sketches from last week

These are some ones based on some 'stuff' around work. That GFCI (look it up if you don't know what it is..lol) was such a challenge and I'm probably going to do some more of that particular object, because the object just falls apart if you don't draw certain angles right. The other is of a Camlock-T connector (the cylindrical object) and a blender I had at home, as well as an LED flashlight I got as swag a few years ago from one of my family camera companies (seriously, they take me out to lunch every year, and one of the VPs is my 'LA daddy' LOL :) It's funny how when I was younger I used to think a 'sketch' was something you could do hastily and scrappily, and now they take me longer than ever to do. F. Zhu was saying that he often can't tell his students apart by their drawing style because he teaches his students to have a visually clear style of drawing which tends to be similar, but he is able to tell them apart by their ideas and the complexity of their design. I LOVE that. I hope it continues along that way. Well I don't want to be a super slow sketcher (lol), but I want to do the kind of sketching that has thought and process behind it. I was looking at SMd's "Vsual Futurist" again and he was saying the same thing I was talking about a few weeks ago, about stylization, and how he had little respect for people who immediately start with stylization without knowing the basics and how to do a good, solid sketch. I want to be really really good at that kind of sketching, and even though some say it is a dying art, I love that it encapsulates a lot of the mentality of a few generations ago, whereby learning a craft took time. There is no fast-food way to good drawing and technique. It's consistent and you can't be sporadic and half arsed about it. I love that.