Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

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A Summer Thought (in color)   July 08, 2025 I wanted to play around with coloring the picture and while at points of time it did sit around, I also learned that the easiest thing was for me to redraw it with the Wacom tablet, tracing the original, rather than doing a digital "trace the image" which wasn't great. I have learned that I need to make a copy of the layer with the Wacom pen strokes, because when I convert that to a Live Paint object, all of the strokes become thin lines. It makes it easy to add colors but then I need the original image of the thick and thin strokes as a layer on top of the colors. Then it's kind of the best of both worlds. I added some shading areas which was adding invisible pen strokes to create subdivisions, select the main color and then make it either lighter or darker. Huzzah! Again, this is the only resolution of the image since it's pretty simple. Also, it HAS been pretty warm out lately.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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