Friday, April 2, 2010
This is the type of picture that I draw when I have no idea what to draw. I usually start with a basic shape. I was drawing this while I was administering a standardized test for one of my classes. I looked at one of their math problems that dealt with a rhombus and the slope of one its diagonals (hint: the slopes of perpendicular lines are negative reciprocals). This rhombus turned out to be a clam, clamping its mouth shut to save a sacred treasure. Two octopuses (the larger ones) are trying to pry this clam open, but they are thwarted by two smaller blue octopuses with longer barbed legs. These smaller blue octopuses are also holding up a sacred pine-apple fruit against all odds. However, they are in trouble since the large octopuses have brought a secret weapon (notice the sea urchins attached to each leg via a strand of seaweed). When I started from the bottom, the whole thing turned out to be a magical genie consisting of this entire battle. When I turn the entire drawing over, then it becomes some horned demon wearing a magician's cap. Can you find anything else that this might be? Thank you rhombus.
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I think the genie looks like some old hillbilly with a scraggly mustache and his thumbs hooked in his suspender and some kind of fur cap with the tail still attached.
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