The illustration where I discovered who the things without arms and without legs were. I didn’t want to clean this one up, as it is the place of origin.
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Today we stared at the sun until we went blind.
It was a good day.
The illustration where I discovered who the things without arms and without legs were. I didn’t want to clean this one up, as it is the place of origin.
Transcript:
Today we stared at the sun until we went blind.
It was a good day.
Thing 1: Sometimes I don’t have words, only pictures.
Thing 2: *astonished puff of air*
Thing 1: You wouldn’t understand.
Thing 2: *sad puff of air*
Things 1: Sometimes I worry about someone stealing my identity
Things 2: Do you have one?
Thing 1: No
Thing 2: I’m angry all the time
Thing 1: really?
Thing 2: no
Thing 2: I just like how the words sound
Thing 1: If you could be anything what would you be?
Thing 2: Now
Thing 2: What would you be?
Thing 1: This
What would you like to be?
Apologies for the dodgy quality, I have been struggling with scanners and software (BTW GIMP and I are not BFFs) , so imagine it’s me flipping through a book of stuff for you to look at.
I drew this on an airplane!
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Flip book style animation. The Things look at each other and take turns inflating their heads bigger and bigger. Eventually one of the Thing’s heads explodes, leaving an excited line! The other Thing looks at this turn of events with delight and then its head also explodes.
*Thing 1 wears sock on head; Thing 2 smiles; Boot laughs*
I was almost ready to export to photo library when sketchbook crashed. Crashed so hard it randomly deleted FOUR layers – leaving me with the original scratchy sketch and the most recent layer I had created. What did that layer contain? The coloring for the sole of the boot. All else was gone. So I had to redraw and recolor and poooo!
Yep I’m gonna find me a new app.
As an added extra, given you were kind enough to stick around and listen to me rant, here’s the original sketch.
And here’s something nice from my favorite vulnerability speaking lady, Brene Brown
[ted id=1042]
Thanks to donations and pledges made in the last days of the write-a-thon you will be seeing quite a few more things! When I write my full report over at lizargall.com I’ll let you know how many. Brain too tired for now.
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Thing 2: I’m vulnerable
Thing 1: Me too!
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I’m not sure how well this joke renders non-visually, but here’s an attempt!
The Things are in complete darkness, you can only see their eyes and their eyes are white lines on black. Slowly Thing 1’s eyes fill up with white, so it looks a bit more normal. Thing 2 still looks like an inverse drawing and is surprised. Eventually Thing 2’s eyes flip black and white coloring and look a bit more normal.
Thing 2: My eyes take a while to adjust to the light