the sun's not yellow it is chicken
Sorry you two about the lack of updates recently.
Thing is, Gabriela and I are working on an ultra-secret project right now which is taking up much — if not all — of our free time. In the mean time, here’s a stupid one minute sketch of Dave Shae — you know, that css mastermind of css zen garden fame:
My better half Gabriela had some fun coloring my sorta-kinda-looks-like Walter Matthau drawing. She’s a super-talented graphic designer who has worked in the Argentine magazine/editorial business for years (Perfil! Luna!) and I think it shows:
Sweet!
This is all, by the way, part of an ultra-secret project she and I are currently concocting, which should be ready for primetime — oh — by 2015 I reckon.
I was asked recently about the tools I use to sketch ‘n doodle. Well I tend to stick to the bare necessities: an HB2 pencil, a Conté pen, an eraser.
– The HB2 pencil: right in the middle between overly soft and annoyingly hard. Who uses the H-range pencils except for architects and interior decorators anyway? Good for setting up the general scene of an elaborate illustration.
– The Conté pen: it’s cheap, it’s light, it has a nice direct grip and feel on grainy paper. Versatile in that it lets you doodle in super-fine-line crosshatching modus as well as thick-line frenzy. Plus you can replace the pen tip at any time. Downside: you need to carry along a flask of indian ink to wherever it is you want to draw. Doing so tends to be rather conspicuous. People will notice your ink dipping and their facial expression will radiate “what does he think he’s the next Leonardo Da Vinci?”, combined with “well I better look my best then”.
– The Artline “Drawing System” 0.2 pen. Perfect for quick sketching. For one thing, you don’t have to have the ink dipping thing going. Using it while sketching tends to make your subjects believe that you are in some way or another, engaged in work-related business. Little do they know!
– The Pelikan Eraser: it’s an eraser, what can I say. It, like, erases things; and it’s pretty good at it too.
Me, an art supplies fetishist though? Naah.
So I got bored at the office yesterday and played around a little with Sketch Swap. The idea is simple but fun: you draw a sketch, submit it, and in return you get a sketch made by somebody else. When I submitted mine, I wondered who was going to receive my little doodle. Behold the magic of the internet, dear reader, as the guy who received it, posted about it on his weblog! What are the odds to that…
My concuñado (“brother-in-law” for those not in the know — the guy left top with the big grin and the facial hair) Juan really did it this time — no more whistling at girls on the way to the pooltable for you, pal! I’m *cough* of course *cough* kidding *cough*. Nicolas: I wish you a warm welcome into this world! If I may give you a tip kid: do not, for whatever reason, mess with your dad’s laptop — your mom won’t mind if you fiddle around with hers anyway. Trust me on that one and you’ll be fine. Que alegria!
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