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Here we have yet another sketch, this one of a classic Scotch tape dispenser. I used an Apple Pencil on an iPad along with Procreate, and this time I started with one of the “pencil” pens to get the look of a classic pencil sketch, the kind I would have done in an art class back at university.

I left the initial sketch of the outline as it was, and added a new layer for the shading. I’ve been using layers in Procreate quite a bit lately, which I can keep separate from the first layer or merge down with the original layer if desired. Typically my sketches only have a few layers anyway though, one or two for lines, one or two for color, and a background.

Speaking of background I made this one yellow to evoke the idea of a yellow sticky Post-it note since we’re already in an office theme with the tape dispenser.

After the first sketch was done I did another quick and dirty version that is more of a felt tip marker or even woodcut style. At some point I’ll probably use some of these sketches to make relief prints, so that style will come in handy.

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The story behind this sketch of a “Purple Hearse” is that back around 1988 or so there was this band called “Purple Hearse and the Judges of Fate” and I asked about their name and they said they were called the Judges of Fate but one night they were out (they may have been imbibing at the time) and saw this purple hearse parked in a driveway and decided to add that to the name.

But it wasn’t actually purple, it was black, and I know this because it was the hearse that John Kucera used to own, that was uses as the Cleveland Bound Death Sentence band vehicle. (The original CBDS not the Cometbus one.)

Anyway, I drew this purple hearse… Oh, one more fun fact. They are not referred to as “hearses” now but “Coach Cars” or “Funeral Coaches” and I was told this by the new guy at work who used to sell burial plots.

(Here’s where I got the reference photo from: This 1976 Cadillac Hearse “Overtaker” Will Make Even A Dead Man Scream.)

As usual, if I got the anything wrong in regards to the band history or you heard a different story, let me know.

Oh yeah, you know that sound! You had this pedal, I had this pedal, everyone had this pedal from the 1980s. I’m sure I got mine cheap (and second hand) from Record Head or Lincoln Music and I used it on whatever piece of crap guitar I had at the time and it sounded amazing (because I didn’t know any better!) So yeah, this is the DOD FX55-B Supra Distortion Pedal… as a sketch.

I actually found mine a few months ago and it’s now somewhere in my basement. I spent a good two minutes looking for it but it’s probably buried under a pile of filament and handmade paper right now, but once I find it I’ll see it I can get it working again. In case you don’t know what it sounds like, here’s a demo.

And just like every piece of gear, some people love it, and some people hate it. I only have fond memories of the Supra Distortion, and I hope you do too!

Here’s a 1957 Royal Quiet De Luxe Typewriter which looks just a wee bit fancier than the one I grew up with, which was a Royal (in Dove Gray) but I don’t know what model year it was, though it does look like a Quiet De Luxe. I also don’t know what happened to it… it might still be at my mother’s house, and now I want to check on that!

Anyway, this is another digital sketch done with an Apple Pencil on an iPad using Procreate.

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