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Sketch of the day: tidying as work avoidance

by klio on 2 October 2016 at 12:26 pm
Posted In: sketch of the day

I found this while sorting used/unused/couple-of-pages-scribbled-in sketchbooks.

There are a lot of couple-of-pages sketchbooks lying around here.

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It’s in a Fabriano Classic Artist’s Journal and is, not surprisingly, drawn at itty bitty size.

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Grrrr

by klio on 24 September 2016 at 11:53 am
Posted In: blog

I have new security in place on the SPQR BLUES sites, but I still do the occasional manual review and cleanup, which helps feed more anti-hacking data into the overall security system. Just spent an hour reviewing a gabillion (low estimate) failed hacking attempts from IPs allegedly located in Russia, China, India, and Ukraine, and a couple of stray ones from Japon and Gabon. Maybe they’re looking for the Republican candidate’s secret hidden tax returns or a way to inject a zombie virus into the entire network (yes you can catch a digital zombie virus from an improperly cleaned cell phone I am sure of it). Or they want to post ads for manly-man pills and rip-off watches.

I’m burned out from all of this. I’ll post the latest WIP in about an hour, then I’m going out for curly fries with some young and shiny colleagues, then I’m going to watercolour some art for Sunday while I can take advantage of the relative peace and quiet of the cat-sitting place and its lovely view.

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Sketch of the day: Felix scribble

by klio on 6 September 2016 at 8:00 pm
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This was just a warmup doodle, then I ended up in over my eyebrows on a freelance project that was larger than I thought it would be and it ate the rest of the day/weekend. Eh, it’s not perfect, but it made a good warmup for the fingers.

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Sketch of the day: selfie

by klio on 5 September 2016 at 12:00 pm
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This is what my self portraits usually look like:

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Well, that’s what they look like when I’m in a charitable mood.

For some reason I decided, as long as I’m on a watercolour kick, to try a fancier self portrait. After I scanned it…

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I decided I was too tired to try hand-painting it and decided to try digital instead…

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Does it actually look like me? I dunno. Marginally?

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Sketch of the day: kind of sort of looks like Iusta

by klio on 4 September 2016 at 12:00 pm
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This scanned oddly (dark, blotchy), so I did a quickie touchup in Photoshop–I’m still not sure how it’ll show up on your browsers. Well, I’ll post it and find out!


Here are the stages of the drawing. I liked the pencils and considered just cleaning them up and leaving it at that, but wanted to play with watercolours.


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Here’s today’s assortment of tools:




Deleter Neopiko 4, Kuretake Fudebiyori, water brushes, eraser, pencil.

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