I recently got a request from repeat requester and friend Shannon who asked about a sketch thusly:
Challenge:Punked out angel wings, with the caption “I only LOOK like an angel” Inspiration: A white, fluffy fru-fru dog who’s well-deserved nickname is Punk (owned by a good and mutual friend of ours 😉
Thanks for the inspiration, Shannon, as always! I really appreciate your dedication. 🙂 I’m not sure if this is what you envisioned, but it’s the thing I saw when I thought a while on your request. 🙂
This came out of a conversation with a very good friend about relationships and how some people really work together in couples in such a way that they increase in energy and explosive potential when they’re near each other. I personally prefer a calming relationship with others — I seek out people who are happy, productive, and encouraging, but I know a few people who seek out the explosive, the challenging, on purpose. In a way, I think of my relationship with you, the audience for 365sketches, as having explosive potential. With each feedback loop, each connection, each suggestion, I get blown up into a new way of thinking, and detonations of new ideas. Thanks!
You’re the gasoline to my molotov cocktail; you’re the detonator to my c4. You complete me. cc-by lemasney
I am always amazed at the control, grace and mastery of a martial artist. The control of the flow of energy and the beautiful way in which that control is visually displayed can be magical. I wanted to capture the fluidity and looseness of the internal self that I’ve heard talked about by martial artists; the need to be like water. I hope you like it.
I just had a birthday, so maybe that has something to do with it, but my vision is not what it used to be. I spend a lot of time looking at computer screens, and usually at a high resolution, so I imagine it’s only a matter of time before I become bespectacled. I imagine I’ll forgo any contacts, and just do some geek rimmed thing. At any rate, i notice a lot more quickly now when a certain effect is visually jarring, and this kind of thing does it for me — text that you can partly see, partly not, that is blurry in some places, and crisp in others. I first noticed it in “I’m sorry, I’m just a little sleepy” and wanted to try to push it a little here. Anyway, keep an eye out for me in glasses. I suggest it will be less than a year from now. B)
So this marks the second presence of a golden rectangle in 365 sketches, but it also marks the likely last entry of the 500px square sketches. Ahhhh. It was a good run. Although every CD and album cover ever made has been a square, in theory, I have found it limiting for layout. The golden rectangle, beautiful in and of itself as a ratio, will hopefully give me the opportunity to make a vertical vs. horizontal layout, show a fuller story, and develop more complex compositional arrangements. Looking forward to sharing what I’ve come up with so far.
I don’t remember much about the Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead comedies from the black and white movie era, and I remember even less from the comic strip. I seem to remember they got divorced a while back in the comic. At any rate, Dagwood’s tallboy sandwiches and the late-for-work stumbling exits stand out as the reason those movies existed. I was searching for something to sketch, and suddenly imagined one of the sandwiches from a certain perspective, and here it is. Hope you enjoyed it!