day three-hundred-and-fifty-nine - oriental garden lizard

well i wasted my day off and i effed up my promise to only draw well for the last week of this dumb project

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it looks like a lizard, i'll give you that. but this is what the real deal looks like. amazing

i'm very disheartened today. and i could tell you that i promise to make the last six drawings super great, but i think i've lied to you enough

adios!
xj

p.s. woah dramatic! here's some cheery news - this guy's scientific name [calotes versicolor] indicates his penchant for rainbow skorts (or culottes)

day two-hundred-and-ninety-three - brookesia micra

i don't know the common name for these guys but basically brookesia micra = tiny chameleon!

the tiniest in fact

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obviously they're not this colour, and actually they're not even life-size. in reality they could fit on a match head.

so tiny, and yet so surly.

these guys, and four other types of tiny-leons, were discovered recently, although i can't for the life of me figure out how anyone could have seen them! the extreme tininess may be due to the limited resources on madagascar. so should we steal almost all of madagascar's food and natural resources to try to make tiny lemurs too? i say yes.

xj

p.s. how weird does the word 'tininess' look? it's not immediately obvious that it refers to being super tiny, but maybe tinny instead. i say we defy conventions and spell it with a y, so as to avoid any future confusion. good chat. see you at the next "p.s. spelling meeting" in march

day two-hundred-and-forty-nine - southern angle-headed dragon

no time to talk! got to post four animals in five minutes!

animal one... an angular dragon!

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i like him, but as i said no time to chat, i'm busy making up for my laziness ok

xj

day two-hundred-and-thirteen - tarzans chameleon

for real

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it's truly terrible, and not too different from my other chameleon, but i wanted to draw him because he made the IUCN red list this year.

so you all need to get acquainted with him before he inevitably dies. this is what he looks like in his fancy skin.

what a grumpy post. apologies! i'll make up for it tomorrow. (probably)

xj

day one-hundred-and-eighty-four - green crested lizard

i like to spell lizard the cool way - lzrd. everyone knows vowels are uncool. eugh, that sentence had a LOT of vowels. onto the lizard (uh... lzrd)!

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did he scare you? happy belated halloween - a 'holiday' i don't understand, and thus have only just remembered it even happened. when will australians stop trying to make the 'ween happen here?

hopefully tomorrow. or sooner.

xj

PS(sstt) i'm totes over halfway!! by a whole day-and-a-half. what what! aren't you glad there's an end in sight... halfway through 2012...

*sob*

day one-hundred-and-seventy-eight - tuatara

i fully intended to write nothing on today's post, because i just can't be bothered. but instead i drew a cool lizard...

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they're from new zealand and they have cool heads.

uh-huh.

xj

day one-hundred-and-thirteen - frilled-neck lizard

or is it frill-necked? or even frilled necked? frillered neckerchiefed lizarded?

i'm sure i could easily find out but i do not have the wherewithal nor the nimble fingers to do so. or to draw well...

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time to rest my head and 'chipolata fingers'.

xj