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Drawing Prompt: Goblin Beach Day

1:05 AM, Monday June 27th 2022

Prompt: Goblin Beach Day - Album on Imgur

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A picnic basket that the goblins fashioned themselves: sheets of rusty metal crudely bolted together and dirty sewer pipes for the handle. They tried to weave a rim around the basket with thorny vines but ran out halfway and improvised with their own claws and toenails. The goblins lounge under a beach umbrella propped up with the bones of some unfortunate creature. The lifesaver adds a bit of pizzaz in the goblins' eyes and plus-it's not like the guy they found it with was using it anyways...

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