlike being and a text around it saying All Ur Base R Belong To Us.
  • Sand

    While sand is abundant on the Earth’s surface, it takes a special kind of coarse sand to use for building things, like concrete, silicon wafers, sand castles. It’s finer than pebbles, coarser than silt, so you can grab hold of it, yet not feel individual particles πŸ–οΈ
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    ballpoint pen sketches and writing on notebook page about sand
  • Examination

    The magnifying glass is the staple for the lone sleuth who solves cases the police can’t by lack of intelligence and work ethic. This is, of course, a fantasy version of detective work πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ
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    ballpoint sketch of a sleuth holding a magnifying glass
  • Parade

    When it said “parade”, my imagination went to “marching band”, and the few times in my life (especially when I was in my preteens) I noticed them. They are a lively bunch, attracting immediate attention from the whole neighborhood. In sports events they are a staple.
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    ballpoint pen rough sketch of a marching band walking through a shopping street with spectators
  • Defendant

    In my experience, when personal attachments are involved, being impartial is almost impossible. We cannot but be irrational about who (or what) we love. I suppose a certain Christmas present will make me continue doing a challenge about drawing cats.
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    in ballpoint pen, definitions of the meaning of defendant, with below a sketch of a person embracing a cat defensively with something in its mouth, exclaiming he is innocent (and so cute)
  • Chance

    Happy πŸ“¦ing Dayβ€”day of buying schmancy goods at bargain prices.

    Now what’s the probability that I didn’t cheat at this ballpoint pen drawing? I had to mirror (eww!) the baby’s right hand, because I seem to have difficulties remembering what’s left and right πŸ˜…
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    ballpoint pen drawing of a clothed baby finding a coin, on a pedestal stating 1:1000000000, watched by a cat
  • 🌿

    The alien PLANT was PLANTed as a disguised PLANT with PLANTs to conquer the world with 🎁 presents and πŸ₯° love.

    Happy Christmas ‼️

    ballpoint pen sketch of several meanings of the word plant
  • Forest

    Many authors believe in the statement, show don’t tell. However, saturating the readers minds with an abundance of details will put them off, confuse them to no end. There is such a thing as too much. I’m guilty to this as well. Trimming the fat the good way is hard.
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    ballpoint pen sketch of a forest
  • Fault

    Creatives deal with the hard reality that comfort while making, as if by an artisan AI bot, probably is reproducing, not creating. The end product looks so great because of established, proven to workβ€”hence are not creativeβ€”workflows. That ”F” teaches us to do better.
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    ballpoint pen drawing of a portrait that deserves an F
  • Nationalist

    I guess I’m not very patriotic myself. We don’t do a mandatory pledge of allegiance where I live, mostly because of freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. Although populism is certainly a thing here, extreme nationalism is frowned upon.
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    colored ballpoint pen cartoon of a nationalist anthropomorphic male chicken running with flag
  • Hike

    I suppose I never made a long hike. The problem is that I can’t leave my cats alone for longer than a day. Day trips I have done, several times. The longest day hike I can remember was about 60 km in 14 hours, in summer, no water. That was a mistake, as is the drawing.
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    colored pencil sketch of the great outdoors
  • Peasant

    I watched a documentary about the European medieval history of peasants and landlords, and how 80 percent of the population worked the land. Some (70%) were serfs, and not all were poor, as you might expect. They were mostly neglected, though.
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    ballpoint pen sketches of a pig peasant
  • Dribble

    Knowledge and experience are similar in the sense that they both come in small quantities and accumulate over time. It makes me realize how little I know, and that I can’t possibly know it all. And then there are things we can never know nor live through.
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    ballpoint sketch of dribbling basketball player
  • Brain

    Literature often returns to this mysterious organ on top of our bodies. Be it Frankenstein who got a bad one, or the scarecrow from Oz who had one after all (spoiler!). Alas, its response often makes no sense, hence the mysteriousness.
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    colored sketch with ballpoint and gel pen of Frankenstein, a huge brain and the scarecrow from Oz
  • Lump

    Recent developments with AI on online artists communities (DeviantArt and ArtStation) make clear that art and artists are denied any deference for their key role in society. No consent is deemed necessary. So sad 😞
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    ballpoint and gel pen colored sketch of a cartoonish cat with a lump in its throat
  • Sticky

    When you’re on a web service that’s full of fun and interesting people, that service tends to be sticky in a nice way. When that service turns sour from misbehavior, it’s sticky in an uncomfortable way. You might even call it fishy, since it reeks from discontent.
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    ballpoint pen and colored gel pen sketch of a baby with its hand full of honey
  • Split

    The guys from the Connected podcast left Twitter en masse, because they couldn’t take the verbal attacks, bigotry and downright neo-nazism anymore. I can only hope they will become happier by no longer reading what a bunch of close-minded idiots think is free speech.
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    colored ballpoint pen sketch of the hosts of the podcast Connected running away from Twitter
  • attic

    There’s a place in many houses where stuff is stored, or, more accurately stated, stowed away until people move house (and sometimes not even then). Up and away out of people’s minds.
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    ballpoint pen sketch of an attic
  • I grew up in the era of the Apollo space program, and see it as how human explore space. Of course, robotic space exploration is much safer for humans and requires less onboard support. Therefore, robots have gone further into deep space than human ever would or could.
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    ballpoint pen sketched page spread of the concept rocket