Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

Another “grab-the-nearest-object” sketch.  This little thing has been instrumental to almost all of the prismacolor pencil drawings on this site.  In fact, this drawing itself was done with a prisma pencil, so I actually had to use this sharpener while drawing it.  Hey, I should have drawn the actual pencil inside it.  And then me holding that pencil in my hand.  And then my actual pencil drawing my own hand.  And then, inevitably, this.

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I was just messing around this evening and did this quick page of icon ideas.  I think I like the bottom two elements best, as well as the far right one.  Of course, I realize now that I should have done one of these to go with it.

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Another lazy glassware sketch — but hey, good old reliable Mijares happy hour always does the trick.  Only problem here: the quick and sloppy attempt at salt on the rim looks more like dangerously broken glass.  Drink up!

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This time, no redacted image!  Today at work, I was doing storyboards again for this future Mars mission — and here’s a frame I can actually show.  This is a made-up closeup of the rover’s main cameras, which sit on top of a rotating mast.  (In the real world, it would look something like this.)  What I’m trying to do in these storyboards is to give a little bit of personality to this robot.  And hey, if you’re gonna do that, why not borrow from one of the classics?

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Found this guy a few years back, either at a garage sale, or a thrift store or something.  All I remember is that I had to get him because the character design was so cool.  The actual toy is much cooler than the drawing; I love the fabric and color choices.  (Here he is in real life, for comparison.)  Somewhere along the way, I decided he looked like a Pedro — and the name stuck.

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I’ve been sketching a lot of these storyboard illustrations at work, and so I figured I could just use one of them for the daily post.  Unfortunately, I realized that the rover pictured here is also based on some drawings that may or may not be public.  I did several of these today, but nothing else, so a redacted version will have to do.

P.S. Sorry to “play with your heart,” get “lost in the game,” etc.

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I was working on some more digital illustrations today; these are just a few of the things I always have around.

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Got a sneak preview tonight of another upcoming creativity project — one that required me to break these out.  I like what I’m hearing, and hopefully before long you’ll see it appearing in the list of links on the right…

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First Magnadoodle drawing on Sketch 365!

We went over to some friends’ house for dinner and I got to play with all their sons’ toys.  Wound up using one toy to depict another.  (Nerd note: the plane was actually Duplo, not Lego proper — but since it did bear the Lego insignia, I figured I’d include it.)

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That is to say, invaders of Mars, not invaders from Mars.  I’m starting to do some preliminary storyboard sketches at work for a new animation of a future series of proposed Mars missions.  These first few are based on some existing work, but I’m going to have to start inventing stuff soon.  Also, these early frames probably don’t make a lot of sense to the outside viewer, but some of the ones to come might.

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