Finally got to welcome my cousin back to California today! Â This guy rode shotgun on the 3000-mile U-Haul trek, and saw her through scorching deserts, blown tires, and (shudder) Graceland. Â You’re a trooper, Bernie.
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So my friend and former workmate Stephenie was kind enough to leave behind a box of Duplo at work. Â I figured it was time to build something and do a quick sketch of it. Â So what to build with a limited amount of Duplo? Â Well, this is what you get when you let the wordplay dictate the design process: a pretty ugly “Duplo duplex” (complete with cubist palm tree in the front yard)!
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Depending who you ask, this drumming accessory is either called a “stool” or a “throne.” Â Either way, the possibilities for bathroom humor are torturing my inner 11-year-old.
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Another wedding weekend — this time featuring my wife’s cousin. Â Here, the bride and groom share the dance floor with family members young and old. Â Another very simple sketch, but still a nice memento. Â Congratulations, Tom & Steph!
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Tried something new this evening: drawing with a single, continuous pen line. Â Interesting effect — and I think it kinda works here (but mainly because the subject is a pretty forgiving organic shape).
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What’s that? Â I’m a month late? Â Sorry, my cable’s been a little spotty.
This was based on a random Flickr photo — but should have been drawn with different media. Â 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. Â Oh well. Â At least he still looks like he could mess you up. Â That, after all, is the most important part of any shark drawing.
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I 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?” Â “Yeah, remember ‘laptops?'” “And ‘keyboards?'” “And ‘mice?'”
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It’s Apple announcement day, and to celebrate here are the set of icons that rest along the bottom of one of my machines. Â Identify 20 or more and you could win a super exciting prize! Â If I think of one!
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I’m not really happy with all of these, but I’m putting them all up because of the way the three together struck me. Â Lacking any ideas of what to sketch tonight, I went on Flickr and looked at randomly picked photos from the last seven days. Â When I saw one I liked, I sketched it, then did so twice more. Â After a bit of research, it seems these photos (clockwise from top right) were taken by people in Italy, Greece, and I believe, Qatar. Â And all posted to Flickr in the last week. Â Hello, the future — you are weird.
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Tonight I learned that it’s no easy feat to draw people who are in the middle of dancing. Â You pretty much have to freeze a pose in your mind and quickly scribble it out before it disappears. Â That kind of explains why these look like they do. Â Still though, it’s nice to have another memento sketch — this time of a lovely bride and some of her well-wishers. Â Congrats, Pete and Jen!
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