Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

As long as we’re here, I’m sticking with the Hawaiian vacation theme.

I figured I would want another good memento sketch from this week, and nothing says idyllic, laid-back vacation like relaxing in a hammock.  Seriously, as soon as I own two trees within ten feet of each other, I’m putting up one of these things.

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A bit of a cheat here: the wind was moving the trees around too much, so I actually did this later the evening based on a picture in the hotel room.  Lame, I know — but having that environmental control made it a lot easier.

As time investment goes, this is the opposite of yesterday’s sketch.  Fortunately, this subject matter allows you to get away with a very quick and basic version.  Simple as it is though, it’s cool too see how just a little variation in value can sell the dimensionality of the leaves.

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On the beautiful island of Kauai this week for a little vacation.  On our first full day here, we went on a 12-mile hike around some of the state park areas in the northwest of the island.  This sketch was done at lunchtime, from an spot overlooking the north end of Waimea Canyon.  (For any other geography nerds, we were sitting right here.)

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Tomorrow at work I need to do an illustration of a hand that will be used in a demo video for a touchscreen application.  This was just a quick sketch to serve as a reference for the digital version.  Then again, maybe my giant hands aren’t the best models for this — might have to recruit someone else tomorrow.  Someone whose hand will fit on a sketchbook page.

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This is an expansion of yesterday’s sketch, prepping for the same digital illustration perspective assignment.  I like the angle, but I was thinking of making it more visually interesting by putting it in that leather-helmets era of 1920s-ish college football.  Could make for a good color palette and design aesthetic in the final piece.  Also, I like the idea of having an unexpectedly female quarterback who’s about to make the big, game-winning play.  I forgot to fix the proportions before doing this fleshed-out version, but I figured that could be fixed later in Illustrator.

Then I realized something: there’s no actual action taking place here.  There’s anticipation of action, but that’s it.  So the inset sketch is a new idea that would integrate action directly between the foreground and background elements.  Of course, it also trades female empowerment for imminent demise of small, furry creatures.  Hope that doesn’t reveal something about the artist…

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I’m working on a new digital illustration that’s meant to incorporate some kind of action between foreground and background elements.  This is just a quick exploratory sketch to see if this kind of composition could work for it.  Things would obviously need to be shifted around a bit, but I think the basic camera angle will work.

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A quick memento sketch from another great weekend activity.  Thanks to the legendary Mr. McKown for his hospitality!

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Whoops.  Based on some illustrations I have in a document at work, I drew this simplified sketch of a future Mars rover concept for the next decade.  Then I realized: I’m not sure whether that document has been publicly released yet. There’s about a billion to one chance that it’s a problem, but since a quick Google search didn’t turn up any images of this thing, I figured mine probably shouldn’t be the first one out there…

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Okay, so — the first person who can correctly identify what this thing does wins…oh, say, a dollar.  Wait, this may be super-easy.  This could be an ill-conceived contest…

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