I only title it that way because the longer I stare at this sketch, the weirder it looks. Â (It’s actually just a very minor doodle, inspired by this beautiful photo.)
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The toucan is one crazy-looking bird. Â Of course, that’s what makes it interesting to draw. Â This is kind of a little test sketch for a possible series of children’s book illustrations (similar to those from back in Sketch #262).
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Part 3 of the “people in enviroments” series for class. Â It’s interesting how these ideas are all totally independent from one another, and yet seem connected when I look back at them. Â Here, for example: Â concern about the phone call vs. concern about the lack of phone calls, and trying to get in vs. trying to get out.
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Part 2 of the 30 sketches I started yesterday. Â Again, the ones in this group seem to all have something in common (namely symmetrical hand placement).
I don’t know where most of these ideas originated. Â Except the bottom left one — that I remember: Â while I was sketching, iTunes landed on “The Girl From Ipanema.”
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Working on a series of drawings for class. Â The assignment: 30 different scenes of people in environments, hopefully with some sort of emotional element to them. Â Seems the first two had an accidental theme develop.
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Homework time: a continuation of the Goodfellas storyboard from the other day. Â If you want to follow along:Â kid appears before judge; mob lawyer flashes judge a look; kid walks free; De Niro slips kid some cash for a job well done in not ratting out the others; De Niro and kid exit courtroom into welcoming arms of mob boss Paul Sorvino and his cadre of ne’er-do-wells. Â (Followed by the next establishing shot of the Idlewild [later JFK] airport.)
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Just started a new class in storyboarding this evening. Â Did these as part of an exercise in class, quickly sketching frames from the beginning of Goodfellas. Â Not my kind of movie — but certainly good for sketching practice. Â That Scorsese fellow knows a thing or two about shooting films. Â Take it from me, that guy’s gonna be big.
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Web-browser puns. Â Perhaps the highest form of comedy.
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Just a little doodle at the end of the day. Â I don’t know what happened to that one earlobe, but it kind of looks like I fell asleep a little while drawing. Â Wouldn’t be the first time.
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I don’t know why it’s taken so long, but I finally got around to watching In the Shadow of the Moon today. Â A great piece of documentary filmmaking.
I guess in a way this is a companion piece to yesterday’s sketch: Â science fiction vs. science fact.
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P.S. Yes, I believe they actually did it.