Okay, seriously — last time with the drill. Â This is the final assignment for the class I’m in. Â Two orthographic sketches, plus one perspective sketch that’s then painted in Photoshop.
Oh, and hey, Hollywood — get to work on the “Firestorm” action trilogy. Â I’ve delivered the titles, now just get one of your typewriter monkeys to churn out a script or two.
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Went to John Beck’s studio tonight for some filming for “Tyranny.” Amidst all the crazy stuff in his place (galvanometers, saxophones, maritime pulleys, you name it…) I spotted this model truck sitting on a shelf. Fit in this quick sketch during breaks in shooting.
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For my last assignment in this class, I’m returning to the drill from sketch #11. Â This one is just a simple line drawing at the moment, because it’s going to be given a Photoshop paint job. Â Also, I’m including the exploded view with arrow to indicate the detachable chuck feature.
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At the start of this project, I made an important declaration. Â The gauntlet is laid, Miss Gaston.
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Okay, I know this looks bad, but here’s the story: we were waiting for a table at Panda Inn, and I needed something to sketch. Â Above the bar hangs a group of masks, of which these are two. Â Unfortunately, when I finished my sketches, I realized they looked not so much like masks as like offensive caricatures. Â That’s why I added the lettering to the right (and this overwrought, apologetic caption).
Actually, I’ve been trying to avoid drawing anything that is itself a representation (like sketching a photo, sculpture, or other piece of art). Â If only I’d stuck to that rule, I never would have drawn these things!
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I’m no paid spokesperson for Electra, but I can tell you they make a great bike. Â This is Kelly’s townie, which she decked out with super-stylin’ hibiscus flower stickers.
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I think my sister-in-law was getting tired of all the boring cones and cylinders. Â So she challenged me to do something a little more involved for the last of the Palm Springs product sketches. Â Pretty happy with the shading of this, though I realized when I finished that the proportions are kind of off. Â There’s no way for a coffeemaker with that small a reservoir to fill a pot that size. Â Oh well. Â Pretend you didn’t notice that.
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Messed up a few things here — like the handle, and its shadow that shouldn’t actually be visible.  But the rest of the shape reads pretty well.  Still doing more simple product shapes for class.  Actually, this mid-century-modern vacation home in Palm Springs is full of cool, simply shaped, modernist lamps, furniture, etc.  Good place to be working on this kind of assignment.
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In Palm Springs this week for a little family vacation. Â Basically eating, drinking, swimming and sketching. Â I have to do several of these product sketches for class this week, so I’ll get in plenty of marker practice.
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Had lunch today with some friends and family, and was able to fit in a very quick sketch of this centerpiece. Â Should have used graphite rather than a prisma pencil, but hey, now I know better.
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