Jun 12 2010

#90 – Cocktail napkin cocktail

Cocktail napkin cocktailFirst ball-point pen drawing, and first napkin drawing!  Drawn at an awesome 50’s/60’s martini party, while dressed like a classic NASA nerd.

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Jun 10 2010

#88 – Now in glorious High Definition!

Panasonic HDX900Just another slice of what my day was like.  I spent most of the morning behind one of these Panasonic HD cameras, for a live broadcast we were doing at work.  Fun fact: just one of these things costs significantly more than any car I’ve ever owned.

As a side note: I was really uninspired to draw this evening, and even filled a sketchbook page with drawings I ended up hating.  They were quick pen drawings done while looking in the mirror (like yesterday’s), but of different facial expressions.  I was really bored and frustrated with them.  Then I sat down and got out different paper and some Copic markers (which I hadn’t used in about three weeks).  Switching up the style and tools made a huge difference.  Even though I made some frustrating mistakes on this one, I was ultimately much happier with it than the others, and had way more fun doing it.

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Jun 2 2010

#80 – Not-so-alarming clock

Alarm clockYou used to be cool, Clock.  You used to, you know, work.  But now, it’s like you’re stuck in the past, man.  Like it’s 3:23 p.m. all over again.

What’s that you say?  Dead battery?  Lame, bro.  The clock I remember wouldn’t let a little thing like “a lack of any kind of functional power source” get in the way of our relationship.

Oh, who am I kidding?  I can’t stay mad at you, lil’ buddy!  New battery comin’ right up!

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May 13 2010

#60 – We Bring Odd Things to Life.

Electric chord organ

A great thrift store find from several years back.  This fan-driven wonder emits an unholy honk with every key (after a split-second delay, of course).  Or if you listen to the manufacturers:

“Everyone wants a turn when you have a GE Electric Chord Organ in the house! Color-coded music book comes with it. It’ll have you playing chords and melodies in no time at all! Pleasant start to a musical education…for everyone!”

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May 8 2010

#55 – Designer’s shuriken

X-ACTO knifeAs I was roughing in the early marks of this very quick sketch, the main lines got a little long.  So now it’s some kind of super-deadly flying x-acto knife.  Then again, I seem to do a lot of object sketches, which aren’t all that dynamic — so maybe this is a happy accident.  Until someone puts their eye out.

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May 7 2010

#54 – Parts 1-3 of my 434-part series…

Fasteners– “Better Know A Fastener”

Part 1: The Fightin’ Binder Clip!

Part 2: The Fightin’ Paper Clip!

Part 3: The Fightin’ Scotch Tape!

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May 2 2010

#49 – Head-Phones™! The phonographs you wear on your head!

HeadphonesLook cool!  Impress your friends!  Try Head-Phones™ today!

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Apr 28 2010

#45 – “Put ‘er in the vise!”

Vice grips…as my 92-year-old grandfather-in-law like to say whenever he’s about to vigorously shake hands with you.  He, as you might have guessed, is awesome.

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Apr 25 2010

#42 – Copout closeout

D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X YThird day in a row of lacking sketch energy.  So I reverted to simple letterforms, but decided to do all the remaining letters, so I won’t be tempted to use this lazy idea again.  As it turned out, this took longer than expected due to having to sort out all the different shading values.  That’s what I get for trying to take the easy route…

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Apr 24 2010

#41 – Easy as…some kind of string of integers

A B CYesterday’s Z was just a very quick and basic sketch because I was so tired.  Same thing ended up happening today, so I reverted to something simple.

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