tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:29:03 +0000Some 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.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/index.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)Blogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-2596383308630381003Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:00 +00002009-11-06T09:22:50.882-08:00This is my new favorite 404.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2009/11/this-is-my-new-favorite-404.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-3162679600618101259Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:03:00 +00002009-04-21T05:03:13.742-07:00Book saleOriginally uploaded by RichMilNixPoster, 2008.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2009/04/book-sale.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-2747202178355321337Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:54:00 +00002009-04-21T04:54:23.751-07:00Poster for a benefit performance.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2009/04/poster-for-benefit-performance.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-8831588638952504125Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:12:00 +00002008-05-15T19:24:51.113-07:00Worked 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 http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2008/01/street-scene.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-6351567998631707920Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:03:00 +00002007-10-04T11:03:57.574-07:00The 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.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/10/all-this-stuff.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-6990722916594976292Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:08:00 +00002007-07-31T19:24:17.141-07:00ink mingusHere'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 dohttp://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/07/prehistory.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-4946911218075263488Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:28:00 +00002007-07-29T17:30:37.165-07:00Probably good for nothing at all unless you click to enlarge (not that it's good for much if you do).http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/07/unfair.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-8827560202263806093Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:16:00 +00002007-07-29T12:17:23.936-07:00who he was, but he looks like a very nice man.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/07/i-dont-remember.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-3811714379812003227Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:33:00 +00002007-07-28T17:45:14.460-07:00Maybe? Who knows?http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/07/judy-garland-susan-sontag.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-8498050366294737976Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:21:00 +00002007-07-28T17:42:24.244-07:00mingusinkLook, 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 http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/07/mingus.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-1667149902640890596Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:25:00 +00002007-07-26T19:31:33.473-07:00Submitted 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.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/07/its-small-after-all.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-3220084487735805514Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:52:00 +00002007-07-02T06:56:29.699-07:00http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/07/octopus.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-8824445920986320704Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:26:00 +00002007-06-14T17:33:32.681-07:00http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/06/our-exciting-digital-future.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-3695105046381020677Sat, 26 May 2007 03:09:00 +00002007-05-25T20:15:52.097-07:00#3, which I got around to in, oh, twelve days. Nuts.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/05/supper.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-6063206710019320871Mon, 14 May 2007 01:56:00 +00002007-05-13T20:18:32.384-07:00Second in the series. Back to the drawing board for two more.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/05/swing.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-5053664494372495329Thu, 10 May 2007 02:54:00 +00002007-05-09T20:03:32.855-07:00At 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 http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/05/toss.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-8326226841444858147Mon, 07 May 2007 02:43:00 +00002007-05-06T19:45:16.792-07:00They are.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/05/girls-are-cool.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-7284026827623920168Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:30:00 +00002007-04-24T05:30:43.588-07:00For 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.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/04/periodicals.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-6717568747966502514Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:24:00 +00002007-04-24T05:25:34.000-07:00http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/04/last-leaf.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-220489632694489670Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:15:00 +00002007-04-24T05:18:45.450-07:00This 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.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/04/authentic-distress.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-6323657961310108151Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:21:00 +00002007-03-07T12:34:49.692-08:00I 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 http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/03/zap.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12926998.post-1037871625519215977Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:20:00 +00002007-04-24T05:21:07.851-07:00dramatically lit broken eggshellsAt 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.http://www.greathugethings.com/blogs/sketch/2007/02/walking-on-um.phpian@greathugethings.com (I.)0