Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

Another “grab-the-nearest-object” sketch.  This little thing has been instrumental to almost all of the prismacolor pencil drawings on this site.  In fact, this drawing itself was done with a prisma pencil, so I actually had to use this sharpener while drawing it.  Hey, I should have drawn the actual pencil inside it.  And then me holding that pencil in my hand.  And then my actual pencil drawing my own hand.  And then, inevitably, this.

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If you’ll permit me one more post of these: here are a couple more storyboard frames from my work project.  Of course, these only barely qualify as sketches.  But since I was focused on doing a bunch of these today, I figured I’d grab a couple to post.

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I know someone who’s going to be huge in brain resarch.  And I’ll always be able to say, “I knew her when…”

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I was just messing around this evening and did this quick page of icon ideas.  I think I like the bottom two elements best, as well as the far right one.  Of course, I realize now that I should have done one of these to go with it.

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Tried something different with this one — drawing only with straight lines.  Kind of an interesting method; I think I’ll try it again in the future.

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Another lazy glassware sketch — but hey, good old reliable Mijares happy hour always does the trick.  Only problem here: the quick and sloppy attempt at salt on the rim looks more like dangerously broken glass.  Drink up!

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Saw this photo of a couple of friends of mine and couldn’t resist it.   Not to worry, this fight is only about as serious as an Adam West/Cesar Romero matchup.

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I did a few different sketches today, and this one based on a magazine photo turned out the most normal (even if he does look a bit crazed).  The other three were:

1) a figure drawing workshop sketch of a guy who my wife said looked like he should be the front end of a centaur;
2) a different sketch from a magazine photo that ended up looking like an old man in a water polo cap; and
3) a weird little mistake that I’ve dubbed “Blackbeard del Giacomo.”

Somehow I can’t seem to resist sharing that last little bonus outtake.  If you can guess its backstory, you win a yet-to-be-determined-but-sure-to-be-amazing prize.

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This time, no redacted image!  Today at work, I was doing storyboards again for this future Mars mission — and here’s a frame I can actually show.  This is a made-up closeup of the rover’s main cameras, which sit on top of a rotating mast.  (In the real world, it would look something like this.)  What I’m trying to do in these storyboards is to give a little bit of personality to this robot.  And hey, if you’re gonna do that, why not borrow from one of the classics?

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Tonight was the closest I came to missing a day of sketching.  Somehow it had just slipped my mind.  Every light in the house was off, and I was headed to bed when it struck me.  So I went back to the desk for a quick sketch, and here’s what I ended up with.  I have to say, it’s certainly unique among the sketches so far…

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