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  • I didn’t know what tab groups were, so I looked it up. To easily open several tabs at the same time. Obviously, a web browser power user feature, so I can skip it. I seldom have more than one tab open. Now for other useless (to me) iOS features, there are a lot, too many, alas.

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    Pixel art. The 24th day of April Fool’s Month had a Pixel Dailies theme “table.” I tried to make it a fancy table in isometric perspective.
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    pixel art fancy table in isometric perspective

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    Pixel art. On day 23 of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “sea food.” I interpreted as “sea banquet”, which is a kind of chocolate delicatessen in the shapes of stylized sea creatures.
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    pixel art chocolates in shape of sea creatures

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    Pixel art. I made this piece to practice design and lettering, both subjects that need practicing a lot in my case (I’m weak in these). My inspiration were the Viking myths. FYI, horned helmets on warriors were never a thing in reality, nor would they’ve been practical.
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    pixel art title screen with warrior and title Norsk in strange lettering

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    Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “garnish.” I combined it with the feisty Evanlyn from John Fanagan’s The Ranger’s Apprentice medieval fantasy series.
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    pixel art woman in medieval garb throwing garnish

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    Pixel art. I made a black and white drawing with Grafx2 on my Raspberry Pi 400, using a mouse. I refined it on my iPad using Pixaki, and created a simple (though crude) animation.
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    pixel art black and white drawing of a man frowning colored pixel art animation of man with cat on his shoulder alternating frowning and laughing

  • Running

    The day before yesterday I fell while running and yesterday I strained my hamstring (again, after I did two weeks ago). I feel bruised and strained like an apple that fell from a tree. Yay for foam rollers and pain medicine 🏃

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    Pixel art. The Pixel Dailies theme for day 21 of April Fool’s Month is “prize”, which I interpreted as a token for a final position in a competition (in this case, first place).
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    pixel art first prize token

  • Cats

    Social bonding through grooming. One grooms, the other purrs, softly, because it’s for the other cat, not for a (in feline perspective) deaf human. 🐱

    two cats, one is grooming the other

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    Pixel art. For the 20th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “Healing Item.” I’m pretty sure this is a fantasy videogame thing, so I went for a more mundane solution, a band-aid.
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    pixel art of band-aid

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    Pixel art for the 19th day of April Fool’s Month. I suppose this piece got “shatnered.” It’s today’s theme of Pixel Dailies, “shattered” which I basterdized with some James T. Kirk.
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    pixel art with captain Kirk with obligatory torn shirt in front of shattered text

  • I wanted to share my art on Twitter without interaction. I can’t use MB categories, it seems, unless I disable the main blog feed. Twitter doesn’t have a public feed either, so no source for MB. The MVP 😒 solution was to share from the Photos app to Twitter with hashtags 🤢 Yuck!

    screenshot of sharing to Twitter from Photos app on iPadOS

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    Pixel art. Today’s theme of Pixel Dailies was “Heavy Machinery.” This truck came out of my youthful imagination.
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    pixel art of huge yellow truck

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    Pixel art. On the 17th day of April Fool’s Month the Pixel Dailies theme was “Isometric Room.” You can shift around furniture without bothering about redrawing perspective 🪑🖥👨‍🎨🎨

    Pixel art table, chairs and TV set in isometric perspective

    PS The next morning I redrew part of the room, fixing mistakes I made.
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    Pixel art on the 16th day of April Fool’s Month for Pixel Dailies. Today’s theme was “elephant."
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    pixel art animation of elephant

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    Pixel art for Pixel Dailies. First person perspective is hard, because we know it so well, we see any and every flaw, especially if it’s with hands.
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    pixel art reloading a water pistol

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    Pixel art 🚧 My cat was sleeping, so I tried to use his shape for my pixel drawing. Now waiting for Pixel Dailies at the halfway point of April Fool’s Month.
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    Pixel art Let Sleeping Cats Lie!

  • Had my 2nd booster shot against COVID 💉🦠 Travel took less time than I imagined, despite the train delay and a detour (road construction). I guess I needed 3.5 hours in total. With a car it would’ve been more like 45 minutes. Soon protected against the new omicron variant 😊

  • It’s official, I’ve turned off the payment renewal of my Wordpress.com site and .blog domain. Both will expire next year. I don’t trust WP’s plans after they announced price increases, and, worse, denounced blogging. They advertize themselves as “website hosting company.”

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    Pixel art. Today’s Pixel Dailies theme was “hair accessory.” I simply drew closely to the photo reference, though not copying, rather re-interpreting the photo.
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    pixel art hairdo from behind with hair clip