Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

This week, I have a sketchbook assignment in class to draw a bunch of different facial expressions.  These were some quickly scribbled ideas for that.

This gives me an idea.  Please, someone out there: do me a great amusement and and take up the challenge of snapping photos of yourself making these faces.  That’s all I ask.  Just take 25 pictures of yourself looking like a weirdo and send them to me.  It is a simple (if bizarre) request.  If you have enjoyed at least 25 of this year’s sketches, here’s your chance to return the favor.  I anxiously await your contributions!

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I’m still working on laying in tone on this storyboard assignment.  If you read the boards from yesterday, you can continue the story here.  In this installment, things kind of start going south for our protagonist.

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Back to some class assignments: I’m now laying in some tone on some of the storyboard sketches you’ve seen earlier.  Here’s how the story begins.

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An early concept sketch for a children’s book illustration.  (And a reminder of the importance of writing good advertising copy.)

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The toucan is one crazy-looking bird.  Of course, that’s what makes it interesting to draw.  This is kind of a little test sketch for a possible series of children’s book illustrations (similar to those from back in Sketch #262).

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So yeah, looks like it’s gonna be a girl — fun times ahead!

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Okay, so back to classwork, and the final installment of the Siegfried story.  After Part 1 and Part 2, the dragon is dead.  Then, as the story goes, the hero bathes in the dragon’s blood to make himself invincible.  That seemed a little much for me, so I went with a somewhat more reserved face-painting.

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I wish I had more time at the moment for personal sketches, but such is life.  This is a little thing for work — I’m doing a motion graphics piece about Mars Sample Return, a proposed robotic mission that would bring back rock samples to Earth for the first time.  These are a few of the simple elements that will become part of that video.  (Actually, it’s a very simplified version of the redacted Sketch #95 from last summer.)

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Yet another frame from this storyboard assignment.  Sorry, but there are about 50 of these I have to do this week, and I haven’t had much time for other sketches.  Anyway, in the story flow, this one shortly follows Sketch #338.  Our drunk thug suddenly shoves the main character into the darkened motel room, where he promptly trips over the bullet-riddled body of the retired cop.  Nice people doing nice things.

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Well, the weekend can’t last forever.  Back to the storyboard assignments.  This is another excerpt from the crime story from Sketches 337, 338 and 339.  (Early in the story, the family man runs into the drunk in the bar, and the latter starts to walk away in the middle of the conversation.)

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