{"id":12298,"date":"2020-01-20T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2020-01-24T22:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T21:52:03","slug":"daily_1837_-_drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/daily_1837_-_drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1837 – drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAdrian’s weekly homework consists of reading a chapter in a book out loud, writing answers to questions about the chapter, and finally drawing something related to the chapter. <\/p>\n

He doesn’t mind the reading, is not at all happy about the writing, but really enjoys the drawing. His drawing for this week’s theme of “blue lights and sirens” started out as just that police car in the middle of the left page. He could have left it at that and be done with the homework, but he just couldn’t stop. The car got all sorts of futuristic features – jet propulsion, a heat-seeking camera, lasers, some other kind of waves that I’ve forgotten – and then a city underneath it. The city then got a monster, a headquarters for the local superheroes, an aggressive vine, and purple waves of internet. Then another, larger monster outside the city, accompanied by further disasters in the form of a volcano, a meteor shower, and Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet. Luckily the city then got a force field shield to protect it. Then the larger monster got nail polish and rainbow colours. And had Adrian not run out of space on the page, he would have continued. (He was going to expand to the next page but then you couldn’t see the whole scene at the same time any more and that wasn’t as much fun.)<\/p>\n

I remember being at school, at roughly his age. A couple of boys sat at the desk behind me. And I remember them drawing equally advanced scenarios in their exercise books at school, and describing it all to each other, just like Adrian did to me: guys with cool weapons fighting large monsters. Although they only had blue ballpoint pens so their scenes were not as colourful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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