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A Basketball Story – Interior 10

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Here’s the 10th interior.

The coach substitutes at the Sea Turtles’ school and observes that the team is really working well together. They’ll be a real challenge to the Jackrabbits next time they face them.

The coach stands inside a brick building, looking out the window. Outside, the Sea Turtles youth basketball team practices on the blacktop court on the playground.

Inktober 2020 #5 – Blade

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Today we have sabre drill. A girl practicing fencing with her coach. The prompt was blade. I took the time to do comic book style shading and highlights this time.

I did my best to get the lunge position and the clothing correct. My husband fences, so I got a bit of advice from him on that. The coach is based very roughly on his coach and this drill is very common for beginning sabre fencers.

Sabre is the hack and slash style of fencing. Foil and epee are the pokey styles. My daughter is deeply disappointed I drew sabre instead of epee. She thinks epee is the best. But sabre just doesn’t have as nice a sound effect. SMACK!

A girl practicing sabre drills with her fencing coach. She is performing a strike-to-head which makes a "SMACK!" sound and her coach says, "Good!"

Guy’s Face with Various Expressions — And a Zombie

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This was an exercise to practice drawing different expressions on the same character using Adobe Illustrator.  I didn’t bother with shading it, since it was just practice.  

I initially drew these in a completely different order, but arranging them this way seemed to fit them into a narrative.  The second from the last was originally supposed to be a yawn.  I’m not really sure why I turned him into a zombie.  It just sort of happened.  

Guy's Head with Various Expressions

Free Handwriting Sheets

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I was looking around for a pad with those three-line ruled sheets for little kids to use for practicing their handwriting.  Of course, since I was looking for them, they weren’t at any of the stores I normally go to.  I was debating making a special trip to somewhere I knew had them when I thought, “Hey, why don’t I just make some on the computer?”

So, I did.  Then I thought, “I ought to post these to the Freebies page on my website.”

So, I did that too.

Here they are, if anyone would like them:  http://www.karenbjones.com/index.php?id=187

There are blank ones and ones with the alphabet, both portrait and landscape orientation.