Twitter followers had to sift through about a dozen posts today as I caught up from my recent trip. Â But we’re back on track now — and in the 200s already! Â Thanks, everyone, for all your support!
(And yes, I realize this is another bizarre, inaccurate, and borderline creepy self-portrait. Â Thankfully, I’ve still got 150+ chances to try again…)
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After two great weeks abroad (and one long travel day today), we’re back in California. Â A quick scribble before bed.
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There! Â Between the treetops! Â There she goes!
(This is based on a photo I took today while at a ropes course. Â That’s two days in a row of precariously hanging from wires!)
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Went to the Alpine Zoo in Innsbruck today. Â They keep just indigenous animals there, and have them in a series of enclosures spread over the side of a mountain. Â When we got to the European bison area, we saw that they actually share it with a group of boars. Â I assumed the zookeepers set it up this way because the two animals get along well. Â Or so they did for a couple minutes after we got there. Â Then one of the boars started growling at a (much larger) bison, who in turn ended up stalking the boar, then chasing it, then running it over a six-foot-high drop, where it took a header into the dirt before hurriedly scrambling to its feet, squealing and running off. Â The bison kept at it for a while after that too. Â All in all, well worth the price of admission. Â So when it came time to sketch this evening, this is what came out.
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Inspired partly by yesterday’s logo, and partly by the cover of one of my wife’s books, I found myself doodling this little pattern this evening. Â Not much to it, but it was a good exercise in working out symmetry.
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A long travel day, but well worth it when you end up at the Hotel Rieser in the Austrian alps. Â A fantastic hotel, run by Ernst und Gabi Rieser. Â Seriously, book a trip. Â Tell ’em I sent you. Â It won’t get you anything, but you’ll be there, and that’s enough.
As for the sketch itself, there’s not much to it. Â Just a bit of lettering practice inspired by their logo. Â Like I said, it was a long day…
Sitting at LAX this evening waiting for a flight. Â Airports, I’ve found, are not so great for finding things to draw. Â That’s how you end up with a sketch like this.
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This is a quick little pencil-and-brush-pen sketch based on a photo I took a couple years ago on a visit to the Isle of Skye. Eilean Donan Castle, to be specific. You can Google it if you want to check my work. But you probably shouldn’t do that. Let’s just pretend it looks exactly like this.
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Depending who you ask, this drumming accessory is either called a “stool” or a “throne.” Â Either way, the possibilities for bathroom humor are torturing my inner 11-year-old.
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What’s that? Â I’m a month late? Â Sorry, my cable’s been a little spotty.
This was based on a random Flickr photo — but should have been drawn with different media. Â When the gradation effect I was trying didn’t work out, I decided to go straight black-and-white, but that just makes him look like an orca. Â Oh well. Â At least he still looks like he could mess you up. Â That, after all, is the most important part of any shark drawing.
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