I took the time today, instead of doing a lunch sketch, to register to vote.
Remember, vote now or forever hold your peace.
Indiana voters, you have until October 9th. You can even do it online here: https://indianavoters.in.gov.
The Third Annual Indianapolis Tweed Ride is rapidly approaching. (That’s me on the front there) It’s my favorite event of the year and I’m going all out again this year. I was saddened last year that my bike malfunctioned right at the last minute so all of my cleaning and nifty construction was in vain. However, this year I’m prepared. Saturday, I’ll be taking REI’s Comprehensive Bike Maintenance Course specifically to learn the ins and outs of my vintage bikes. (My road bike, Slither, is a breeze to work on because it’s pretty much a 1:1 experience with Lennard Zinn’s Zinn & The Art of Road Bike Maintenance. (If you ride a modern bike but don’t own that book, shame on you.)
Anyway, I’ll likely share pics of my finished bicycle related silliness so stay tuned.
I made this drawing for my comrade-in-arts Zorgor. Be sure to check him out, his art is going through a transition phase right now and it’s very enjoyable to witness.
Also, bonus self-portrait today. 😛
(I tagged this as “From Reference Photo” because I looked at the original Charlie’s Angels logo for reference)
Also, I just added “Zorgor” to Firefox’s dictionary.
This is my second go at whiteboard art with the Zig Postermans. This one is radically different that the previous illustration. This time, my goal was to finish as quickly as possible while still covering the board. I finished this one in just over an hour. (which is a hell of a lot better than the last time)
Also…life is difficult when you don’t have a decent skin color marker. :/
Not all of ’em are winners. This was the second drawing I started during lunch. The first one was even worse. I just wasn’t feeling it today. *shrug*
This is an update to a post from way back in June. As you can see, the artworks are slowly making their way across my cube. I’m not sure yet what I’ll do when they reach the end. 🙂
Today’s Lunch Sketch isn’t really a Lunch Sketch at all. In fact, I pretty much broke all the rules. I didn’t do it during lunch, it’s not really a “sketch,” and it took significantly longer than an hour. In fact, I started it at 7:00 p.m. yesterday and I finished at 2:30 a.m.
Having done several new hire sketches, all using dry erase markers, I decided it was time to up the ante. I very quickly discovered that for me, the main issue that I have with dry erase markers is that they only make a slightly less than one centimeter wide line. This makes filling large areas incredibly tedious, not to mention how annoying it is try to make any type of light color on top of a dark color, especially text. So I did a quick google for wider tipped dry erase markers, hoping to find something that would allow me to at least fill the board more quickly. I found something much better instead.
I stumbled upon Zig Posterman markers instead. Before I even tried them, I was pretty much in love. They’re waterproof whiteboard markers in varying tip sizes that don’t wipe away until you spray them with Windex. (or any ammonia based cleanser, really, so theoretically I suppose you could pee on it, but that’s another blog entirely…) In addition to coming in tip sizes ranging from 1mm to 50mm (including flat and chisel tip options so I can still do calligraphy), they’re also opaque so I can layer ad nauseum. Today’s Lunch Sketch was my first one using my new babies, so I wanted to really have fun and put the markers through their paces to see if I like them. (I do)
Did I need to stay up until 2:30 a.m. doing this? No, of course not. Did I enjoy it? Hell yes I did. ^_^ (and I think other people around the office did too, so I’m happy about that)
Expect more great white board art to come, just don’t expect me to spend seven and a half hours on them. 😉
p.s.
The customer service at the Zig Posterman site is undeniably the best customer service I’ve ever experienced. It’s rare to send an email asking multiple to questions and have them all answered and it’s even more rare to have them answered in clear and copious detail. And get this…one of the markers I chose at checkout was back ordered. Instead of saying “Yo, it’s back ordered, eel with it.” (like Dick Blick does) I got an email saying “Please choose another color of the same size, we’ll toss that one in for free and upgrade your shipping to accommodate for the lost day. We’ll ship the one you originally ordered to you when it comes in.” Seriously, blown away. That is so far above and beyond expectations that I start to wonder about their bottom line.
I feel like throughout this whole project, I’ve just been searching for a style I can settle on. I’m always changing up the backgrounds it seems.
I didn’t really feel like thinking today while I drew. Drawing with non-erasable media takes a certain kind of forethought that can get exhausting. Today, I just wanted to lay down some lines and fill in the rest as more of a meditation than anything. Here’s what happened.
I’ve decided to start using my actual camera for blog post pics instead of the one on my phone.
