Dancing person finger puppet

We made these in Sunday School the other week.

Yes, the adults all coloured one too :-)

Zeta

The last of the kids (just the adults to do now).

I never felt Zeta was that interesting a character, despite being the mascot. Or perhaps because of that -  he didn't really have any other meaning.

But I'm quite pleased with the real boy.

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I've never tried to draw skinny jeans before. Worked out OK.

Previous characters:
Gamma
Pi
Phi 
Lambda 
Theta
Alpha & Beta (half way down)
Delta

Delta

This one was quite tricky - to at least in some way echo his body shape and pose.

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Previous characters:
Gamma
Pi
Phi 
Lambda 
Theta
Alpha & Beta (half way down)

Remony at the fremony at the library

Was chuffed to come across this online. Had seen it before in a book of funny misprints, but this is the real thing, unabridged.

I do wonder how this could happen...

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When people hark back to the 'good old days'

 We can’t get back to where we were before everything fell apart, because that’s Genesis 3

Russell Moore

Lecture hall of Tyrannus 2

Phew!

The good thing about getting it all wrong twice, is that I ended up with a much better picture than I would have if I'd just done it once.

I decided I really liked the symmetrical layout of the original. But I used my sketchup model to get more perspective.

Because Paul is so small and wearing clothes that don't stand out much, I've used the colours of the (greatly simplified) roman wall decor to draw attention to him. Also he's the only one who has much contrast in his clothes. And the perspective points roughly to him.

Still not the best picture in the world, but does the job.

Not actually sure when I'll finish this PowerPoint, as I'm wondering about doing some Christmas prophecies - not least because I would find it useful myself this year!

I officially hate historical accuracy >:-( *

I'm illustrating Paul holding discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

So I searched, and finally found ruins of 2nd century lecture halls from Alexandria, which seemed a good enough basis for an illustration of a 1st century lecture hall in Ephesus.

By isawnyu [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

After a bit of trial and error, I managed to trace a photo (another one) with nice clear computer lines. And worked out the layout of people. Something I read said the block was a podium for the speaker, so I put Paul there.

And then I inked it (twice, because the first one wasn't good) and coloured it...

Not quite finished.

And realised I'd been so concerned with the historical accuracy side that I hadn't bothered to check if it actually made a good picture. Which it doesn't. Paul's head almost disappears against the fussy steps behind it. Grrrr.

So I decided to make a Sketchup model. Which did take a wee bit of time, because I'm not over-familiar with how to do anything that's not really basic. Those steps confused me! But anyway, I got it done, and slotted in a few wee figures to get a rough idea while I played about with viewpoints. 

Still wasn't quite happy with the steps, so Googled to see if I could get some better pictures. Which I did. I also, however, found a detailed article which described the step thing at the end as the seat for the teacher. This makes a lot of sense. Back to the drawing board again...

It's not even that important a picture. I could have just shown a talking head or something, but I wanted to add a bit of interest.

Now I'll go and amuse myself with some nice futuristic science fiction before I go to sleep :-)

[Edit: Here's what I ended up with.]

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*Which is, being interpreted, I'm obsessed by it. But they say there's a fine between love and hate.