With this sketch I was sitting under the I-4 overpass looking East. To my right there was a small stash of clothes presumably from a homeless person. I did the sketch around noon and the foot traffic was light. Once in a while a truck would rumble onto Church Street to deliver produce and beer to the restaurant and pubs.
Recorders trio
My wife Terry invited over Roger and John and they played Medieval Music all this afternoon. The music is sublime in its simplicity especially when they play the final note in harmony. It was nice to be right on top of the performers as they played.
Tablet sketch
Today I was pleased to use my tablet PC as a way to show off the artwork I had created for a poster. It was very convenient to open Photoshop and then pass around the tablet so people could see the work up close. I did this sketch during that meeting. I found the pen slid around a bit to much for my taste, but perhaps in time I will adjust to that slippery tactile feel. I liked that I could keep adjusting the size of the page I was drawing on. I enlarged the width of the sketch several times. I also found that I tended to erase more often than I usually do.
Got Junk?
Today I will simply see if I can post today’s drawing. You can see this truck any time you drive down Sand Lake Road. It must be parked permanently in this spot just as advertising. I have seen it at the same spot everyday for over a month. I cant help thinking any time I see it, “Yea I got Junk, I got junk in the trunk”.
January 1, 2009 Day 1
This is a test to see if this blogging thing works.
If you are reading this than you may have probably surfed back through many sketch entries. To start I should supply the 5 W’s… Who, What, Where, When, and Why.
WHO… My name is Thomas Thorspecken.
WHAT… This is a place I will post daily sketches.
WHERE… I find myself living in Orlando Florida after a 10 year stint of working with Walt Disney Feature Animation. Disney closed the studio since they feared that people would only go to films produced with a computer. These last few years I have been rediscovering my own artistic vision. I have been using the computer more and more in my daily work. I just bought a tablet PC, and I will be posting sketches produced with that as well as sketches done by traditional means of pen on paper. That way I should over time figure out which medium works best for the work I do on location.
WHEN… there seems no better time to start then at the start of a new year.
WHY… Of late I have become more and more fascinated with artists sketch blogs online. I have been lurking and learning from those artists entries. This blog then is my way to join that discussion and perhaps a visiting artist will learn from my mistakes and triumphs.