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INKTOBER 2024 Day #2: DISCOVER.

“You see, this one’s layered, like an onion. PMD is using one of the most common symbols for discovery: a magnifying glass. He’s also discovered you can harness the sun’s rays with the lens. And he discovered fire…or something. Okay, so it’s not a very big onion, nor is it unique or interesting, but whatever.
I remember that thrill of discovering I could burn holes in leaves with my magnifying glass as a kid, and I’m pretty sure I spent more time using it for combustion than for examining things. However, I don’t think I ever started a full-on fire that way, even as a scout. I did teach scouts how to do it as a scoutmaster, though, and had a few achieve success. But I still haven’t done it myself. I like the challenge of starting fires without using matches or lighters, but my go-to is just a ferrocerium rod (often referred to as flint and steal, though it technically isn’t) and either a petroleum jelly-soaked cotton ball or some fat wood shavings for tinder. One of these days I’m going to give the magnifying glass method a shot, just cuz.
As a technical sidenote, I realized/remembered too late that the bit of PMD’s shirt and shorts seen through the magnifying lens not only should have been sized differently, but it should have been upside down. I think I should have handled the shadow on the ground and leaf differently as well, to emphasize the focused light and such. I guess I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I randomly need to draw a magnifying glass.
Oh yeah, several times while working on this, my Brain channeled Beavis (if you came of age in the United States in the 90s, you know what I’m referring to).”

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