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In case anyone’s having a bad day, here’s a collection of Holmes complimenting Watson in canon:

“Excellent, Watson!”

“Dr Watson is my friend and partner.”

“Would you go in, Watson? Your appearance inspires confidence.”

“Watson, you are a British Jury, and I never met a man more eminently fitted to represent one.”

“Dr Watson is the very soul of discretion.”

“Brilliant, Watson!”

“Capital, Watson!”

“Very good, Watson.”

“Exactly, my dear Watson!”

“Brilliant, Watson. You are scintillating this morning.”

“Good, Watson, good!”

“You look the same blithe boy as ever!”

“Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own.”

“Indeed an ideal helpmate.”

“With your natural advantages, Watson, every lady is your helper and accomplice.”

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Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947) - Thais, circa 1925.  Patinated, gilt, silver and cold-painted bronze, ivory, onyx base; 22 ½ in. (57.2 cm.) high; 25 ½ in. (64.8 cm.) long.  

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Busts from my sketchbook. I wonder ...who are these people?

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Just a few Holmes and Watsons from over on m' Patre0n.

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Drawing a whole book in soft pencil was a good experience.

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This is a very silly video. It marks the first appearance of Puppet Ben.

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Recent Inktober stuff. More about the characters here:

http://www.benhatke.com/2014/10/inktober-wellspring-of-wizards.html

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Bridge Trolls.

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what they don’t tell you about writing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

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more from the Long Ago.

One of the many abandoned scenes from the early drafts of Legends of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita 2).

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Wow that was a long time ago and needed to be pushed forward one more step.

http://www.benhatke.com/2013/12/cookies-and-cards.html

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“In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.”

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Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (via decadent-romanticism)

I’ve been reading a lot of Solnit these last couple years, and boy does she ever deliver.

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UHF (1989) // Dir. Jay Levey (Written by: “Weird Al” Yankovic and Jay Levey)