Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

A second attempt at some exploratory sketches for a future settlement on Mars.  I stepped it back a bit and took inspiration from desert bunkers, remote stations and the like.  I’m trying to think a little more realistically about what kind of stuff would really be taken to Mars.  But to avoid everything looking totally utilitarian, I modified the greenhouse dome a bit, drawing on inspiration from the design of London’s city hall (file under: Inevitable Dash of Pretension).

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Yuck — don’t like this at all.  I got a digital illustration class assignment to create some sort of isometric world.  Thought I’d do something with a city settlement on Mars.  So I created these buildings, kind of inspired by a couple of reference photos, but they just both ended up looking like hideous, drab, public museum architecture of the late 1970s.  In fact, I realized one of them looks very similar to this previous sketch of the El Paso Science Musuem.   Quick Google search: that museum opened in…wait for it…1980.

Suffice it to say there is some re-imagining to be done.

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Been thinking a lot about my 365 project today. I’m really enjoying this, and am almost a quarter of the way finished already.  If you’re not doing a daily (or weekly) creative project yourself, please think about starting one!

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Another sketch from an Art Center drawing workshop.  I couldn’t really tell what to make of this pose.  Is this stress?  Contemplation?  Telekinesis?  If only his back weren’t turned!

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Spent this evening eating chili and kicking out the jams.  Before I knew it, it was late and I only had time for this 60-second sketch of some of my musical cohorts on invisible barstools.

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You used to be cool, Clock.  You used to, you know, work.  But now, it’s like you’re stuck in the past, man.  Like it’s 3:23 p.m. all over again.

What’s that you say?  Dead battery?  Lame, bro.  The clock I remember wouldn’t let a little thing like “a lack of any kind of functional power source” get in the way of our relationship.

Oh, who am I kidding?  I can’t stay mad at you, lil’ buddy!  New battery comin’ right up!

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A red head drawing of a redhead model.  Seemed a good fit.  This is another quick sketch done at an Art Center workshop.

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Went down south to spend some three-day-weekend time with extended family — and (by further extension) their two labradors, Starsky & Hutch.  This is the first time I’ve ever sat and drawn any animals from observation.

I figured sleeping dogs would stay still long enough to draw, but that wasn’t really the case (hence the various different angles).  Actually, come to think of it, most models you’d have to pay to have them generate this many poses for you…

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Another sketch based on a magazine photo.  This was in honor of last night’s stand-up comedy challenge, an annual event put on by a friend of mine.  Stand-up is a truly bizarre medium — and I have to respect those who are able to do it well.

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Quick sketches of an Amazon warrior (the “sexy dame” kind, not this kind).  These are actually little exploratory concepts for another NASA/JPL project, believe it or not.

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