And now it's more officially bedtime and I have no blog post written or thought up, but I do feel fabulously refreshed. Hence, I abandon responsibility for the content of the blog! It's all in your hands this week.
Ask me a question! It can be about pretty much anything that's not overly personal. Physics? Writing? Orchids? Rock climbing? Chess? Cheese? Full-body contact tree yoga? (Warning: I may not an expert on that.)
If you can't think of a question, ask me to draw you a picture! Those will take me a bit of time to put up, but I'll try to add them to this post as promptly as possible.
I look forward to being your blog-slave!
PS: For anyone interested in how my query letter is progressing, I've posted a new version in the comments of this post. Feel free to critique anew! As always, your comments are very much appreciated.
IMAGE REQUEST FOR SARF:
Sarf requested I draw him a picture, but I'm cheating a bit. His prompt was for the most impressive place I've been, and I had to finish the image in 30 minutes.
I chose the royal palace in Bangkok, Thailand, and that's the sort of place that demands a colour image, and I SUCK at colour. The result was not turning out as well as I'd hoped and wouldn't be fixed within the time limit, so I flagrantly reinterpreted my answer to the more general "Thailand" and did another picture.
This is the golden Buddha, also in Bangkok, which is a 7 ton, solid gold Buddha that was discovered inside a concrete Buddha. How was it discovered? They tried to move the statue and broke their crane.
My apologies, but I really do suck at colour. I like the way the face turned out, but the body doesn't really look metallic the way it should.
IMAGE REQUEST FOR FAIRYHEDGEHOG:
I asked her what she wanted a picture of. She said, "A cat? A robot?" So naturally, I drew both:
23 comments:
Are the black tree rats in Vancouver Nija's or Jedi... I know the non black ones are Jedi, so are the black ones nija?
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRc5yuD5_N7BV-N9MUdtc-45jJ3KYVFszTbRzNYS76KEuvQpBj_
Ok another one...
In 30 min, sketch, paint, charcoal the most memorable place you have visited.
Sarf: Most of the black squirrels are indeed ninjas, but not the ones living at the university--although they may just be student ninjas who are not allowed to use their powers yet (like the young wizards in Harry Potter.)
I know this because a fellow I remember from university used to go "squirrel fishing". He would dangle a nut on a string out his window, then yank it away from any excited squirrel who pounced on it.
This fellow is still alive, hence: they were not ninja squirrels.
Sarf - PS: Mwahaha--but how will you know whether I only took 30 minutes to do it? After all, there is an arbitrary time lag between the image and getting it scanned/printed/posted here.
Also, "most memorable" is going to be hard to choose.
We the 30 min is easy... You are my sister, you wouldn't cheat...
And the 30 min doesn't include set up time or scanning time. just the doodling time.
I haven't got any questions so I just popped in to say "hi!"
FairyHedgehog: *waves* Well, you can still ask for a drawing! What would you like to see? :)
Cool, thanks...
Ps I hate it when the captca is close to a real word that auto correct fixes it for you :(
You could do a robot. Or a cat. What do you most like to draw?
FairyHedgehog: Doesn't matter--the picture is for you! (And I've finished it now, but I need to wait for El Husbando to get off the computer that has the scanner attached to it. :) )
Oh, cool!
hmm just noticed
"I look forward to being your blog-slave!"
Slave, I command you to write a new blog post, it must be witty, humorous, and entertaining while being informing and educational, but still something us internet dullards can understand! Oh and no LOL cats!
:P
Sarf: Blogger no longer supports the version of Firefox I use at work. This has curtailed my ability to spin off witty, humourous, entertaining yet informative and educational posts!
Actually, any kind of post. I can comment but I can't post. Thus, I'll have to give it a try when I get home. :-/
That is one seriously cool picture! I love it! Thank you so much.
The cat is gorgeous and I love the way he's rubbing round the robot for his food. Or her food?
Brilliant!
There's a book, THE COLORED PENCIL PAINTING BIBLE, on achieving realistic effects. Looks good for metallics. Haven't picked it up yet, but it looks excellent: http://www.amazon.com/Colored-Pencil-Painting-Bible-Ultrarealistic/dp/0823099202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314450230&sr=8-1
By the way, I love both the pics! You really captured the affection of the cat in the cat-robot drawing.
Want to talk about the new planet they've found that's made of diamond (they speculate), how we are going to get there and mine it without exposing ourselves to too much radiation from the deadish star it's tightly orbiting?
Love the robot feeding the cat. Need one of those and a dog walking one, please (can you say Wallace and Grommit?)
Stacy: Thanks for the suggestion for the book! Colour is just hard and I've been meaning to try to force myself to get better at it. And thank you again; I'm glad you liked the pictures! :)
Sarah: Glad you liked the picture! :)
Isn't that the coolest-sounding planet? Pity it's 4,000 lightyears away...
A much more feasible place to go looking for whack-loads of diamond is in the heart of our handy-dandy local gas giant. They think Jupiter may have a core of solid diamond. The heavy elements (mostly carbon) sink to the centre, and then the enormous pressure there crystallizes them.
That is not affection that is perfectly captured in the cat. It is cat manipulation. And only cats will be able to use their cat manipulation powers to get robots to do their bidding as easily as they get humans to.
(fab pics, JJ!!)
I think the Bhudda looks amazing but I quite like the cat and robot drawing too :)
Excellent imagery. I'm rather partial to the cat/robot, but, then again, I'm rather partial to fairyhedgehog.
P.S. I LOVE the audience feedback component. It's always good to make sure ones readers feel appreciated and needed. We certainly wouldn't be here without them.
@Sophie: aw, shucks!
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