Illustrated Dream Diary

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cartoons, castles, Colour, comics, drawings, dream diary, dreams, hot air balloons, story

I had this dream, and I thought it would work better in illustration than in writing.  Hopefully it is coherent, but you know how dreams are.  It doesn’t have any dialogue…but neither did my dream!

Be Unique

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Animals, blue fox, cartoons, drawings, fox, foxes, individuality, nature, unique

It’s all about being yourself.

Gotta do your own thing.

Benji the Little Red Fox

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art, cartoons, children's stories, comics, drawings, fox, stories

This gallery contains 29 photos.

I drew this children’s story for my soon-to-be cousin (who is due in November!).  It is, of course, about foxes.  …

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Colouring pages for children

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activities for kids, bird beaks, Birds, cartoons, children, colouring pages, drawing, gelada monkeys, illustration, outreach events, rhesus monkeys

I always draw colouring pages relating to our display for outreach events.  Here are some recent ones where our themes included bird beaks and monkeys, despite the fact that I am not particularly fond of monkeys.

Paradigm Shift

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ant eater, Ants, cartoons, drawings, imagination, overwhelmed, tamandua

Sometimes I feel like I'm in over my head.

Holiday cards: silly cartoons

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Animals, cartoons, drawings, holiday cards, nerd, rate of affection

This is tangential, do you mind indulging me?  Would you like to see some of the cartoons I did for holiday cards this year?  Oh dear, I’m being very silly.  Well, that’s what Fridays are for, right?

I drew maybe fifty cards, and sent them around the world (to 7 different countries).  The total distance they traveled was 267, 568 km (that’s 166,259 mi), which is about 6.7 times the circumference of the Earth, depending on where you measure.

I’m accumulating data.  Right now we have about a 40% recapture rate.  After I get enough reports back, I’ll put a plot up in all its nerdy glory, about the differential rate of my affection to different countries.  I predict a saturating increase function with distance, but right now it is confounded by what I like to call a “small town differential effect.”  By which I mean, all of my close friends live in small towns, which have a different postal system, and therefore I can’t tell if the cards are traveling more slowly because of the size of the town or because there is a proximity threshhold.

Oh dear.  Well, here are a few favourites.  Forgive me.

Dragonfly

Elephants

Black Bear

Basset Hound

Chameleon

Flying Fox

Owls

Tell me truthfully, would you like a card like this in the mail?  I hope my friends enjoy them.