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Ian draws this time

Ian grabbed the tablet and wanted to draw something. We often do an improv thing where one person gives a suggestion (normally a cross between two things) and the other person performs. This time I suggested Ian draw an Emo Worm. The big thing at the high schools is to be a sad, punky, gothy, hyper-dramatic "Emo." Please note that this has nothing to do with goony comic Emo Phillips. Scroll down to the bottom for more on that. Well done on the worm I think.


My guess was Bart Simpson's head after a fight with Nelson the bully. Ian would not divulge the true answer.


Apparently, Ian's take is that even though dogs don't know what the heck we're saying, they would like a chance to say it too.


Ian's depiction of Gracie talking to the TV while her favorite show, Little Einsteins is on. It's funny that in that show, the kids are always telling the viewers to put their hands over their heads, but the Little Einsteins' heads are so big that they can't reach over their own heads. Anyway, every so often some character in the show asks a question to get the audience to be interactive. Gracie was interacting with Quincy. Yeah, I think Ian spelled it wrong.



And here's a picture I drew of Ian, just so you know what he looks like.

If you don't know what Emo is, or if you'd like to laugh at society's attempts on explaining it (kind of like explaining why you like Apple Jacks) the Wikipedia entry defines it thusly:

Emo is a somewhat ambiguous, controversial slang term most frequently used to describe a fashion or subculture which is usually defined to have roots in punk fashion and subculture, as well as some attributes of gothic fashion and subculture. It is loosely defined, and its meaning varies by region, but most definitions share a number of similarities.

See the rest of the definition and some pictures by clicking here.

Meanwhile, thanks Ian, for contributing your scribbles.

Makes me squeamo

Astronaut's Career Catapulted

First Zipper

Gracie produces me

It started out that Gracie saw me using the graphics tablet to draw something and she wanted to "color" too. So I let her play around in Photoshop a little with the stylus. Then she asked me to draw Dragon Tales, this show she watched on PBS this morning that I personally believe came from the belly of my personal demon, Lakov Imaginicus. Due to these dearly held views, I do not know the characters' names nor do I intend to learn them. I just know it's a bunch of dumb dragons who are either too sweet or too simple for my superb taste. All this aside, I want to keep intact Gracie's notion that I can draw anything, so the first two below illustrate my attempts.

First, Gracie asked me to draw some infernal creature whose name escapes me. It sounded from the name like a large dragon, so I started in the T-Rex theme and added spikes and fire breath for dragony-ness.



Gracie was delighted with the drawing, but unfortunately, not delighted to no end, since she next asked me to draw some other something from -- what was the name of the show again, and is it really considered educational television?? This time, I struggled a little more, and tried to make something from Land Before Time except ferocious-looking, thusly the jagged teeth. She said it looked like Charlie, the alligator from the insanely cute show Maisy Mouse (google it). I was not offended, since the teeth are somewhat 'gator-y, and besides, I didn't know the thing I was drawing in the first place.


I thought she was growing disinterested when she asked me to erase Charlie and draw a picture of herself, Gracie. This subject, I knew what she looked like, but decided to draw a kitty cat instead just to get her reaction.
Gracie said, "It's me as a kitty for Halloween! Now draw me in my Clifford the Big Red Dog costume!


This Clifford drawing didn't come as quickly as the cat, since I wanted the drawing to actually resemble what she looked like in the costume. Also, she was sitting next to me and bumping my elbow. I did finish in a decent amount of time and with a decent amount of likeness. We both were satisfied with it I can assume, since she now hopped off the couch and plopped herself in her blue plush Tigger chair to catch the end of Sesame Street.

Pointed Head

Green October

I didn't listen to them

 

Mine's in Chinese

 

Like in Spinal Tap, only with snow

Y'know in Spinal Tap where the band manager, Ian, draws Stonehenge on a napkin and gives it to the stage props guy, only he writes the symbol for inches (") instead of the one for feet ('), so they end up with a peewee Stonehenge the size of this ruler I'm holding up. Which is kinda weird actually when you figure that the band and their manager who drew on the napkin are all British and would be using the metric system. Either that's farce to the nth or... I can't remember if the props guy was an American. Perhaps the manager, being a Brit, wasn't familiar with the symbols and flubbed it.

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you it says "Winter" because this folder is for my Winter 2006-07 magazine stuff for my job. I draw on the folders so they're easy to find.