Freddy

Here's a scratchboard piece that I started but never got around to finishing. It's just so damn time consuming. One day when it's finished I'll post it up here again.

Leftover

Here's another nude leftover from the last figure drawing session. I'm really only happy with how the bottom hand turned out. We're in Providence right now where the sun is shining but it's cold cold cold.

Paul Erdós

Paul Erdós was a Hungarian mathematician who was kept indoors for the majority of his formative years where his only entertainment were the math and physics books left lying around by his professor parents. By the age of 21 he already had a doctorate in mathematics.

Not too much later he became a vagabond, carrying all his possessions with him in one suitcase. He would arrive at the houses of colleagues who were working on something particularly interesting to him and exclaim "my brain is open." Although he was exceptionally brilliant he could do very little else. While staying with you you would have to cook for him, clean up after him, and wash his silk clothing (which he wore due to a skin condition). He was addicted to methamphetamine and therefore did math nearly 20 hours a day, often waking his hosts up with pots and pans to join him.

Erdós had a number of other quirks such as calling children "epsilons" and God the "Supreme Fascist." Every mathematician in the world knows their "Paul Erdós Number." If you published a paper with him you have a number of 1. Publishing a paper with someone with a number of 1 would give you a number of 2, and so forth.

There are brilliant minds like his scattered throughout history whom we owe a little bit of remembrance to even just to realize how utterly strange they were. Erós died in 1996 at the age of 83.


(all this information was gleaned from wikipedia and the RadioLab "numbers" podcast)

Color me Bland

In my attempt to color my own drawing I forgot to put any color actually in it. How bland of me. Well the good news is I can do as many as I want, and so can YOU. See yesterday's post for details on the FALL 2010 "COLOR ME RADD" READER PARTICIPATION ART BROUHAHA. Today I'm off to the Folk Art Museum in Manhattan. Folk yeah!

Color Me Radd

I decided to clean up an older drawing I posted on here and use it for the FALL 2010 COLOR ME RADD READER PARTICIPATION ART BROUHAHA that I just made up 2 seconds ago. To participate all you have to do is click on the image to get to a larger size, print it up, and color it in any way you want! Then scan your masterpiece (or photograph it) and email it to me at dailysketch17@gmail.com and I'll post it on my blog for the whole world to see! It's so easy, you'd be an idiot not to do it. Show me your skillz, citizens of blog-town.

Fall 2010

Here's a little sketch I did of some fall ephemera. Also you can get a peak at some discarded Halloween costume ideas.