Friday, May 28, 2021

Home Questing: Task 29 Results!

 by Christopher "Janus" Donnelly


Hi all, and welcome to the judging of the penultimate task of Home Questing.  This week, we asked you to draw a self portrait without looking at the paper, and that the funniest would win.  So, let’s see how people are with their eyes closed.


First, from Belle (the racoon) is this:






Second, Cressida took a different approach.  She put on some music and chose colored pencils at random every time she switched features until she ran out of pencils, resulting in this:





And finally, from Janus is this drawing (which is only marginally worse than with his eyes open):





So, for help on this, I asked Indana, who happened to be over helping with dinner.  Take it away Indana!


First place (5 points) is Cressida, because I laughed out loud. Lets just say that I found their eyes on the portrait resembled a different … anatomical … body part. 

Second place (4 points) is Janus because he is an elephant, and that’s great. 

Third place (3 points) is Belle. A very solid entrant. 


Thank you Indana.  Now, for my point of view:

First, as it always happens, Janus is disqualified for using a second sight of some sort.

In 2nd place is Belle (4 points).  It’s actually a really good drawing...possibly better than I could do myself, and while cute, isn’t that funny.

In 1st place is Cressida  (5 points).  The colors add to it, but as I look closer and closer it gets funnier and funnier.  There are two mouths offset from each other.  There might be two eyebrows...or I don’t know what those arches are.  There is either an earring on a cheek, or a rosy cheek on the ear.  It’s perfect!

So, after a point for participation, that brings our totals for the week to:

Cressida: 11 points
Belle: 8 points.


See you next week for our thrilling conclusion.