August 2020

[iguana]

In an alternative universe, I would have been in Australia this month, perhaps watching the perseid meteor storm from the middle of a desert. In the real world, the only meteors I dealt with were the ones that dumped Tiberium into the Command & Conquer universe, as I bought the C&C Remastered pack to play Tiberian Dawn for the first time. (And yes, that was a terrible segue.) I also harvested a good amount of homegrown vegetables, inspired a cursed Mr Blobby meme, and drew a bunch of cat faces, which turned into a late attempt at naarmamo, the Art-Making Month.

NaArMaMo

I'd bought a new pen tablet recently because my old Graphire 4 doesn't work on Macs any more, so I needed to upgrade for work. This meant I got to use the Graphire 4 with my personal laptop with less hassle, and I had it set up to play Command & Conquer with. At around the same time, Twitter's Curious Zelda (a cat account) posted an photo I felt the need to draw a sketch of.

Curious Zelda retweeted it, to my delight, and I decided to draw more cat face pictures as a result. Meanwhile, squirmelia had been organising NaArMaMo, so I decided to do a few different things to participate in that as well.

Kilo

Mega

David MacIver's cat-who-does-not-live-here

Al Broomhead's cats

Pete & Matt's cat Lilian.

I think I improved a little over those six pictures, but I'm still most happy with the Curious Zelda pic, which I think conveys most emotion.

Other Naarmamo pieces:

Symmetry

Cardhenge

Lettuce

Home-grown house

Carrot tops

Instant coffee patterns

A 5x5 grid of soy and oat milk tetrapaks, accumulated while I'm not shopping in person and hence not getting to the recycling point.

Okay, so I'm up to date with my Dreamwidth entries for the first time since :checks: April 2018! All it took was a pandemic and total lockdown.