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.