Bar Sketches

Real quick……..Dr. Sketchy’s in Baltimore is fully greenlit now…expect an update here tomorrow (probably) and the official website to be up as well (it’s already half-built).

We’ve got Molly Crabapple’s permission, a venue (a pretty damn cool one), and even the first model or two lined up.  If you want an idea of a date, think vaguely the beginning of June.

More in twenty-four hours or so…..

Doodled these at the Blarneystone yesterday afternoon while waiting for a bunch of drunk friends to get back from the horse races.

I’ve got a couple more days worth that I’ve let back up this week….I’ll see if I can do a monster post sometime on Monday.

I so think this one looks like Norm 20 years after Cheers ended.

I probably would have gone a lot further with this one, but the aforementioned friends arrived in a flurry that could easily have been mistaken as a sudden tornado strike.  A lot of folks are probably hurting today.

Nothing official yet, but things are starting to move forward.  There might be some more official news by the end of the week.  If you’re interested, drop a comment here, and if you expressed interest in either attending, helping, or modelling before now, check your email or just drop another comment here.

Got to cross some t’s and dot some i’s, but, well, give it a couple more days.

I’ve spent the last couple of days fooling around with computer animation….this post would have actually been up last week but there’s been a lot of annoying hindrances to embedding the video, so I’m just giving up and posting an image and a direct link to the animation on Photobucket.

Boing Boing posted an article last week a kid out in the midwest who taught himself at 16 how to do animation with a lot of free tools on the internet.  I had some spare time so I started fooling around with tools and tutorials he reccommended.  It’s not as difficult as you might think…

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a358/BushAaron/?action=view¤t=birdmovie4.flv

If you notice, that’s an exterior shot of the bar I built in Sketchup.  Sometime this week I’m going to see if I can set up a few animated characters in the bar having a beer or two.

And yes, I know this doesn’t have a lot to do with sketching.

[shuffles feet] 

Drew this about twelve years ago when putting together a portfolio for a video game company.  They weren’t interested, and I can see why now….still like the sketch though.