Day 14 – Witch for Drawlloween!

The Ed Emberley style returns! Emberley’s drawing books taught generations of kids to build whole pictures out of simple shapes. This witch follows that recipe: a triangle hat, a broom drawn in a few strokes, and a black cat along for the ride. Green skin is optional but encouraged.

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Evil Queen:
“What do you mean, you’re not Artificial Intelligence?”

Magic Mirror: 
“Oh Queen, who rules with pride and grace,
Look closely at this glass-bound face.
You ask if science, gears, or art
Controls the spirit in this part.
I am no product of a screen,
No microchips,  nor cold machine.
I do not scrape the web for data,
Or train on code to feed your beta.
No algorithms compute your face,
No servers spin in distant space.
I crave no power, nor port 80,
I only serve my royal lady.
So fear no virus, glitch, or tech,
My magic holds your foes in check.
Pure sorcery is what I am, my guy!
An ancient spirit, not AI.”

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Day 12 of Drawlloween, and the prompt is raven.

Pallas is Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom, so the narrator pours his grief out to wisdom itself and gets “Nevermore.” in retutn.

Enjoying the “Below” miniseries. About 3 episodes in.

The Baku (獏 or 貘) is a benevolent Japanese yōkai (supernatural spirit) known as a protector that devours human nightmares.

In Japanese folklore, the baku is a chimera that devours nightmares. Old accounts describe it as a patchwork beast with an elephant’s trunk and tusks, a lion’s mane, and pieces borrowed from half a dozen other animals. Tradition holds that if you wake from a bad dream, you call on the baku to eat the dream so it can’t return.

The creature came to Japan from Chinese folklore, where it was known as the mo. Its name later attached itself to a real animal, and the tapir is still called baku in Japanese today.

Sleep well tonight! The baku is on duty.

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I thought this would be easy,  it wasn’t.  It *was* kind of fun experimenting with shapes, and even though he has buck teeth, I thought fangs just looked better.

I hope all your vorpal blades go snicker-snack today.

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In honor of my favorite art teacher, Ed Emberley, I like how he has a blue top rather than the blazer you usually see, and the waxy yellow parlor maybe makes him look a bit more like a jaundiced corpse than the “Karloff green” that is more traditional.

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