Pretty great Sunday morning — Kelly and I went for a walk to get some breakfast, then just kinda kept walking. Â By the time we got home, six hours had gone by. Â Not bad for a pregnant woman!
(Also, I sure hope this visual reference makes sense to people, because if it doesn’t, this must look like a mighty weird drawing!)
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It seems like forever since I’ve done any live figure drawing. This was done in class this evening, based on one of my Art Center classmates. Â An interesting guy, as you can no doubt tell.
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Yet another frame from this storyboard assignment. Â Sorry, but there are about 50 of these I have to do this week, and I haven’t had much time for other sketches. Â Anyway, in the story flow, this one shortly follows Sketch #338. Â Our drunk thug suddenly shoves the main character into the darkened motel room, where he promptly trips over the bullet-riddled body of the retired cop. Â Nice people doing nice things.
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Well, the weekend can’t last forever. Â Back to the storyboard assignments. Â This is another excerpt from the crime story from Sketches 337, 338 and 339. Â (Early in the story, the family man runs into the drunk in the bar, and the latter starts to walk away in the middle of the conversation.)
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More work for class. Â Leaving aside the crime story, we return to the (admittedly no less bloody) story of Siegfried and the dragon. Â That whole assignment requires three illustrations, for before, during and after the main action of the dragon-slaying. Â So while Sketch #333 was a concept for the “before” phase, this is one quick thumbnail for the “during” part. Â Again, fantasy illustration and gut-slashing are not really particular strengths or interests of mine — but an assignment is an assignment.
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Still working on the storyboard for class. Â After yesterday’s sketch, we skip ahead in the story, conveniently glossing over the contents of the motel room.
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One of many storyboard frames from the screenplay I mentioned yesterday. Â Here, Charlie opens the door to a cheap motel room. Â I sure hope there’s no grisly discovery inside…
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Just a couple of quick character ideas for a class project.  We’re storyboarding a section of a screenplay that calls for the following: Bill, the retired cop and (spoiler alert!) dead body; Charlie, the thirtysomething family man; and Daryl, the heavyset local drunk/thug-for-hire.  It’s sure to be an upbeat, family-friendly romp.
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It finally happened. Â With only a month to go in the Sketch 365 project, I just plain forgot one. Â This is the sketch for February 13, but it was actually done on the 14th, after I woke up and immediately realized that I’d missed my sketch from the day before. Â I thought for a second about just doing an extra sketch and pretending it was from the 13th, but for some reason I couldn’t do it. Â So I went ahead with this creepy big-eyed representation of my early morning pseudo-horror. Â Actually, I’m kind of surprised this didn’t happen sooner (since I had almost forgotten so many times). Â I’m definitely bummed that I turned this one in late, but at least it’s still going to be Sketch 365.
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I was trying to think of something to sketch for today, and for some reason Eadweard Muybridge’s classic horse-in-motion project came into my brain.  I’m pretty useless at drawing animals, so I figure I’d get some practice with some very rough sketches.  Of course, the real test would be to cut this drawing up, animate it, and see how well I did.
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