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My laptop hasn't frozen once yet so hopefully I'll get to forget it was ever doing that.

I drew Arsene Wenger's (in one of his iconic big coats) 442oons character who I intended to represent the granddad of the young child splashing about in mud. I ran out of time to even start the main idea cos I've watched football all day well most of it with Liverpool Women losing (I think they might end up relegated) and then the men winning.

I didn't think about the 442oons character or the real person much past doing the outline. I got bored like the moment I started colouring the coat. I started thinking that this was the young kid's granddad who had died and they're trying to keep remembering them or he's there as some kind of ghost which would then excuse/ explain anything dodgy with the colouring or the shape and the hands. That's also why I kept his skin colour completely white.

When I was a kid (like 5) I apparently described a man looking after me at school who sounded exactly like my great-grandad who had died when I was much younger (I can't remember whether it was 2 months or 2 years) and the school insisted there was no one that I'd described. That's weird huh? My mum likes to mention that whenever I point out I don't believe in ghosts or anything like that.

I think the shoes/ feet look too small and I've used a darker colour on the right one

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I think the shoes/ feet look too small and I've used a darker colour on the right one. I didn't get the expression of the character. "Child drawn" hands are still bad hands and it's still bad colouring. The shirt and tie are odd, the zip is so bad. I didn't do most of what I wanted.

Next Ride.

I'm still thinking of drawing Stacy from my story ILtbSE and LAMB with a BMW. That or some other kind of car - I'm not good at cars as the prompt Tread proved but that was a weird one to be fair. Hopefully it's more fun than today or yesterday whatever I do.

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