Stories tagged “drawing”
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The Spiral
I took the marker and started drawing a spiral. Nothing else, just a spiral. I kept drawing around and around and around and around. The red went on and on and on and on and on in one huge spiral, over and over and over. In circles, one big circle, I j...
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Beach Boy Music Dude
His callused, firm hands had enough raw muscular power behind them to knock a guy much bigger than him out, but they looked gentle when there was a pencil in them. Locks of sandy hair fell into his face as he looked down at the pad of paper in his lap....
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Artist
Nine panels is all you have decided you need to tell your story, outlined in light blue ink and forms barely beginning. A little bit like you. How will you be defined? How will you take shape, become whole? Some have doubted you, but the choice you hav...
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A Little Piece of Growing Up
She remembers when she was little, when she still looked up to her dad. That once, he drew a hybrid animal with the head of her mother, and a body of a crocodile. They conspired to avoid encouraging her wrath, and her mom just shook her head and went b...
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Marginalia
The young illuminator lifted his quill from the parchment and watched his creation dry. He wasn’t entirely sure what it was that he had just doodled on the 147th page of the manuscript. He had given up making up sensible illustrations seven folio...