{"id":4627,"date":"2026-10-29T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:26:14","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” 🎃(Sketches of the Week for Week 43 of 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My wife has been taking care of the neglected community garden at the local middle school, winding it down for the end of the year. As a result, there are dozens of little pumpkins on my porch, and last week was thus Pumpkin Week in my journal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sketch on the right was for a postcard I sent to my son, who is now way up at Michigan Tech, but has always been a fiend for Fall Decor (see below). The sketch on the left was done late in the day, after my wife had oiled our wooden dining room table. I often omit reflections when shadows are prominent, or vice versa. That sketch was the first time I ever questioned why I was doing that, and whether it might not be more fun to stop editing and just draw, for better or worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Otto in 2014-ish, mos def not loosing his shit in delight.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BONUS!<\/strong> Just in case the title got you mad nostalgic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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