Editing 34: Flowers

{{comic
| number    = 34
| date      = November 9, 2005
| title     = Flowers
| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Wednesday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Flowers Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing - Flowers'''</big></big>
| image     = flowers.jpg
| titletext = This is actually pencil on paper, just inverted and colored<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Wednesday%27s%20Drawing%20%2D%20Flowers Original caption</span>]: Original drawing is pencil on graph paper.<br>Bonus points if you can identify the flowers. 'cause I sure can't.

}}
==Explanation==
This was the thirtieth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[30: Donner]], and the next one was [[29: Hitler]].

This is a drawing of flowers made by [[Randall Munroe|Randall]]. According to the title text and the original caption on the LiveJournal post, he originally drew the flowers with a pencil on a white sheet of paper. Then, he used the invert feature of a photo-editing program to reverse it from black-on-white to white-on-black and colored to the flowers. The image below gives a good approximation of what the original drawing might have looked like. He also says the flowers are based on his imagination and aren't a real species.

<div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;"> [[File:flowers_inverted.jpeg|thumb|none|250px|An inverted and monochrome version of the comic, made to mimic the original.]]</li></ul></div>

==Transcript==
:[A sketch of flowers, drawn in green, red, and yellow on a black background.]

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