Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

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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Fifty days ago, I launched an ingenious plan to encourage increased local baked goods production.  I’m pleased to report that it’s been immensely successful.  So today, I enacted phase two: Operation Transcendently Fluffy Sifted Ingredients.  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.  I like that the drawing style is considerably more decisive than the previous version.  The eyes are stlll a bit dull, but then again, I usually don’t sparkle with vivacious energy while staring in the bathroom mirror.   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.  These things are terrible.

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So I dropped in again at the tail end of a figure drawing workshop.  I came in time to draw the last pose, a 25-minute one.  Unfortunately, on a kind of “off” day and without any warmup, it just really went badly.  I was doing it as a head drawing and it just wasn’t working.  So after battling it for quite a while, I finally gave up and used the last couple of minutes to do this instead.  This is nothing great, but the difference between it and the other is vast, believe me.  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.  I wanted to be able to go back and track progress using all my drawings.  But when I looked again later at the botched head drawing, I was sure I never wanted to see it again.  And now you too can be thankful that you’ll never be plagued with its horror!  (Now if only that were the case for the May 22 entry!)

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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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Another few sketches for a project I’m working on.  This is the NASA’s next Mars rover, currently under construction at JPL.  Through a nationwide naming contest won by a Kansas sixth-grader, this rover has been dubbed “Curiosity.”  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.  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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