Part 3 of the “people in enviroments” series for class. Â It’s interesting how these ideas are all totally independent from one another, and yet seem connected when I look back at them. Â Here, for example: Â concern about the phone call vs. concern about the lack of phone calls, and trying to get in vs. trying to get out.
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Part 2 of the 30 sketches I started yesterday. Â Again, the ones in this group seem to all have something in common (namely symmetrical hand placement).
I don’t know where most of these ideas originated. Â Except the bottom left one — that I remember: Â while I was sketching, iTunes landed on “The Girl From Ipanema.”
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Working on a series of drawings for class. Â The assignment: 30 different scenes of people in environments, hopefully with some sort of emotional element to them. Â Seems the first two had an accidental theme develop.
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Well, after a very stressful week of inspections and discussions with the city permit office, I uncovered some very helpful information today about our escrow property. Â Information that convinces me to run in the opposite direction, before an earthquake knocks that sketchily propped-up house off its cracked and half-sunken foundation. Â Turns out there’s a pretty significant reason for those level discrepancies I mentioned earlier.
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This house-buying stuff is stressful. Â I’ve been investigating the property, talking to people, getting an inspection today, etc. Â From minute to minute the outlook seems to be constantly changing… Â “Oh, that’s a good sign.” Â “Oh, that sounds scary.” Â “Oh, but that’s good news.” Â “Oh, but that could be a big problem.” etc., etc. ad infinitum.
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Day 1 of escrow on what could be our first house! One thing though: some of the floors are a bit slanty. This will require further investigation.
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Just a little doodle at the end of the day. Â I don’t know what happened to that one earlobe, but it kind of looks like I fell asleep a little while drawing. Â Wouldn’t be the first time.
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I recently watched an interesting presentation about creativity. Â Within it is a creative exercise that challenges you to: a) imagine a picture of a bear; b) think of a different bear; c)Â dig deeper and attempt to conjure a third visual of a bear. Â It gets increasingly difficult, but also requires creative thinking.
Anyway, I was thinking about that when I drew these. Â I took the idea pretty literally and tried to come up with three different ways of drawing something. Â In this case, I substituted the bear with a monkey (something that I’ve long been terrible at drawing from imagination). Â It was an interesting challenge. Â Later I noticed that my monkeys got progressively happier and more active. Â I guess that’s a good sign?
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Not a great night for the Atlanta Falcons. Â Doodled this after watching the game tonight. Â Better luck next year, gents.
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The corporate sellers of this house have countered again. Â I’m running out of visual metaphors here.
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P.S. Yes, that’s a hint of pregnancy belly showing on my wife.