Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

After two great weeks abroad (and one long travel day today), we’re back in California.  A quick scribble before bed.

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Drove to Switzerland today to spend some time with more extended family and my super-cool in-laws.

This sketch was mostly an exercise in motor control.  It’s not easy to control a marker exactly how you want to and have everything come out right.  I did about 25 of these before I settled on one I was happy with.  Seems like a lot of work for a “drawing” that’s only make up of 14 straight lines.  Still had fun though.

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Went to the top of the highest mountain in Germany today.  While descending on a rickety old cable car, of course I couldn’t help but think of Richard Burton’s epic ride.  Thankfully mine didn’t include gruesome ice-axe injuries, or explosions and general death.  Thanks for not trying to kill me, fellow riders!

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Went to the Alpine Zoo in Innsbruck today.  They keep just indigenous animals there, and have them in a series of enclosures spread over the side of a mountain.  When we got to the European bison area, we saw that they actually share it with a group of boars.  I assumed the zookeepers set it up this way because the two animals get along well.  Or so they did for a couple minutes after we got there.  Then one of the boars started growling at a (much larger) bison, who in turn ended up stalking the boar, then chasing it, then running it over a six-foot-high drop, where it took a header into the dirt before hurriedly scrambling to its feet, squealing and running off.  The bison kept at it for a while after that too.  All in all, well worth the price of admission.  So when it came time to sketch this evening, this is what came out.

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Inspired partly by yesterday’s logo, and partly by the cover of one of my wife’s books, I found myself doodling this little pattern this evening.  Not much to it, but it was a good exercise in working out symmetry.

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Hard to believe, but I’m just about to cross the halfway mark –  thanks for the support, everyone!

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P.S. – Sketch confessional: after my first pass at the hair, I had to get out the eraser to make the hairline a little more accurate.  Didn’t want anyone to call me out on it.

If your answer > $310, you didn’t go to Al Weiss.  Seriously gents, take some cash and cut some deals.  Those guys are great.

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

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I know, I know — this is about the weakest sketch that I’ve posted.  I was really busy today finishing up a digital illustration/product design assignment.  I’ve been creating a design for a LEGO toy of the Mars rover from Sketch #148.  This sketch was just a really quick utilitarian attempt to figure out  a way to build a basic version of the robotic arm out of LEGO.  Which brings me to the title of this post.  I built this thing out of LEGO.  Not “LEGOs.”  Good day sir.

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This is a follow-on from yesterday’s drawings.  I’m currently working on an idea to develop a series of kid-friendly characters around this and future Mars rovers.  So where yesterday’s sketches were basically a simplified version of the real thing, this is the next step — finding ways to integrate basic expressions and characteristics within/around the established structure.  We’ll see how this develops…

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