day three-hundred-and-sixty-five - ???

a few people have asked me what i was going to draw for the final animal. and i had no idea. i sure wasn't going to put in any extra effort - why should i draw something special? it's just another day. obviously this project comes across as way more meaningful than it is.

but then i had a great idea. until now i have depicted animals i like. why not depict one i hate? i would art-ify the most evil and destructive of all animals...

humans. truly despicable characters.

but then i thought. who am i, the adelaide zoo? i'm not that lame. i'm lamer. and so i end with just another animal...

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a mountain gazelle. just another antelope (and no i am not nude [and no, if you really need to know i am not actually an antelope {NOR do i really look like one - a failure all 'round}])

farewell no-one. i am a scientist now, and thus must give up on art.

xj

day three-hundred-and-sixty-one - black-winged stilt

these guys look dumb. but in a good way

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a what-is-a-bird-of-that-tiny-size-doing-on-such-long-legs kind of way.

i'm sure you've come across that style of dumb before.

also 'legs eleven' is officially the best compliment ever, especially when yelled at you as you walk home from school...

xj

p.s. and oh my GOD i wish i had legs that fluoro

day three-hundred-and-sixty - azure kingfisher

yum yum yum fish

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do kingfishers eat fish? i sure hope so. even better if they eat kingfish.

the coolest thing i know about this guy is that he has white lores (the lore is the area between the eye and the nostrils on a bird [amongst other animals]). now this is pretty inconspicuous until  he looks straight at you and BAM - double eyes! real eyes and ghost eyes.

cool. as are his fluoro feet.

xj

day three-hundred-and-fifty-eight - kentish plover

i got humiliated in a science prac today so i went to the zoo to feel better. and there i learned that plovers (specifically hooded plovers) are in trouble. how fortuitous that my drawing today is a plover, i thought, ignoring the fact that it was the wrong plover

and then i let a cockatoo try to tongue my bag (and jumper). it was awesome

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so:
- like this picture please
- save some (other) plovers
- and go find a cockatoo to befriend

then you'll be just like meeeeeeeee

lucky you. xj

day three-hundred-and-fifty-seven - indian roofed turtle

hmmmmmm

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yes it is a sharky turtle but HMMMMMM

don't worry guys. i'll make sure the last week of pictures are nice ok

OK!?

jeez... xj

day three-hundred-and-fifty-five - ruby-tailed wasp

seeing as i have vowed to do no homework this weekend (and i kind of consider this home work), you will get no entertaining words. only these ones. words of doom...

oh and this drawing, naturally

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and in the words of david byrne: i kinda like that style*

thanks dave

xj


* these may or may not have been song lyrics, and thus may not directly reference my drawing. but i've heard good things