Menorkery; An Explainer And A Reminder

You'll have gathered from yesterday's aberration of a post that the week kinda snuck up on me! To be honest, I thought I had scheduled items for this week... oh well. 

A few questions arose among you regarding the process of creating that image. Hmm - First, let me say I won't be trying that again any time soon. It's just what happens when you realise at nearly two in the morning that you didn't have a post up. I tried first just a grey-haired lady shrugging her shoulders and looking blank. Then tweaking that with wearing a shawl, short hair... cropped hair... Cartoon style. The first half dozen kept coming back looking like Ingrid Bergman. Waaaaaay too glam. Another half dozen tries by adding in a round face, hands raised, rotund, thinnish lips, well-sized eyes... of the choices, you saw the most human and, actually, as cartoons go, not a million miles off the mark. Good enough that I dared to display it! The rest were truly grotesque (the missing thumb on that one is only a hint of what others looked like!)

As a comparison, I show you the head 'toon drawn of me some thirty years back by a Sydney street artist...

All I have for you today, after that, is a reminder (prompt?) that next week it is Final Friday yet again, and you are invited to come up with a feature post to share a bit of what is going on for you - photos, poems, short stories, news items... it can be anything you like but just a little bit more than usual to make a feature of it. Check out the guidelines on the "rulez" page. But how about a little extra challenge just for the heck of it? If you have access to an image creator, see if you can come up with a cartoon avatar that has a passable resemblance... Have a fabby weekend, everybody.