Sketch Challenge Day 53 – Dreams at the Night

by on June 21, 2016 at 12:45 pm
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When I saw the number for today’s rhyme I was worried since numbers between 450 and 600 tend to be completely abstract sayings about the weather and such, and technically this rhyme “Dreams at the Night are the Devil’s Delight” , was just that. In fact it has the same cadence of the poem “Red Sky at Night, Sailor’s Delight” a rhyme that I know for a fact boaters still take seriously.

But it referred to an Angel and a Devil so the image came to me in seconds and I executed it in under a half hour.
Sketch Challenge Day 53 - Dreams at the Night are the Devil's Delight

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Sketch Challenge Day 50 – Donkey, Don’t Bray

by on June 19, 2016 at 9:12 am
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I must say, beyond the cliche about Donkey’s being stubborn, today’s rhyme, “Donkey, Donkey, Do Not Bray,” made little sense to me. I decided to go with the donkey holding the narrator up so much that it took him the whole day to get his butter to the market.

Also, it looks like my trouble drawing horses extends to their entire family.

Sketch Challenge Day 50 - Donkey, Don't Bray

 

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Sketch Challenge Day 49 – Happy is the Bride

by on June 18, 2016 at 10:04 am
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I’ve been beginning to cringe anytime I get a number between 450 and 600 on this challenge because it means it’s one of the almanac rhymes that says something abstract about the weather and I would feel guilty about skipping it and reaching for another number. But today’s rhyme, “Happy is the Bride that the Sun shines on” had just enough to work with.

Sketch Challenge Day 49 - Happy is the Bride

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Sketch Challenge Day 48 – It’s Once I Courted As Pretty a Lass

by on June 17, 2016 at 9:21 am
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Well for this rhyme,  “It’s Once I Courted As Pretty a Lass”, I was afraid I was dealing with one of the cliche’s of this collection, a gentleman gone a wooing… that is until I got to the last verse and found it very entertaining. I think this is one of the few times I find Values Dissonance working in out favor. The narrator clearly thinks this is a story about a faithless woman, where as I read it as someone dealing with a pest. All the way through drawing this I kept thinking “You go, Girl!”

The only problem I had with this was that I wasn’t sure if a Hog Tub was the same as a pig trough in the context of the poem… I decided not to worry about it.

Sketch Challenge Day 48 - It's Once I Courted As Pretty a Lass

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