tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129269982009-11-20T20:29:03.057-08:00Some will tell you that an artist's sketchbook is a window to his soul. Some will tell you that making sketches available in public displays ridiculous self-regard. It's all true.I.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17177314496922894861ian@greathugethings.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-25963833086303810032009-11-06T09:22:00.001-08:002009-11-06T09:22:50.882-08:00

This is my new favorite 404.

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Book saleOriginally uploaded by RichMilNixPoster, 2008.

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Poster for a benefit performance.

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Worked on this three or four hours today, and I don't know whether I'm committed enough to it to do the remaining six or so it will take to finish it the way I've envisioned it. (I'm finding that ten hours is the magic number. That's about how long it takes for me to get something so finished that i'm ready to send it out the door.It takes alot of work to make something look like it was made

I.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17177314496922894861ian@greathugethings.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-63515679986317079202007-10-04T11:03:00.001-07:002007-10-04T11:03:57.574-07:00

The bother-in-law* has posted, more succinctly than I ever would have, the explanation: And I know, it's been a while. It'll be a while longer, terribly busy. As are we all, I suppose. And yet. There's all this stuff, you see.(Haiku formatting mine.)*The typo was accidental at first, but was also perfect, though not, I assure you, true.

I.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17177314496922894861ian@greathugethings.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-69907229165949762922007-07-31T19:08:00.000-07:002007-07-31T19:24:17.141-07:00

Here's some stuff from a hundred years ago that doesn't really fit in anywhere now. First off, another Mingus:This is from a Death of a Salesman production that featured Brian Dennehy:This is a drawing that wasn't of Alfred Hitchcock, but enough people finally had 'recognized him that I would consider just claiming that it is, but it's not a very good likeness of him, so what are you going to do

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Probably good for nothing at all unless you click to enlarge (not that it's good for much if you do).

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who he was, but he looks like a very nice man.

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Maybe? Who knows?

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Look, it's time I start filling this blog with some of the self-obsessed dross for which it was created. Near-finished illustrations are nice and all, but they aren't sketches.If I keep posting old sketch pages here, you'll see more of Charles Mingus. He's often in my thoughts and in my sketchbooks, and my dream project remains a 200-page comic detailing some episodes from his life. The note to

I.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17177314496922894861ian@greathugethings.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-16671499026408905962007-07-26T19:25:00.000-07:002007-07-26T19:31:33.473-07:00

Submitted two logos to a competition, a few weeks ago, for a startup site having something to do with social networking. Or, er, something. For the first one, I was encouraged to use the Fibonacci spiral, and represent the company pictographically; for the second, they were looking for something more Web 2.0.

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#3, which I got around to in, oh, twelve days. Nuts.

I.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17177314496922894861ian@greathugethings.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-60632067100193208712007-05-13T18:56:00.000-07:002007-05-13T20:18:32.384-07:00

Second in the series. Back to the drawing board for two more.

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At the playground the other day, a mom (a friend) remarked that she couldn't tell who was pushing at the swings, but she knew it was a daddy, because the kids were going so high.I'd been seeking inspiration for a short series, something current (that shows an art director that I can pop out several pieces in the same style). SO, the first installation in the illustrations for the imaginary

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They are.

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For reasons I think I'm still not free to go into, when we went up to Tad's wedding a few years ago, I brought these magazine covers along. I'd forgotten about them and recently stumbled over them on the hard drive.

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This was a BEWARE OF THE DOG sign thatgot snapped in half by the wind and then buried under the winter snow. I picked it up last week, and it's now got a terrific distressed look that probably would have taken me an hour to cook up in illustrator.

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I know that a bunch of image files got deleted from this blog; I don't know how, but I did it while I was uploading the last bits of the regular site (I synchronized backward, like a Bizarro-world web updater: "You, empty folder! You take precedence over full folder! Now me will throw up for breakfast!") I'm going to leave the resulting screwed-up blog entries where they are, with the thought

I.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17177314496922894861ian@greathugethings.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-10378716255192159772007-02-21T19:20:00.000-08:002007-04-24T05:21:07.851-07:00

At one time in my life, I didn't have children. At one time, my day was my own.At one time, I was free to light a reconstituted eggshell dramatically and take pictures of it.Forty-one pictures of it.I think it's safe to say I squandered some of my resources.

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