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Pentel Pocket Brush Pen on my usual mousepad (paper taped to the table)

I’m not very good at drawing robots. But there was a time I was even worse at drawing robots than I am now.

One day, many, many years ago, I went to The Globe in St. Petersburg with my friend Derek, and decided I would learn to draw robots if it killed me. But only figuratively. The last part. At any rate, I sat there for a while scribbling robots forms until I came up with a style that I more or less didn’t utterly hate. This is a scan of that evening.

Also, this is for you, Gregory.

I was enrolled in a course for image manipulation; basically this means “photoshop class.” One of our projects was to recreate a classic painting using bits of images collected from the internet and other sources. I recreated a Cézanne using separate images of apples, lemons, and other items. Each piece was manipulated in Photoshop to emulate shadowing, shape and the like. Here is the recreation.

One evening I braved Westshore Mall in order to pick up tickets to the BT show in Orlando; as FYE is one of the few retail outlets available in this area, I went there to pick up the tickets I purchased online last night. Gregory and I decided to try out the massage chairs, which offer three or fifteen minute treatments for a nominal fee. I got the feeling that the machine was trying its hardest to tenderize my muscles in order to eat me at a later date. Read: chair is creepier than a random stranger oiling you up and going to town on your muscles.

We took leave of the mall /carnivorous chairs and decided to get some coffee so we headed out to Hyde Park. There is an Indigo Coffee situated in Hyde Park proper; as Gregory gave it good reviews for atmosphere and I had never been there before, we settled upon this particular cafe. We ordered our drinks, headed back outside and set up at one of the tables next to the fountain. I was armed with a fistful of pens and napkins in hand.

This is a quick study of the fountain area within Hyde Park, which was completed during our first jaunt to Indigo Coffee.

(Please excuse the poor photo quality as the image was captured via the G1 camera.)

and it's lavender.