I did not like the plain background of the original, so put the backpack on a beach. I also changed the backpack from blue to green. I’ll probably tweak this again…eventually.

Yes, I am almost exactly two months late. I work at my own pace.
Back in Inktober 2019 I drew this sketch for the prompt TREASURE:
Recently, and randomly, I decided to colour it (maybe I just like colouring books) and, as I’ve done before with other GGP sketches, ended up refining it at the same time. The lines of the chest are straight now, but if you look closely1Maybe not even that closely, really you can see the chest is not quite straight. But I kind of like it that way. Also, I admit to largely giving up on the coins. Maybe in the next revision.
Both drawings done in Procreate on my iPad Pro.
One of the Inktober drawing prompts I had from several years back was BLADE. I used Gum Gum People for this, as is my way.
Below is the new coloured version, then the before/after with the original.
Shiny new:
Before/after:
I am still kind of amazed at how terrible the line work was in the older prompts. I mean, I know I did each sketch in a day and usually without spending a lot of time on them, but yeesh.
The original version of this sketch was for a prompt called SLEEP, and it’s one of the few featuring a Gum Gum Person where I was happy with the result, probably because most of the GGP is hidden inside a sleeping bag. And yes, I forgot to actually contour the body in the original, and decided to leave it for the colour version.
The colour version only refines a few lines, so it’s mostly unchanged. After colouring it, I had the idea to have the campfire projecting light, though perhaps unrealistically, since it’s just glowing embers. I call it art. Yeah.
Here’s the colour version:
And side-by-side:
Again trying to rework the original drawing prompt sketch, this time the prompt was SLING.
The original:
And the reworked version:
The biggest changes are pretty obvious:
First, the original pencil sketch, probably done back in the 90s:
And my modern interpretation of it:
And some miscellaneous notes and observations:
One of the drawing prompts I did way back for Making Art Everyday was CHEF. I used a Gum Gum Person because of course I did, but I never liked the final result, and at least one guy in my gaming group said the apron looked like a dress.
Tonight I came across that sketch and redid it from the original. The only things that didn’t change were the colours.
First, the new version:
And a before/after comparison:
Boxing Day is silly, but I still did a new version of the Gum Gum drawing from last year. I would have spent more time on it, but got kind of lazy/blocked. But it’s okay (hee hee).
My fortune cookie fortune from Chinese food last night:
My reaction:
If I play those six numbers and win $13 million instead (the current Lotto 6/49 prize), I’ll accept that as compensation in place of people being impressed with my art.
This is what they would post all day, every day. And the world would be a better place for it.
The above was made using Tweetgen, which has one purpose: to create screenshots of fake tweets. I have no real use for this, but love that it exists all the same.
I have no idea what the malls were like today. With snow on the ground, the high temperature of the day being -6C and the Omicron variant of COVID-19 doing a variation of Oprah’s “You get a car and you get a car and you get a car!” with the entire general population, it seems unlikely the stores were packed.
But people do love a good bargain.
I went for a walk but otherwise stayed inside, warm and content to avoid crowds, plague and things.
I did a quick drawing to celebrate Boxing Day, though. In hindsight, I wished I had put flaps on the box. I mean, I still could, but maybe I should just move onto bigger, better boxes.
I’m also thinking about restarting some art lessons, to better ground myself in the basics. I’m a bit rusty.