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Random things: Grizzlicorn

The other day, I drew a this:

Grizzlicorn!

Grizzlicorn!

This isn’t from the list of 100 things to draw when you’re bored, in case you’re looking for it.  I ended up drawing a grizzlicorn because one of my coworkers asked for it.

Perhaps you are asking why would he ask for such a thing.  It’s because he saw me doodling during a meeting one time but he couldn’t quite see what I was drawing.  I was drawing a shark (of course).  For some reason, he thought I was drawing a butterfly.  And when it came out that he thought I was drawing a butterfly, he was ridiculed by our other coworkers and me.  He obviously doesn’t know me terribly well.

Later that day, I decided to draw him a shark with butterfly wings instead of fins.  And I did so.  On a post it.  Which is why I didn’t post it (hehehehe) first.  I have a photo of it, but I gave the post it to him so I can’t scan it.  Maybe I’ll draw a shark with butterfly wings some other time and post it (hahahahaha).

Now then, my coworker rather liked the shark with butterfly wings and asked if I could draw a grizzly with a unicorn horn.  He thought it would be ridiculous because grizzlies are fearsome animals and it would be funny to put a unicorn horn on one of them.  Little did he know that I was thinking more of a derpy grizzly as opposed to a fierce grizzly.

As for the name of this thing, my coworker kept calling it a grizzly-unicorn, which I thought was unwieldy.  So I shorted it to grizzlicorn, which he liked.  But later, a friend pointed out to me that a grizzlicorn would be something right out of one of my favorite indie comics, Axe Cop.  And then I realized that a unigrizzly would also fit in pretty well in Bearmaggedon, another one of my favorite indie comics.  OMG!  I NEED TO ASK IF MY COWORKER READS AXE COP AND BEARMAGGEDON!!

Random things to draw

The other day I was at a bookstore.  A real, brick and mortar bookstore.  Only, this bookstore probably wasn’t constructed from brick, this being California and all.  Anyway, the point is that I was at a real bookstore.  And while I was there, I saw this book.

Links to Amazon

Links to Amazon

And I really wanted this book.  It looked so interesting.  I wanted to draw 642 weird and random things.  But, since I was at a real bookstore, there was a markup and I didn’t think a book of predominately blank paper was worth as much as they were asking for it.  It made me kind of sad.

But then I thought, “Hey!  I bet there are lists of weird and random things to draw on the internets!  And if I draw from a list on the internets, I can draw digitally and skip the step of scanning stuff if I want to post the drawing!”  This is exactly what I thought to myself.  Well, not really.  My thoughts weren’t really all that excited.

But anyway, after the briefest of searches online, I have indeed found a list of weird things to draw.  And they even update it every year.  And they even post their drawings as they complete them.  Huzzah!

So, the plan is this: I’m going to start posting twice a week.  Because…this Clib project seems to be never ending.  But I need to start doing something creative again or start going crazy (or more so).  I can’t really work on any of the projects I had been doing because my house is…well, I don’t have much of a house right now.  It’s still under repair from the swimming pool incident.  Stuff has been shoved into rooms and there’s construction equipment all over the house and there is dust everywhere and the general contractor didn’t think it was necessary to put drop cloths over the stuff being stored in the rooms so there is dust everywhere.  EVERYWHERE.  AND ON EVERYTHING.  You probably don’t realize how displeased this makes me.  BUT ANYWAY…

The plan will be one normal, ridiculous post (because the words “normal” and “ridiculous” should be used in the same sentence and even describe the same thing) on Mondays and a weird drawing on either Wednesday or Friday.  You should draw ridiculous things too.  Ridiculous things are fun to draw.  Huzzah!