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Old Bay Sketch

My wife Dana is from Maryland. Crabs are a thing there, and if you’ve got crabs you should have some Old Bay. I got introduced to Old Bay by Dana and her family. I’ve even picked crabs a few times!

Also, the story of Old Bay is pretty fascinating. Check out What’s the story behind Old Bay? by The Maryland Curiosity Bureau.

If you prefer reading over listening the Wikipedia page for Old Bay Seasoning is a good alternative.

I use a good amount of Old Bay for the cooking I do, which rarely involves crab or shrimp but whatever… it works for plenty of dishes. Eggs, Mac & Cheese, and I’ve even used it on pizza.

I hope you’re enjoying these digital illustration as much as I am. If one of these strikes your fancy and you’d like a framed print, let me know.

This one (like the others) was created with an Apple Pencil on an iPad using Procreate.

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DeLorean Sketch

When I was a kid the DMC DeLorean automobile was created. I thought it was a cool looking car, and it was at the time, especially to a kid. In high school I remember seeing Back to the Future because a girl I knew had a VHS copy of it and loaned it to me one day. I watched it and thought it was a fine film. They made a few sequels but they seemed to just get silly after the first one. That’s sequels sometimes.

The DeLorean’s gull wing doors look cool, but how the hell would that work in your garage? I don’t think it would work in my garage. I suppose it was a car for people who had huge garages or something. I don’t know who the demographic target for the car was.

Also, DMC is still around!? Well, delorean.com has all sorts of stuff on it.

And look at this old logo. I can’t decide if it looks awesome or terrible. Maybe it’s both.

In 2014 when I was involved with the Power Racing Series my friends at HackPGH built a tiny DeLorean time machine race car they called “Hack to the Future”. It was awesome.

Anyway, the things I draw, they have some sort of meaning to me. Often they are objects that have/had an impact on me in some way. It means even more when others have some connection with these drawings as well, especially if it’s a friend.

I hope to continue creating these iPad drawings done in Procreate with an Apple Pencil. So far it’s been quite enjoyable!

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Game Boy Sketch

Game Boy (Sketch)

Game Boy (Sketch)

For me the peak of portable handheld gaming in the 1990s was the Nintendo Game Boy. I remember not having on, but using the one my girlfriend had. A year or so later we broke up but I got a new girlfriend and she also had a Game Boy. (Also, just a quick shout out to Adafruit for the Game Grrl.)

Game Boy (Sketch)

Anyway, past relationships aside, I pretty much just played Tetris on the Game Boy. So yeah, Tetris… which led me to the Anbernic RG35XX last year. I probably spent more time playing Game Boy games in 2023 than I did in all of the 1990s.

Game Boy (Sketch)

For these sketches I always start with the lines, typically working directly from a photo, doing some tracing and making decisions about each hand drawn line. Damn I am really enjoying the capabilities of the Apple Pencil! I still have a lot to learn and I spent about 20 minutes watching a video over the weekend and learned a few Procreate tricks I was unaware of…

Game Boy (Sketch)

I should probably spend a bit more time just screwing around in Procreate and doing some real learning but I also find the drawing so fun and enjoyable that I mostly try to do that when I have a small amount of free time.

Game Boy (Sketch)

Finally, here’s a more loose and sketch version. Once again this digital illustration was done with an Apple Pencil on an iPad using Procreate.

Oh, just a quick side note, I do have a Game Boy Advance for my Game Boy Camera but I sort of wish I had the Game Boy Color because the form factor seems much better for using the camera.

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The Ghosts Sketch

Why (re)draw a bunch of 8-bit characters from a video game that was released over 40 years ago? The first answer is “Why not?” and that should be enough, right? Yes, it’s sort of ridiculous to make a hand drawn sketch of blocky pixelated characters, but life is ridiculous, life is absurd, and sometimes you’ve just gotta play along with it.

You may remember me from the Pac-Man Cookies my daughter and I made in 2011 or the Life-Size Pac-Man project of 2019. (The Life-Size version is at Jason’s house now and I’m a little sad I didn’t get the Shelf-Size version we made that was shown on TV for a Maker Faire promo… Oh well.)

Doing these sketches is sort of therapeutic for me, and I really enjoy doing them. I’m still not sure I want to create these as actual physical art pieces for sale on a web site. I’d like to continue the Pay What You Want for Art experiment I started in January. Enough people have been supporting it lately that I think it’s worthwhile to keep pursuing.

Pac-Man was a game I first played in an arcade as a kid. I’m pretty sure I sneaked off to Palmer’s Billiards on 27th street with the neighbor kids and play it along with Space Invaders. I wasn’t really a huge fan of either, and I was more of a Tetris fan later on.

So hey, enjoy these fun ghosts that were drawn on an iPad with an Apple Pencil using Procreate.

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Falk Hammer Sketch

I did this one more than a week ago but forgot to post it! It’s the sketch version of one of the photographs I took of the Falk Hammer last year.

As mentioned in the previous post, this was my dad’s old hammer, which was forged at Falk Corporation, where he worked. It’s a nice hammer. I like it.

Yet another digital sketch done with an Apple Pencil on an iPad using Procreate. (And yes, this might make a really nice three-color relief print.)

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