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Limulus lotus

It’s no secret that I like and respect horseshoe crabs – for reasons that deserve to elaborated on some time. So when someone shared this CRABTCHA, I had no choice but to respond “Front and centre where it belongs 🧘‍♂️”

Happy World Ocean Day now prove you are not a robot.

(This CRABTCHA is brought to you by @jopabinia.bsky.social and yours truly.)

spoof captcha telling people to click on images containing crabs, but the images are of various true crabs and false crabs

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To which came the response “I'd like to see a horseshoe crab attempt a lotus position.”

Well, challenge accepted.

A horseshoe crab on a sandy surface, with its body upright. Unless someone told you, you wouldn’t notice the lowest pair of legs are crossed.

2023 inktober roundup

Last year was nice and all, but by the end of it I thought, this is nothing like what I ‘usually’ (implies free time) do; if part of the goal is to practise then next time I should do something more in line with my typical approach. So, more about shapes and shading than lines and stark contrast.

Hence were born the RULES:

  • one hour

  • one layer

  • one colour

  • one scale

  • one attempt

Basically a bunch of things to focus on streamlining the drawing process and not get hung up on diversions. It’s not really ‘ink’ besides the lack …

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The Liquidator

An ominous furnace, with a conveyor belt leading into its gaping maw, above which a sign read ‘LIQUIDATION’

When returned products are liquidated, this is where it happens. I presume. Maybe it’s just the complaints division.

2022 inktober roundup

Inktober is a thing where anyone interested attempts to make an ink drawing every day of October, or at least a once a week, or anything else in line with the main goal of making good habits. I’m more of the pixeling persuasion, so this year I did indeed produce an assortment of monochromatic pixels for all 31 days, using the Official set of prompts. Observe, should you desire.

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