If you are Star Trek (Lower Decks) fan, then this is :

Rawda - an Areore male.

The Areore were an ornithoid humanoid species.

For others, this is bird like species with humanoid features.

Look at the muscular arms, six packs, and hands like wingtips.

I had watched this episode long ago, and liked it very much.

The episode does not feature any of the regular characters. Instead, the main character is Peanut Hamper - an exocomp stuck in a pre-warp civilization, where everyone can fly ¹

Inspired by this sketch

Compared to the original, two humans and a dog are missing from my copy 😄

It has been exactly a month since I posted my last sketch.

I had been meaning to draw something smaller in between, but never got around to doing it.

The original drawing (link above) says this was built in late 19th century. But in reminds me of some old bungalow (not seen in person, just imagined) in Lonavala - a (former?) hill station between Pune and Mumbai.

I had saved a pencil drawing of a tortoise from the internet. Unfortunately I can not find the link to the original.

I wanted to try a light pencil layer first and then a final layer, but since I did not play around with brushes too much, it did not turn out the way I wanted.

Looking back, I should have used lighter and broader pencil for the first layer, and then HB, followed by darker (2B ?) at the end.

This image inspired by a cartoon appeared in the local newspaper. I liked how simple drawing the robot was. (I’m always looking for simple-to-draw sketches)

For the first time, I used color (albeit very tiny, still…) The original sketch had light blue hue for the body of the robot, but I decided not to paint the whole sketch. Just the eyes to draw viewer’s attention was enough.

These are two main characters of O Human Star Comic

When I looked at this comics, I really liked how simple the character faces were. So decided to see if I can draw them. I am likely to draw more characters from this comic in the future.

These two faces were drawn by looking at this page

This is the first time I used layers in HiPaint.

First layer is the a pencil drawing. I was surprised how “real” it felt. The graininess of the HB Pencil (when zoomed) looked close to actual marks made by HB pencil on the paper. (Drawing on the glass surface wasn’t bad either - kudos to the hardware)

The doodle comes from Dave Gray’s old video (Not sure of the source - sorry) But doodle itself was not the interesting thing.

Today I discovered that the Whiteboard app has excellent pen tool. I used the Size 10, and I was able to create excellent calligraphy (if I may say so myself 🫣)

Normally I add the date and name in some other app, but I could not resist writing the date in calligraphy fashion. So I did.

This is my attempt to create a sketchnote of the session he delivered during the World Sketchnote Week. ¹

Looking at other people’s sketchnotes of this session, I realize that I need to do much better. I’ve just reproduced parts of sketches from his session.

Drawing Dave’s face was original idea, rest of it seems unconnected ideas. I should have used banners, containers, lettering etc.

All the (English) words (sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books …) are made up of only 26 alphabets. (Let us leave aside punctuation marks for now 😉)

Similarly, most the (basic) drawing is made up of these 12 basic shapes, hence the visual alphabets.

This English phrase makes it easy to remember

ALL HOT BREADS

The idea comes from the book “The Magic of Thinking BIG”

Dr. Schwartz makes a point that just persistence is not enough.

Each time you try (and not succeed) learn from it, and change something (experimentation) only this will lead to (eventual) success.

I tried to show this visually by having different styles the word Try is drawn in the bottom half (but also wrote experimentation - just to be clear 😄)

Once upon a time, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) was all rage. How does your product show up in the Search Engine.

But now a days, people have stopped using search engine. Instead they prefer to “get the answer” from one of the LLM/GenAI

The Search Engines also now have “AI summaries”, so may be AEO can double as SEO 🤷‍♂️

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