Sep 5 2010

#175 – Family on the floor

Tom & StephAnother wedding weekend — this time featuring my wife’s cousin.  Here, the bride and groom share the dance floor with family members young and old.  Another very simple sketch, but still a nice memento.  Congratulations, Tom & Steph!

[Comments and critique always welcome]


Sep 4 2010

#174 – Life in a single strand

Continuous line plantTried something new this evening: drawing with a single, continuous pen line.  Interesting effect — and I think it kinda works here (but mainly because the subject is a pretty forgiving organic shape).

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Sep 3 2010

#173 – Just in time for Shark Week

SharkWhat’s that?  I’m a month late?  Sorry, my cable’s been a little spotty.

This was based on a random Flickr photo — but should have been drawn with different media.  When the gradation effect I was trying didn’t work out, I decided to go straight black-and-white, but that just makes him look like an orca.  Oh well.  At least he still looks like he could mess you up.  That, after all, is the most important part of any shark drawing.

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Sep 2 2010

#172 – Some sort of research

Some kind of researchI wonder how long it will be before we look at a picture like this and say, “Can you believe we used to work that way?”  “Yeah, remember ‘laptops?'” “And ‘keyboards?'” “And ‘mice?'”

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Sep 1 2010

#171 – Dock workers

Dock workersIt’s Apple announcement day, and to celebrate here are the set of icons that rest along the bottom of one of my machines.  Identify 20 or more and you could win a super exciting prize!  If I think of one!

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Aug 31 2010

#170 – Cassetteworxx

Cassetteworxx

That’s right.  Straight up C-120 style for non-stop partyin’.

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Aug 30 2010

#169 – The wired world

The wired worldI’m not really happy with all of these, but I’m putting them all up because of the way the three together struck me.  Lacking any ideas of what to sketch tonight, I went on Flickr and looked at randomly picked photos from the last seven days.  When I saw one I liked, I sketched it, then did so twice more.  After a bit of research, it seems these photos (clockwise from top right) were taken by people in Italy, Greece, and I believe, Qatar.  And all posted to Flickr in the last week.  Hello, the future — you are weird.

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Aug 29 2010

#168 – Everybody cut, everybody cut…

FootlooseTonight I learned that it’s no easy feat to draw people who are in the middle of dancing.  You pretty much have to freeze a pose in your mind and quickly scribble it out before it disappears.  That kind of explains why these look like they do.  Still though, it’s nice to have another memento sketch — this time of a lovely bride and some of her well-wishers.  Congrats, Pete and Jen!

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Aug 28 2010

#167 – Cats might be my favorite animals…

Frisky…to imagine as skeletons.

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Aug 27 2010

#166 – Die Radfahrer

Bike rideBack to the fine line pen — this time drawing from a photo.  Here, Ms. Punchingbag and Mrs. Sketch 365 take to the Austrian bikeways.  Looking forward to doing this again soon!

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