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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Happy #inktober, day 25! Our word today is 'fracture', and for a reference I used a Norman Rockwell painting of a couple arguing about the 1920 election. normanrockwell.com/asset/man-and-wo…

A young man and woman sit back to back on a footstool, looking upset and distrustful. He holds a newspaper, she holds a pamphlet.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

For #inktober day 24, the word is 'bake', and I phoned in this quick sketch of Mel and Sue from the original Great British Bake-Off. Mel in particular looks like a grey zombie, and for that I'm very sorry.

A dastardly sketch of two women in jackets about to yell, "BAKE!"

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

It's #inktober day 23, and for 'dapper' I'm doing a portrait of beloved Armenian/Russian actor Frunzik Mrktchyan, who was part of #PortraitChallenge a few weeks ago. This fella was crazy handsome!

A digital drawing of a handsome young actor with a prominent nose wearing a nice suit.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Happy #inktober day 22! Our word today is 'beacon', and I was stuck for quite a while. Bacon? Mavis Beacon? Then I thought of Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue, and thought I could do a sort of tessellation. With him. Why? Art for art's sake! I'm not making a […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Christ the Redeemer's bust is arranged in a many-pointed star formation.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

YCSE is not what I was expecting, but I can see why everyone is raving about it. No spoilers, I’ll just say it’s imoressive…but it also wore me out and made me sad.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

A low-concept sketch for today's #inktober word, 'hero'. On days I'm uninspired, I take the chance to practice something I'm bad at. Today: strange poses!

Two sketches. In one, a soldier is crouched with another military guy slung over his shoulders. In the second, he's standing and holding his unalert coworker.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Excited to go see the Elizabeth Holmes documentary today. I never go to movies! But I did see Digger last week, so maybe this is a Return To Form for Vinny. (Digger was a cluttered mess, but there’s at least half a good movie in there somewhere, and I’m glad I saw it. Cautiously recommended for […]

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

It's #inktober day 20, and the word is 'lounge'. Here's a scene from a movie that came out the year before I was born of some characters hanging out in a Hilton in space.

5 people sit around a table in a long hallway that may be part of an orbital space station.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

It's #inktober day 19, and our word today is 'confused'. I drew, or tried to draw, a confused character from a movie I love. It's more of a charcoal sketch than an ink drawing, and he looks more angry than confused, but trust me....he spends a lot of time in the movie being both.

John Turturro looking at the camera uncertainly.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@patrickworld leaving me with the question of whether I put a higher price on my ass or my sweet bippy

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

It's #inktober day 17, and the word is 'contraption'. Are we all making Rube Goldberg machines?

The word "CONTRAPTION" is manhandled by various equipment, becoming CONTRACTION and finally CONTRACT'N.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

For #inktober day 16, the word is 'gangly', and I went with trying a caricature of Stephen Merchant. I'm pretty new at portraits, let alone caricatures, but this was fun.

A caricature of Stephen Merchant wearing a nice suit. His head, hands and feet have been drawn larger, emphasizing a certain gawkiness.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#inktober day 15! We're halfway through! So let's say "HOORAY!" Which is the word of the day. I'm actually saying "Who-ray", because Horton hears a Who. (Did you know the Whos down in Whoville were in both Horton Hears A Who and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?! I never made that connection.)

Horton the elephant is holding a clover. With a magnifying glass, we can see that on the clover little Cindy Lou Who is shouting WHO-RAY!

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

It's #inktober day 14, and today the word is 'lady'. Here's something based on a Mucha print!

A woman in an exotic headdress is surrounded by leaf and flower motifs.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

For #inktober day 13, I was supposed to do 'flimsy'. I had no ideas. But flimsy is sort of like film-see, and well... here we are.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

For #inktober day 12, the word is 'toss'. I started out wanting to draw a discus thrower, but that felt played out. How about shot put! This is Chasey Jackson, a world champion female shot putter, who has a lot of tattooes and is generally tough and lively as […] [Original post on ohai.social]

A woman is in the midst of throwing a shot put.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

It's #inktober day 11, and the word today is 'rescue'. I was confused about how to draw the ocean, but if I was starting over I wouldn't do it this way 😄

A b/w drawing of a nighttime ocean scene. The moon shines on the water. A lighthouse in the distance. A swimming person in the foreground waves to a small boat coming towards him.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

It's #inktober day 10, the word today is 'mystical'. This is thankfully one of the last Very Grey entries I'll make, the next few days are more old-fashioned and inkylicious.

Two hands are lit by a large central candle. A male winged creature flies up from below, as if summoned.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Today's #inktober day 9, and the word is Ram. Wasn't too interested in drawing four-footers or digital memory, so I drew Ram(a) from a Javanese dance performance of the Ramayana.

A hunter in elaborate clothing is in mid-pose.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@dailylichesspuzzle @kralcttam I remember this one! It was hard four days ago and it’s still tough today 😄

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

it's #inktober day 8, and the word is 'stinky'. I like this one, but I'm realizing that doing pictures with all these flat shades of grey is kind of dull. What a shocker, eh? So there will be less of that in future days...

In a forested bog, a big slime blob is using a tiny perfume sprayer to freshen up. It's having a great time!

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#inktober day 6, and the word is “ogre”. Here’s a Dunemaul Skirmisher, live from the shattered world of Outland.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's #inktober day 5, and the word is 'smack'. This made me think of Michael Rosen's famous quip about enjoying potatoes.

Michael Rosen smiling. The caption says: SMACK! .....nice

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petes_bread_eqn_xls @petes-bread-eqn-xls.mastodo.neoliber.al.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Business idea: post-mortem tattoos So you can finally get the edgy, weird, or unacceptable tattoos that you were too cowardly to get while you were alive.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It's #inktober day 3, and the prompt today is "miniature".

A black and white drawing of a very small easel being drawn on by a large artist

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's #inktober day 2, and the word is 'relic'. This is the Arm Reliquary of Charlemagne, held in Aachen Cathedral since 1481.

A black and white drawing of a hand atop a vertical cylinder. Light shines down from above, creating a flower-shaped pool of light. A black panel in the cylinder vaguely shows the outline of arm bones.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It's #inktober! I'm aiming to do 20 of the 31 days so I can skip a few days if I can't get into the prompt. Today's word is 'apple'; this is from a detail of a painting of Atalanta by Guido Reni.

A black and white drawing of a woman's hand holding an apple.

A woman bends down to pick up an apple that a man has thrown to distract her

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@patrickworld I heard Google puts all those messages in Spam and then collects the million$ themselves. Total ripoff! You’re onto ‘em now.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This is a polished draft of my version of a photo by Bob Gruen of The Clash playing in Boston in 1979. One of the best rock photos I know of, but maybe that’s cuz I love the band so much. #digitalart #theclash

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@patrickworld if you've been keeping up on your reading of McQuarrie's Statistical Mechanics, I'll take this hour to go through a few examples of the practical uses of 2nd and 3rd virial coefficients that might be helpful for the problem set you're working on this weekend

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

My first try at the #PortraitChallenge is of St. Francis and his bird pals.

St. Francis, in a brown robe, surrounded by blue birds

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Mamas, don’t let your children grow up to be insufferable Design Guys.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Siiiiick burn from "A Well-willer" in 1674, slamming men who lazed around uselessly in coffee shops. archive.org/details/bim_early-engli…

Never did Men wear greater Breeches, or carry less in them of any Mettle whatsoever.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Gah, I ordered a RH mouse by mistake, I really shouldn’t be left alone w/o supervision. (*Left* alone….get it!?)

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I don't know why I decided to watch Robert Redford in All Is Lost (2013), because at the time I was in a holier-than-thou I'm-tired-of-his-puss mood, possibly induced by my allergy to A River Runs Through It and The Horse Whisperer. But gosh dang it that, was a fine film. Favorite line […]

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@patrickworld holy cats, I always thought that was Zach Galiafinakis.

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Time for me to listen to the Song of the Sea soundtrack again. Have you seen the movie? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ionOzjravQ

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I always have a left-hand and right-hand mouse, because I have lots of wrist and elbow pain. This weekend the left mouse finally died, and the new one will get here Wednesdayish. I don't mean to mope, but WOW I MISS MY LH MOUSE. #rsi #ergonomics #boring #selfabsorbedtwaddle

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@patrickworld if you don’t give them some yumyums, those dumdums will be in the doldrums

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@patrickworld if it doesn’t run CP/M, it’s newfangled!

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Uncle Vinny @uncle-vinny.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@patrickworld my dearly departed father cared mostly about two things in life: the supremacy of Coke over Pepsi, and keeping our car's Kleenex box in pristine condition

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