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Grokit Accolades Trailer - 3lb Games 3lbXR

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Multiplayer game Grokit lets you pollinate flowers with mixed reality bees in the Spring Sting update on Quest. #AR #VR #Metaverse

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Happy 4th anniversary @groknation @missmayim I wanted to do a recap of the drawings I did the last years for Grok Nation anniversary. I always remember the date, I don’t even have a calendar reminder, I just remember it, and that is rare from me. I know a lot of people followed me recently, so it’s story time! I started following Mayim and being interested on TBBT on 2015, really late to join the fandom, but it was when it happened. I didn’t know about her personal project until some time later, and I tried to be supportive. I started meeting a lot of friends online thanks to this, and (as a lot of you already know) a big friendship started with another artist and Mayim’s fan, Selina. Swipe to see the article Selina submitted on Grok Nation 2 years ago, that got published! You can read it here: https://groknation.com/culture/how-big-bang-theory-fan-art-forged-a-friendship/ We met IRL 3 years ago and again in BCN. This year, in USA, after we both went to our last (for me first and last) TBBT taping. Sadly, we couldn’t go together, but we got to meet anyway a week later in San Francisco. I’m sure this won’t be the last time we met, right @selinazhu_2019 ? On 2016, I even did a drawing for Selina, She and Mayim together like they were taking a selfie! I want to thank Natalie, from Grok Nation, for always being super nice to me. When I went to the taping, she even let Mayim know I was there. I was super lucky to have a couple of minutes with Mayim (with my I’m with Mayim sweater, btw, she noticed it immediately hehe), swipe to see the pic in the end, it’s a fun photo, I love she was still dressed as Amy ♥️ thanks Mayim for your time, you were really nice to me. I didn’t prepare a new drawing for today, but I did something for Mayim, that I hope someday I will know if it went well. Meanwhile, enjoy my old drawings! If you want to appreciate Mayim today, go to her site, go to her youtube, subscribe to her channel, I’m sure she will be happy if you do. Have a great day ♥️ Regina ‪**Please don’t use, edit or repost my drawings**‬‬‬‬ SUPPORT ME ON ♥️ PATREON.COM/RGBCN ♥️ ‪‪‪‪‪‪ #rgbcn #mayimbialik #groknation #grokite #anniversary #bigbangtheory #tbbt https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Bu0e5g9N4/?igshid=18usvh10kvf8d

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Make this sunshine happy🌞💛 #drawing #pencil #pencildrawing #sketchbook #sketch #thebigbangtheory #tbbt #mayimbialik #amyfarrahfowler #happy #happiness #grokite #smile #cute

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Computer Gamers Grok, and with these machine washable fleece blankets,  they stay warm and cozy too:https://bit.ly/2KPdrS6

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Vince Cooks on TikTok

Você foi marcado no TikTok Isso não é mentira, é dinheiro de verdade! https://vm.tiktok.com/7JWqL2/ Clique aqui para ganhar Vince Cooks(Grokit) has created a short video on TikTok with music LITE SPOTS. GARLIC BUTTER SALMON 👀 #fyp #cooking Source by sassychae Você foi marcado no TikTok Isso não é mentira, é dinheiro de verdade! https://vm.tiktok.com/7JWqL2/ Clique … Continuar a ler "Vince Cooks on TikTok" Source: https://opengeekhouse.com.br/2020/07/16/vince-cooks-on-tiktok/

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The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Each and every day, new entrepreneurs around the world are starting their own enterprises. Most of them are armed with amazing ideas for new products or services (or so they think), but not necessarily the tools required to building an enduring business.

Enter Eric Ries.

Ries has seen numerous businesses start and fail - most notably his own. Through these false starts, he has learned many lessons and has gone on to have great success in building a multi-million dollar enterprise and coaches others to do the same.

For the next 12 minutes or so, you will learn the key components to a system that - almost without fail - can lead you towards building a successful business.

What does it mean to run a Lean Startup?

According to Ries, there are five principles that are critical to the success of a startup, and what makes a startup a “lean” one.

First is the idea that entrepreneurs are everywhere. They are the person who just lost their job in the recession and have struck out on their own. They are the person who has started and sold their first five businesses, and is now onto their sixth. These are the people we traditionally read about in magazines and books, and who are self-made success stories. Entrepreneurs are also found in global corporations, working on the next big idea.

The second idea is that entrepreneurship is management. The goal of an entrepreneur is to build a sustainable enterprise, and so there needs to be a new (and predictable) method of doing so – especially in the middle of the digital revolution we find ourselves in.

The third idea is that startups exist – not to make money or even to serve customers – but to learn how to build a sustainable business. This idea is the most critical to Ries’ entire premise, and it’s a revolutionary one.

Most entrepreneurs start a business with a new idea thinking (most of the time, incorrectly) they have an idea that will be a huge success. I mean, why else start a business and take all that risk, right?

They then plod along, hustling the hell out of that idea until it either succeeds or fails – usually in spectacular fashion. Ries however, argues that if an organization can learn as quicky as possible what the marketplace values enough to pay for, they will be able to adapt their business and grow it into a sustainable enterprise. He calls this validated learning.

The fourth idea is the method in which companies should approach this task: build, measure and learn. The idea is to get back to “build” as quickly as possible after learning from the marketplace. The quicker you can get through this cycle, the faster you’ll learn what the market values, and the better chance you have of surviving and building a sustainable business.

Lastly is the idea of innovation accounting. Although it sounds sexy, this is actually the boring stuff that will make a company successful. It is how you measure the milestones you set and how you prioritize the work you get done.

What these five principles add up to is a new way of thinking about management. If you value innovation as a company – whether as a startup or a multi-billion dollar corporate behemoth – this is how you will accomplish it.

Build a product

The first thing you need to do is to build a quality product or service for the marketplace to create what is called the cusomter archetype.

The purpose of the archetype is to humanize the target market for your business. By doing so, it will help guide the decisions you make about product development and allocation of resources moving forward. So, before you make anything, make sure you know exactly who you are making it for.

Next, know you will need to take a leap of faith at some point. No matter how much research you’ve done, and how certain you are of your chances of success, your new venture is going to have to make some assumptions concerning some very important things. The key here is to acknowledge and know when part of the plan requires you to take that leap of faith.

A simple tool to help with this decision would be to analyze analogs and antilogs. According to Ries, there's no problem basing the strategy for your new business on the success (or failure) of others.

For example, when Apple was building the iPod, they knew people would listen to music in public places wearing earphones based on the success of the Sony Walkman. This in itself answered a critical question for Apple. What they didn't know however, was whether or not people would pay for the mustic they were listening too.

The antilog analysis for this question was too examine what other companies had done. Napster for example had just proven that people - in record numbers – would stop paying for music when offered a free (albeit illegal) alternative. So taking this into consideration, Apple decidedly built their now insanely successful business (iTunes) on a leap of faith, but knew exactly where risk lay.

The next step on this process is to build a rapid prototype. Most of us know of or have purchased items from Zappos. Zappos is a billion dollar-a-year online shopping portal that started out as a rapid prototype by founder Nick Swinmurn.

Swinmurn's original idea was to build a brand new retail experience, which he could have pursued at great cost and risk. Instead, he chose to run an experiment to see if pepole would buy shoes online. Hevisited local shoe stores in his community and asked if could take pictures of the shoes they had in stock. He would then take those photos and put them up on a website. If people bought the shoes from him via the website, he would return to the store and buy the actual shoes at full price. There, for a cost of next-to-nothing (except time and energy), Nick had figured out that people would indeed buy shoes online.

There are a few important lessons to glean here:

First, always build what the startup community now calls a “minimum viable product” (MVP). It’s the smallest product or service that you can create and start generating learning from. Nick didn’t need anything more than a simple website to start Zappos, and it’s likely that you need a heck of a lot less than you think to launch your new product or service.

Second, you should be attempting to attract the early adopter market with this MVP. Since these early adopters know they will almost always get a product with “bugs” in it, you don’t need to worry about having the best possible product to launch. In fact, any effort beyond what you need for an MVP is considered waste because it wasn’t driven in a response to the marketplace in the first place.

Measure and Learn

The job of a start-up is to figure out where they are at any given time, confront the cold hard facts, and then design experiments to move the numbers closer to what they've laid out in their business plan.

These come together in what Ries calls the 3 Learning Milestones – (1) establish the baseline, (2) tuning the engine, and (3) pivot (or persevere).

In establishing the baseline, you need to make sure you are setting the right metrics. One thing to be wary of are “vanity metrics.” In the web startup world for example, these metrics might include “website visitors," and in some cases even “registered users." These metrics are easily manipulated, and do not necessarily correlate to the numbers that really matter. In almost every case, they can and will lead you to focus on actions that, at best, limit your chances for success.

In order to prevent this from happening, you need to ensure your metrics meet the "3 A's Test." This stands for Actionable, Accessbile and Audit-able.

In order a metric to be actionable, it must demonstrate a clear cause and effect relationship so that you can take definitive action in response to it.

In order for a metric to be accessible, it must be easily understood and available widely to people in the company.

In order for a metric to be audit-able, you need to be able to go back to the source of data to prove that the metrics were telling the true (and entire) story.

One example of these kinds of metrics would be the ones used by Ries' company, IMVU during their startup phase. The company sold a 3D avatar/social networking service that could be described as a chat service where you can dress up your character. Using $5 a day in pay per click advertising, they were able to get 100 visits to their website to test their product. They considered each day’s visitors to be one cohort, and tested each cohort based on the following data points:

Registration – How many people signed up;

Activation – How many people then went on to actually login to their account; and

Retention – How many people had one chat, how many people had five chats, and how many people became paying customers.

A good way to do this for your own business is to pick metrics in the following buckets: registration, activation, retention and referral.

Another great example is Grokit, which is a an online learning company. Grokit used this model in one-month sprints, using “split tests” (sometimes referred to A/B tests) to determine the effectiveness of the changes they were making to the product. Quite often, products get “improved” on when the CEO says that he heard from somebody that they didn’t like feature X, or a product engineer says that they can improve the product by doing Y.

Most often these changes have no effect on customer behaviour at all, and most times that critical fact goes unnoticed. This is a critical point to understand. When making improvements to your product, the only arbiter of whether or not it was successful is the metrics.

And when you are implementing an improvement to your product, you should be testing that improvement against a baseline to see what – if any – impact the change has on your business results.

This is the only way a company should be implementing a product development strategy.

Unless, of course, you somehow have millions of dollars somewhere that doesn’t need to be accounted for to anybody, and that you don’t need to provide a positive return on.

Pivot or Persevere

At some point, you will need to make a decision about whether or not your business strategy has a reasonable chance of success. This is the time where you will need to decide to either “pivot or persevere." Of course, if things are working well and you can see a path the great success and profits, keep working on the idea you’ve started with. Just be sure to base your decision on the cold hard facts.

A pivot is a fundamental change in business strategy. If you conclude that your business strategy isn’t likely to succeed, you can it. This is where the mindset of an entrepreneur truly comes into play. A true entrepreneur is always learning how to build a sustainable enterprise, not trying to make a single product idea a success.

There are many kinds of pivots your company can make:

Zoom-in: Where a single feature of your product becomes the entire product.

Zoom-out: Where your product is too narrow to support a business, and you decide to make a broader product.

Customer segment: Where you realize that you are building a product that solves a need for a segment of customers that is different than the one you started with.

Customer need: Based on an intimate understanding of the customers developed during your iteration process, you realize that the need you were solving for isn’t very important. But you find new needs you can solve instead.

Business architecture: This is where you go from a high margin, low volume solution to a low margin high volume solution.

Technology: Where you realize you could solve the exact same problem using a completely different (and usually less expensive) technology.

Ries discusses other pivots your business could make in the book, but these spoke the most strongy to us and our business. It is important to realize that whatever pivot you make, it’s only the next hypothesis in your business model, and that it should be rigorously tested just like everything else.

Technology company Aardvark is another great example that took this idea and ran with it. An alternative to other search engines where the answer needs some form of human interaction, Aardvark allows people to search on questions such as, “where’s the best place to get a drink after the movies tonight?” This is not something Google will give you a great answer for.

Aardvark however will - but this wasn’t the first product launched by it's founders Max Ventilla and Damon Horowitz. It was their sixth! And it was their sixth product in less than six months!

Because they had used the Lean Startup model of the MVP along with rapid prototyping and measuring the results, they found out very quickly that their first five products were destined to become flops. Aardvark was the first and only product that pointed to success, and not surprisingly, it’s the product that they are now growing using the same principles we’ve discussed so far.

Growth

Now that you’ve found the product that you know will help you create a sustainable business, you need to have sustainable growth.

According Ries, the only way you can build a sustainable business is when your new customers come from old customers and there are three ways to do this:

First, you can create a “sticky” growth engine. This depends on having a product or service that customers will continue to pay for over time. In this model, if you can bring in new customers at a faster rate than your old customers leave the service, your business will grow. The metric that you’ll want to pay the most attention to is your retention rate.

Second, you could create a “viral” engine of growth. In this model, you depend on your current customers to bring in your new customers. The most famous example of this is Hotmail, which was once a slow growth business struggling to get traction. That was until they decided to append each mail message you sent with an invitation for other people to sign up for the service, with a link directly to the sign up page. The metric for this engine is something called the “viral loop." If you can get each new customer to bring in one or more customers, the viral growth will continue.

The last engine for growth is the “paid” model. In this model, you take the profits you’ve earned from your old customers, and invest it into advertising (or any new business development tactic) to attract new customers. The metrics to pay attention to in this case are the Lifetime Customer Value (the profits you’ll make off each customer over the lifetime of doing business with you) and the Customer Acquisition Cost. As long as your LCV exceeds your new customer acquisition costs, you will grow.

Ries makes the point that most companies only have the bandwidth to specialize in one of these engines of growth, and the time it takes to test and fine-tune everything in any particular engine is too great to split your focus. So make sure you pick the engine that is best for your business.

Of course, if you start on one of the engines and you find it isn’t going to work out as you’d hope, you can always do the “growth engine” pivot and focus on a different one moving forward.

Conclusion

So there you have it – everything you need to know in order to begin your Lean Startup journey. If you are truly an entrepreneur, you’ll take Ries’ advice and get passionate about building a sustainable enterprise rather than seeing your new idea succeed at all costs.

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Meeting Jim and Mayim Wow guys, What can I say! A dream come true. I can’t say how it came about, However I'm happy to tell you guys what happened. When I was introduced to Jim, I can't describe how I felt, He was just so warming and happy. He greeted me, shook my hand and was just a genuine human being. Mayim then came up to me, Being me I just held my hand out to hand shake but nope, She greeted me with a hug. Mayim was so welcoming and very very kind. She told Jim I had written an article for her website, Groknation, Which to me, was incredible. From the first second I felt completely comfortable and relaxed. We posed for a photo and again I was so taken back that they were both so willing to take photos with me. Jim was just the kindest person. After the photos I thanked him and he rushed off to get home like he does after tapings. I was truly honoured to took the time to stay for those few moments to meet me. I continued to talk to Mayim for a while, We spoke about the show, About Groknation and she was just so excitable and kind. I showed her my I’m with Mayim T-shirt I was wearing underneath my shirt. And we posed for more photo’s. We hugged goodbye and she wished me luck for my upcoming Surgery and added to come back as soon as I can. I told her she was my hero and inspiration as well, I'm glad I was able to do so :) They say never meet your hero’s. I did. And do you know what? Im so glad I got to meet mine. They were just so human and kind. I felt I was treated as human being myself. You get nervous and you don't know what to say.. But with these guys? I felt completely accepted and calm. I’m just a fan, Just a nobody and here I was stood wth these 2 incredible award winning human beings feeling like a human being myself. It was such an honour, It was such an experience. I will continue to support Jim, Mayim and the Show for a long as I can breath. To my surprise as well, Bill Prady came over to say hello, We have meet a few times in the past. He’s such a sweet guy. Really admire his work and commitment to the fans!. I had the pleasure of having a conversation with @johnrossbowie​ also. Now this guy is epic on all levels, Amazing actor, Bass player, Awesome taste in music, Funny and another genuine nice guy! He was so awesome to talk to. He showed me a wicked BBT Tattoo pic he had on his phone. Thank you for taking the time to talk to us! To all of you guys, Thank you for all the overwhelming support and comments. It really does mean a lot to me. Keep the fandom going! Keep watching the show and keep Grokking! -Kaz

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Grokit Twilight Echoes Trailer - Robin Moulder

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‪Mayim Bialik (drawing from August 2018 for @groknation anniversary)‬ ‪I will miss drawing @missmayim loooong hair, even if that meant hours and hours to finish the portraits. But I’m ready for new photoshoots, give them to me!!‬ ‪Maybe this weekend I can’t do a live session or I need to move it to another day. Stay tuned to my stories to know more.‬ I have pending do more portraits! I hope I will have time soon!! ‪‪‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‪**Please don’t use or repost my drawings without my permission, thank you.**‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‪‪‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‪♥️ PATREON.COM/RGBCN ♥️‬ ‪‪‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‪‪#rgbcn #groknation #mayimbialik #darling #magazine #portrait #digitalart #amyfarrahfowler #blossom #grokite #hair #bigbangtheory #beauty #shamy ‬ ‪#portrait #blackandwhite #photographyportrait #digitalportrait #digitalart #photography #blackandwhite #tvshow #comedy #tvseries‬ ‬#actor #actorslife #apple #ipad #applepencil‬‬ https://www.instagram.com/p/Byac5BpA9Zs/?igshid=1mqtm3kmtgfw1

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Grokit Dev and Gameplay Trailer - Robin Moulder

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‪1 year ago Mayim released her book “Boying up”. And as always, I did an alternative cover, because why not? 😆 Superhero style! 💪🌟‬ swipe to see the composition and the original cover in my ebook. ‪You have no idea how fun was to draw this. Since the official cover was released, all I had this composition in mind. Mayim in the center and her boys running (or flying) around. ‬and yeeees I changed the boys color eyes as everybody criticized that I did them brown. 😆 I’m guessing blue but what I know? I have no idea 🤣 but you were insistent so... ‪How time flies, already a year passed since I drew this. Do you think she will work in more books now that tbbt is over? Let’s see!‬ ‪Thanks for your birthday wishes yesterday!! so many messages and comments, but I answered all!!‬ ‪I’m working on a big drawing, so I will repost more drawings these days. Have a nice day! ‬ ‪**Please don’t use or repost my drawings without my permission, thank you.**‬‬ ‪‪.‬‬‬‬ ‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬ ‪‪Get my drawings in HQ, PSD, videos —> patreon.com/rgbcn‬‬‬‬ ‪‪‪‪.‬‬‬‬ ‪‪‪‪.‬‬ ‪‪‪‬‬ ‪@missmayim @groknation ‬ ‪#rgbcn #boyingup #mayimbialik #art #drawing #fanart #digitalart #thebigbangtheory #bigbangtheory #digital #tbbt‬ ‪#author #bestseller #neuroscientist #groknation #grokite #grok #book #writer #surprise #cover #alternative #alternativecover‬ ‪#superhero #actress‬ https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNK9osgtPP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8ys0l4d48ig7

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‪Mayim Bialik pencil portrait (2016)‬ ‪Who remembers this one? I drew it for @missmayim ’s birthday 2 years ago. How time flies! It was my avatar for some time and people thought I was Mayim LMAO.‬ ‪The timelapse is still on my youtube channel, and somewhere on my timeline. Also on Mayim’s one, she reposted my video for fanart friday looooooong ago.‬ ‪Kaley, Simon and Mayim birthdays are coming. I decided to prepare something for each one because I’m stubborn.‬ ‪Curious about it? Posting it all on patreon.com/rgbcn‬ ‪‪#rgbcn #bigbangtheory #mayimbialik #portrait #pencil #pencilportrait #amyfarrahfowler #blossom #grokite #grok #birthday #hair #photography #beauty #shamy #blackandwhite #groknation #traditional #art #artist #traditionalart #fanart #present‬ https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaHOVRAQWY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16nwfpngyyo6s

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Hey! Did you know @missmayim will be live today at 4pm PT for a Q&A about @groknation? While you wait for it, you can watch a timelapse of my digital portrait of her! Complete video on my youtube channel! You can also read my bonus chapter of my fanfiction too!! already posted!!!!

She got your attention with cats, I tried with my best portrait. YES IT’S A DRAWING, swipe to see a preview of the video. This portrait took me 14h (not counting editing later.) Done with procreate + apple pencil + ipad pro. With my good hand of course. I published this one on her birthday. No idea if she saw it, she probably thought it was a photo, like a lot of you told me too *sighs*.

Mayim’s live it’s quite late for us (Europe in general, and not to mention Russia and Asia). Maybe I will connect a little, it’s 00 London time. Damn timezones differences, I have to work tomorrow.

I always did a drawing to thank her if she posted one of my drawings, I can’t do it now, but I’m posting this instead. Thanks Mayim. If you see this, enjoy the video.

Happy Sunday everyone! Enjoy the video too! If you like my drawings, consider to take a look to my patreon page (link in bio). Thank you!

Original image—> Q&A interview for PopSugar, photo credit James Banasiak (@jbanasiak ), for the #girlingup tour. https://www.popsugar.com/career/Who-Mayim-Bialik-43222823

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Happy Birthday @missmayim !! #mayimbialik #bigbangtheory #digital #portrait @groknation I hope you like my gift! This is a digital portrait made with @procreate and love, lots of love 💕 Around 14h of work, but as always, worth all the effort and time. And as always too, It’s for you! Enjoy it! Wishing you an amazing birthday, with friends and family, and also with the tbbt cast and crew! Today is taping night right? I’m sure you will have an amazing time there and you will receive a lot of love! Also, happy Hanukkah too, my best wishes on your festivities. As I always say, thanks for being yourself. And be true to what makes you, YOU. And thanks for playing Amy Farrah Fowler the way you feel her, because she is unique and we love it. I love it. And it inspired me everyday, you and her. I lost the count of all the hours I spend drawing, but the only think I know is that thanks to you, 2 years ago, I found again my passion for drawing. It was your portrait, that made me connect with this lovely and amazing fandom. And since then I couldn’t stop. literally. Thanks. Thanks for being kind and always sharing things with us. Also for you likes, comments and fanartfridays you gave us. A way to connect with us, we truly appreciate it. I personally want to thank you for each one that was related to me, and also for publishing the story that @shamyartzzs wrote about us. Thanks. Never stop sharing. I said it last year and I will say it again. If you really want to make Mayim a gift, start groking with her, go to her page, her youtube, you will always learn something new. Original image—> Q&A interview for PopSugar, photo credit James Banasiak (@jbanasiak ), for the #girlingup tour. https://www.popsugar.com/career/Who-Mayim-Bialik-43222823 Again, happy birthday to one of my fav people, who plays one of my fav characters! Keep being Strong, Smart and Spectacular. #forscience With so much love, a proud grokite, Regina https://www.patreon.com/posts/15845162 #rgbcn #missmayim #imwithmayim #amyfarrahfowler #shamy #art #drawing #draw #happybirthday #groknation #grokite #grok #thebigbangtheory #thebigbangtheorycast #bigbang #sketch #portraitdrawing #celebrity #blossom

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Amy #amyfarrahfowler #bigbangtheory #fanart @missmayim @groknation One of my 8473247 ways to draw Amy Farrah Fowler. I love to draw her, I will keep drawing her. Excited for the taping day! Even if I’m not spoiled, but wishing my friends who will attend to have a super amazing time there!! *jealous mode on* Have a good day and wishing also the cast and crew to have fun tonight. https://www.patreon.com/posts/15480941 #rgbcn #mayimbialik #missmayim #sketch #cute #scientist #live #pencil #grokite #hair #thebigbangtheory #tbbt #session #planning #glasses #hair