Who knows how much longer in my life I have to draw pictures? Arthritis is having too much input. I am mostly taking old drawings and making them into new digital art on my cell phone with a computer stylus. What was super easy when I had the Chromebook touchscreen to work with, has become super hard when I try to do the same thing on my phone’s tiny touchscreen.
She’s supposed to be the Ponies’ pitcher in the softball game. But I could not get the letters to look right with my finger pain twitching the drawing of the letter “n” and then multiplying the problems as I went on. To publish on Instagram I went back to the previous stage when I was trying to use the drawing program’s cursive letters.
You can see multiple errors in the execution here. I think I put an extra letter by accident between the “o” and the “n.” And put the “e” before the “i.” Talk about spelling demons! And I got upset and restarted the lettering after I screwed up the “P” on the hat. Still, it ended up looking better than the unassisted letters I tried to draw after that.
So, after that, I decided to use this photo of my wife and daughter with all my many female Filipino in-laws and nieces. I started by tracing the photo. And, the Minnie Mouse on Sessparrtoolie’s shirt is a copyrighted logo, so I decided to change that to flowers.
But this anime art style applied to Filipina faces makes them all look like children, even Grandma in the middle. My wife looks like my daughter’s younger sister. And Nickolooni’s Mickey Mouse Club Ears look like they are stuck into the side of her mother’s head. (I am not using real names, by the way.) I really hate making mistakes in drawing. But I like how easily they can be fixed in digital art if you are not mad, tired, and have hurting arthritic fingers.
Catch a Falling Star 