• Jackal joyriding. Pixel art. 📺 160x144px, 🎨 18 colors.

    For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Jittery jackal jeopardizes journey jumpstarting joyride.”
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    A pixel art scene featuring a joyful jackal driving a car with abstract patterns and the words jumpy jackal separates drivers journey jump-starting joyride displayed.
  • It isn’t fast, though faster than what I’ve done recently. I guess one good run isn’t enough, but I feel progression. 🏃 The goal is 15 km per day, but that’s still far-off into the future.

    A paved path runs alongside a body of water under a cloudy sky, with stats from a running app displayed at the bottom.
  • Crazy Conspiracy Concept. Pixel art 📺 160x144px 🎨 19 colors.

    For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Injured iguana inconveniently illustrates ideal illuminati infiltration.”
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    A pixel art scene features a humanoid figure, a large triangle with an eye, a lizard, and a mushroom.
  • Ancient Greece themed harpies 🦅🧚‍♀️ and hamsters 🐹 Pixel art, Gameboy compatible (📺160x144px 🎨4 colors).

    For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Hallucinating harpies haunt horrified hamsters."
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    Two pixel art hamsters look frightened as two harpies hover above them, with the text Hallucinating harpies haunt horrified hamsters displayed.
  • Sunday run day 🏃 was so true, so I had to pick a more boring route than usual to avoid other runners. I mostly ran alongside a highway, on a separate road, as is customary here in the Netherlands, where traffic is separated to improve safety and efficiency.

    A grassy field under a partly cloudy sky is overlaid with running statistics, including distance, time, and pace.
  • Today’s theme on the Sketch Daily subreddit and the reference photos I’ll be using on a 160x144px canvas, 4 color palette, compatible with Nintendo Gameboy. It’s a lot.
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    A digital collage features harpies and hamsters in various styles with layered text that reads Hallucinating harpies haunt horrified hamsters.
  • Recycling goblin. Pixel art, 🎨 Sweetie-16, 160x144px, 13 colors.

    For r/SketchDaily, theme: “Green Goblin gentrifies grumpy geese, gratifying glistening goldfish."
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    A pixel art scene shows a green character joyfully serving a dish, with a flying fish in a bowl and four lively geese nearby.
  • Rich Uncle Pennybags. Pixel art 🎨 Sweetie-16, 160x144px, 7 colors.

    For r/SketchDaily, theme: “The guy from Monopoly."
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    A pixel art character, resembling a wealthy gentleman in a tuxedo, top hat, and monocle, carries a cane and a large money bag.
  • I was fed up with cheaters in the Sketch a Day app, so I’ll break my 65-day streak tomorrow.

  • 9 km 🏃 in an hour, sorta. I met this man who, judging from how frequent we meet, seems to walk daily in his walking frame for at least 7 km, despite his disability. I salute him here for effort!

    An older adult is walking with a rollator along a lakeside path under a cloudy sky, with distance, time, and pace metrics displayed.
  • Chapter 3 of On Writing Well deals with clutter in one’s text. I’m more of a discovery-writer, with a lot of clutter in the first draft. Right now, I’m writing (in Dutch) for my fortnightly running blog, and want to try out bracketing superfluous text as a tactic to write better.

  • Too cute for words 🥰 🐈

    Two cats with spotted and striped coats are resting on a leopard-print blanket with purple pillows.
  • I suppose now I’m writing every day (several times a day, really), reading the book On Writing Well by William Zinsser seems appropriate. 📚 ISBN-10: 0-06-000664-1

    A book cover for On Writing Well by William Zinsser, celebrating its 25th anniversary edition.
  • 9.1 km 🏃 in 65 minutes. Was enjoyable and needed, because they started with major renovation of the houses in my neighborhood, to make them future-proof (low carbon footprint), as required by law. It’s rather noisy, so a break was welcome 🙏😊

    A forest path with trees on either side is displayed alongside running statistics in Dutch, showing a distance of 9.09 km and a time of 1:04:48.
  • I wondered why some of the art on Sketch a Day looks so polished. One artist linked to two artworks on their YouTube channel, 1 and 2 weeks ago. Yes, you can create polished art in a week, and claim it’s a daily sketch. I call that cheating, though, since likes can be gotten.

  • Quick and dirty (unedited) self-portrait, based on a rapid 2-minutes pencil sketch. Pixel 🎨 Gameboy (160x144px, 4 colors).

    For the Sketch a Day app, prompt “portrait.”
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    A pixel art portrait in shades of green depicts a person wearing glasses with a distinct hairstyle.
  • The little shop of horrors (1960). Pixel 🎨 Gameboy (160x144px, 4 colors).

    For the Sketch a Day app, prompt “shop.”
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    A pixel art-style florist shop with a brick facade and the sign Mushnik's Florist above the door is depicted, featuring two small figures in front.
  • After having it given some more thought, the idea of possibly leaving micro.blog and stopping blogging is probably instigated by all the change since April. I’ve l̶e̶f̶t̶abandonned two social networks (Facebook and Strava), which I found to be time sinks. Change begets change.

  • Second consecutive day 🏃 9 km in 62 minutes. I even had a walk break of 500 m. I certainly was less tired than after each daily 15 km run a week ago. So an hour is doable, it seems.

    A paved path bordered by grass and water stretches into the distance under a partly cloudy sky, with workout statistics displayed on the bottom.
  • I guess I’m a bit rusty…

    A Python script is shown for generating and sorting a list of random integers using the bubble sort algorithm.