Watch Me (re)Learn To Draw

20100629-bottles, originally uploaded by DevilCrayon.

This is a quick sketch that I did at work while sitting with some of our staff artists. This time I used the old 4B graphite stick. I wanted to work on some perspective things, so the table’s set of bottles, napkins and books as a good subject for that.

Work has been a great inspiration for doing all kinds of things unrelated to my regular technical tasks. Working with more people than I have in many years, there are folks around doing stuff that I’ve been interested in the past, but dropped because I’m really bad at self motivation. Being around people doing these things help get me going on them myself. So I’ve been juggling with one set of programmers and artists and drawing with a different, but overlapping set. It’s pretty awesome AND I get paid.

20090523-boot, originally uploaded by DevilCrayon.

This is another old drawing that didn’t get scanned until now. It’s a friend’s boot, done while at Maker Fair last year. It’s also the only drawing from 2009. It’s a bit odd and it took me a little while to remember what it was, so it’s a bit of a failure that way.

2008-gesture, originally uploaded by DevilCrayon.

I found the sketchbook again after moving and found a couple old things that I didn’t scan before. This is one of them. I like the minimalism of the gesture drawings.

20100618-bartman, originally uploaded by DevilCrayon.

This is the first now drawing in a while. A man on BART a couple seats ahead of me. Done with a light pencil. It doesn’t look much like him, but it does mostly look like a person. I think.

20080727-fanface, originally uploaded by DevilCrayon.

There’s this face in one of the blades of the ceiling fan at R’s new place.