Just renewed my membership at the Caltech gym, in the hopes of exercising (and especially swimming) more in the year to come. Â And of course, thinking about getting back in the pool was reminding me of my high school swim team days. Â But not to worry, fellow pool-goers: Â I won’t be going back to the miniscule Speedo.
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Sitting at LAX this evening waiting for a flight. Â Airports, I’ve found, are not so great for finding things to draw. Â That’s how you end up with a sketch like this.
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This is a quick little pencil-and-brush-pen sketch based on a photo I took a couple years ago on a visit to the Isle of Skye. Eilean Donan Castle, to be specific. You can Google it if you want to check my work. But you probably shouldn’t do that. Let’s just pretend it looks exactly like this.
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Always a great show when Mike Viola and Bleu team up. Â Thanks, gents!
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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.
If your answer > $310, you didn’t go to Al Weiss. Â Seriously gents, take some cash and cut some deals. Â Those guys are great.
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Finally got to welcome my cousin back to California today! Â This guy rode shotgun on the 3000-mile U-Haul trek, and saw her through scorching deserts, blown tires, and (shudder) Graceland. Â You’re a trooper, Bernie.
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I wonder how long it will be before we look at a picture like this and say, “Can you believe we used to work that way?” Â “Yeah, remember ‘laptops?'” “And ‘keyboards?'” “And ‘mice?'”
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First blind drawing on Sketch 365! Â I remembered this exercise from art class way back in grade school — the blind contour drawing, done without looking at the page. Â Of course, it’s usually done with one continuous line, rather than picking up the pencil and resetting. Â Doing it that way can help things stay in a bit better arrangement and proportion. Â Still, I had a good laugh at these when I finished.
So, since I imagine you may not have already guessed, left to right is Mr. Bolivia, Ms. Punchingbag and Mrs. Sketch 365.
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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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