Facebook, Instagram, and Threads were all down today at various times. Not that I am such a loser that I spend all day on Facebook and can’t live without it. I like to use Instagram for posting artwork as I continue to noodle with digital art tools. The little girl I use as a model for pictures of my imaginary granddaughter posts on Instagram her little videos more than twice a day. I managed to get this drawing done today even though Instagram disappeared shortly after Facebook was completely gone. I didn’t need either social media site to create this picture as I already had a rough draft done, and from there it can all be done offline.
I didn’t need the Facebook group of sites for this practice picture at all. I made it from the most viewed photo on my WordPress blog, Catch a Falling Star, where you should be reading this post if you are not merely looking at the pictures.
Here’s the original photo with the little naked girl, her six fish in jars, and the black cat pretending not to be thinking obsessively about how to get fish out of jars. You can see how well… or how poorly I redrew the picture. I regret drawing the cat looking fatter and less hungry than the one in the photo.
And for good measure, here’s a picture of me and my plastic doll Ariel whom I constantly talk to while my wife is away at work and my daughter is occupied with college classes. She stands in for the grandchild I don’t have too. I even drew glasses on her to make her feel more like one of my myopic family.
And to finish up, I did a bikini picture. I like girls in bikinis. But, incredibly old coot that I am, I have more or less forgotten why I like bikini pictures so much. The model for this one was plucked from Instagram after the site came back to life. So, basically, I did more drawing, not less, on a day without Facebook.
Catch a Falling Star 
The world would be a much lesser place without sunsets over the water and girls in bikinis!
Amen to that. I still can’t remember why I like bikinis so much.