tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11974727278592742842024-03-13T14:16:51.687-07:00the Amateur ZoologistEvan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-10926621019256631522023-10-28T13:40:00.003-07:002023-10-28T13:41:06.024-07:00Jack-O-Lantern Designs 2023<p>It's that time of year again! Here's yet another contact sheet of random jack-o-lantern pumpkin designs:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYD7X0vPKE5NGxJzltFWDBNdQtfmkH_2IUeDtyY04WaWuyU8hoSvQ582dyUBalLGlRF5u_qY99zm5755WefSuLFh33bK8brfWHZCSjmxOw90RxVAkkLVkNRFxPXDfg-nqRbU74Up0pm7lxz0ldxTCkgfB7TAF0Wj6lSFNhaj574ken-f9_511qxa3PQ/s6000/eboucher_pumpkin_designs_2023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4200" data-original-width="6000" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYD7X0vPKE5NGxJzltFWDBNdQtfmkH_2IUeDtyY04WaWuyU8hoSvQ582dyUBalLGlRF5u_qY99zm5755WefSuLFh33bK8brfWHZCSjmxOw90RxVAkkLVkNRFxPXDfg-nqRbU74Up0pm7lxz0ldxTCkgfB7TAF0Wj6lSFNhaj574ken-f9_511qxa3PQ/w400-h280/eboucher_pumpkin_designs_2023.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Click to See Full Resolution)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Happy Halloween Everyone! As always, I want to see your carvings if you so choose to adapt any of these (or previous year) designs, s</span><span style="text-align: left;">end me pictures at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div>Previous Designs can be found here:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2016.html">2016</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2017/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2017.html">2017</a></div><div><a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2018</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/10-years-of-pumpkin-designs.html">2019</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2020/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-moods-of-2020.html">2020</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2021/11/jack-o-lantern-designs-2021-publix.html">2021</a></div><div><a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2022/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2022.html">2022</a></div>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-482773211221272572022-10-20T20:28:00.002-07:002022-10-20T20:28:44.265-07:00Jack-O-Lantern Designs 2022<p>It's that time of year again! Here's this year's contact sheet of goofy jack-o-lantern pumpkin designs:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZzKXpP8M5ueCSu9c5ZUUXiDZsQZ1VdxKEidWvfpRGKMwa7co4zy_DoMCYgc9TRqzacaTzi064JOQIlwZO1-CDOIKO_mq0g_FEu9tYQIVXjntcOUkHx_l03t9P29jwnoCqVQplrXdegCYYxkvFJDQucatR2utoYwJdbB2JSa0NucykPV1kj8S2L4/s1500/pumpkin_designs_2022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1500" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZzKXpP8M5ueCSu9c5ZUUXiDZsQZ1VdxKEidWvfpRGKMwa7co4zy_DoMCYgc9TRqzacaTzi064JOQIlwZO1-CDOIKO_mq0g_FEu9tYQIVXjntcOUkHx_l03t9P29jwnoCqVQplrXdegCYYxkvFJDQucatR2utoYwJdbB2JSa0NucykPV1kj8S2L4/w400-h280/pumpkin_designs_2022.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(click to enlarge)</td></tr></tbody></table><p>It seems like the last few years have been showcasing some new developments. Three years ago was the <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/10-years-of-pumpkin-designs.html">10 year anniversary so I shared my process</a>, and last year was special due to turning some old and new designs into <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2021/11/jack-o-lantern-designs-2021-publix.html">commissioned tote bags.</a> So what was new this year you ask? Well, this year I transferred my pumpkin design template document<i> TO THE CLOUD! </i></p><p>Last year gave me the kick in the butt I needed to upgrade my process. So now I'm working off of Photoshop Creative Cloud, (and in a much higher resolution thanks to an upgraded pumpkin image I got for the commission last year). And thanks to being in the cloud, and being able to work interchangeably between devices, this year marks the first year I could draw pumpkin faces while relaxing on the couch thanks to being able to work on my iPad Pro!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuy7SIMOToJotcNGzUT4GvG_G2yfbqjxNKvPGMdZeEbj1jx9_2w0KMZZW-NvmM77CdYdWCqt13YzmUFairYY8oROeUqkBwpAucWoVS3euxZOW_Jeok6kRuZYFnTzqddXsgrc4RDDWMYaGr7bojIGsz9o_gJ34uqtaIrnXWyXB0Zh2iODtMBoWqCI/s2640/20221020_202120.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="2640" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuy7SIMOToJotcNGzUT4GvG_G2yfbqjxNKvPGMdZeEbj1jx9_2w0KMZZW-NvmM77CdYdWCqt13YzmUFairYY8oROeUqkBwpAucWoVS3euxZOW_Jeok6kRuZYFnTzqddXsgrc4RDDWMYaGr7bojIGsz9o_gJ34uqtaIrnXWyXB0Zh2iODtMBoWqCI/w400-h344/20221020_202120.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Happy Halloween Everyone! Once again, the same deal goes as every year: if anybody actually decides to attempt to carve any of these (like <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">Stephanie</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">Nicole</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">Josh, Megan, and I</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html" rel="">Laura,</a> <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/jack-o-lanterns-irl-2019.html">Nikki,</a> or <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2020/10/jack-o-lanterns-irl-2020.html">Mike, Nicole, and Bonnie,</a> did) please send me pictures at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com and I'll post them up here! That goes for previous years' pumpkin designs as well. You have until the end of the month! I will post all physical Jack-O-Lantern carvings together on Halloween.</p><div>Previous Designs can be found here:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2016.html">2016</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2017/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2017.html">2017</a></div><div><a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2018</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/10-years-of-pumpkin-designs.html">2019</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2020/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-moods-of-2020.html">2020</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2021/11/jack-o-lantern-designs-2021-publix.html">2021</a></div>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-37639772179855734752022-01-17T15:51:00.003-08:002022-01-17T15:51:34.710-08:00A DreamWorks Animation Christmas<p> I was invited by the fine folks in Digital Marketing at DreamWorks Animation to create a drawing of my choice for them to<a href="https://twitter.com/Dreamworks/status/1474832348411842570"> showcase on social media for Christmas last year.</a> They said it could be anything of my choice but had to be something in the spirit of the season, and if I could fit in some DreamWorks characters, that would be great.</p><p>I had recently acquired an iPad and this was one of my first drawings on it, learning Photoshop for iPad as I went. Here's what I came up with:</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiWCuDp7LAYiGvVDlYrSQEw5dWTvtwJEf1jbWGSmTgg2lyLfbDLbd1ciJnTVTnR-vglA5IgO0W9siI8wQIxMF7uo1Qkxt6XJUyUaW549-nNlvDNp6p1bdLRuCXPp5-3epYPTi-ucYWG4gjljVNpesl8ar0GkQZK0FoEbJtjPb_DZBHn_B8VpDZ5sw=s4096" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3277" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiWCuDp7LAYiGvVDlYrSQEw5dWTvtwJEf1jbWGSmTgg2lyLfbDLbd1ciJnTVTnR-vglA5IgO0W9siI8wQIxMF7uo1Qkxt6XJUyUaW549-nNlvDNp6p1bdLRuCXPp5-3epYPTi-ucYWG4gjljVNpesl8ar0GkQZK0FoEbJtjPb_DZBHn_B8VpDZ5sw=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click to Enlarge</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>It was a fun drawing to do, and even more fun to see the fury I created in the <a href="https://twitter.com/Dreamworks/status/1474832348411842570">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dreamworks/photos/a.136431047523/10162329711267524">Facebook</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6x930NdZx/">Instagram</a> threads by choosing to put Megamind on the naughty list. To be fair I did debate this a little but ultimately decided it was more on-brand for his perception of himself. I wasn't entirely sure how this drawing was going to be received by followers of DreamWorks, but I was happy to see this nugget generate some engagement for the Digital Marketing team.<p></p><p>I was also happy for the people who picked up my little nod to Dave the Octopus from <i>Penguins of Madagascar </i>(who will always hold a special part in my heart since I put so much work into rigging him many years ago).</p><p>And apologies for those who were upset that I did my own Santa Claus design instead of using North from <i>Rise of the Guardians</i>. I definitely considered it, but ultimately didn't want to worry too much about doing justice to another artist's character design, and wanted to focus on doing an original Santa design of my own. This also helped me complete the project as I had a lot going on the end of last year.</p><p>Anyway, that's my little story about this drawing. It was fun to try out new workflows, and use the iPad to get it done quicker than my typical digital painting workflow. </p><p>Evan</p><p><br /></p>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-87597746017042543052021-11-05T11:52:00.002-07:002021-11-05T11:52:39.821-07:00Watercolor Fun<p> This summer I started experimenting with using watercolors in the hope to start doing more drawing while out hiking and birdwatching:</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEumQn_tHIHtizXOy_D444XPc9XfDcAjzlLb2Ns1Ad-1rrkePIHXVqlS_YA91XDxyoZ4vaujrnNmIT22Rr6dfR78Ikt42yMwKe1Anp-zzu2SaELs3u094La56xLlmToRNW-zWyvGhdPzs/s2048/0512212135_HDR%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1811" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEumQn_tHIHtizXOy_D444XPc9XfDcAjzlLb2Ns1Ad-1rrkePIHXVqlS_YA91XDxyoZ4vaujrnNmIT22Rr6dfR78Ikt42yMwKe1Anp-zzu2SaELs3u094La56xLlmToRNW-zWyvGhdPzs/w354-h400/0512212135_HDR%257E2.jpg" width="354" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Egret</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtMB5YRuhEemPn5L9JnJjkcZQUJBp_batZ1zBAujV0wXxWxSuv4c_vKPplNO2zzt-W_BpnlCvLXwiBZKR-uQ4LlqrBJdrethnJ-NV4d1OArA4ZVLMQeGkcp-9n-u6sJuaKU0NBGb-5fM/s2048/0512212135a_HDR%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtMB5YRuhEemPn5L9JnJjkcZQUJBp_batZ1zBAujV0wXxWxSuv4c_vKPplNO2zzt-W_BpnlCvLXwiBZKR-uQ4LlqrBJdrethnJ-NV4d1OArA4ZVLMQeGkcp-9n-u6sJuaKU0NBGb-5fM/w400-h225/0512212135a_HDR%257E2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-footed Booby</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxsBVlv5sJwVw4JgR5ed413rV7S56uzG_8g0jzItelGwCpClOkTZB89uPomtsFxQHMdhtFUrMUo5Www7TTyhDt_-Z1GPKPjmmYyCxOwqFiavFBxEN0kHyeB2CP_1ovPfKRbBLMWQf8aw/s2048/0516212112_HDR%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxsBVlv5sJwVw4JgR5ed413rV7S56uzG_8g0jzItelGwCpClOkTZB89uPomtsFxQHMdhtFUrMUo5Www7TTyhDt_-Z1GPKPjmmYyCxOwqFiavFBxEN0kHyeB2CP_1ovPfKRbBLMWQf8aw/w225-h400/0516212112_HDR%257E2.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Giraffatitan brancai </i>sketch<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjOP9cxxw6SlORdYFOOIT-t3pbPm8-LXRHjtOAlAKESq4sCvxle4oMhjXbquOQJNHr_JoVu96FE5fN1a-nCF2kV7BXMb_M6PFxqH9fwZo4sFCagaRt2tM3K0OPREUJhzsQA0h9Vld2n18/s2048/0516212132_HDR%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjOP9cxxw6SlORdYFOOIT-t3pbPm8-LXRHjtOAlAKESq4sCvxle4oMhjXbquOQJNHr_JoVu96FE5fN1a-nCF2kV7BXMb_M6PFxqH9fwZo4sFCagaRt2tM3K0OPREUJhzsQA0h9Vld2n18/w225-h400/0516212132_HDR%257E2.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Giraffatitan brancai </i>+ watercolors</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I also used <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2021/11/inktober-2021.html">Inktober</a> this year to practice a bit as well, and thought I'd cross post some of those paintings here:<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5bwyE752gY0Et1kZ-H5eItIptvIDE7oH1GfCg6GVpgR2aMmTVs5XhqefmbeUc84GjwCZb95ADdrX0lvNKLz_toACCYVZuq-jIzJxKPtMJ8taWBXKn8yA69iBIF9uh3_U0FMdSA79FRSM/s2048/20211004_195439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5bwyE752gY0Et1kZ-H5eItIptvIDE7oH1GfCg6GVpgR2aMmTVs5XhqefmbeUc84GjwCZb95ADdrX0lvNKLz_toACCYVZuq-jIzJxKPtMJ8taWBXKn8yA69iBIF9uh3_U0FMdSA79FRSM/w400-h225/20211004_195439.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Knot</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3M-KoyqRmnycKO_GuamcYJ1PUWOa8zw6tpqtD-MBJw_hTpoRsiLMnTCFU3pSc4POA74l36m5MAxe6G-YK_YxDH_lI7mOfdgESp6AISyx_zMMKF-3XfcgCTx5Ec-jwAXdPJ4PlV17S2Q/s2048/20211005_214436.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3M-KoyqRmnycKO_GuamcYJ1PUWOa8zw6tpqtD-MBJw_hTpoRsiLMnTCFU3pSc4POA74l36m5MAxe6G-YK_YxDH_lI7mOfdgESp6AISyx_zMMKF-3XfcgCTx5Ec-jwAXdPJ4PlV17S2Q/w400-h225/20211005_214436.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raven</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-RLXiqUjBpk15U3voJ7Ul0Yk0N_6t7ruRblLEYKQESz6g_8B6i6Qu4NBSWlxr46RvMP1Ru_K-2X-YSOt2Zkus61cz-8rnQJIlIigeWO1JVQmqRkQ3YfklMSOS1T-QeYMJK3nla76vWw/s2048/20211012_123921.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-RLXiqUjBpk15U3voJ7Ul0Yk0N_6t7ruRblLEYKQESz6g_8B6i6Qu4NBSWlxr46RvMP1Ru_K-2X-YSOt2Zkus61cz-8rnQJIlIigeWO1JVQmqRkQ3YfklMSOS1T-QeYMJK3nla76vWw/w400-h225/20211012_123921.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thalassodromeus sethi</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxKvbRl32nlkzIwSu0lfzDgrUeO1lORTGWopGCVlmWr1XYqNFgI1H9llEfFiupTfy3XcxegaM9I1yS39XonCXDvt3JvF7dHcMZnfggltHWSftLJQW-7IyS-s6_Hhp4f5MZo33dGScEIrM/s2048/20211015_202103.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1391" data-original-width="2048" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxKvbRl32nlkzIwSu0lfzDgrUeO1lORTGWopGCVlmWr1XYqNFgI1H9llEfFiupTfy3XcxegaM9I1yS39XonCXDvt3JvF7dHcMZnfggltHWSftLJQW-7IyS-s6_Hhp4f5MZo33dGScEIrM/w400-h271/20211015_202103.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helmeted Hornbill</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-11227933360408436542021-11-05T11:42:00.001-07:002021-11-05T11:54:13.942-07:00Inktober 2021<p> I thought <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2020/10/inktober-2020.html">last year</a> was a great experience to push my artistic skills out of my comfort zone, and so decided to participate in <a href="https://inktober.com/rules">Inktober</a> again this year. I really embraced the limitations of the physical media and focused on being consistent over perfection. I also tried pushing myself further by playing with watercolors and other mixed traditional media this year. I like some more than others for sure, but am happy to have completed it among all the other things I'm working on. For ease of acces, here's my complete Inktober 2021 compiled in one place:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 1: Crystal</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwXLutDxtKWT7frD3H9Y1yjP8yd6owGjshul__GDthkk7P9fDDpmHexgR4top2NAAjhcxA-7ujUCHzaEjdfMDIAFXfr8AC5j4RPPOrBgoPMmSrLMboUgalA77DCIeVYL-Uajbj6vXHAc/s2048/20211001_201427.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="2048" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwXLutDxtKWT7frD3H9Y1yjP8yd6owGjshul__GDthkk7P9fDDpmHexgR4top2NAAjhcxA-7ujUCHzaEjdfMDIAFXfr8AC5j4RPPOrBgoPMmSrLMboUgalA77DCIeVYL-Uajbj6vXHAc/w400-h253/20211001_201427.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 2: Suit</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2Df9QwrTQU22JEkQvQh5CxsaekV0QUMF2BGn3-GHEpLAzstBsedZlWG1erVXq8C0ag9ytpOe7RosEMam0wy_Veb_uhEhaNHFS6rzJ_BWPonzf0Z9Agwb51AYDSDdFv2EF_lIWrzl2JI/s2048/20211002_213249.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1312" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2Df9QwrTQU22JEkQvQh5CxsaekV0QUMF2BGn3-GHEpLAzstBsedZlWG1erVXq8C0ag9ytpOe7RosEMam0wy_Veb_uhEhaNHFS6rzJ_BWPonzf0Z9Agwb51AYDSDdFv2EF_lIWrzl2JI/w256-h400/20211002_213249.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 3: Vessel</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mt3IK1Lvxrdc3YlwFY_jFOy3AZhbHndxNYKxmYkSZL4cka1FfEWCNE8Rxr_cpZbYDyCAgCZOz3_tUoNWvp5ZYO-zC0vDJMTN2eChdTIMYvI-TdXsyrVIyJhl2Ae3ya5tL_t9D8Au6mM/s2048/20211003_212903.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mt3IK1Lvxrdc3YlwFY_jFOy3AZhbHndxNYKxmYkSZL4cka1FfEWCNE8Rxr_cpZbYDyCAgCZOz3_tUoNWvp5ZYO-zC0vDJMTN2eChdTIMYvI-TdXsyrVIyJhl2Ae3ya5tL_t9D8Au6mM/w400-h225/20211003_212903.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 4: Knot</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkqShd3x1mlAUgxMj9WN0F4Vge52SrFKQpHRdS_KgBu4je1Pj8QwN5-jMiEOsnyLzHSqX90DhXArTjsOMXFGI6Kl5jhWWEMXKyWahqTpN-947ehc1AyI0En0YJolbPn9LwtdsqOGpb30/s2048/20211004_194619.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkqShd3x1mlAUgxMj9WN0F4Vge52SrFKQpHRdS_KgBu4je1Pj8QwN5-jMiEOsnyLzHSqX90DhXArTjsOMXFGI6Kl5jhWWEMXKyWahqTpN-947ehc1AyI0En0YJolbPn9LwtdsqOGpb30/w400-h225/20211004_194619.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 5: Raven</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGcLxJiTU6NCfFYTYwVF8lepP6iPFOZuuiFlXYfUoBcKHXMU1l1rYgR0nYod69aUgaigfG0tUQySZbWFHkKQnUbb0034prX6bsPbSdF-3THRvs1z8KdXaqLrqsf7-3d-rFFdA2BWRbnU/s2048/20211005_214436.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGcLxJiTU6NCfFYTYwVF8lepP6iPFOZuuiFlXYfUoBcKHXMU1l1rYgR0nYod69aUgaigfG0tUQySZbWFHkKQnUbb0034prX6bsPbSdF-3THRvs1z8KdXaqLrqsf7-3d-rFFdA2BWRbnU/w400-h225/20211005_214436.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 6: Spirit</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHmhcp-ua246SAurjaZhn1q5h3WMORyUr2BSkogYVVcxbdlIe_iFCH9E0Ro-qOTf7R1jHYslhzZal4qC4XrlcV5d8VU4vWmTMzJNU-VUqcuFvT3FVhxBzoYjVqy1gdg-fio5r3A9ln6M/s2048/20211006_215732.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2048" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHmhcp-ua246SAurjaZhn1q5h3WMORyUr2BSkogYVVcxbdlIe_iFCH9E0Ro-qOTf7R1jHYslhzZal4qC4XrlcV5d8VU4vWmTMzJNU-VUqcuFvT3FVhxBzoYjVqy1gdg-fio5r3A9ln6M/w400-h239/20211006_215732.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 7: Fan</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfx80PEbM7agnJXMqRN-F9y5fyGoPHZm_5IaT5YOJjJXB-AzAvFu_x9-hOjocvGVE_4FPcgtlcULl_XnQRvFxyDbCOip1nJ-ETcA2cj1vHlYP3Qaiun8VZJxQpuxpfzgx_HL98WjMGhyphenhypheng/s2048/20211007_194230.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfx80PEbM7agnJXMqRN-F9y5fyGoPHZm_5IaT5YOJjJXB-AzAvFu_x9-hOjocvGVE_4FPcgtlcULl_XnQRvFxyDbCOip1nJ-ETcA2cj1vHlYP3Qaiun8VZJxQpuxpfzgx_HL98WjMGhyphenhypheng/w225-h400/20211007_194230.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 8: Watch</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisihbHuKmL4yoHWE_0DqjawbaNnANhWZSgpL_cVJeWRWIt01RHQaUk5BPVI-QsX78x5LjHTFJ5elB0KP6GBd0cEtebrAYxO9hCnC8V6VZvdn41XiIpOU5UAn7Nkq84DArsd_T3zo9BLSI/s2048/20211008_200558.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1447" data-original-width="2048" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisihbHuKmL4yoHWE_0DqjawbaNnANhWZSgpL_cVJeWRWIt01RHQaUk5BPVI-QsX78x5LjHTFJ5elB0KP6GBd0cEtebrAYxO9hCnC8V6VZvdn41XiIpOU5UAn7Nkq84DArsd_T3zo9BLSI/w400-h283/20211008_200558.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 9: Pressure</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdugSQR24Zj3rKmPpFd5-O13YubfoFyIJsEnjo3EBX9NAlspMt7YZ7vvBrDrDkcpr7Orw3zRQvBZYqW0PXgdX2Yqq7ltfnDa8K-qVvF9qSl_a7BB584nI4RWM4kzA2A5ZrS_-TZ3Aj8s/s2048/20211010_140201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdugSQR24Zj3rKmPpFd5-O13YubfoFyIJsEnjo3EBX9NAlspMt7YZ7vvBrDrDkcpr7Orw3zRQvBZYqW0PXgdX2Yqq7ltfnDa8K-qVvF9qSl_a7BB584nI4RWM4kzA2A5ZrS_-TZ3Aj8s/w400-h225/20211010_140201.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 10: Pick</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfW_KDjxBzPV7iKsgQ-9yOKK9wXRZfxMA9tUfhCWoyO_ki1dB7gblYmiPdqiKLjyH41fBUwPs4nPMMQ54C4UXxqw3C8Ge38TUWc1POKXaonTtTnxWdHFWI7W7HZue1Y8b62V5x12AZmM/s2048/20211010_141033.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="2048" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfW_KDjxBzPV7iKsgQ-9yOKK9wXRZfxMA9tUfhCWoyO_ki1dB7gblYmiPdqiKLjyH41fBUwPs4nPMMQ54C4UXxqw3C8Ge38TUWc1POKXaonTtTnxWdHFWI7W7HZue1Y8b62V5x12AZmM/w400-h261/20211010_141033.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 11: Sour</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_7iR1XhdsiX-BFTkkkkF7i7BUsHFazhUOl_alFDvfpheGAqDrbVwnsjQAE77OPmgy-oloM_reZZhldb1F0SpQ8sxXVOtj2lV9YxBLGLbT7XuDdGEiuB0O8zAhSvX52JVDyBKS2w3gBA/s2048/20211011_182452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_7iR1XhdsiX-BFTkkkkF7i7BUsHFazhUOl_alFDvfpheGAqDrbVwnsjQAE77OPmgy-oloM_reZZhldb1F0SpQ8sxXVOtj2lV9YxBLGLbT7XuDdGEiuB0O8zAhSvX52JVDyBKS2w3gBA/w400-h225/20211011_182452.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 12: Stuck</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Sy4YyV4ZsYFWGdidlRUSnfo3eYTtO7zPUgcrf4MnWhD9YKNHkQ05IgtUvd5eUzry_9m6fZ5R908ZppJHSvLv8w3R9sTSR4_GK-nwNrORYD6WnaB49sLHE49XQ6fKK1Db7lYxKvKgbis/s2048/20211012_123921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Sy4YyV4ZsYFWGdidlRUSnfo3eYTtO7zPUgcrf4MnWhD9YKNHkQ05IgtUvd5eUzry_9m6fZ5R908ZppJHSvLv8w3R9sTSR4_GK-nwNrORYD6WnaB49sLHE49XQ6fKK1Db7lYxKvKgbis/w400-h225/20211012_123921.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 13: Roof</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip9Xvr7gl6qZ6rFGfPNZ0Ud9zpVHnrkct9AcfTl1i5nD0ntOFrnHDPhOwiICFyD5_WY7KcWwp9EDY9zXgGjK6GbzYAY2eRJiq9z4yQnALAeqd_KD3ag_1WuJZFGTDVJvGfKDC2yn9TPgw/s2048/20211013_220440.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="2048" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip9Xvr7gl6qZ6rFGfPNZ0Ud9zpVHnrkct9AcfTl1i5nD0ntOFrnHDPhOwiICFyD5_WY7KcWwp9EDY9zXgGjK6GbzYAY2eRJiq9z4yQnALAeqd_KD3ag_1WuJZFGTDVJvGfKDC2yn9TPgw/w400-h261/20211013_220440.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 14: Helmet</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-L9JWrjpc3dKuWDo5HlaQOl62_ehD8nFsw6pjdxDe-syEKwht5gY1cM_gJXudt2Z2GzGH7kWgjONLDcSMYm3A51bWw09OYoWSTi-1RxxWZ6BKsknx2fSaE7m_2-3U9kR6mChVesXBzgE/s2048/20211015_202014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1205" data-original-width="2048" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-L9JWrjpc3dKuWDo5HlaQOl62_ehD8nFsw6pjdxDe-syEKwht5gY1cM_gJXudt2Z2GzGH7kWgjONLDcSMYm3A51bWw09OYoWSTi-1RxxWZ6BKsknx2fSaE7m_2-3U9kR6mChVesXBzgE/w400-h235/20211015_202014.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 15: Tick</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjereY0ZQ2l12k76F-8doYTBKnoekita_ouzsPAWEjkUzIkTx9voEYabzqonbqpJeiKnIfGuhfjcCt6FoNhF6JA6D8AHIYtzrdYws7CoPW1doNuWo5gaJENC6CdKp8LgUfXfpgDmwif2XU/s2048/20211015_202139.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjereY0ZQ2l12k76F-8doYTBKnoekita_ouzsPAWEjkUzIkTx9voEYabzqonbqpJeiKnIfGuhfjcCt6FoNhF6JA6D8AHIYtzrdYws7CoPW1doNuWo5gaJENC6CdKp8LgUfXfpgDmwif2XU/w400-h225/20211015_202139.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 16: Compass</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxN-DffSLbhinUbzM0PQ5nZ3SM-8P1ijqd3VlWNuIFbLgsehwq92aJBCO7i61j8kwXM63pJ1jE-lvmn0mZXcDFExeTUX45hmy8K-4SwR6syseZsxcf-4b1jRvmWwioVk4gRfuz_5lqNWk/s2048/20211016_191226.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1572" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxN-DffSLbhinUbzM0PQ5nZ3SM-8P1ijqd3VlWNuIFbLgsehwq92aJBCO7i61j8kwXM63pJ1jE-lvmn0mZXcDFExeTUX45hmy8K-4SwR6syseZsxcf-4b1jRvmWwioVk4gRfuz_5lqNWk/w400-h308/20211016_191226.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 17: Collide</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq-2V6XKMxXMgpX-ImudhNokS5NwqFF3D3uEcAVOIcJb0aUpR0PfjJrmq-OWJKJDVFVVFJ2q7G7rcInf-uHnQ4TviEF3yRdjgicHeV9Yg40_Mts0zjf2scBIi0rakwgUm54sIwUelA0Ds/s2048/20211018_125418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq-2V6XKMxXMgpX-ImudhNokS5NwqFF3D3uEcAVOIcJb0aUpR0PfjJrmq-OWJKJDVFVVFJ2q7G7rcInf-uHnQ4TviEF3yRdjgicHeV9Yg40_Mts0zjf2scBIi0rakwgUm54sIwUelA0Ds/w400-h225/20211018_125418.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 18: Moon</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZ_Dbp_hdPiu0uixKxxHNwmvWNpq7iSKW_864sz2vs3Ps6kztgw0k0zGxeL_X5wVaxiTAhgk7iN0GouLgQLLNHoiSAyJebkvEiDfILo2MRgJcJw9IuJFX6qfAz9nYaPt6OxTDzbUDN2Y/s2048/20211018_150001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1586" data-original-width="2048" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZ_Dbp_hdPiu0uixKxxHNwmvWNpq7iSKW_864sz2vs3Ps6kztgw0k0zGxeL_X5wVaxiTAhgk7iN0GouLgQLLNHoiSAyJebkvEiDfILo2MRgJcJw9IuJFX6qfAz9nYaPt6OxTDzbUDN2Y/w400-h310/20211018_150001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 19: Loop</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGODZhYfJtiWmwK6zP7u0Agir4m6u7XxViaFW3QhbYbonKE6GJet8lbKnxeFliCxdM2Y425LabAzYuOjyXFeh4IZJhVih06DxcWzZOEhHzVC-MyuJEJG39bGwexLi7XGZsUl_zDB0qW38/s2048/20211019_203124.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1814" data-original-width="2048" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGODZhYfJtiWmwK6zP7u0Agir4m6u7XxViaFW3QhbYbonKE6GJet8lbKnxeFliCxdM2Y425LabAzYuOjyXFeh4IZJhVih06DxcWzZOEhHzVC-MyuJEJG39bGwexLi7XGZsUl_zDB0qW38/w400-h354/20211019_203124.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 20: Sprout</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6xWVq_b4Qqv-KDo-DGKFOACDsECt69zTpD3A4BrdiHe_R2QSrt6xvHNGQxprk27rtCDt0jUQfIC7IbgCT6S76kfl8Ed67OZhF9mZTxZODEPjv9H1X3ZKjCfsBMo_0a4lk0LSKg0FRuE/s2048/20211020_202009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6xWVq_b4Qqv-KDo-DGKFOACDsECt69zTpD3A4BrdiHe_R2QSrt6xvHNGQxprk27rtCDt0jUQfIC7IbgCT6S76kfl8Ed67OZhF9mZTxZODEPjv9H1X3ZKjCfsBMo_0a4lk0LSKg0FRuE/w400-h225/20211020_202009.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 21: Fuzzy</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_mzcdk2eDgsfso6GLOlQSZCpsQSEXxmwidqkg62mzfNoODJmWpQmRpNzg-1Jxq6MAHcKeLmLxI5GeapbRxqiA0-ddlZ0jn_VbM2Fg4HOLzMpv7JqJBbsdbaflOZdx5LtXnVFl8_Z55Pg/s2048/20211024_212819.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_mzcdk2eDgsfso6GLOlQSZCpsQSEXxmwidqkg62mzfNoODJmWpQmRpNzg-1Jxq6MAHcKeLmLxI5GeapbRxqiA0-ddlZ0jn_VbM2Fg4HOLzMpv7JqJBbsdbaflOZdx5LtXnVFl8_Z55Pg/w400-h225/20211024_212819.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 22: Open</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtoNlP_NL3N2I5xB-i7j3-ZtVVNwQ0p0RmjWUQLxOqi6PLh7TnPmFCL9LP7t30U5AH7z7CC9xR8K9gjNZIQDrgHt8DdzH8vS9ZkDOMvzUXn2A7K8ewZeagiO4MognBrds05Wtkx84oe4/s2048/20211024_212830.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="2048" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUtoNlP_NL3N2I5xB-i7j3-ZtVVNwQ0p0RmjWUQLxOqi6PLh7TnPmFCL9LP7t30U5AH7z7CC9xR8K9gjNZIQDrgHt8DdzH8vS9ZkDOMvzUXn2A7K8ewZeagiO4MognBrds05Wtkx84oe4/w400-h280/20211024_212830.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 23: Leak</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvQxXihO-P7FmRVRIbRMruFssJVYCYjEnBdYksENqVvUml2cVeYJszhmEqv7YphLKrRS7Cu4pi0C_euCWX4FgAiw8-yY-Oxn2TlNcx4KcfK9OGwgLdtocmDnvmgQoHd6JNQVRB6tR62o/s2048/20211024_212839.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvQxXihO-P7FmRVRIbRMruFssJVYCYjEnBdYksENqVvUml2cVeYJszhmEqv7YphLKrRS7Cu4pi0C_euCWX4FgAiw8-yY-Oxn2TlNcx4KcfK9OGwgLdtocmDnvmgQoHd6JNQVRB6tR62o/w400-h225/20211024_212839.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 24: Extinct</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioS7JduQDKE0bSUBLMPPU7xZZCqfR1R_FcsVQvaxB7OxjWEAaCEBsnxqFRyjtoQQ1furqDYoIX2_O3Yr4GvMeYWf0kX_2lPYJHfDd-9RTbdBTqSKBUBHZsNQcEjupqks4ijfOWTGJe7kE/s2048/20211024_212937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="2048" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioS7JduQDKE0bSUBLMPPU7xZZCqfR1R_FcsVQvaxB7OxjWEAaCEBsnxqFRyjtoQQ1furqDYoIX2_O3Yr4GvMeYWf0kX_2lPYJHfDd-9RTbdBTqSKBUBHZsNQcEjupqks4ijfOWTGJe7kE/w400-h244/20211024_212937.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 25: Splat</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_pO9jgs1vDtkoYZFYX_YEDjiCv5KP4VE3hr27vW_PvuHddlfmUJqXyVoL8OrWbCT9LW1ltymgwhjL1x8aA47spZfz_RP-MfZqQX6mBHwbPY37W6dWSzGtpSg0wpfhXcFuLtr_t-TRVbA/s2048/20211028_220317.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="2048" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_pO9jgs1vDtkoYZFYX_YEDjiCv5KP4VE3hr27vW_PvuHddlfmUJqXyVoL8OrWbCT9LW1ltymgwhjL1x8aA47spZfz_RP-MfZqQX6mBHwbPY37W6dWSzGtpSg0wpfhXcFuLtr_t-TRVbA/w400-h290/20211028_220317.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 26: Connect</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHFrXnanOPQJeYa3e13lEqyaaDNjn-rKu3JChh1I_sCl4Jf79BRQJkcCbKI2OxJi10t5OqJ04z3I7-12wm7SU7wOnvCBdaPrI933O4_QhAgssyQnc2MHbyctSA04iyEACe9vlH3BCe8Uw/s2048/20211028_220411.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHFrXnanOPQJeYa3e13lEqyaaDNjn-rKu3JChh1I_sCl4Jf79BRQJkcCbKI2OxJi10t5OqJ04z3I7-12wm7SU7wOnvCBdaPrI933O4_QhAgssyQnc2MHbyctSA04iyEACe9vlH3BCe8Uw/w400-h225/20211028_220411.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 27: Spark</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHfdr3kVix46ahVk7xLrrdtkH6lcEUvF8w80FTDowyNtyGZDKPhmpE9ByewTt3hQXjLyMF7RGYL5cSxbJ1DIzXukGGmWpeEExMO_ITBPVaMVDcXW55XYzZusb2n71IKUyD_RmJOfGTGko/s2048/20211028_220441.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHfdr3kVix46ahVk7xLrrdtkH6lcEUvF8w80FTDowyNtyGZDKPhmpE9ByewTt3hQXjLyMF7RGYL5cSxbJ1DIzXukGGmWpeEExMO_ITBPVaMVDcXW55XYzZusb2n71IKUyD_RmJOfGTGko/w400-h225/20211028_220441.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 28: Crispy</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObz8zAHfemU0gZLlav261oYxTC4tuTk0au9lCcSmHTOyh1yuzY12wYsxZ7he9WudSlbC6eSXapGPnDJNDk1216pxaFcnB7N09NvXX_7jH2fDuap3hAo3uURWaVHjAL9j9L022R6ryJJQ/s2048/20211028_220509.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1291" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObz8zAHfemU0gZLlav261oYxTC4tuTk0au9lCcSmHTOyh1yuzY12wYsxZ7he9WudSlbC6eSXapGPnDJNDk1216pxaFcnB7N09NvXX_7jH2fDuap3hAo3uURWaVHjAL9j9L022R6ryJJQ/w253-h400/20211028_220509.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 29: Patch</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKzYd_3C3fUsvVaAObHLOK1cK3nbsYG5rrUlWBgXbB0dJSoYtx9YwyhOE-BbecE-a0IjvqGsDRY3HdjCNGKgX8sIWGS0L7HJjXlOErMI0VVSiyCCqnjZIm_383DXsxNS3sSTC9TrquNQ/s2048/20211029_130050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="2048" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKzYd_3C3fUsvVaAObHLOK1cK3nbsYG5rrUlWBgXbB0dJSoYtx9YwyhOE-BbecE-a0IjvqGsDRY3HdjCNGKgX8sIWGS0L7HJjXlOErMI0VVSiyCCqnjZIm_383DXsxNS3sSTC9TrquNQ/w400-h271/20211029_130050.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 30: Slither</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH8fB3AJZAaLTRxblBNA-cUEciQ3Yrmcf6F1Z0lbm0vlwQQNjwRKlOy2iCP09_8ZDh8r-WQ2BPrPmW9Z3Y_2cZ4dUI99KY4GgA1-MVulCpWmd1xP1AeZW810VSTZlBTjrvICKl1nS8CoY/s2048/20211030_204803.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH8fB3AJZAaLTRxblBNA-cUEciQ3Yrmcf6F1Z0lbm0vlwQQNjwRKlOy2iCP09_8ZDh8r-WQ2BPrPmW9Z3Y_2cZ4dUI99KY4GgA1-MVulCpWmd1xP1AeZW810VSTZlBTjrvICKl1nS8CoY/w400-h225/20211030_204803.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 31: Risk</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZub9_7SiojBdRBL4xGCao79O8s0Tg42kBqpcQCYUNxCl5Qj-LI3XSkZUR5HA0QsFPzo9WzMQ3UQNZeKikD1w9TFlcRY-x5lhELBo3XKn2P7mbIYAaJGEI5k3rp76VNrdg9og9skA0Fig/s2048/20211031_143236.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1486" data-original-width="2048" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZub9_7SiojBdRBL4xGCao79O8s0Tg42kBqpcQCYUNxCl5Qj-LI3XSkZUR5HA0QsFPzo9WzMQ3UQNZeKikD1w9TFlcRY-x5lhELBo3XKn2P7mbIYAaJGEI5k3rp76VNrdg9og9skA0Fig/w400-h290/20211031_143236.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-51639724717344266922021-11-05T11:08:00.001-07:002021-11-05T11:08:43.638-07:00Jack-O-Lantern Designs 2021: Publix Commission Edition!<p> Hey Everyone! Don't worry I didn't forget to do my annual pumpkin designs! Yes it may appear that way, seeing as it's now November, but there's something different in store for this year (literally), and when you add the worldwide shipping delays to the equation, we're unfortunately a bit late. </p><p>So what's the deal?</p><p>Well, earlier this spring, I was contacted by <a href="https://www.publix.com/">Publix Super Markets Inc.</a> with a request to license some of my jack-o-lantern designs for some Halloween-themed reusable tote bags! They were inquiring about the very first two contact sheets, and upon informing them that I had <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/10-years-of-pumpkin-designs.html">over 10 years worth of these things</a>, they stuck to their initial request of the <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a> and <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a> sheets. </p><p>There was one little complication though. Since I have been using the same template for over a decade, the resolution of my typical designs aren't very high at all. I remember finding a public domain pumpkin image as the background back in the day, but it was pretty low resolution and I can't even seem to track down the original anymore (even with reverse image searches).</p><p>The great folks at Publix had a solution, and bought a high res stock image for me, with the understanding that I would up-res and clean up the original facial expressions so they would work when printing (thank goodness for keeping the original photoshop files for all these years!)</p><p>So here we have new HD versions of my 10 and 11 year old designs:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFj1GPCDljsGt4pdUMDBhJJvvu4RqzFU_AfVJP28hfXur6DgJX55Uk1TMzCTgeUjFusBxJdDwX0R3is7Kqg7SIy3eLY4LY5QDqVArpTgwr6Lqvsabpf9GwEit2WtaMvc-6OeF40Lwrys/s1500/eboucher_pumpkins_2010_contact_sheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1500" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFj1GPCDljsGt4pdUMDBhJJvvu4RqzFU_AfVJP28hfXur6DgJX55Uk1TMzCTgeUjFusBxJdDwX0R3is7Kqg7SIy3eLY4LY5QDqVArpTgwr6Lqvsabpf9GwEit2WtaMvc-6OeF40Lwrys/w320-h224/eboucher_pumpkins_2010_contact_sheet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7eYZnmQLsDbYLRFSVeVZEhZugc4IEMuYW9QVZpgtgu0LK8So1dmvqSlL1OYJQcsKkg4f-0TwYQgyrL5w7SAwJwTlHlzQA14s73tdw4L_4GOwQwriUTQt7WcL8fgH2JzGHuGW3fSyEIWo/s1500/eboucher_pumpkins_2011_contact_sheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1500" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7eYZnmQLsDbYLRFSVeVZEhZugc4IEMuYW9QVZpgtgu0LK8So1dmvqSlL1OYJQcsKkg4f-0TwYQgyrL5w7SAwJwTlHlzQA14s73tdw4L_4GOwQwriUTQt7WcL8fgH2JzGHuGW3fSyEIWo/w320-h224/eboucher_pumpkins_2011_contact_sheet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>For Comparison, here's the original low-res versions:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GM20yIu82PerSRwV0Dl6mz_0MIBpTDDL6Daonw-QgflX7zeWIClBeAamj9F5-numHllgY9sfp8FmNs9tYiZvX8gdEIkspgarl-_wgKyVf9Allz-VnrplNy63kPodglqE8Qhkxkx2d80/s1443/pumpkin_designs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1443" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GM20yIu82PerSRwV0Dl6mz_0MIBpTDDL6Daonw-QgflX7zeWIClBeAamj9F5-numHllgY9sfp8FmNs9tYiZvX8gdEIkspgarl-_wgKyVf9Allz-VnrplNy63kPodglqE8Qhkxkx2d80/s320/pumpkin_designs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkFxsL8lGEwGQMFfTjcqjc1km3lUYnv4PQu2HJOebT1kYTXFkdIvIzVuka-oB3cKE2WzLf2lSfOveUgQMUD0yCN3UFo5c_jwa-Bov_FajD5yYMm-b9OG-vvzvPjJ63fTkIm7go51rK8I/s1443/pumpkin_designs_2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1443" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkFxsL8lGEwGQMFfTjcqjc1km3lUYnv4PQu2HJOebT1kYTXFkdIvIzVuka-oB3cKE2WzLf2lSfOveUgQMUD0yCN3UFo5c_jwa-Bov_FajD5yYMm-b9OG-vvzvPjJ63fTkIm7go51rK8I/s320/pumpkin_designs_2011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>But WAIT! There's MORE! They also asked if they could commission an entirely new set for them, including one with their logo on it.<b> So this year's designs are literally brought to you by <a href="https://www.publix.com/">Publix Super Markets, Inc</a>:</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFXNf_9DjhLTV1JXtNXsY642_ak7gOVDYQUbwWxMYTF1zKCIHtAHjjgEqeP_9ANQOmivDc5EI4JFCDIx2omphDWDRNadKKK749nusmXz5NRRo9tgILr8Dm_Ah38o80PZQeu-PsYRtL2jU/s1500/eboucher_pumpkins_2021_contact_sheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1500" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFXNf_9DjhLTV1JXtNXsY642_ak7gOVDYQUbwWxMYTF1zKCIHtAHjjgEqeP_9ANQOmivDc5EI4JFCDIx2omphDWDRNadKKK749nusmXz5NRRo9tgILr8Dm_Ah38o80PZQeu-PsYRtL2jU/w400-h280/eboucher_pumpkins_2021_contact_sheet.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Despite this project having wrapped up all the way back in April, because of production and shipping delays, it took a while to get the totes into the stores, and I wanted to wait to post until I had some in my hands. The team at Publix ended up picking and choosing various designs from all three contact sheets and mixing and matching:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XnpQZG-Cu6xRWo0YAfz8nXl3hxC55gQxgAtuwoXIf7dnNa3zDYPdsv1u7YNUX2_icFaQgLluVe2NvqznNs-Xik_0fbNoPyMbiUl8MEh5P9UsCZvxIcSCpq0xGpqiO83xKLkkI7Cc1l4/s2048/20211105_091616.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XnpQZG-Cu6xRWo0YAfz8nXl3hxC55gQxgAtuwoXIf7dnNa3zDYPdsv1u7YNUX2_icFaQgLluVe2NvqznNs-Xik_0fbNoPyMbiUl8MEh5P9UsCZvxIcSCpq0xGpqiO83xKLkkI7Cc1l4/w400-h225/20211105_091616.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>I think they look great, don't you? They should be available in Publix stores around the country NOW! (Although I've been informed that they're actually selling out! So get them while you can!) </p><p>This turned out to be a great experience for me. I find it fun to see such old drawings that I did as a fun request from a friend bringing joy to people a decade later. As an artist, I look back on these old contact sheets and see them as simple unrefined works - and yet here they are today, still resonating people. It's a good reminder to stay humble and while it's great to constantly be pushing yourself as an artist, your current skills don't invalidate your old work. </p><p>So again, sorry for the delay, but HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!</p><p>As always, feel free to check out previous year designs here:</p><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2016.html">2016</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2017/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2017.html">2017</a><br /><a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2018</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/10-years-of-pumpkin-designs.html">2019</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2020/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-moods-of-2020.html">2020</a></div>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-18985526479279914902021-11-05T10:02:00.003-07:002021-11-05T10:02:57.907-07:00Conservation Painting 2021<p> Hey All! Is anyone still reading this? I thought I'd go ahead and update with some work I did this year.</p><p>First up, more painting in support of conservation initiatives! In <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/search/label/conservation">previous years</a> I've done a number of paintings for various conservation related charity auctions. With last year being (hopefully) peak pandemic, all the usual events I do artwork for were either cancelled, or had their format tweaked to a virtual environment.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">World Giraffe Day 2021</h3><p>It was nice this year when my first post-vaccinated gathering was the annual <a href="https://globalconservationforce.org/events/laughs-giraffes-world-giraffe-day-2021/">'Laughs for Giraffes'</a> event in celebration/support of World Giraffe Day in June - this year hosted by the <a href="https://globalconservationforce.org/">Global Conservation Force.</a> I was asked if I would be willing to create something, which I happily agreed to, and came up with this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIJtOWBDzFj4Z4FgrfkEBVvOLb9X3w9pBsQLsqusglOG8yjbjwSIALEOqUcENzYItY3FKCSrK9aj7nvEMJSEd9QQro5qBCNQ8UA6IdqCkwEfV8YP6gZgt-1TGgQACJCU1aac4gOgHXnw/s1600/1623772720634.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIJtOWBDzFj4Z4FgrfkEBVvOLb9X3w9pBsQLsqusglOG8yjbjwSIALEOqUcENzYItY3FKCSrK9aj7nvEMJSEd9QQro5qBCNQ8UA6IdqCkwEfV8YP6gZgt-1TGgQACJCU1aac4gOgHXnw/w400-h320/1623772720634.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p> What was fun about this one was how serendipitously it came about. I was actually planning something completely different but while experimenting with different compositions and doing a bunch of sketching of Giraffes, I ended up jotting down this pose which really resonated with me, so I designed the image around it:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCfc585f53rxWk7NYY5DvGXTBZVuok0JpoUXhM7Gg_twHys0zgEw22cxPsq67AEz_BwZsQ1FQOluuhxvPmSN2EhZcnHZrE8n7TpV3vRe2Ji9iszQVLMHOAzVbCwzYnZH1kbn1BJUYmDw/s2048/0517211942_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCfc585f53rxWk7NYY5DvGXTBZVuok0JpoUXhM7Gg_twHys0zgEw22cxPsq67AEz_BwZsQ1FQOluuhxvPmSN2EhZcnHZrE8n7TpV3vRe2Ji9iszQVLMHOAzVbCwzYnZH1kbn1BJUYmDw/w360-h640/0517211942_HDR.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here's the final framed print that sold at the silent auction:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyeHvGO95ai3X0Hl_yOkZMlGeHQXaCgfATqbrncOS5dPQyr-fvHlcH6MQBt6PWgBB1ExC_122FkUH1UpPdIIYiNEFl8RDJXGDjlKdIED0f-NR12QCBQoM3-9dnTtlwM3zK9EHBVL-4-c/s2048/0613211118a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyeHvGO95ai3X0Hl_yOkZMlGeHQXaCgfATqbrncOS5dPQyr-fvHlcH6MQBt6PWgBB1ExC_122FkUH1UpPdIIYiNEFl8RDJXGDjlKdIED0f-NR12QCBQoM3-9dnTtlwM3zK9EHBVL-4-c/w400-h225/0613211118a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h3>World Rhino Day 2021</h3><div>While the annual <a href="https://aazk.org/bowling-for-rhinos/">Bowling for Rhinos</a> event didn't happen this year, I decided to do a drawing to post across all my social media platforms to raise awareness for World Rhino Day on Sep 22, 2021:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgLGCakqwVp7fvQlxxIcJk2KH-5qdOB92ON8ihSivjQRq-q4DFChiiE1I_Tns0ziBtnpZOc7gGVBNC9P-nFS0KOf-v7pPSydGuSZ6PT5KUPZIHUtPZilgLgABf6-I8F_841LhC1VB7yA/s1500/eboucher_teleoceras.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgLGCakqwVp7fvQlxxIcJk2KH-5qdOB92ON8ihSivjQRq-q4DFChiiE1I_Tns0ziBtnpZOc7gGVBNC9P-nFS0KOf-v7pPSydGuSZ6PT5KUPZIHUtPZilgLgABf6-I8F_841LhC1VB7yA/w400-h320/eboucher_teleoceras.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE66apXJHqSgLjiVE24mUhhIVORMZXoKhdlxdFVOZzGA7ELF-sAwpjOsGQynJSWlrtWWDPZFJFgJSyaNBowI_OMpILIYkedhwirDGatXDmMG6tano2Ve6A6FZKEweE8cmH0sB1LFCy7wI/s1003/eboucher_teleoceras_detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1003" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE66apXJHqSgLjiVE24mUhhIVORMZXoKhdlxdFVOZzGA7ELF-sAwpjOsGQynJSWlrtWWDPZFJFgJSyaNBowI_OMpILIYkedhwirDGatXDmMG6tano2Ve6A6FZKEweE8cmH0sB1LFCy7wI/w400-h320/eboucher_teleoceras_detail.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>No that's not just a poorly drawn rhino, these are the actual proportions of the stout extinct American rhino, <i>Teleoceras</i>, made famous by the <a href="https://ashfall.unl.edu/">Ashfall Fossil Beds</a> in Nebraska. As content as this animal looks, it has no idea an eruption from the Yellowstone volcano ~700 miles away is soon going to 'Pompei' its entire herd. While these guys were wiped out before humanity even existed, humans are directly causing the rapid decline of all 5 rhino species still alive today. </div><div><br /></div><div>And that's what I have for this year. I've been thinking a lot lately about how to take these sorts of projects further, and put my skills to good use to do more science communication on a variety of important topics. While animals like rhinos and giraffes certainly need our help there are a lot of more obscure animals, and indeed entire interconnected ecosystems that deserve awareness and better PR campaigns as well. After all, a wild rhino population isn't going to survive if the rest of its ecosystem isn't in tact....</div><div><br /></div><div>That's all for now. I hope to have more on this topic soon.</div><div><br /></div><div>-Evan </div>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-28655479426393841102020-11-02T12:18:00.000-08:002020-11-02T12:18:05.786-08:00Sleepy Griffin<p> Here's just a quick sketch I did this morning. My <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-ringed_parakeet">African rose-ringed parakeet <i>(Psittacula krameri krameri)</i></a>, Griffin, was falling asleep and I thought it was cute so I decided to sketch him:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifD4eemEIIPnSzQgzGeHJdKGtM03ofyGgh5d2pAedGRHCE4mM9bnUyXsKENAKU894flHqSZDgloN0mpCQMPpQPz4aU5doLsGHq-BmKTG0uls1dzcgAWDhqSAECuV3IMQc8QbjqrQnaffU/s1077/sleepy_griffin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="718" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifD4eemEIIPnSzQgzGeHJdKGtM03ofyGgh5d2pAedGRHCE4mM9bnUyXsKENAKU894flHqSZDgloN0mpCQMPpQPz4aU5doLsGHq-BmKTG0uls1dzcgAWDhqSAECuV3IMQc8QbjqrQnaffU/w426-h640/sleepy_griffin.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-86384476712899605982020-10-31T12:03:00.005-07:002020-10-31T12:03:32.764-07:00Inktober 2020<p> With all the extra time at home I thought it was a good year to try participating in <a href="https://inktober.com/rules">Inktober</a>, where you create and share an ink drawing based on a list of prompts for each day during the month of October.</p><p>I successfully completed all the prompts, although there were a few days where I got behind and had to do multiple drawing to catch up, especially once we started raising a new dog. This was a great experience to force me to just push stuff out. Any artist goes through the mental games of not wanting to release something to the world unless they're extremely happy with it it, especially when there are so many better artists in one's social network.</p><p> With this challenge I tried to embrace the idea that it doesn't matter if a single drawing didn't turn out great because there's a new one tomorrow. It was nice to get back to sketching and not obsessing over details and erasing and redrawing every line over and over again (which is easy to get stuck doing when working digitally). I tried my best to embrace the medium - smudges, imperfections, and all.</p><p> I also didn't want to spend too much time on any individual drawing, and was forcing myself to commit to ideas. I didn't do any pencil under-drawings... so you can see all my mistakes on the page. For some drawings I thumbnailed a bit to plan compositions or character designs, and for a few drawings I screwed up at the end in a way that I couldn't let go and completely redrew them. There are plenty of issues I've noticed after the fact and if I was working digitally would more easily be able to refine things like cluttered compositions, messy silhouettes, or bad perspective, but I was trying to let go of all that and just enjoy the process of drawing. Some definitely turned out better than others. Also of note, there's no fancy techniques or tools here. Just a normal ballpoint pen on a sketchpad.</p><p>Anyway, I wanted to post them all in one spot for ease of access, so here you are. It was a good experience and I think I'll try to do it again next year. (Click any image to enlarge it)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 1: Fish</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHHDn93A74-PsBZF_W7jXEn2CfksSNrKUsL_iMNSWJmZ3ICY66V14-OS7WgGtg-cg3lXxP8Z0cVC5m_J6onYsiES2vOpwQRpe11Yde8tr_uYLjrZPRejObXl66cUh_9p9EoBRgQ48llw/s2048/1.Fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHHDn93A74-PsBZF_W7jXEn2CfksSNrKUsL_iMNSWJmZ3ICY66V14-OS7WgGtg-cg3lXxP8Z0cVC5m_J6onYsiES2vOpwQRpe11Yde8tr_uYLjrZPRejObXl66cUh_9p9EoBRgQ48llw/w400-h225/1.Fish.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 2: Wisp</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiXb9vD-yIAPpTi1_3KRnZ2QI1oQHsxGd1fVj83dkCllekMttjrVz-WWbnE-cG4Tw4c_1sO9oGQfKK5CB7fqHBXHhfoJQIl5APCqw0gOMvBsuYqRS46jG_oK1TtZOGejXC3oDXxtbSUo/s2048/2.Wisp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiXb9vD-yIAPpTi1_3KRnZ2QI1oQHsxGd1fVj83dkCllekMttjrVz-WWbnE-cG4Tw4c_1sO9oGQfKK5CB7fqHBXHhfoJQIl5APCqw0gOMvBsuYqRS46jG_oK1TtZOGejXC3oDXxtbSUo/w400-h225/2.Wisp.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 3: Bulky</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTXj3AKwCgnwE3U5pp9prv_5clanT8K2wZnibR8b3CxfObIgzL85OVcCdj0vTS9yn6_2INeDmE0VIaGmV-58tGagln2ocgQe3scwwpihooGTLxPvgRaHxwIbdO3ffCvRJ4WONUzOnOEkM/s2048/3.Bulky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd_W3PX3fONyMhkvJC_vgWc-TX2Lqo038Ce6M5fSS3wvh6_XyHgCYJXQKOdQlh41swIMHWBmhxTzHVy_8jnrNWwQ3udEG-jTdFXIGcDZ-nI0LEfs0qYa8RBqzPFzhMPmv0-UahJslYdkk/w400-h225/5.Blade.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 6: Rodent</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoS37W2d7iqt055o3arEwOFsl7jNC22XVf4A9tOY7U8WIZ_kq1RVKxCcoUhzfUzJak1wjpS2LYe4cRV8YMfyouSLy8vtk9SGiDZJc95j9nqMkFChDUO1f9w1zWOVM86L9FpBqVh_Lu1CQ/s2048/6.Rodent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1760" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoS37W2d7iqt055o3arEwOFsl7jNC22XVf4A9tOY7U8WIZ_kq1RVKxCcoUhzfUzJak1wjpS2LYe4cRV8YMfyouSLy8vtk9SGiDZJc95j9nqMkFChDUO1f9w1zWOVM86L9FpBqVh_Lu1CQ/w344-h400/6.Rodent.jpg" width="344" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 7: Fancy</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI4_6A3QjTwDgoXSsnK4_E7c5u8rHdArlUAna7d_wqn_H5nnckak_hIiG64JCekDXccYbCVihyl8E6MQgxtoAarCGC-mUW4S_vu1NaP2z_3DG25r39VfPxn7z36dcxiZVN8KcMqotsX7s/s2048/7.Fancy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1508" data-original-width="2048" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI4_6A3QjTwDgoXSsnK4_E7c5u8rHdArlUAna7d_wqn_H5nnckak_hIiG64JCekDXccYbCVihyl8E6MQgxtoAarCGC-mUW4S_vu1NaP2z_3DG25r39VfPxn7z36dcxiZVN8KcMqotsX7s/w400-h295/7.Fancy.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 8: Teeth</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6ej6PQO-qJ1Ew0djynG-sKvll3pg-O5B5TAuVVgwGGTAhb7y5d09CHn5Ji1y96EwWxBBjRJ9K_IW3k0-TrLl7IKbUpUy7ZzHR8p14aKzHpsdEQYl2kscP0w-NkBao3NMiKWEl430m-E/s2048/8.Teeth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1375" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6ej6PQO-qJ1Ew0djynG-sKvll3pg-O5B5TAuVVgwGGTAhb7y5d09CHn5Ji1y96EwWxBBjRJ9K_IW3k0-TrLl7IKbUpUy7ZzHR8p14aKzHpsdEQYl2kscP0w-NkBao3NMiKWEl430m-E/w269-h400/8.Teeth.jpg" width="269" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 9: Throw</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQJddhPfTcZYxpTaDJ1mwAkLD4szqhKg6RXVFfZ8AqIcSJQTqlzesj3tZ4BxdNon7tkd7XzvoIYq_l4bTjTLxSk3X6IsN_ihRt-IX-T4Kr5ifK5ihhP-GG53hyTtBVf9tCsvZ8soytFI/s2048/9.Throw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQJddhPfTcZYxpTaDJ1mwAkLD4szqhKg6RXVFfZ8AqIcSJQTqlzesj3tZ4BxdNon7tkd7XzvoIYq_l4bTjTLxSk3X6IsN_ihRt-IX-T4Kr5ifK5ihhP-GG53hyTtBVf9tCsvZ8soytFI/w400-h225/9.Throw.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 10: Hope</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRU0vEcJgCHln6TzGiQQbP6RIvnhui03V-USxYL1Bu4qiO3J_fOYWjP0-4mh__tx0fFqaOsCp72oTP5je7KNfYw0wUbGXsNImdIDTjbNsXoV7OevuR3Tcl_Hpy2ecw4PI6ceCpvwJ6s_M/s2048/10.Hope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1781" data-original-width="2048" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRU0vEcJgCHln6TzGiQQbP6RIvnhui03V-USxYL1Bu4qiO3J_fOYWjP0-4mh__tx0fFqaOsCp72oTP5je7KNfYw0wUbGXsNImdIDTjbNsXoV7OevuR3Tcl_Hpy2ecw4PI6ceCpvwJ6s_M/w400-h348/10.Hope.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 11: Disgusting</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvkpJOkdlpog6erRVieqf3RskM0X_jcTgzMAdCEveUGJtLr98_2rU5GssJBUdkrV418gYC4Y_xFrNCxprIcqCD8QtMatDowC0kURPO3n8z484X9ofWcnFk2mTboVchr39m2HyJhgbcHBQ/s2048/11.Disgusting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1789" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvtnSa1WZyyGrvXjjwL7e6Ty0g727iMW-q2YcvkZJppkfduca1AJ28ywY-UGxKQ_UiNnllSl8LioBIT_YTxi8KlAUM_e529MBsP3fkaMCQWedAg927yx-MHM-xNPgTz6osFsdnadp20w/w350-h400/13.Dune.jpg" width="350" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 14: Armor</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuq34xAJ_3tvgWTXNvuqFlIrYPQDpG6jm71IBMfLhM_MQOSNyQpof8bicqKbKgn5iPx2WYmK9j5FGYNVp6dzjjGHNB4HwwkZ0ulDymIHSVgMp-Oogi_FI-ODveg1s03ohdRkuEgg3Ul18/s2048/14.Armor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1586" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuq34xAJ_3tvgWTXNvuqFlIrYPQDpG6jm71IBMfLhM_MQOSNyQpof8bicqKbKgn5iPx2WYmK9j5FGYNVp6dzjjGHNB4HwwkZ0ulDymIHSVgMp-Oogi_FI-ODveg1s03ohdRkuEgg3Ul18/w310-h400/14.Armor.jpg" width="310" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 15: Outpost</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzVTwEdZwgCmID494i5HkAwyXJmj3cJYKcbzz_ZAXVN47CPZJvSt3drBr9q8rbvdjHzlf30rgcfK4SrNxY2etUlTUI9uLX8X8VMkUFfeUMcTGd7TRdX7aCW201y0639uimyV6N7ddD7D0/s2048/15.Outpost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1628" data-original-width="2048" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzVTwEdZwgCmID494i5HkAwyXJmj3cJYKcbzz_ZAXVN47CPZJvSt3drBr9q8rbvdjHzlf30rgcfK4SrNxY2etUlTUI9uLX8X8VMkUFfeUMcTGd7TRdX7aCW201y0639uimyV6N7ddD7D0/w400-h318/15.Outpost.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 16: Rocket</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCYVmvjH4ceuL5zAtJtrFSAzgoxQVmE03mwaY0GEPKoPiSrb1bNpdUUf6Qu-XCvBede0TjV7YO2T_4gERgygwMw0IZoxJ6XXr2b3h6ZPrGadeABFKFMoyrlQVoHSP6q4sYSeD1fnY1SZs/s2048/16.Rocket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCYVmvjH4ceuL5zAtJtrFSAzgoxQVmE03mwaY0GEPKoPiSrb1bNpdUUf6Qu-XCvBede0TjV7YO2T_4gERgygwMw0IZoxJ6XXr2b3h6ZPrGadeABFKFMoyrlQVoHSP6q4sYSeD1fnY1SZs/w400-h225/16.Rocket.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 17: Storm</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3-BUBGy_bHVxkZdposHsiVuR-Jjf6tY46dA6THzHy-Cvhi4sF05oCAdpid-Af3Xvcp3aguoffoRrNXB3uLJJq_pkv2Dx81X_J4crVMjp2plZKwSzFh2bUf887GfcZ4Dtei4DnI8em0h4/s2048/17.Storm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1706" data-original-width="2048" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3-BUBGy_bHVxkZdposHsiVuR-Jjf6tY46dA6THzHy-Cvhi4sF05oCAdpid-Af3Xvcp3aguoffoRrNXB3uLJJq_pkv2Dx81X_J4crVMjp2plZKwSzFh2bUf887GfcZ4Dtei4DnI8em0h4/w400-h334/17.Storm.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 18: Trap</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmCOXheosc3nZQibiJkCZIYZcEvyyKyhk3OBz92vBtBgpEXkykffmiOuwEU8j7j6YS5gAltGO5IoXLltVwa2QrMlH71af6o7fP4pfAEqWH3OsxPcP_fFkY7HajjByBNSpYrn4WMPTSmM/s2048/18.Trap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="2048" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmCOXheosc3nZQibiJkCZIYZcEvyyKyhk3OBz92vBtBgpEXkykffmiOuwEU8j7j6YS5gAltGO5IoXLltVwa2QrMlH71af6o7fP4pfAEqWH3OsxPcP_fFkY7HajjByBNSpYrn4WMPTSmM/w400-h323/18.Trap.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 19: Dizzy</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1L88w5FSZwf4Tnr4ChUT-epKUj2bWN56N-SP5RDSmgDBvxrbNVUZ83pEBPMLSMGrG6QO1u_lzihbqMU1oHMJJZi7f3XMKNKCdbSgYQaKwCA2w9iwq5DcXPhEAVnhm2ZsVgC3GnOGuxw/s2048/19.Dizzy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1L88w5FSZwf4Tnr4ChUT-epKUj2bWN56N-SP5RDSmgDBvxrbNVUZ83pEBPMLSMGrG6QO1u_lzihbqMU1oHMJJZi7f3XMKNKCdbSgYQaKwCA2w9iwq5DcXPhEAVnhm2ZsVgC3GnOGuxw/w336-h400/19.Dizzy.jpg" width="336" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 20: Coral</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQsJ87CKLOAjbExvzKNPXxLULZ5gFu0-MFTL7VWZ9Ill1McBZdagcXuqIKF4CY708zOHUHgFDNaRMNFqd2rqBqbOI8mnq6FQWCJKkTU1WLygP7qKUREqvASybjozJpTv-1_SMSvxVdUUM/s2048/20.Coral.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1573" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQsJ87CKLOAjbExvzKNPXxLULZ5gFu0-MFTL7VWZ9Ill1McBZdagcXuqIKF4CY708zOHUHgFDNaRMNFqd2rqBqbOI8mnq6FQWCJKkTU1WLygP7qKUREqvASybjozJpTv-1_SMSvxVdUUM/w400-h308/20.Coral.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 21: Sleep</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_9Izn_TLmEe0R_BjTe8Sp0q5nKIZg-6UT4j-epssA9cIFtL2drqxcMMzs6sy2JAdWpDkMq4i5aQo5kciRhzkrSUvAFDVDHrHi19f-UVpj5O2FoCenFcHaMV6yfl-3kKzVtKhT9mVEGQ/s1440/21.Sleep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_9Izn_TLmEe0R_BjTe8Sp0q5nKIZg-6UT4j-epssA9cIFtL2drqxcMMzs6sy2JAdWpDkMq4i5aQo5kciRhzkrSUvAFDVDHrHi19f-UVpj5O2FoCenFcHaMV6yfl-3kKzVtKhT9mVEGQ/w400-h225/21.Sleep.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 22: Chef</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_wLD5guqLSB87Q5OCWmAc8D42p6AC9k_vQIx8VKXk4_k98st32w3zscRFC7Z1LuBP9N3qEpUUOgqVBSZ6-7ftURjEVP_CzaJ6uxAy9AK1bD07lCkMixVE0I-DUVhgLaIJRF2UmOXPCpE/s2015/22.Chef.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2015" data-original-width="1133" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_wLD5guqLSB87Q5OCWmAc8D42p6AC9k_vQIx8VKXk4_k98st32w3zscRFC7Z1LuBP9N3qEpUUOgqVBSZ6-7ftURjEVP_CzaJ6uxAy9AK1bD07lCkMixVE0I-DUVhgLaIJRF2UmOXPCpE/w225-h400/22.Chef.jpg" width="225" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 23: Rip</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYtV4fX_aDUIqUyXVlynzVxNPl5o6eK_juztilN3ukdefAF_qEHLEHVE1uV14JjIuMIga8HV1JdKXtANjA3qQZ_qNgEadA1BZS7qf9xPfl0b4pQStMjqjnvXU3VwQ0wAhwa6_xRTC7qY/s1440/23.Rip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYtV4fX_aDUIqUyXVlynzVxNPl5o6eK_juztilN3ukdefAF_qEHLEHVE1uV14JjIuMIga8HV1JdKXtANjA3qQZ_qNgEadA1BZS7qf9xPfl0b4pQStMjqjnvXU3VwQ0wAhwa6_xRTC7qY/w400-h225/23.Rip.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 24: Dig</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpVvvtiAgDSDw27n27HVLUBG-pclOafVOoGeEWqrciQw7fEPrbUjnKxVDt6XYKQvi15UqldWBLY_BGQD3V_h95iqAO0K2kTCLqJWVibkNeR64KlgaslZmZTJVBF-thz2aTLBzTj9u1fo/s1440/24.Dig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1440" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpVvvtiAgDSDw27n27HVLUBG-pclOafVOoGeEWqrciQw7fEPrbUjnKxVDt6XYKQvi15UqldWBLY_BGQD3V_h95iqAO0K2kTCLqJWVibkNeR64KlgaslZmZTJVBF-thz2aTLBzTj9u1fo/w400-h231/24.Dig.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 25: Buddy</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOVDhpuP3n3-NddZyt1mLJq_jYLAOyXtJIY3B0Iv40u1TouNAeFfzLeLcFy_Ari0S0tn5__wpB348rLqCy_x-N8EUtch4frV8NzdxN8pXfiMxrqj7JeV_gN2GAhztGBYNfAcIH9P6Dww/s1440/25.Buddy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="1440" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOVDhpuP3n3-NddZyt1mLJq_jYLAOyXtJIY3B0Iv40u1TouNAeFfzLeLcFy_Ari0S0tn5__wpB348rLqCy_x-N8EUtch4frV8NzdxN8pXfiMxrqj7JeV_gN2GAhztGBYNfAcIH9P6Dww/w400-h310/25.Buddy.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 26: Hide</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBKSgqHtLGx4NlIYSoBnzxV86hQKp89Vz2bCGXYfuQ25wHj4OlNsX_ej0v-pwhhcTtqS-ZRR4eQq2qfkDQkAggHE9eKmoFSi0i2pqhvkqs6tiVDmJum_goNdIJSs1BIOJhaGlwhkQBLg8/s1440/26.Hide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1440" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBKSgqHtLGx4NlIYSoBnzxV86hQKp89Vz2bCGXYfuQ25wHj4OlNsX_ej0v-pwhhcTtqS-ZRR4eQq2qfkDQkAggHE9eKmoFSi0i2pqhvkqs6tiVDmJum_goNdIJSs1BIOJhaGlwhkQBLg8/w400-h263/26.Hide.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 27: Music</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8Rp3z-SvJv_ufJ2mE1MYD3b5ehXo5fmM8TzoKRZVM5CG4cy209ll0MQoSPkTUC6HcOAkVQ5cPErxUCZX_HLFebNSleET46l0KA4vhvS101a6sQPgGdMxN5julIEApFDbbOViXDs-xuA/s1440/27.Music.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1440" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8Rp3z-SvJv_ufJ2mE1MYD3b5ehXo5fmM8TzoKRZVM5CG4cy209ll0MQoSPkTUC6HcOAkVQ5cPErxUCZX_HLFebNSleET46l0KA4vhvS101a6sQPgGdMxN5julIEApFDbbOViXDs-xuA/w400-h324/27.Music.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 28: Float</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAHLj3ow3uSETlGasTkYUlrMLr685H4s4fDUQ4lvHovvQXYuq0G3gfJF2m-kZIGdazc3ShIKudi8INFgAurd3mjb1INicepJLBdtjJ0e4ofoImqYW4YBCyqx5Amu3GlsRVGF1U0J4Kp8/s1440/28.Float.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVAHLj3ow3uSETlGasTkYUlrMLr685H4s4fDUQ4lvHovvQXYuq0G3gfJF2m-kZIGdazc3ShIKudi8INFgAurd3mjb1INicepJLBdtjJ0e4ofoImqYW4YBCyqx5Amu3GlsRVGF1U0J4Kp8/w357-h640/28.Float.jpg" width="357" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 29: Shoes</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9HTxJhOrRfdMxu3tbGoiI6-xtVS7BtOZBfZU-kncrX8wuOKy1-M25yBRl1C7n_-vZ99m7UmwtUnhLQdQaHRdjzzNME3YId23nsTpK-so1xUXEVf7gfbWxCORbm8By-RC6dh-ZPJsqqE/s1440/29.Shoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="1440" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9HTxJhOrRfdMxu3tbGoiI6-xtVS7BtOZBfZU-kncrX8wuOKy1-M25yBRl1C7n_-vZ99m7UmwtUnhLQdQaHRdjzzNME3YId23nsTpK-so1xUXEVf7gfbWxCORbm8By-RC6dh-ZPJsqqE/w400-h323/29.Shoes.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 30: Ominous</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyhZx55H3tIPq-PS_BDJlAc-LRlk-1u8eyZnDP6zjDq6cZXWfANRTfR4RXvBiBDJdFMTqmjJRW-qU04oS5RCoEuZ6ob3W1_gTE3gLueG8S8n6TraElLYThtq0aOIVJrchknQeNYCMmRg8/s1440/29.Ominous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="1440" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyhZx55H3tIPq-PS_BDJlAc-LRlk-1u8eyZnDP6zjDq6cZXWfANRTfR4RXvBiBDJdFMTqmjJRW-qU04oS5RCoEuZ6ob3W1_gTE3gLueG8S8n6TraElLYThtq0aOIVJrchknQeNYCMmRg8/w400-h310/29.Ominous.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Prompt 31: Crawl</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyy0wSFvCNC8k32sCWUWiQiiGMCU0ucVwuvEy0i84P5xkFA1L1_UVK3ukXc0opTAoR32y2XuVpF45UL235yx6v9C-Pbuf6CULCWYBwNtmMG4O8b1N8e4mYnmTMg3mnt2Woc3aa9mfBKI/s1440/31.Crawl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="1440" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyy0wSFvCNC8k32sCWUWiQiiGMCU0ucVwuvEy0i84P5xkFA1L1_UVK3ukXc0opTAoR32y2XuVpF45UL235yx6v9C-Pbuf6CULCWYBwNtmMG4O8b1N8e4mYnmTMg3mnt2Woc3aa9mfBKI/w400-h305/31.Crawl.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-33506969696740405242020-10-31T11:18:00.005-07:002020-11-02T16:54:16.133-08:00Jack-O-Lanterns: IRL 2020<p> Happy Halloween Everyone! That means it's time for a "Jack-O-Lanterns In Real Life" post! This year COVID didn't stop people from carving Jack-O-Lanterns - in fact, we had more people submit carvings of my designs than ever before this year!</p><p>First up my friend and Giraffe-Keeper Extraordinaire, Mike Bona decided to go with my rhino design from <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2018</a>:</p><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyPwCsuK_zHWrEfvykfiXiF5A8bz2BTNjJlE5osVLH06-sZVZwp7PyLc1hbM1hoyxu1s7QhsFqgTuXaEUvAlgy7aKlGy1LSj12ecX-HL0jFB3r0AQJuKdsGhaJLTbdIuDDtp7yuKr3j0/s960/FB_IMG_1603853974243.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyPwCsuK_zHWrEfvykfiXiF5A8bz2BTNjJlE5osVLH06-sZVZwp7PyLc1hbM1hoyxu1s7QhsFqgTuXaEUvAlgy7aKlGy1LSj12ecX-HL0jFB3r0AQJuKdsGhaJLTbdIuDDtp7yuKr3j0/w306-h400/FB_IMG_1603853974243.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_1DxJlK4qGpcPt1nWyLM8J9iV1-3CO8Thk8Z1W5imCiclb5BJ8c4sSlqkdIBh0w3SGKOIUE5hICcSOiutTE3PL4qajJgZlNtGzTiO9UH8lXyHEnmOSuBzT0LWlKj84kFFnGC_aM69k4/s1008/26953.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="756" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_1DxJlK4qGpcPt1nWyLM8J9iV1-3CO8Thk8Z1W5imCiclb5BJ8c4sSlqkdIBh0w3SGKOIUE5hICcSOiutTE3PL4qajJgZlNtGzTiO9UH8lXyHEnmOSuBzT0LWlKj84kFFnGC_aM69k4/w300-h400/26953.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>I think he absolutely nailed it. Fantastic job! Here's the original for your convenience:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr8nncULSsVKXOobZjy6T3z_e-iX3hp7dgjL7KnLP_mZyHFVjrt9wUBLZ6Uz4JS8-mwzkb4j6TX3RZJGzFZNQavDsQLgvIrzp_jG59igMKCJS9P3FXZs_oO9PbPMiwFAE7Xg9lm3dR4xw/s1443/pumpkin_irl_2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1443" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr8nncULSsVKXOobZjy6T3z_e-iX3hp7dgjL7KnLP_mZyHFVjrt9wUBLZ6Uz4JS8-mwzkb4j6TX3RZJGzFZNQavDsQLgvIrzp_jG59igMKCJS9P3FXZs_oO9PbPMiwFAE7Xg9lm3dR4xw/w400-h284/pumpkin_irl_2020.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then we had Nicole DiGiambattista's carving from a design from <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14Ylx-xvaxyzEDr_0hKcq99Pw6ONzMYKEuzSpvJSAQaVkz7uZnS_a-_ZczLLUKKWe9o0UYMih9jWBfmwaX8Cei_RM2Jr6mOZrEmAG1dNWYPbVmwf5OlEZKFGuUtrsR0Ezvmtf0vgOgYs/s1758/image0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1758" data-original-width="1172" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14Ylx-xvaxyzEDr_0hKcq99Pw6ONzMYKEuzSpvJSAQaVkz7uZnS_a-_ZczLLUKKWe9o0UYMih9jWBfmwaX8Cei_RM2Jr6mOZrEmAG1dNWYPbVmwf5OlEZKFGuUtrsR0Ezvmtf0vgOgYs/w266-h400/image0.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwfMM1Q0mbQqbiR7WST1O1i18_kIjh6aO7FLpdCfxJmF5ZPN69wNzvaJt5dPN5TvxoYw89sYjdz6YGhbUk9Q_JjucwJkCebfS7-s6bQFMjuAHU_lWKdcElAyn_5cLNF-UaPW8Eurphec/s1491/image0+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1491" data-original-width="1273" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwfMM1Q0mbQqbiR7WST1O1i18_kIjh6aO7FLpdCfxJmF5ZPN69wNzvaJt5dPN5TvxoYw89sYjdz6YGhbUk9Q_JjucwJkCebfS7-s6bQFMjuAHU_lWKdcElAyn_5cLNF-UaPW8Eurphec/w341-h400/image0+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="341" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3C2WTR7iIw8zMRlt4mLtJS4tjwpaUD8-4BTIFG_IPIXUlT23x8rCmFbDWzR-IlxSVYpInvSjKDLT65sKQFaktfxTOKLAYva2tyI6gTxTccoO09xcwYBUgGM-bthBTZ57O97q9EMjIrk/s1718/image1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1718" data-original-width="1421" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3C2WTR7iIw8zMRlt4mLtJS4tjwpaUD8-4BTIFG_IPIXUlT23x8rCmFbDWzR-IlxSVYpInvSjKDLT65sKQFaktfxTOKLAYva2tyI6gTxTccoO09xcwYBUgGM-bthBTZ57O97q9EMjIrk/w331-h400/image1.jpeg" width="331" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another incredible job! Here's the original design:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcImklxK87rmKn4fZQLt0WCknkD_Ecy-87GG1-K54sHA06VwatRulkG_h8m1sK3PtktFmQHGkv7iyK3WsNNdMXyBr8IKR3LoWb-CwIbg5qw3xACjpqyJoPlgP1ZTPr09JAY8KG6oVcJHg/s1443/pumpkin_irl_2020_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1443" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcImklxK87rmKn4fZQLt0WCknkD_Ecy-87GG1-K54sHA06VwatRulkG_h8m1sK3PtktFmQHGkv7iyK3WsNNdMXyBr8IKR3LoWb-CwIbg5qw3xACjpqyJoPlgP1ZTPr09JAY8KG6oVcJHg/w400-h284/pumpkin_irl_2020_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And last but not least, we have Bonnie Garcia's carving of a design from the first ever lineup from <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcV1xx-2A-YRvBYwScsHnDkhfn3-nmkzTjYy8NoGQ0NSnZpZqC4kSF8XSoyE9n0K_bI6luIFqd5ar5Xj7rT0wa_XHAT3xbqnn44yTua0XnDJvYYXLuS4wagj3JOIXhAbdNAhcNLHDULVA/s1080/123438961_10116886323000193_2349064273903966763_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcV1xx-2A-YRvBYwScsHnDkhfn3-nmkzTjYy8NoGQ0NSnZpZqC4kSF8XSoyE9n0K_bI6luIFqd5ar5Xj7rT0wa_XHAT3xbqnn44yTua0XnDJvYYXLuS4wagj3JOIXhAbdNAhcNLHDULVA/w400-h400/123438961_10116886323000193_2349064273903966763_o.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Aaaaaand here's the original:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitM6DmehKNBNtrxKh7uWHMl20iKExgillPh2SU3stltUE4W0Ill81S6ziPGb3oLjtOpGkCMQaKWrRFGZYA7wx2N2d3qvP1ilS64R89ds9YzmAEvuwsd2LDA0vLsRYUVWyOqOpZpnDRUI4/s1443/pumpkin_irl_2020_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1443" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitM6DmehKNBNtrxKh7uWHMl20iKExgillPh2SU3stltUE4W0Ill81S6ziPGb3oLjtOpGkCMQaKWrRFGZYA7wx2N2d3qvP1ilS64R89ds9YzmAEvuwsd2LDA0vLsRYUVWyOqOpZpnDRUI4/w400-h284/pumpkin_irl_2020_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Thanks for playing everyone! It makes me happy to see more and more people put these doodles to good use every year! Happy Halloween everyone!!! Looking forward to what everyone comes up with next year!<br /><br />For Previous Jack-O-Lanterns IRL, see:<div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/jack-o-lanterns-irl-2019.html">2019</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">2015</a><br /><a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2017 </a>- (I forgot to post them that year but they are at the bottom of the 2018 design post) <br /><br />-Evan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-15218394421168863702020-10-24T11:55:00.002-07:002022-10-20T20:08:00.491-07:00Jack-O-Lantern Designs: Moods of 2020<p> Yep. I'm still doing these. Seems to be all that makes it onto this old blog these days. Here are this year's designs...I know they may not be as fun as years past, but neither has this year been, and with Halloween being about celebrating spooky things and leaning into our fears of the unknown, it felt appropriate. Enjoy.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZb8SL-GKLUqvbgfUaEIF30G1h3py4XqzLjIVWJYqcCmzBoh_2f7UbeiAXL4iE9rLGTqxaK8iWoG_cRH4CUmiQIIUTknWYCm303EyXiVbT0KIkpSBSTne_ys-LhU8W3Km4Ii1-cUeLcHg/s1443/pumpkin_designs_2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1443" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZb8SL-GKLUqvbgfUaEIF30G1h3py4XqzLjIVWJYqcCmzBoh_2f7UbeiAXL4iE9rLGTqxaK8iWoG_cRH4CUmiQIIUTknWYCm303EyXiVbT0KIkpSBSTne_ys-LhU8W3Km4Ii1-cUeLcHg/w400-h284/pumpkin_designs_2020.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Click to Enlarge<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> And, as always, the same deal goes as every year: if anybody actually decides to attempt to carve any of these (like <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">Stephanie</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">Nicole</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">Josh, Megan, and I</a>, <a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">Laura</a>, or <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/jack-o-lanterns-irl-2019.html">Nikki</a> did) please send me photos at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com and I'll post them up here. You are not limited to this year's contact sheet - I'm happy to see carvings of any designs from the last eleven years. You have until the end of the month. I will post all physical Jack-O-Lantern carvings together on Halloween.</p><div>Previous Designs can be found here:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2016.html">2016</a><br /><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2017/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2017.html">2017</a><br /><a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2018</a></div><div><a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2019/10/10-years-of-pumpkin-designs.html">2019</a></div><div><br /></div>Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-67632007140681313242019-10-31T08:06:00.000-07:002019-10-31T08:06:05.859-07:00Jack-O-Lanterns: IRL 2019Happy Halloween Everyone! That means it's time for a "Jack-O-Lanterns In Real Life" post! This year I only got one, and it was from Nikki Elder.<br />
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It's a design from <a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">last year's</a> batch, and she chose the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosaurus"><i>Allosaurus</i></a> skull. I think it turned out great!<br />
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And here's the original for your convenience:<br />
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Thanks for playing, Nikki, and Happy Halloween everyone!!! Looking forward to what everyone comes up with next year!<br />
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For Previous Jack-O-Lanterns IRL, see:<br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">2012</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">2013</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">2015</a><br />
<a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2017 </a>- (I forgot to post them that year but they are at the bottom of the 2018 design post) <br />
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-EvanEvan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-66354514905054373202019-10-15T23:04:00.000-07:002019-10-15T23:09:11.578-07:0010 Years of Pumpkin DesignsIt's that time of year again! And not only that, but this year marks <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html"><b><i>10 whole years</i></b> of pumpkin designs</a>, which means I have something special in store for you. It's crazy to think about doing anything consistently for 10 years, and drafting up this year's designs have made me incredibly nostalgic, reflecting on all that has happened since the first incarnation all the way back in <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a>.<br />
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I'm honestly not sure how many people actually look at these every year, but I enjoy doing them, as it's a fun excuse to just do some stream-of-consciousness doodling. I'm never too precious with any individual jack-o-lantern, and it's a nice exercise in thumbnailing a lot of different designs relatively quickly.<br />
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And with that, let's begin with this year's designs:<br />
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And since this is the 10 Year Anniversary, let me also post the very first contact sheet for comparison purposes. One thing I like about doing these every year, is I can see how much my design sense changes and (hopefully) improves over the years. Here's where I was at 10 years ago:<br />
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While putting this post together, I was trying to think of something special to do for a decade of pumpkins, and I decided to clue you all in to my process, so that any of you could go ahead and start making your own. After all, what better way to celebrate than to let it free to be built upon and improved by others.<br />
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So first up, here is the background template for you to feel free to steal for a starting point, although it would be easy enough to make your own with any image of a pumpkin you might find:<br />
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As far as the actual drawing goes, it's pretty simple. I'm just drawing on an empty layer on top of the above template in Adobe Photoshop with a white brush. The layer has a number of layer effects on it that automatically creates the rest of the effect, like so:</div>
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This way I don't have to spend any time worrying about lighting and shading, and all I'm doing is doodling. It's important to note that each face doodle is on its own separate layer, so that the radial gradient overlay stays centered on the individual pumpkin and not spread across the entire contact sheet. If you're REALLY interested in the layer effect settings, in case you want to recreate this, they are as follows (caveat, I actually use a really old version of Photoshop, so settings might not be one to one with what you might have):</div>
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And with that, Happy First Decade of Pumpkin Designs! I hope some of you get the itch to start doing your own designs. And, as always, the same deal goes as every year: if anybody actually decides to attempt to carve any of these (like <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">Stephanie</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">Nicole</a>, and <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">Josh, Megan, and I</a>, or <a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">Laura</a> did) please send me pictures at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com and I'll post them up here! You are not limited to this year's contact sheet - I'm happy to see carvings of any designs from the last ten years. You have until the end of the month! I will post all physical Jack-O-Lantern carvings together on Halloween.<br />
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Previous Designs can be found here:</div>
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<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2016.html">2016</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2017/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2017.html">2017</a><br />
<a href="https://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2018.html">2018</a></div>
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I can't wait to see what you come up with! Happy Carving and Happy Halloweeeenn!!!!</div>
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Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-53735063248533731762019-06-21T09:13:00.000-07:002019-06-21T09:13:28.953-07:00A Sivatherium for World Giraffe Day 2019<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today is <a href="https://giraffeconservation.org/world-giraffe-day/">World Giraffe Day</a> - an initiative set up by the <a href="https://giraffeconservation.org/">Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF)</a> to celebrate giraffes and raise awareness for their conservation on the LONGEST day of the year (get it?). Yes, you may not be aware, but giraffe populations across Africa are on the decline. The total population has dropped almost 40% since the 1980s. While the conservation of other iconic animals like elephants and rhinos has gained a lot of attention over the years, the giraffe decline isn't as well known to the public, and even <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38240760">came as a bit of a surprise to science community.</a> But it's true. Giraffes face issues related to habitat destruction and fragmentation, poaching, and human conflicts in various areas of the continent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So for World Giraffe Day 2019, I have something special for you. You may recall for the past few years I've been creating digital paintings in Adobe Photoshop to benefit animal conservation, including giraffes. The awesome people from the <a href="https://www.losangelesaazk.org/">Los Angeles Zoo</a> have been running an annual event for the last four years specifically dedicated to giraffes, called <a href="https://www.losangelesaazk.org/laughs-for-giraffes-2019.html">'Laughs for Giraffes.'</a> It is a live comedy show/fundraiser, which benefits the <a href="https://giraffeconservation.org/">GCF</a> mentioned above. To help with this effort, I've created a few paintings for this event. The first year I painted a giraffe, and the next year I painted the only other member of the giraffe family, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2018/02/okapi-love.html">the okapi</a>. For this year, I realized I was out of living giraffids. Sure I could just paint more giraffes or okapis, but instead I took this opportunity to delve into my <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/search/label/paleoart">paleoart</a> <a href="http://thoracosaurus.blogspot.com/">roots.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While the only living members of the giraffe family are giraffes and okapis, you may be surprised to learn that in prehistoric times, the group was quite diverse. Not only that, but many of them looked very different from what you might think of as a giraffe. Modern giraffes are quite exceptional and extreme animals, even by prehistoric standards. Most of the extinct giraffids did not have exceptionally long necks, for instance. The species I decided to focus on for my giraffe conservation painting this year, was <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivatherium">Sivatherium giganteum</a></i><i>:</i></span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I would like to take the rest of this post to discuss some of my research process and how I came to some of my decisions and interpretations in this piece. I think the painting is far more interesting if you understand what's going on in it, and hopefully this blog post can be a nice companion text to the painting for those who are curious to learn more about this bizarre animal. Just a warning, it's a long post, so I hope you're ready to learn about all the prehistoric Himalayas! For the <b>TL;DR </b>version, don't leave! Just skip to the<b> 'Results'</b> section below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i>At 2.2m (7.4ft) at the shoulder (3m or 10ft in total height), with thick forelimbs, and an estimated mass of around 1246 kg (2746.96 lbs), <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Sivatherium</i></span> is thought to be the heaviest ruminant ever discovered. One thing that drew me to it as a subject is the fact that it had a shorter broader snout from the living giraffids, and very extravagantly shaped <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossicone">ossicones</a> (horn like projections of bone that remain covered in skin and fur - unique to the giraffe family), that are quite different from what you see in giraffes and okapis - superficially looking somewhat similar to a moose's antlers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I set out to paint this bizarre animal in its ancient habitat, and wanted to do it justice, so I put in the time for perusing the scientific literature to learn as much as I could about the anatomy, ecology, and geologic context of the animal. While the process was certainly involved, I thoroughly enjoyed it, considering it's been quite some time since I've went all in on a <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/search/label/tupandactylus">paleoart restoration</a>. It was also a fun challenge in that typically my paleoart interests tend to focus on various Mesozoic archosaurs, and I'm not usually as familiar with the nitty-gritty details of extinct mammals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With all good paleoart, it's best to start with the fossils. For my reconstruction, I based my proportions on photographs of the original fossils, as well as the original drawings and description by <a href="https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic05asia#page/38/mode/1up">Falconer and Cautley in 1836</a>. The technical description and skillfully drawn figures were incredibly helpful. But in addition to this, <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/">London's Natural History Museum</a> even digitized the holotype specimen described in the paper, and uploaded the 3D model to interact with online! You can even play with it here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> This was a really great reference to help understand the form of the skull in three dimensions. It isn't a complete replacement for the original paper and figures, however, as using all three resources provided valuable insight that couldn't be deciphered from only one source. Being able to see this thing from different lenses, and read the insights of the original description was all invaluable. Since the original description focused mostly on the skull, the body proportions were based on the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290325079_The_extinct_giant_giraffid_Sivatherium_giganteum_Skeletal_reconstruction_and_body_mass_estimation">Basu et. al. reconstruction and mass estimate from 2016.</a> This provided the insight into the the thicker proportions of the front legs, and helped to plan out general body proportions. </span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many older restorations of this animal have been depicted as very moose-like, no doubt because of the larger snout and extensive headgear. I didn't want to assume this to be true for my restoration, however, as moose have very specific anatomy in their snouts to give them their characteristic bulbous nose. Their skull's nasal opening is also much more receded and enlarged than what is seen in the <i>Sivatherium</i> skull. I read up a little on modern mammals with particularly bulbous snouts, like moose, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga_antelope">saiga antelope</a>, and determined a stout, but not particularly bulbous nose was the most logical way to go for <i>Sivatherium</i>. The skull nasal opening just didn't seem to fit what we find on animals like moose, saiga, or any sort of trunked animal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since giraffes are particularly strange, even among their own family, I didn't want to give my Sivathere an overtly giraffe-like pelt. After all, okapis have a completely different pattern on their hides than the famous spots of giraffes, despite being each other's closest living relatives. I ultimately decided to give my subject a somewhat okapi-reminiscent look, but wanted it to feel like its own animal. After all, it's not uncommon for even closely related animals to have completely different color patterns based more on habitat and ecology than what is related to them. While some of the colors on my subject match those found on the okapi, I wanted to make the shapes of the leg stripes and patterns on the head unique to this animal. The torso of my Sivathere is somewhat loosely based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_eland">eland</a>, which is a very large living antelope (which are also ruminants). I chose the eland because<i> Sivatherium</i> was a very large animal, and I decided to depict it living in a similar type of environment as the eland. I considered perhaps using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgai">nilgai </a>as a reference, since they currently live in the geographic area that this <i>Sivatherium</i> was found in, but decided to go with the heavier eland, since the environment of the Himalayan foothills has changed quite a bit in the last 2.5 million years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The ossicones on the head were fun to restore, since, unlike horns, they are covered in skin and fur. I made the ones projecting above the eyes very giraffe-like (including the worn-down hair on the tips from intraspecific fighting common in older bulls). For the large-flat ossicones on the back of the head, I gave it a short velvety fur (I've had the pleasure of petting an okapi once, and this was somewhat based on the amazing feel and sheen of their coats), with some longer hair tufts near some of the fringes. These tufts are speculative, but my idea was that they could help emphasize the size and shapes of the ossicones when advertising status to females. </span><br />
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My idea was that the individual in the foreground is an older more experienced male, with a younger male behind him - the start of what are known as bachelor herds in the social structures of many types of animals, including giraffes.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As far as postures go, I had played with a couple ideas. I always wanted the one in the foreground to look somewhat alert, similar to poses I've seen by giraffes surveying their landscape. For the one in the background, I originally wanted to have it foraging. I went down a research spiral trying to figure out if <i>Sivatherium </i>was a browser or grazer (Most of the sources I found suggested it was more of a grazer, but I found differing opinions and interpretations in different sources). Partly since I couldn't find a definitive answer to this question, I ultimately decided to instead depict the animal taking a drink. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One main reason for this was to help hammer home the giraffe relationship. Since this painting was done for a charity auction, I wanted it to be as educational as it possibly could be from just the visuals, since I wouldn't be around to explain the whole thing. The rendering of the animals looked somewhat okapi-like - which was a good start, but I thought it best to hammer home the giraffe family connection by depicting one of the animals in the iconic giraffe drinking posture. Not only does this help sell the familial relationship, but it's also probably how the animal actually behaved. This awkward legs-splayed posture is<a href="https://www.deviantart.com/rattemacchiato/art/drinking-okapi-301245440"> also found in the okapi </a>(which is even closer related to the <i>Sivatherium </i>than the giraffe is), which implies that this drinking posture evolved in the family before the comically long neck of giraffes did. </span></div>
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The Paleoecology of <i>Sivatherium giganteum</i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With my subject animal picked, early on I decided to take this further than my previous paintings, and attempt to restore the full environment. This required more extensive research, and helped inform some of the decisions made for the restoration of the animal itself, as all animals are a product of their environments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Sivatherium giganteum</i> (meaning 'Shiva's Beast') comes from the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene boundary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivalik_Hills">Sivalik Hills</a> of the Himalayas in what is now India and Pakistan. The genus lived from around 5 million years ago to around 8,000 years ago (which would have had it overlap with modern humans - and we even have ancient rock art that might be depicting it!). The specific locality I restored in the painting is at around 2.5-2.6 million years ago, from the late Pliocene Pinjor Formation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sivalik Hills at the time was a warm, humid environment, with seasonal rainfall, including summer monsoons, and wildfires during the dry winter periods. It appears as if there were grasslands with freshwater ponding conditions, adjacent to upland montane regions (indicated by pollen of more temperate flora). <i>Sivatherium</i> shared this environment with other animals like ancient species of elephants, hippos, rhinos, as well as hyenas, mongooses, rodents, lizards, and more. Around the time period depicted there may have been a faunal turnover event from an even wetter environment, where there might have been a large freshwater lake opposed to smaller ponds (as indicated by slightly older fossils of darters, pelicans, crabs, crocodylians, etc). The environment was slowly trending toward cooler and drier, especially later, as the Pliocene gave way to the Pleistocene around 1.8 million years ago, when increased tectonic activity occurred in the region. This changing climate, along with the barrier-free migration of fauna from Europe and Africa into the Indian subcontinent had a part in the extinction of some of this unique Sivalik fauna. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />To depict this environment, I decided to render a lowland grassland, adjacent to the mountains to the north. The idea of a seasonal monsoon was appealing to me, as it felt like a unique idea to depict a grassland that was recently flooded by the storms, creating well established ponds. I kept a mixed savanna transition to woodlands in the background, as the environment was still in transition to extended grasslands. Everything is bright green thanks to the recent storms, and the freshwater ponds have green algae from the family Zygnemataceae growing in them (zygospores of this algae have been found in deposits, suggesting stagnate freshwater).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I depicted a darter in the </span>foreground<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and a few pelicans taking refuge in one of the temporary ponds in the background. These are based on fossils found from the area. The pelican and darter bones that were found weren't complete enough to confidently assign to any current or known extinct species, though. I therefore left the pelicans somewhat ambiguous as to their affiliation, and rendered the darter in the plumage of the modern </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_darter" style="font-family: inherit;">Oriental Darter</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (</span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Anhinga melanogaster</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">), mostly to help indicate the Indian setting. I also found it enjoyable to show now extinct animals coexisting with modern species, which is something that happened regularly throughout the world, but we don't always think about. I particularly liked the idea of adding birds that depend on large bodies of water to these seasonal flooded grasslands. Animals will take advantage of available resources, even if they are temporary, seasonal phenomena. It made me think of my time living in the Bay Area of California, where I would see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_white_pelican">American white pelicans</a> hanging out in the salt ponds along the bay only during certain times of the year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One final detail I would like to point out, is in trying to restore a full ecosystem, I added a fun little flourish I don't usually see in paleoart. If you look under the drinking </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Sivatherium</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, you will see its droppings. One thing that I instantly noticed when I went to South Africa four years ago was how easy it was to tell there were lots of big animals living in the area by the various and plentiful droppings you would see - even if the animals weren't present. I felt it </span>necessary<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to include this crucial part of the ecosystem into the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So with all of that, we have a painting of a pair of <i>Sivatherium</i> who emerge out of the woodland onto a flooded grassland after a summer monsoon, to take advantage of the newly deposited freshwater ponds for a drink.</span></div>
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I added a built-in white matting around the composition to evoke the feeling of a classic Victorian naturalist plate, often paired with scientific texts on 'exotic' animals in the 19th century. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since this is a more obscure subject for many viewers, and all of this information might not be immediately apparent to someone bidding on the painting at a conservation fundraiser, I got a custom engraved plate to add to the picture frame, so that the future owner can have some context:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My training as a museum docent has taught me that interpreting natural history isn't all about regurgitating facts or teaching someone everything about a subject, but rather giving them just enough to steer them in the right direction to discover more. So in this case, the painting is the way to pique their interest, and the engraved plate gives them the tools to learn more, if they so choose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I would also like to note that depicting an extinct giraffe relative isn't only to satisfy my own interest in prehistory. I hope it also helps people to think about the plight of the modern giraffids. With giraffes on the decline, and their okapi cousins endangered, it's quite possible that sometime in the future there won't be <i>any</i> members of this unique family on the planet anymore. I hope by showing what used to be here, I can help people understand what amazing creatures are at risk, so that we can do something about it. Hopefully it can inspire someone to think "I wish I could see one of these crazy things living today. Maybe I should support efforts to save their cousins so they don't have the same fate."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So please, help support the giraffes on this <a href="https://giraffeconservation.org/world-giraffe-day/">World Giraffe Day!</a> Either by supporting the <a href="https://giraffeconservation.org/">GCF</a> directly, or, for those of you in Los Angeles, consider registering for the upcoming <a href="https://www.losangelesaazk.org/laughs-for-giraffes-2019.html">Laughs for Giraffes</a> event, where you can have a great time watching stand-up comedy, and maybe even be the one to take home a framed copy of this piece of original paleoart. </span></div>
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Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-29479496828844067212018-10-21T12:53:00.001-07:002019-10-15T23:06:22.658-07:00Jack-O-Lantern Designs 2018It's that time of year again! I bet you thought I'd forget, didn't you? Well I DIDN'T! Here's another batch of fun goofy Jack-O-Lantern Designs for you all!!<br />
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The same deal goes as every year: if anybody actually decides to attempt to carve any of these (like <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">Stephanie</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">Nicole</a>, and <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">Josh, Megan, and I</a> did) please send me pictures at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com and I'll post them up here! That goes for previous years' pumpkin designs as well. You have until the end of the month! I will post all physical Jack-O-Lantern carvings together on Halloween.</div>
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Previous Designs can be found here:</div>
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<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2016.html">2016</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2017/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2017.html">2017</a></div>
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And last but not least, I realized I forgot to post the two physical ones from last year!!! They made it into some Facebook comments, but like a liar, I never posted them on the blog, so I'm going to fix that this instant!</div>
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Here's one from Laura Rooney:</div>
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Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-2954912215352773612018-02-14T11:19:00.000-08:002018-02-14T11:19:08.836-08:00Okapi LoveI realized I never posted this on the blog, but thought today was an appropriate day to do so:<br />
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I created this digital painting for a raffle prize last year at <a href="http://aazklosangeles.weebly.com/laughs-for-giraffes-2017.html">Laughs for Giraffes</a>, a comedy show organized by the folks at the <a href="http://www.lazoo.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA2Y_UBRCGARIsALglqQ0SZ4CXt8VyAADb1d0NJqRLkZDS8e0_DchkJmfXuxNZpeWY3xW6-KoaAjcxEALw_wcB">LA Zoo</a> to <a href="https://giraffeconservation.org/">benefit Giraffe conservation</a>.<br />
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Why an Okapi? Well, I painted a Giraffe for the previous year's event, and the Okapi is the only other surviving member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffidae">Giraffidae</a>. I may have to look more into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivatherium">weird extinct species</a> or get more creative for future events...<br />
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Here are some in-progress studies and brainstorms:<br />
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<br />Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-66323777326253644942017-10-21T11:15:00.000-07:002018-10-21T12:48:39.853-07:00Jack-O-Lantern Designs 2017Hey Guys! It's that time of year again! I hope you've been looking for more Jack-O-Lantern Designs!!! Here's 2017's Batch!<br />
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The same deal goes as every year: if anybody actually decides to attempt to carve any of these (like <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">Stephanie</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">Nicole</a>, and <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">Josh, Megan, and I</a> did) please send me pictures at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com and I'll post them up here! That goes for previous years' pumpkin designs as well. You have until the end of the month! I will post all physical Jack-O-Lantern carvings together on Halloween.<br />
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Previous designs are here:<br />
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<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2016.html">2016</a><br />
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Happy Carving and Happy Halloweeeeen!<br />
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<br />Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-38441068461733063392017-05-16T10:44:00.003-07:002017-05-16T10:54:44.230-07:00A Woolly Rhino for Conservation<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: none; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poruchik Volosatyy was one of the last of a long line of defenders of the Mammoth Steppe in western Siberia. He was a bit of a lone wolf, and disappeared some 10,000 years ago. It is unclear what happened to him, but it is thought he died in a skirmish - defending his grazing lands from the bipedal invaders often seen roaming around at that time.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As with last year's portrait of <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2016/05/an-elegy-for-rhinos.html">Mr. Eustace Simum</a>, I wanted to do a piece that would look nice on the wall of whoever purchased it while also trying to highlight some conservation issues. I liked the idea of doing an extinct rhino species in order to subtly highlight that rhinos have gone extinct before, and it is likely to happen again. I also liked the idea of doing an extinct <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_rhinoceros">woolly rhino</a> in the form of an old portrait, like you might find of a distant relative on a wall in your grandparent's house. I originally wanted to make it look like an old Civil War photograph, but I realized that Woolly Rhinos never made it across the Bering Strait to the US. So Instead of mixing the US Civil War with a species that never lived in the Americas, I decided to make him into an old Napoleonic-Era Russian soldier, since remains of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">woolly</span> rhinos are often found in that region of the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After doing some research on the <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-remarkable-life-appearance-of-the-woolly-rhino/">life appearance of the woolly rhino</a>, and a bit into 18th-19th Century Russian Military equipment (I admit I probably didn't go far enough into this to get something that was truly accurate, but I did at least look at a bunch of things) I did some initial sketches to think this out: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The painting was another success! It sold at the silent auction for a couple hundred dollars, all of which goes to benefit conservation of rhinos and the other animals in their habitat. It was a good time of bowling, drinking, and hanging out and catching up with people who care about conservation. If you are interested in this sort of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">work</span>, but missed the event, I believe you can still donate to the cause<a href="http://aazklosangeles.weebly.com/bowling-for-rhinos-2017.html"> here</a>. And if that link is closed, some other reputable organizations I fully suggest you look into and consider helping are the <a href="http://rhinos.org/">International Rhino Foundation</a> (who I support regularly through <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201365340">AmazonSmile</a>) and the <a href="http://globalconservationforce.org/">Global Conservation Force</a> (who had an awesome presence at Bowling for Rhinos this year thanks in part to their partnership with <a href="http://globalconservationforce.org/tag/beer/">Pacific Plate Brewing Co.</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks for tuning in, and I'm already thinking ahead to next year!</span></span></span><br />
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Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-31190955276255815062017-04-17T23:04:00.000-07:002017-04-17T23:09:50.191-07:00Learn to Draw Dinosaurs: An Introduction to Paleoart - My first event with Pincelbox!Hey gang!<br />
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<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2017/02/i-draw-at-museums-and-so-should-you_18.html">Last time</a>, I talked about a great website that my friends run, called <a href="https://pincelbox.com/">Pincelbox</a>. It's a site where people can find fun artistic workshops to do in the LA area, which are run by various local artists. I was lucky enough to host the second ever event for the site on Saturday, April 8, 2017- And if that wasn't exciting enough, it was all about Paleoart!<br />
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It was a great chance for me to take the research and experience I've gained over the past 7 or so years, and put together a workshop that hopefully inspired those who came. My main goal was to give people an appreciation for the mutualistic relationship between science and art, while also instructing an introductory course on drawing from life.<br />
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The workshop took place at the <a href="https://nhm.org/">Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County</a>, and involved a mix of interpretive talks, a drawing demo by me, and one-on-one instruction for everyone in the class. It was pretty cool to get to directly apply many of the techniques I learned at an intensive <a href="http://www.interpnet.com/nai/docs/CIG-Flyer.pdf">Certified Interpretive Guide</a> training I did back in February.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here I am giving a talk on the history of Paleoart.</span></div>
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Overall, It was a really rewarding experience. All of my obsession over what prehistoric animals looked like, and trying to be true to those animals in art suddenly felt validated. A lot of people jokingly give me crap about caring too much about the accuracy of animals in movies. So it was nice to share why such things are important with people who were willing to listen. As a whole, everyone was actively engaged in my theory and history of paleoart presentation, and asking some very good questions. It was an absolute joy to see.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I took about 5 minutes to demo restoring <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarasaurus">Camarasaurus</a> </i>from a skull on display, before sending everyone off to draw what they wanted</span></div>
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When it came to the actual drawing instruction, it was so incredibly exciting to see people apply techniques discussed in my demonstrations successfully. Seeing light bulbs go off when giving various tips and tricks was very cool.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Kirsten's fantastic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmontosaurus"><i>Edmontosaurus</i></a></span></div>
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The workshop seemed to get a really great response, with most of the class staying afterwards to continue to chat about various related topics! It was a very inquisitive group of people. I really couldn't have asked for a better first group! Congrats on your first steps into a larger world, everyone!<br />
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I will definitely be setting up more instances of this class, so if you missed out, there will be plenty of chances in the nearish future! Just make sure to follow <a href="https://pincelbox.com/">Pincelbox</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pincelbox/">facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/pincelbox">twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pincelbox/">instagram</a> to stay up to date on upcoming events!<br />
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<br />Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-19863667386648953452017-02-18T10:51:00.001-08:002017-04-17T22:02:00.980-07:00I Draw at Museums, and So Should You!Hello, All!<br />
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I'm glad to see you're all still here. Clearly I need to start posting much more often....<br />
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For those who don't know, for almost two years now, I've been spending my Sunday mornings Volunteering at the <a href="http://nhm.org/">Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County</a>. I'm a Docent, where I do interpretive work in various halls, answering questions, showing people around, and more importantly encouraging people to make their own discoveries and connections from their own observations. It's great fun, very rewarding, and (I think) extremely important work considering the seemingly growing amount of people these days who don't understand how the scientific method works. So I figure if I can help show people how science works, and let them lead their own understanding of it, it will be a more lasting impression than someone simply saying 'you're wrong, this is what it is!'<br />
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Anyway, you may be wondering, what the butt does this have to do with Evan's art blog??<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Einiosaurus </i>skull sketch by me</span></div>
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Sometimes on Sunday mornings at 9am, the Museum can be pretty empty before people start to trickle in. I'm still stationed in various halls during that time, so what do I do to pass the time?<br />
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Sometimes I just really take time with specimens to observe. You'll be surprised that if you spend enough time really looking at something, you'll start to come up with ALL sorts of great questions to look up, even if you're a very knowledgeable person (and if you can't find the answer, then THAT, my friends is how scientific research starts!)<br />
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Other times, I take the time to sketch. Often wondering about various things as I do it. Here are just a few of the drawings I've done over the years (as always, click images to enlarge):<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sauropods like this <i>Mamenchisaurus </i>have REALLY interesting feet! They are definitely NOT like the over-simplified elephantine feet you often see people depict them as</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Young <i>Tyrannosaurus</i> based one one of the mounts. I added a little tortoise to give it a bit of a story.</span></div>
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Sometimes I'll draw the bones themselves though. Not only does it help to understand the underlying structure of these animals better, but they are filled with all kinds of amazing aesthetically pleasing shapes:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is the same young <i>Tyrannosaurus</i> the above sketch was made form, just a different angle</span></div>
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I'll try to post more museum sketches as I do them. Museum Drawing is a fun way to work on life drawing skills while also opening your mind to wondering about the natural world. There are infinite questions to ask, and through that combined observation and tactile experience of recording what you see, you never know where you may end up!</div>
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Shameless plug time! My activities have been noticed, and I was contacted by my friend and fellow museum volunteer, who runs a website called <a href="https://pincelbox.com/">Pincelbox</a>, a cool new site that helps you find interesting artistic learning events in the area! They asked me if I would be up for developing a class, and so I've reached back to my roots to come up with an event to draw dinosaurs and learn about the very rich (but often overlooked) world of Paleoart in the process! </div>
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The class is being developed to be mindful of people with no artistic or science background, so everyone is welcome! It will be part drawing demonstration, part lecture on history, paleoart theory, and dinosaur anatomy, and mostly hands on drawing time with me giving pointers here and there. It should be fun!</div>
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If it goes well enough I'm hoping to do a series, because there is SO much information on this topic that just can't get crammed into a casual 2 hour class. So don't be shy! This should be a good primer for anyone interested in learning more about how scientists and artists work together to come to the conclusions they do about Dinosaurs and their appearance. You can find all the information you need <a href="https://pincelbox.com/event/learn-draw-dinosaurs-introduction-paleoart/">here.</a></div>
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Evan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-87820539964870785172016-10-22T15:47:00.001-07:002016-10-22T15:47:56.729-07:00Jack-O-Lantern Designs 2016Don't worry, everyone! I didn't forget about you! Here we are again! With the 2016 edition of Jack-O-Lantern Designs! I hope you like them!!<br />
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The same deal goes as every year: if anybody actually decides to attempt to carve any of these (like <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">Stephanie</a>, <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">Nicole</a>, and <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2015.html">Josh, Megan, and I</a> did) please send me pictures at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com and I'll post them up here! That goes for previous years' pumpkin designs as well. You have until the end of the month, which is only about a week and change...(sorry about the delay - I believe you can still do it )! I will post all physical Jack-O-Lantern carvings together on Halloween.<br />
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<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">2015</a><br />
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Happy Carving!<br />
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-EvanEvan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197472727859274284.post-71593448171008068262016-05-22T19:07:00.000-07:002016-05-22T19:34:31.158-07:00An Elegy for RhinosHello All! I wanted to share something special today. It involves a bunch of my favorite things, including Character Design, Rhinos, Installation Art, and Conservation.<br />
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Earlier this year, our Character Rigging department at work pulled together some interest in doing an art show for the studio. The purpose was to showcase the varied and somewhat eclectic art that us 'CharTD's' do in our off time. I happily signed up to participate.<br />
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When trying to come up with my content, I realized that I had a huge opportunity here. There are a<i> LOT</i> of people who work at such a big company, so there would be a<i> LOT</i> of eyes on whatever we ended up displaying. This could be intimidating at first, considering that many of these eyes would belong to some of the absolute top artists working in film and entertainment today (Seriously, the amount of talent in the walls of DreamWorks Animation is absolutely incredible). I definitely had to bring my<i> 'A' </i>game.<br />
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I decided to take on this challenge and use it to hopefully do something productive. I realized that this was a good chance to use my own skills to try to make a small difference for something I really care about. After all, I already mentioned there would likely be a <i>LOT</i> of eyes on these pieces. With that thought in mind I immediately knew what I wanted my content to address: The rhino poaching crisis.<br />
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Rhinos worldwide are in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzYrtRkGcuo">big trouble</a>. It's something I've grown increasingly aware of over the last 5 or so years. I've been reading a lot on the subject, trying to stay up to date and informed. When I had the incredible opportunity to visit South Africa last summer, and see both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rhinoceros">white</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rhinoceros">black</a> rhinos in the wild, it cemented my concern for what's happening to the poor creatures.<br />
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Using the research and experience I've collected over the last few years, I wanted to create a piece that was pleasing to the eye, but also didn't sugar coat anything. It needed to be intense in its message, but also not scare anyone away before they got that message.<br />
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Because of this, instead of doing anything that was particularly graphic <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(although I honestly considered painting an image where rhinos had their faces hacked-off with chainsaws while still alive - <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horror-rhinos-mutilated-machete-chainsaw-2291630">seriously this stuff happens regularly</a>)</span></i>, I took a different approach. And this is how <b><i>'An Elegy for Rhinos'</i></b> was born:<br />
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But you might be thinking, <i>"Wow that's incredibly toned down from the graphic ideas you mentioned earlier!" </i>And you are right. It is. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>Part of that is by design so that after the installation, the painting could still make a nice piece to hang on a wall - more on that later</i>) </span>However, once I get the viewer to come close to inspect the art, I hit them with this:</div>
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Next to the easel, the rhino's obituary is on the wall. This is where I hit them with the brutal reality of the issues facing rhinos. I wrote a story revolving around this particular character with whom the viewer has <i>hopefully</i> at least found <i>some</i> appeal in, which, in theory, makes his troubles more relateable. The obituary touches on problems with poaching, the issues with legalizing the rhino-horn trade, and big game hunting all within a few paragraphs. I tried to make this text uncompromising. I'm hoping by using a story instead of just a list of stats, that it might help a viewer internalize and feel something about these issues on a more personal level. At the end, I direct them to a <a href="http://rhinos.org/">real website</a> for the <a href="http://rhinos.org/">International Rhino Foundation</a> where, if they are so moved, they can actively do something <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/waggoner/2014/12/19/investing-giving-to-charity/20601595/">to help</a> the problem. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mr. Eustace Simum died on May 10, 2016 at 12:23 a.m. in Hluhluwe–Imfolozi Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He was found in a pool of his own blood at 12:10 a.m, where his horns and half of his face had been crudely removed with a chainsaw. He was still breathing at the time but passed away soon afterward.</span></span></div>
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At the gallery opening, our Char TD gallery got a great response! <i style="font-size: small;">(There was much more than just this piece, featuring a wide range of things, from photography, to welded bike frames, to even custom-built action figures) </i>I watched from a distance as what I set out to accomplish actually seemed to be working! I mean, I have no idea if anyone actually donated to the <a href="http://teamrhino.org/">IRF</a> as a result, but if more people are at least aware of the problem, hopefully that's a good first step.</div>
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And now for you artsy folks, here is some info on the actual digital painting itself. It was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 (yes I'm very very out of date but hey, it works!) and printed as a digital print. It is 16x20". This is one of the few paintings I've done that actually came out close to exactly how I imagined it. Here's a closer look:<br />
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I'd like to end this post with something that came about kind of serendipitously. I was in the process of finishing this project when someone at work was asking for people to donate items for a silent auction at a charity event. The event was <a href="http://aazklosangeles.weebly.com/bowling-for-rhinos-2016.html">Bowling for Rhinos</a> - an event happening across the country to raise money for rhinoceros conservation, which is run by the <a href="https://www.aazk.org/bowling-for-rhinos/">American Association of Zoo Keepers</a>. Talk about a great fit! Since the painting was digital, when I got it printed I made sure to print a second copy to donate to the auction. I actually already had plans to attend the Los Angeles event, so this was just another incentive!</div>
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At the event, the painting was a <i>huge </i>hit! I silently watched as many people got into a bidding war over it. It ended up selling for just under $300 - 100% of which was going to rhino conservation! Considering I have never even really attempted to sell a painting before, and usually just paint things for my own enjoyment, this was hugely rewarding. I couldn't be prouder of something I made being used to benefit a cause I am immensely passionate about.</div>
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If this post hasn't convinced you to do so yet, maybe this video I did for <a href="http://www.worldrhinoday.org/">World Rhino Day</a> will:<br />
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After hanging out with Tyrannosaurs all day I decided I wanted to paint a fuzzy one... Because the world needs more of those. I loosely based it on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgosaurus">Gorgosaurus</a>, </i>which is kind of my excuse for not making the skull as short or deep as<i> Tyrannosaurus</i>. Also, it's a cartoon so I was ultimately favoring a certain style over accurate shapes, but wanted to at least stay somewhat true to the inspiration of the animal.<br />
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That also means it's time for this year's edition of Evan's Jack-O-Lanterns In Real Life!<br />
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This year we had Josh and Megan wanting to try out some designs:<br />
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Josh decided to go with the Alfred Hitchcock Silhouette,<br />
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which was included in the <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013 designs</a>:<br />
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Megan took on the challenge of The Babadook:<br />
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And I participated as well, with this dude:<br />
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The ones Megan and I did were from <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2015.html">this year's designs</a>:<br />
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The same deal goes as every year: if anybody actually decides to attempt to carve any of these (like <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2012.html">Stephanie</a>, and <a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-irl-2013.html">Nicole</a> did) please send me pictures at evan.m.boucher@gmail.com and I'll post them up here! That goes for previous years' pumpkin designs as well. You have until the end of the month! I will post them together on Halloween.<br />
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Previous designs are here:<br />
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<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-fun.html">2010</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2011.html">2011</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2012/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2012.html">2012</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2013/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2013.html">2013</a><br />
<a href="http://amateurzoologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/jack-o-lantern-designs-2014.html">2014</a><br />
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Happy Carving!<br />
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-EvanEvan Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02091543962628328716noreply@blogger.com0