Yeah. Sorry about that. No idea why I made it. It just happened. I wish I could say I was drunk, but that would be a lie. If only I HAD been drunk…
January, 2011
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Sketch-a-Day #22
January 31, 2011 by Collin
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A brief side-note
January 30, 2011 by Collin
Since starting this sketch project I’ve been paying a bit more attention to the numbers of visitors I get each day (not many… between 0 and 18), which posts are the most popular, how they got here, etc.
One of the stats given is Search Engine Terms. One of the terms was “jurassic jesus” which I thought was quite amusing. Then I realized that I have a post called “Jurassic Jesus” that I wrote back in 2004 and had completely forgotten about.
Re-reading it reminded me of how funny I used to be at times. At least it managed to amuse me after all this time.
I wonder if the person who found the site through that term left satisfied.
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Sketch-a-Day #21
January 29, 2011 by Collin
I like how this one turned out too. I started with an idea for teeth and nothing else. Jordyn had already gone to her mom’s for the weekend, Heather was at work, Justin was in his room, and I had no outside influence this time. All-in-all, not the disaster that I expected going into it.
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Sketch-a-Day #20
January 28, 2011 by Collin
Sketch #20
This is another one that for the most part I really like. I love how his head turned out. The theme of “Let’s draw dinosaurs!” was suggested by Jordyn. The object of the dinosaur’s attention was added as an afterthought.
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Sketch-a-Day #19
January 27, 2011 by Collin
The theme for today’s sketch was suggested by my son. Not that I’m blaming him for it. It was a good idea, and the initial images that came to my mind were certainly worthy. The execution is lacking. His idea was, “How about food having a food fight throwing other food.” You can see for yourself how that turned out.
What I take from this is there isn’t much food in my fridge, eggs are screwed because they don’t have legs, milk throws like a girl and juice is slightly retarded.
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Sketch-a-Day #18
January 26, 2011 by Collin
This started as a birthday cake, because I drew it on my daughter’s birthday. I sat down to sketch, ran through the usual “What the hell am I going to sketch today?” routine that I’ve gone through for the past 17 days. Thought “Cake!” and drew the line that ended up as the inner (page-left) cowl line, paused and looked at it.
That always seems to be my downfall when drawing from my imagination. Pausing and looking.
In that pause I realized that I just didn’t have a cake in me that day. If I’d pushed on in my cake goal it would have ended in sadness, possibly tears and several lesser angels might have fallen from heaven. I couldn’t really have that.
So I cast about inside my brain to see just what I did have in me that day. Turns out it was this fellow. Who would have thought?
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Sketch-a-Day #17
January 25, 2011 by Collin
For the most part I really like how this one turned out. The progression of the drawing was face, helmet, chest, arm, hand… and right then I f’ed up again. Not with the number of fingers. That was intentional. Just how it looked. Luckily I was able to power past that feeling of dread and doom by reminding myself that it’s just a sketch, not a finished drawing, and the purpose behind this exercise, so I was able to finish it without giving up. It’s also one that ended up looking pretty close to what I had in mind when I started.
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I would like to say
“Happy Birthday!”
to my wonderful wife, Heather.
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sketch-a-Day #16
January 24, 2011 by Collin
What can I say about this one, apart from “Blargh…”
It’s another prime example of my sketch deviating wildly from what I’d intended. You can probably guess where I started. The mouth. I probably spent half of my total time just on the mouth. It was going to be something troll-like. Then I drew the top of the head shape, and I took a second to look at it, and something in my mind said, “Fish. Shark perhaps. But go with fish.” Stupid mind. I really gave up after drawing the tail.
So… sorry about this one. Tomorrow will be better.
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Sketch-a-Day #15
January 23, 2011 by Collin
This one almost didn’t happen:
I bought LEGO Rock Band for Heather that day and we played for a couple of hours before she went to work, then we started up again when she got home. Before I realized it, it was 11:30-ish and I still hadn’t done a sketch. Since rockers and rocking was on my mind, I went with a rocker of sorts. He rocks sorts.
Something that I’ve noticed about the way I draw, if it has to do with any kind of person or person type thing, is that I generally start with the face/head. I should try to break away from that.
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Sketch-a-Day #14
January 22, 2011 by Collin
Once again, plans are a-changin’. I know. I’m a fickle bitch. I decided after that last post that grouping several sketches in one lump kinda takes away the anticipation of the project. But I also can’t get my shit together enough to scan and post every day… what to do?
I know! (of course, otherwise what would be the point of this nonsense?)
I’ll set up a queue of posts to drop every day at 6pm that will show the next sketch in the progression. This means I’ll be posting work that was done several days before, so it’s always going to be a bit behind. Rest assured though, I’m keeping true to doing at least one sketch every day. This will also allow there to be a new post every day.
I think this can work…
So, here is sketch #14:
I’ll start this off by saying that this wasn’t at all what I’d planned when I started. Actually, that seems to be a common element to any sketch that I draw from my noggin. Very few end up looking like what I had in mind from the start.
For this one, my daughter and I decided to draw a demon. I was off to a good start with the face, and the horn on page right, but then I drew the horn on the left and f’ed it all up. I mean, look at it. Since I’m not allowing myself to erase I had to move on. I started to sketch out the neck (a shorter version of how it ended up) and then BOOM! It all fell apart. I couldn’t get my earlier mistake out of my mind, so I basically gave up on it. The falling meteors in the background are my desire to destroy it all.
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