Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

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Ass-ass-in   December 08, 2025 I sent the game Codenames to a niece as a birthday present and decided to draw a Spy-y, Codename-y character on the card. The best "cloak-and-dagger" looking image is the Assassin, which is essentially the death card in the game (you pick it, you lose). I got to use a set of variable size pens a friend gave me a few years back that I use on occasion, and this was one of them. I spent a lot of time accidentally using the smallest instead of the largest pen-point to fill in some of the black. I realize I looked at it upside down, so the 0.1 looked more like a 1.0 (except the period was too high, but I didn't really pay attention to that). It was MUCH easier when I used the 0.7 mm pen for filling in the background. And while the assassin has TWO asses in its name, I never really think of it by that name. Here's the full size image which was scanned in in black and white so it looks a bit rougher and more ragged.

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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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