I originally gave myself a challenge today to depict the concept of “every person who has ever lived.” Â Not surprisingly, it wasn’t easy. Â I tried it a couple different ways, but it wasn’t working out. Â So I went a different direction: bones and sinews.
(And yes, this is my quick approximation of Da Vinci’s drawing. Â Hey, steal from the best, right?)
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Always a great show when Mike Viola and Bleu team up. Â Thanks, gents!
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Art Center is back in session, and that means more drawing workshops! Â It’s crazy how quickly one can get rusty. Â Did a few two-minute poses, then several threes. Â Some of the three-minute drawings were okay, but in the final analysis, [insert terrible pun referencing post title].
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Hard to believe, but I’m just about to cross the halfway mark –Â thanks for the support, everyone!
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P.S. – Sketch confessional: after my first pass at the hair, I had to get out the eraser to make the hairline a little more accurate. Didn’t want anyone to call me out on it.
Another wedding weekend — this time featuring my wife’s cousin. Â Here, the bride and groom share the dance floor with family members young and old. Â Another very simple sketch, but still a nice memento. Â Congratulations, Tom & Steph!
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I’m not really happy with all of these, but I’m putting them all up because of the way the three together struck me. Â Lacking any ideas of what to sketch tonight, I went on Flickr and looked at randomly picked photos from the last seven days. Â When I saw one I liked, I sketched it, then did so twice more. Â After a bit of research, it seems these photos (clockwise from top right) were taken by people in Italy, Greece, and I believe, Qatar. Â And all posted to Flickr in the last week. Â Hello, the future — you are weird.
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Tonight I learned that it’s no easy feat to draw people who are in the middle of dancing. Â You pretty much have to freeze a pose in your mind and quickly scribble it out before it disappears. Â That kind of explains why these look like they do. Â Still though, it’s nice to have another memento sketch — this time of a lovely bride and some of her well-wishers. Â Congrats, Pete and Jen!
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Back to the fine line pen — this time drawing from a photo. Â Here, Ms. Punchingbag and Mrs. Sketch 365 take to the Austrian bikeways. Â Looking forward to doing this again soon!
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Bittersweet: it’s my good friend Stephenie’s last day at JPL, before moving on to new things. Â In typically entertaining style, here she is posing in my motorcycle helmet. Â We’ll miss you around here, Steph!
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