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.