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My contribution to the world for today

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Do you have a favourite type of seal, or any particular seal(s)?

My favorite are prob harp seals, because of their adorableness and weddell seals because of the crazy UFO sounds they make :D

Crabeater seals have really cool teeth, and leopard seals just look cool (like mammal-water dragons). Antarctic fur seals are probably my favorite eared seals. Their pups look ridiculously adorable, especially because of their perpetually confused face.

Thanks for asking 🫶

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Seals are the best part of life. I love them so much. Thank you for your adorable blog 💛

I totally agree, i could draw and talk about seals for hours (honestly this implies that i havent done that wich would be a ridiculos lie). Thank you so much for these kind words! 🫶 They mean the world

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Do ppl here care for soot seals

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Counting seals 🦭

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Year 2, day 39 (basically).

(Yesterday kind of went to pieces on me in the end, so for the first time this entire project I took an entire day and said nope, nothing is being drawn. Today is much better, so I'm just going to do a Pope Gregory and say that the calendar went from the 12th to the 15th. Thanks for patience.)

Today's outing was a trip to the Gardiner Museum, the ceramics museum downtown that has this... this whatever the hell this is outside. The interior, thankfully, is slightly less surreal and slightly more full of bunnies.

If you're familiar with ceramics, porcelain and china, then the name you probably know above all others is Josiah Wedgwood. (This isn't a Wedgwood piece, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of this narrative.)

Wedgwood was kind of a marvel of his time. He dropped out of school at 14, dedicated himself to making porcelain, and marketed it so successfully that the Queen herself became a customer. And then he was able to market this new china, "creamware" as he called it, to everybody else as being the Queen's personal favorite. The sort of person who had long-term knee problems from a bout of smallpox, needed two legs of equal length to work at his craft properlyl, and solved the problem by amputating his leg.

In his personal time he was part of a family of great minds and great artists that included Darwin, and he certainly held his own during their discussions and debates. And during the rest of his spare time he was a staunch opponent of slavery, manufacturing abolitionist medallions for like-minded people to wear.

Oh. You spent a moment thinking he was hanging out with Charles Darwin. Sorry, I should have been clearer. He was hanging out with Erasmus Darwin. Who was Charles Darwin's grandfather. Oh, and Charles's other grandfather was... Josiah Wedgwood.

An autodidact. A person surrounded by those more schooled than him, yet part of the community and family nonetheless. A crusader for social justice at a time when even mentioning the crusade risked ridicule from the aristocracy. And, of course, a hustler constantly out there trying to get people to commission him for work and buy his art.

Josiah Wedgwood, dear reader, was the first tumblrina.

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Mom seal and seal pup :)

(Referenced from pinterest image)

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Two silly seals floating somewhere or nowhere :)

Drawn from Imagination, to be colored

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Day 5 (sorta)

A unicorn or something, to be colored

Haha I forgot to post for this self imposed challenge these past few days, but I am going to make it up by posting some old drawings after this one, so yay

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Day 4

Another half finished piece :) swallow tailed kites are very pretty birds

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Day 3

A work in progress seal, too lazy to finish this today haha

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Day 2

Gouache painting of an african wild dog :)

(referenced from pinterest image)

This took me some time pheww. Below is the sketch, and I thought it looked kinda crazy with the filters on, so I included those as well, hahah

Constructive criticism is always welcome :)

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Day 1

A seal drawn from imagination

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Hello :) This is hopefully the first of many posts. I am trying to challenge myself to draw something every day, and in order to hold myself accountable, I am going to post it here. This is a sketch of an african wild dog (I found the reference image on pinterest)