Apr 23 2010

#40 – Today’s sketch is brought to you by…

ZThe letter Z — soon to be appearing in a speech bubble over my head.  It’s the end of a long travel day at the end of a long week away, and I’m glad to be in my own bed again!

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Apr 22 2010

#39 – Sketch, interrupted

GeologistA very long and busy day on this Carlsbad field trip.  Thought I would have a second to sketch during a lunch break by a waterfall.  So I set about drawing this geologist resting by the falls, and this is as far as it got before I was interrupted two or three minutes later to be on to the next thing.  Nice change of scenery from the office though, I’ll admit.  Now to much-needed bed.

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Apr 20 2010

#37 – El Paso “Mystery Spot”

El Paso Science MuseumGet it?  Mystery spot? Like those novelty tourist places where the perspective is all screwed up and things look all out of scale?  Boy, I’m hilarious.

Actually it was meant to be this place.  Whoops!

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Mar 29 2010

#15 – “Family togetherness” or, “Brothers vs. brother”

Placecard grappa glassJust had a fantastic evening with family both immediate and extended.  It seemed that a sketch of my glass of grappa would make a nice souvenir.  And even better: one drawn on the back of my placecard, which itself featured papercraft decoration by my 3-year-old brother.  Young Master Hulme and I now united — comrades in artistic expression — with the mighty firstborn in our sights.

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Mar 27 2010

#13 – The most dangerous monkey in all LEGOdom

Dangerous LEGO monkeyI was super excited to find an old LEGO set I got as a present years and years and years ago.  I don’t think the original instructions suggested this specific arrangement of parts, but after all, that’s what LEGO’s all about.

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Mar 24 2010

#10 – …in Their Flying Machines

Orthographic biplaneThis is the other half of an assignment I was working on — the orthographic views of the same plane from Sketch #8.  I think this one better captures the funny kind of stubbiness of this little plane.  Once again, it’s primarily based off this painting.

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Mar 22 2010

#8 – Those Magnificent Men…

BiplaneJust finished this for a class assignment: my second ever attempt at true isometric drawing.  (First one was all kinds of messed up.)  This is the Laird “Super Solution” – apparently the fastest plane in 1931.  Translated to isometric view based on this painting by Nixon Galloway.

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Mar 20 2010

#6 – Chick magnet

Ukulele

My brother’s ukulele. Or should I say, “one of my brother’s ukuleles.”

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Mar 19 2010

#5 – Nice specs

Nice specs

A rather baby-faced and dejected-looking version of Randy Fischer.  Better luck next time.

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