Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

Got my iPhone 4 today.  High readings on the geek excitement meter.

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It wasn’t raining when I rode my bike into work.  Not so at quitting time.

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(P.S. No, I didn’t actually do this.  I left the bike and hopped on the bus.)

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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A beautiful day with wife and family, largely spent overlooking the Rhine and eating amazing food.  And, of course, sketching.

I could do this every day.  In fact, it’s my wife’s new business model.  We move somewhere scenic like this, and I sell little sketches for €10 a piece.  Of course, this would require two key things:

a) the ability to draw fast enough to turn a profit; and
b) a continual supply of easily impressed tourists.

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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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I originally gave myself a challenge today to depict the concept of “every person who has ever lived.”  Not surprisingly, it wasn’t easy.  I tried it a couple different ways, but it wasn’t working out.  So I went a different direction: bones and sinews.

(And yes, this is my quick approximation of Da Vinci’s drawing.  Hey, steal from the best, right?)

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There!  Between the treetops!  There she goes!

(This is based on a photo I took today while at a ropes course.  That’s two days in a row of precariously hanging from wires!)

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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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While I was shopping for menswear recently, the sales guy pulled out a tie for me and I thought, “That’s ugly and I would never buy it.”  So I bought it.  (After having looked at it for a couple minutes, it had really grown on me.)

When I took it home, my wife said, “But you hate paisley!”  I hadn’t even seen it in there.  So observant.  Anyway, I wore that tie today and messed around this evening sloppily sketching the pattern.

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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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