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More sketchbook stuff

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I've just gotten to the tough part of the sketchbook. The last, I don't know, 15 pages or so are perforated, making the easy to tear paper that much easier to tear. I can't say I'll miss this sketchbook after I'm done. It's been a pain to work with. But, I will say that as soon as I'm finished with this one, I'm gonna start another immediately. But, with individual pages of illustration board. I've like the idea of the sketchbook because, for example, if I feel like seeing how I'd draw Link, I can draw a tiny simple drawing, without having to fill up and entire 11x17 page with backgrounds and secondary characters and stuff (which I would, because that's usually what I do) and still have a finished drawing. Also, I've fallen behind on toning them. I'm behind a good 5 or 6 thanks to my computer pooping out on me. But, these are really simple tones, on tiny drawings, so if I had to, I could probably do almost all the rest of them in a da

There can be only one...

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...man-fish thing. Man, I gotta start cranking these things out if I wanna get this thing finished in time.

70 - D

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Doctor Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown, Ph. D.

Ugh...

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Drawing real drawings in a sketchbook is frustrating. This, to the left, is pretty much what I have to do with every drawing. And trying to hold the sketchbook and draw at the same time is like- Imagine having a shoe box, or a jewelry box. Then having a pad of paper flat on the bottom. Now, put your hands completely inside the box and try to hold the box and the pad against a wall while drawing. That's what it feels like. I would've normally had fun with all the wizzles and gadgets on this one, but because the pack was on the paper divide, it wasn't so much fun. I just had to slap it down before the paper ripped. Because these are ultra cheap and the pages will rip from just holding them down the wrong way. I like the sketchbook idea, and I'll probly try to do one of these every year, but not like this one. I'll draw on real pieces of paper and collect those. No more crap like this. This wouldn't be hard if I didn't want full bleeds on most of the scans. But

Heisenberg

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Here's a Bryan Cranston/Walter White. And on a weird note, Blogger's giving me problems now. This was originally in the post above, but it wouldn't load it as a click-able image, only a thumbnail that wouldn't open in a new window. So, this had to be it's own post.

R.I.P. Computron

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My computer finally went on to be with the Lord this last week. I'd been having trouble with it for a couple months. It wouldn't turn on on command for about 6 months. It would take longer and longer to get it to turn on. Towards the end, it would take multiple days to turn on. I just tried to keep it on and from turning off. This last time it was on for a couple weeks, but a breaker switched the other night, and she never turned back on. This is my current computer. A couple hard drives and a USB adapter. I'll take some time later to go through and pull out any parts I may be able to reuse. For now, I just had to rip out the hard drives as fast as I could and get files off them. I'm pretty sure it was the motherboard. The power supply was fine. All the other stuff I thought it might be checked out fine by my standards. I'll probably have to buy a cheap motherboard soon and hobble something together real quick. Depending on what parts I'm gonna need to end up bu

27- Snake Plissken

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The last month or two, I've been working on this sketchbook. It's a medium sized Moleskine. Almost 5.5 x 8.5, but not quite. And boy, Moleskine has really went downhill. It's made of super cheap paper that bleeds through. I'm about halfway through 40 drawings. It's for the 2011 Sketchbook Project. When I finish, I have to mail it back. Before I started it, I knew that I wanted something out of it, so I've been scanning them and toning them. When I'm finished, I'm gonna have cheap-o sketchbooks printed. I figured it'd be good practice, and boy was I right. For starters, the thing's tiny. The actual drawing area's about 4 x 7. For an example, look at Plissken up at the top. If this were an untreated bare scan of the sketchbook, the book actually ends about an inch and a half before the actual edges of the picture. Well, just look at Bronson down a couple posts. Because the printed sketchbook pages are going to be bigger that the physical sketch

32.7

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Finished drawing this page today. I still have to finish finish this batch of pages though. Don't know when that'll happen, but shouldn't take too long from when I get started. Also, I suppose I've officially unveiled some previously unposted drawings this week, and so I'm tempted to post a couple of those. Eh, maybe more on that later.