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 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-six - blesbok

an animal with three words in its scientific name... faaaaaancy

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they are only eyeless when drawn by a creative (read: lazy) artist

other than that they're just antelopes you know

oh except blesboks can interbreed with another type of antelope and they were nearly hunted to extinction. so they have some interesting tidbits i suppose

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