Found this little guy in a bag of old LEGO that my wife brought into the family. Â He interfaces with LEGO, but he doesn’t look like quite at home. Â I’m thinking he’s a cunning imposter. Â Probably something like “LEQO” brand. Â Kinda like those running shoes I once saw at an Israeli street market — they had all the hottest brands, including Nyke, Adibas and Reobok.
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I know, you’re probably getting sick of these by now. Â But here’s me again, super-muscular, with my back turned to the mirror. Â Quite an amazing feat for me to draw myself that way. Â And to shave my head that cleanly. Â And to build all that muscle mass…
I fear my ruse is beginning to unravel.
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Fifty days ago, I launched an ingenious plan to encourage increased local baked goods production. Â I’m pleased to report that it’s been immensely successful. Â So today, I enacted phase two: Operation Transcendently Fluffy Sifted Ingredients. Â Yes, I’m working on a less cumbersome name.
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Not much to say about this one — it’s  your pretty basic, garden-variety sketch.  It’s a little bit…you might say…wait for it…old…hat.
Sorry.
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Ah, yachting — a pastime that combines three of my very favorite things: pretension, motion sickness and Sperry Topsiders.
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This is another quick mirror sketch, similar to Sketch #87, but done with the other end of the brush pen. Â I like that the drawing style is considerably more decisive than the previous version. Â The eyes are stlll a bit dull, but then again, I usually don’t sparkle with vivacious energy while staring in the bathroom mirror. Â Usually.
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♫ “Who will buy this useless eraser?” ♪
♪ “Such a dis-appointment, you see!” ♫
♫ “Who will buy this useless eraser?” ♪
♪ “And get this thing away from me!” ♫
Seriously. Â These things are terrible.
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So I dropped in again at the tail end of a figure drawing workshop. Â I came in time to draw the last pose, a 25-minute one. Â Unfortunately, on a kind of “off” day and without any warmup, it just really went badly. Â I was doing it as a head drawing and it just wasn’t working. Â So after battling it for quite a while, I finally gave up and used the last couple of minutes to do this instead. Â This is nothing great, but the difference between it and the other is vast, believe me. Â The other was so repellent I actually had to throw it away — breaking a rule I had kind of set for myself.
So far in this project, I’ve kept everything I’ve drawn, even if I didn’t like it and it didn’t end up as the post for that day. Â I wanted to be able to go back and track progress using all my drawings. Â But when I looked again later at the botched head drawing, I was sure I never wanted to see it again. Â And now you too can be thankful that you’ll never be plagued with its horror! Â (Now if only that were the case for the May 22 entry!)
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Another few sketches for a project I’m working on. Â This is the NASA’s next Mars rover, currently under construction at JPL. Â Through a nationwide naming contest won by a Kansas sixth-grader, this rover has been dubbed “Curiosity.” Â And with a head-mounted laser, it ought to make short work of any extraterrestrial felines.
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My aunt is passing through town this weekend, and brings with her more great photos from my grandmother in Australia. Â The writing on the back of this photo says that my aunt, mother and grandfather are baling hay on the family farm — but I think it’s clear who’s doing most of the work…
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