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Terrible photo of a page in my sketchbook. It’s half-lit by my computer screen because the lighting in this room tonight is not great for this.<\/p>\n
I had a lot of fun playing with these scribbly ideas. Pretty sure the influences include the amazing Emily Hare<\/a>, Elsie the cat (who lives with Mary Robinette Kowal<\/a>), and my own yearning for more books and bookcases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Playing with scribbly ideas. Terrible photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,298,94],"tags":[207,371,112,386,99,252,391],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-patreon","category-sketches","tag-books","tag-cat","tag-magic","tag-patreon-post","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-thumbnails"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-lz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":616,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-scribbly-idea-for-an-art-show-submission\/","url_meta":{"origin":1337,"position":0},"title":"Sketchbook: scribbly idea for an art show submission","author":"Kir","date":"22 February 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Museum where I work has an annual art show. 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