Apr 14 2010

#31 – Firestorm III: Final Judgment

Drill compositeOkay, seriously — last time with the drill.  This is the final assignment for the class I’m in.  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.  I’ve delivered the titles, now just get one of your typewriter monkeys to churn out a script or two.

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Apr 13 2010

#30 – From the “My First Responders” playset

Fire truckWent 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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Apr 12 2010

#29 – Firestorm II: The Explodening

Exploded drillFor my last assignment in this class, I’m returning to the drill from sketch #11.  This one is just a simple line drawing at the moment, because it’s going to be given a Photoshop paint job.  Also, I’m including the exploded view with arrow to indicate the detachable chuck feature.

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Apr 8 2010

#25 – Nectar of the foul-breathed

CoffeemakerI think my sister-in-law was getting tired of all the boring cones and cylinders.  So she challenged me to do something a little more involved for the last of the Palm Springs product sketches.  Pretty happy with the shading of this, though I realized when I finished that the proportions are kind of off.  There’s no way for a coffeemaker with that small a reservoir to fill a pot that size.  Oh well.  Pretend you didn’t notice that.

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Apr 7 2010

#24 – Look ma, I draw’d a pretty pitcher!

PitcherMessed 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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Apr 6 2010

#23 – Scott Hulme, in the dining room, with the candlestick

CandlestickIn Palm Springs this week for a little family vacation.  Basically eating, drinking, swimming and sketching.  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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Apr 5 2010

#22 – Table decoration

Had lunch today with some friends and family, and was able to fit in a very quick sketch of this centerpiece.  Should have used graphite rather than a prisma pencil, but hey, now I know better.

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Apr 1 2010

#18 – “I love lamp.”

Sketched these in class tonight.  Asked the instructor for any recommendations.  He said, “Yeah, you went past the center line on this lamp shade.  Unforgivable, dude.  Look at this — this is impossible.  You see?  It doesn’t work.  And this over here wouldn’t look like that.  There would be more light right here.  Good though.”  I like this guy.

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Mar 29 2010

#15 – “Family togetherness” or, “Brothers vs. brother”

Placecard grappa glassJust had a fantastic evening with family both immediate and extended.  It seemed that a sketch of my glass of grappa would make a nice souvenir.  And even better: one drawn on the back of my placecard, which itself featured papercraft decoration by my 3-year-old brother.  Young Master Hulme and I now united — comrades in artistic expression — with the mighty firstborn in our sights.

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Mar 27 2010

#13 – The most dangerous monkey in all LEGOdom

Dangerous LEGO monkeyI was super excited to find an old LEGO set I got as a present years and years and years ago.  I don’t think the original instructions suggested this specific arrangement of parts, but after all, that’s what LEGO’s all about.

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