Today at work, I spent a few minutes in the TV studio making some HD dubs. Â Not far from those machines is this almost-forgotten beast from back before I was born. (Sorry, Jon Hicks, if you’re reading this!)
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…but this is what stores my LEGO. Â Growing up, we had a couple of tackle boxes like these packed with bricks. Â My brother hung onto those, so I finally got around to buying a couple myself for the LEGO I have. Â And yes, I know it’s a little reminiscent of “Gene, The Anal Retentive Carpenter” — but hey, it beats shoving it all in a giant trashbag (ahem, childhood Kelly).
What’s that? Â You don’t remember that classic Phil Hartman bit? Â Well, here for a limited time is one of the related sketches. Enjoy.
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Fifty days ago, I launched an ingenious plan to encourage increased local baked goods production. Â I’m pleased to report that it’s been immensely successful. Â So today, I enacted phase two: Operation Transcendently Fluffy Sifted Ingredients. Â Yes, I’m working on a less cumbersome name.
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Ah, yachting — a pastime that combines three of my very favorite things: pretension, motion sickness and Sperry Topsiders.
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♫ “Who will buy this useless eraser?” ♪
♪ “Such a dis-appointment, you see!” ♫
♫ “Who will buy this useless eraser?” ♪
♪ “And get this thing away from me!” ♫
Seriously. Â These things are terrible.
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This is a follow-on from yesterday’s drawings. Â I’m currently working on an idea to develop a series of kid-friendly characters around this and future Mars rovers. Â So where yesterday’s sketches were basically a simplified version of the real thing, this is the next step — finding ways to integrate basic expressions and characteristics within/around the established structure. Â We’ll see how this develops…
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Another few sketches for a project I’m working on. Â This is the NASA’s next Mars rover, currently under construction at JPL. Â Through a nationwide naming contest won by a Kansas sixth-grader, this rover has been dubbed “Curiosity.” Â And with a head-mounted laser, it ought to make short work of any extraterrestrial felines.
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Another “grab-the-nearest-object” sketch. Â This little thing has been instrumental to almost all of the prismacolor pencil drawings on this site. Â In fact, this drawing itself was done with a prisma pencil, so I actually had to use this sharpener while drawing it. Â Hey, I should have drawn the actual pencil inside it. Â And then me holding that pencil in my hand. Â And then my actual pencil drawing my own hand. Â And then, inevitably, this.
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Another lazy glassware sketch — but hey, good old reliable Mijares happy hour always does the trick. Â Only problem here: the quick and sloppy attempt at salt on the rim looks more like dangerously broken glass. Â Drink up!
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This time, no redacted image! Â Today at work, I was doing storyboards again for this future Mars mission — and here’s a frame I can actually show. Â This is a made-up closeup of the rover’s main cameras, which sit on top of a rotating mast. Â (In the real world, it would look something like this.) Â What I’m trying to do in these storyboards is to give a little bit of personality to this robot. Â And hey, if you’re gonna do that, why not borrow from one of the classics?
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