Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

Another late night where I didn’t know what to draw.  This was just a quick sketch based on a photo found online.

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Portrait of the artist as a young man ready for some delicious Thanksgiving dinner.

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I did a series of very quick sketches inspired by random Flickr images this evening.  This was one of the simplest, but I like it better than the others.  It’s a variation on this photo.

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I saw this great photo online today, and decided to do something simple inspired by it.

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Saw a bunch of political pundits on TV this evening.  Such a pointless charade.  Anyway, this started out based on a photo of James Carville, but as you can see, I pretty much abandoned any effort to make it actually look like him.  So now it’s just “generic angry bald guy.”

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So this drawing barely got started before I was literally falling asleep at the page.  I couldn’t keep my eyes open long enough to do anything other than the initial lay-in shown here.  If you can identify it, I’ll be most impressed.

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Had absolutely no idea what to draw this evening.  I don’t even really know where this came from.  I think I just started drawing and that’s what I ended up with.  An earlier incarnation had a one weird robot eye, but that just seemed weird for the sake of being weird (and I covered that already).

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This is the last thing that bee saw this morning before I tore him to pieces with my bare neck.  Oh sure, Bee — you got a little sting in there, but you are now most unarguably dead, AND I EMERGE THE VICTOR!!

Next time try picking on someone your own size.

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I was struck by this amazing photo today, while looking through Ansel Adams’ incredible images from the Manzanar War Relocation Center.  Having visited there a few years back, I was astounded at how bleak and desolate it was.  I couldn’t imagine being required to live there.  To me, that makes his collection all the more remarkable.  As Adams apparently wrote when submitting his work to the Library of Congress:

“The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment…All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use.”

For more of Adams’ experience of Manzanar, check out his photos and writings.

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Twitter followers had to sift through about a dozen posts today as I caught up from my recent trip.  But we’re back on track now — and in the 200s already!  Thanks, everyone, for all your support!

(And yes, I realize this is another bizarre, inaccurate, and borderline creepy self-portrait.  Thankfully, I’ve still got 150+ chances to try again…)

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