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Drawing : May 2007

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Moon

No pun intended. I grabbed a magazine photo of Moon Bloodgood from Maxim magazine for no other reason than to use as a colored pencil exercise. Actual size is 9"x10".

Here is the result:

This is the source photo. Everything was drawn freehand, no tracing or copying. As a result, some of the proportions are off a bit, but close enough for my purposes.

The following is a detail scan. Actual size of detail is 3"x3":

And these are all of the pencils I used in creating this drawing. I used a white charcoal pencil for the initial sketch and outline:

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

If I Build It

Someone told me this weekend that I should have been an architect. His reasoning was that anybody that draws diagrams for shelving as detailed as mine should have been an architect.

I built some shelves and a couple of drawers for a workbench in my studio last week. Here are the plans I used.

The shelf fits inside a rack cabinet I have that isn't completely filled up, so I can maximize the space within. You can also see a "note to self" on the sheet:

I built two of these drawers to attach beneath the photo matting workbench I built a couple of years ago:

And this is a little shelf that sits on top of the workbench: