I’m working on a new digital illustration that’s meant to incorporate some kind of action between foreground and background elements. Â This is just a quick exploratory sketch to see if this kind of composition could work for it. Â Things would obviously need to be shifted around a bit, but I think the basic camera angle will work.
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A quick memento sketch from another great weekend activity. Â Thanks to the legendary Mr. McKown for his hospitality!
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My, what a peculiarly flat nose you have! Â (Or at least, that’s how I’ve unfortunately rendered it!)
Yeah, this one got a little messed up.  But so did all the other drawings from this afternoons’ workshop.  I was having a pretty off day.  Called it quits once I decided this would have to do for today’s sketch.  I think this was either a 3- or  5-minute drawing.
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Whoops. Â Based on some illustrations I have in a document at work, I drew this simplified sketch of a future Mars rover concept for the next decade. Â Then I realized: I’m not sure whether that document has been publicly released yet. There’s about a billion to one chance that it’s a problem, but since a quick Google search didn’t turn up any images of this thing, I figured mine probably shouldn’t be the first one out there…
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Okay, so — the first person who can correctly identify what this thing does wins…oh, say, a dollar. Â Wait, this may be super-easy. Â This could be an ill-conceived contest…
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Taking the concept drawings from yesterday to the next level. There are still many things I would want to do differently, but the idea starts to come together. This would benefit from a lot more details throughout. I did have enough time to add a few details to the rovers (shown below), but overall there is a lot more time that would need to be invested in this idea.
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A second attempt at some exploratory sketches for a future settlement on Mars. I stepped it back a bit and took inspiration from desert bunkers, remote stations and the like. I’m trying to think a little more realistically about what kind of stuff would really be taken to Mars. But to avoid everything looking totally utilitarian, I modified the greenhouse dome a bit, drawing on inspiration from the design of London’s city hall (file under: Inevitable Dash of Pretension).
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Yuck — don’t like this at all. I got a digital illustration class assignment to create some sort of isometric world. Thought I’d do something with a city settlement on Mars. So I created these buildings, kind of inspired by a couple of reference photos, but they just both ended up looking like hideous, drab, public museum architecture of the late 1970s. In fact, I realized one of them looks very similar to this previous sketch of the El Paso Science Musuem.  Quick Google search: that museum opened in…wait for it…1980.
Suffice it to say there is some re-imagining to be done.
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First ball-point pen drawing, and first napkin drawing! Â Drawn at an awesome 50’s/60’s martini party, while dressed like a classic NASA nerd.
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Been thinking a lot about my 365 project today. I’m really enjoying this, and am almost a quarter of the way finished already. Â If you’re not doing a daily (or weekly) creative project yourself, please think about starting one!
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