Every once in a while, I get the compulsion to geek out and draw tools of the trade (“the trade” pretty much expanding to include all variety of visual arts). Â Today’s installment: the Frezzi Mini-Fill Camera-Top Lighthead! Â I’m sure you loyal readers have been clamoring to see my representation of this fine video accessory. Â At long last, that day is here!
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Got an additional new computer at work today. Â Not exciting, however: it’s a PC (*groan*), which I only need in order to a) access an archaic JPL database; and b) control the DVD duplicator shown above. Â So I spent a large chunk of my day getting two loathsome machines to talk to one another. Â PCs I can live with, but I’ve got no love for DVDs. Â Please die already, terrible technology!
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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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♫ “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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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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I was working on some more digital illustrations today; these are just a few of the things I always have around.
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Try the full, satisfying flavor of Wacom Slims today!
(Note: Scott Hulme will not be responsible for your medical bills if you ignite a Wacom stylus and inhale circuitboard fumes.)
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Just another slice of what my day was like. Â I spent most of the morning behind one of these Panasonic HD cameras, for a live broadcast we were doing at work. Â Fun fact: just one of these things costs significantly more than any car I’ve ever owned.
As a side note: I was really uninspired to draw this evening, and even filled a sketchbook page with drawings I ended up hating. Â They were quick pen drawings done while looking in the mirror (like yesterday’s), but of different facial expressions. Â I was really bored and frustrated with them. Â Then I sat down and got out different paper and some Copic markers (which I hadn’t used in about three weeks). Â Switching up the style and tools made a huge difference. Â Even though I made some frustrating mistakes on this one, I was ultimately much happier with it than the others, and had way more fun doing it.
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As I was roughing in the early marks of this very quick sketch, the main lines got a little long. Â So now it’s some kind of super-deadly flying x-acto knife. Â Then again, I seem to do a lot of object sketches, which aren’t all that dynamic — so maybe this is a happy accident. Â Until someone puts their eye out.
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