Seeing as Wargames turned 25 years old this week, it seemed like a good time to do a drawing of David Lightman (Mr Broderick) just as he logs into WOPR for the first time. It’s a classic moment in the film and shows a slightly more realistic view on hacking/cracking. None of this “re-routing the encryption codes” nonsense. Good old-fashioned sleuthing and intuition instead.
I’d bought a brush pen quite some time ago, but hadn’t used it massively. I’d found that I needed a waterproof ink for the kind of stuff I was doing (mostly inking the outline and painting with water-colour over the top).
Anyway, I thought I’d revisit the brush pen last night. So I did a few sketches with it:
The sketches include the mentats, Piter de Vries and Thufir Hawat, as well as a certain girl sleeping. Very pleasant working with the brush-pen, as it’s nice and quick and the results look quite striking. Think I’ll be doing a few more of these.
Carrying on from Girl with an Altair 8800 here’s another vaguely Diamond Age inspired piece. I’m quite enjoying doing paintings with these themes so there might well be a few more to come - probably tracking the evolution of the modern computer.
NB. That’s a “mouse army” at her feet.
With dConstruct just over a week away I’ve received my moo cards with plenty of time to spare.
All of the designs are from illustrations/paintings I’ve done, so at least they are nice and personal. I could have done with spending a bit more time in Photoshop before hand though, as the transition from screen to print is never quite as I’d like. I suspect also that as I was submitting non-photo images that I should maybe have kept the resolution a bit higher.
An assortment of sketches from my moleskine. In order - a sneaky sketch of my sister, several drawings from Istanbul (which I visited with a friend earlier in the year), a rough acrylic of Heather and a sketch of Lolita (Heather’s sister’s dog) from Barcelona:
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