• One person’s trash is supposedly another person’s Xmas treasure. They were bought on a whim, yet never used. I hope I’ll put them to good use.
    🐱🎨📚

    four Dutch language art instructional book about drawing and painting cats
  • 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 📦ing Day—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 😅
    🎨🍂✍️

    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 🥰 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.
    🎨🍂✍️

    ballpoint pen sketch of a forest
  • On caturday we eat together, yet separated because of dietary differences. Still seeing the other eat improves the appetite 🐱🍽️

    two cats eating, one in a cage, one in front of a cage
  • For Christmas Eve Day, December 24, the random prompt for a blog post is:

    forest

    Freeform board with references for the word 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 work—hence are not creative—workflows. That ”F” teaches us to do better.
    🎨🍂✍️

    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.
    🎨🍂✍️

    colored ballpoint pen cartoon of a nationalist anthropomorphic male chicken running with flag
  • The blogging prompt for 22 december is:

    nationalist

    This is as far as I know somewhat synonymous to patriot. As with everything, it becomes a negative when coupled with covert bigotry and elitism. We are all equal, yet some are more equal than others.

    Freeform concept board for the prompt Nationalist
  • 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.
    🎨🍂✍️

    colored pencil sketch of the great outdoors
  • iPad OS 16.2 Freeform seems an excellent tool to do concepts with rough sketches, references, etc. I can also see it as an artists' collab board, to have some fun together for a set period. Alas, there’s no video recording, nor a live video sharing built in, so others can watch.

    iPad OS 16.2 Freeform app loaded with a concept board for Hike
  • The random blogging prompt for December 21 is:

    hike

    🎨

    colored pen sketch of the prompt Hike on 21-12-2022
  • I tried some Mathologer stuff, and found it very hard to replicate. Often it’s just too hard for me to follow. Maybe I’m just too old or scatterbrained. I’m seriously contemplating to enter my doodles in Doodleaddicts, aka DA, not to be confused with deviantART.
    🎨♾✖️➗➕➖🟰

    ballpoint pen sketch for math is hard
  • 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.
    🎨🍂✍️

    ballpoint pen sketches of a pig peasant
  • Today’s—December 20—random prompt is:

    peasant

    rough sketch of peasant pig
  • Watching Drawing Wiff Waffles on YT, and Rin brought up Laffy Taffy, which so sounds like a dad-joke. Who comes up with these names? 🤣

  • 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.
    🎨🍂✍️

    ballpoint sketch of dribbling basketball player
  • Today’s blogging prompt is:

    dribble

    What comes in dribs and drabs I suppose.

    dribs and drabs illustration
  • Drawn in French Girls App on August 20, 2016. Even back then, there were “technical difficulties”. Apparently, few things have changed since then.
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    Loddy is experiencing difficulties, says Pinocchio