I was reading about scorpions today. Â Sort of. Â So I figured I’d try drawing one. Â Then I tried a couple more. Â Then it seemed like I might as well fill the sketchbook page. Â You’re welcome, readers who find scorpions creepy!
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Always a party when these two show up.
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Husbands and wives get equal Netflix privileges, and we watched my choice a couple days ago. Â This sketch was inspired by the formulaic basketball-themed romantic comedy we watched this evening. Â I know what you’re thinking: “Basketball rom-com! Â But that sounds so promising!”
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I was struck by this amazing photo today, while looking through Ansel Adams’ incredible images from the Manzanar War Relocation Center. Â Having visited there a few years back, I was astounded at how bleak and desolate it was. Â I couldn’t imagine being required to live there. Â To me, that makes his collection all the more remarkable. Â As Adams apparently wrote when submitting his work to the Library of Congress:
“The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment…All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use.”
For more of Adams’ experience of Manzanar, check out his photos and writings.
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Yes, I realize it’s pronounced “boat.” Â But these are size 13, so that’s not far off. Â Plus, I was using them to keep up above the water on this rainy day.
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I’m often amused by art that for no apparent reason just takes a human form and transposes some unexpected object in place of the head.  So I thought I would stop by Flickr and let their random photo picker come up with the ingredients for just such a piece.  And thus was born the first member of the fearsome North Korean Baby Alpaca Regiment of Genetic Superwarriors.
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So this was just based on a random photo I found on Flickr. Â Had a bit of trouble with the figure in this drawing. Â I kept erasing bits, modifying the proportions and so on, but it kept not working right. Â Eventually, I realized I had to erase her completely and start again from scratch. Â How appropriate, it then seemed, that she should be standing in front of an Edsel…
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On the Isle on Man, they are bred for one thing and one thing only: Â rock.
(Based on a photo by the great Jen Glen.)
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Twitter followers had to sift through about a dozen posts today as I caught up from my recent trip. Â But we’re back on track now — and in the 200s already! Â Thanks, everyone, for all your support!
(And yes, I realize this is another bizarre, inaccurate, and borderline creepy self-portrait. Â Thankfully, I’ve still got 150+ chances to try again…)
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Had a discussion with a friend today about the tremendous capacity of the human mind.  When I sat down this evening to sketch something, that’s what I was thinking of.  So I drew this based on a photo online.  But the longer I sat drawing this physical object, the more insufficient it seemed to represent the concept.  It reminded me of this quote from UPenn psych professor Stephen Morse: “Here’s a dirty little secret: We have no idea how the brain enables the mind.”  (More on that notion here.)
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