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[wavewright62]

Well spotted, Wave! "Glycon" comes from the same root as Glycogen, and more or less means "The Sweet One". Hence "Sweetie"

Seriously?!  Here I thought I was being an insufferable punster, and it's blimmin' canon?

And thank you, Mirasol, that one was done with pastel pencils.  The set already limits the palette. 
I'm still not completely happy with it; I'm already spoilt for the reworking possible with digital media.  I sneakily swapped over  revisions until the release, at which point I left it alone, but think it still needs work.

(The GG one was a doodle that I decided to colour as an afterthought.)

[Purple Wyrm]

Oooh, This looks really cool! Glycon´s scales turned out really well, Wyrm! (I know that´s a very specific detail, but I draw dragons a lot and scales are my personal arch-nemesis. These look really good!)

Thank you! Although it's 90% tracing from a photo

Seriously?!  Here I thought I was being an insufferable punster, and it's blimmin' canon?

I'm afraid so!

[LooNEY_DAC]

These three are all badass fighters, who also share a love of cake.

Obligatory question: What if there is no cake? What if the cake...

...you can call him Sweetie, he doesn't mind!

Even more obligatory response: Hello, Sweetie!

[thegreyarea]

Wyrm, your Sweetie is fantastic! And it's not that easy to turn a statue in a drawing. The scales and the face are very well done, and the backgroud fits them nicely.
Great work!
Oh, and what's the font you used? I like it!

I would have to make a Portuguese version to start spreading them around... It would be fun! Even if most would take it as some advertising, but who knows, we could end up with a cult...

Wave, great drawings! I like the way you draw noses. I always have trouble with noses, but you draw them fearlessly!
And I don't recall commenting on your new avatar, that is very pretty!

[JoB]

I would have to make a Portuguese version to start spreading them around... It would be fun! Even if most would take it as some advertising, but who knows, we could end up with a cult...

If you want it to become a cult and not mistaken as ads, translate it into something other than a locally-frequent language.

Spoiler: show

I hear that Finnish is a nigh-worldwide outlier.

[thegreyarea]

If you want it to become a cult and not mistaken as ads, translate it into something other than a locally-frequent language.

Spoiler: show

I hear that Finnish is a nigh-worldwide outlier.

I guess you're right. But Latin is probably the best choice for anything "esotheric", don't you agree?

"Glycon defendat nos pestilentia nubibus" sounds quite ominous, and the similarities between Latin and Portuguese allow translation without a much effort:
"Glycon defende-nos das pestilentas nuvens"

 (usualy we have substantive-adjective (so it would be "nuvens pestilentas"), but reversing the order is also correct, particularly in written form).

[Groupoid]

I think you changed the mode in your Latin translation. Your Latin says (as far as I can tell) "Glycon defends us ...", instead of "Glycon defend us ..." which would be "Glycon defende nos ...". I can’t tell anything about "pestilentia nubibus", I don’t know Latin well enough.
Anyhow, using Latin it sounds even more like you’re advertising for a cult and spreading prayers.

[thegreyarea]

I think you changed the mode in your Latin translation. Your Latin says (as far as I can tell) "Glycon defends us ...", instead of "Glycon defend us ..." which would be "Glycon defende nos ...". I can’t tell anything about "pestilentia nubibus", I don’t know Latin well enough.
Anyhow, using Latin it sounds even more like you’re advertising for a cult and spreading prayers.

I think you're right. I don't know much Latin... Them it would be even closer to Portuguese:
"Glycon defende nos pestilentia nubibus"
But I found that you could also have: "Glycon pestilens tueantur nubibus".
I don't know enough to tell which is more appropriate in that context. I'm using my vague knowledge together with an dictionary

Pestilentia=plague, Pestilens=pestilential, unhealthy, unwholesome, tueantur=to guard, defend, protect, nubibus=clouds (plural, sing: nubes)

And yes, the idea here would be advertising for a cult as Wyrm suggested  Now to find a suitable cave to hold the secret meetings...

[Jitter]

Oi Glycon, suojele meitä kulkutaudilta!

Or, if we want to ask for protection against several or all forms of pestilence,

Ou Glycon, suojele meitä kulkutaudeilta!

(Kulkutauti = literally ”wandering disease”)

[moredhel]

Here is a lizard I tried to draw.



The reason for drawing it is quite sad. My Grandma died lat tuesday. It was not a surprise she was diagnosed with pancreas cancer in late september. She then organized her funeral. And she decided that the biodegradable paint it yourself urn is hers. She said "my children, grandchildren and grand-grandchildren are all creative they will paint it". We were there last week to see her a last time and to help my mom because 24 hour care is nothing a single person can do alone.
My wife painted a butterfly on the urn and our kids and me painted cooperatively a lizard. Lizard were her favourite animals and nobody drew one.

I drew this lizard to remind me of her and for practicing to draw a lizard.

[Jitter]

Moredhel, I’m sorry for your loss! It was a fine thing of you, to draw a lizard for her! And this is a very fine lizard indeed!

[Róisín]

Moredhel, that was a beautiful thing to do, and a good lizard. Sympathetic hugs are offered.

[Mirasol]

My condolences, Moredhel. An urn to paint yourself sounds like a very nice gesture. And your lizard indeed turned out really well!

[moredhel]

Many thanks for all your kind words.

The urn is really great when I die I want one of these too. The outside is like cardboard an any paint and pencil we tried on it worked. There was a set of paint included, but we din't use it at all. As my mom said, we want something non toxic for the babys and something with more pigment in it for everyone else. She had bought a set of acrylic paint, but everyone who paints regulary brought spontaneously his own materials. Because only the stuff you work with best is appropriate for grannys urn. And it has now a mixture of paintings in different styles and techniques and food prints of the grand-grandchildren too young to paint.

[Jitter]

Moredhel, that’s really lovely! It would be interesting even if just one person painted it, be it the deceased or one of their offspring, but with many / all of the offspring participating is spectacular. And the baby footprints too! Thank you for sharing this thing with us.

I hope your dark time is a little bit lightened by our words here and the fact that you have now made Safe Zone Citizenship! Please proceed to the Promotion Celebrations thread for cake and probably also confetti.