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Saturday, 27 June 2026

Childhood Spiky Dinosaur in AI Mode

I haven't really used AI images before. However I was trying to eliminate paper fold shadows and to darken line work in my childhood weird dinosaur drawing. I ended up with this eerie 3D alien creature which is a kind of cross between a camel, a lama, a giraffe and a porcupine. Initially it had a fifth leg, which I deleted.

The eye is haunting me.



 

Wednesday, 24 June 2026

The Law of Nature

 When people talk about the 'Laws of Nature' I imagine some old trees getting together to write these laws.


Homeless Ranter on Train

 

Travelling by train recently I noticed a man (presumably homeless) with shopping trolley packed almost to the ceiling. He was loudly conversing with the train passengers and chucking his cap in the air to try to catch it on his head. Five protective Services cops turned up and must have decided he was harmless as they just helped him manage his trolley which threatened to roll away

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Melbourne to Geelong Zine Day

 Last Saturday I travelled to Geelong library for a zine day. I sketched on the trains and also on the day as well as selling a few of my zines. My Chloe the cat zine is the most popular.

 BELOW: My gel pens had run out of ink so I drew in pencil until I got to the Geelong branch of Office Works and bought some new drawing implements. This picture I did on the train with red and blue pencils and added more pencil colors later. After I scanned it I intensified the colors and digitally added the white lines on the yellow hair. For the record, the girl was Asian and had dyed her black hair.




Thursday, 18 June 2026

My Sketchbook From Age Five? Spiky Dinosaur

 I found, in my garage, a very old, childhood sketch book.  It is not dated but I guess I was between four and six. The pages are buckled so I am going to try to flatten them so I can scan them better. Things I liked drawing included dinosaurs and monsters. This one seems to have overdone it a bit with the spikes!