Every year, creatives from all over the city apply for this post. To do that, they present a public-facing project that they will work on during the year. Mine was San Jose Sketchwalks, aimed at taking people to parts of the city they might not regularly visit, to look more deeply at them through a narrator who brought the place alive while I helped people look and draw what they noticed. Each participant got an accordion-fold sketchbook to keep and a supplies to use during the walk.
What a wonderful experience it has been: I loved seeing first-time sketchers realize that they can draw, met many interesting people, collaborated with some of the best creative minds in San Jose, attended arts and culture events through the year, and created visual reportage around them.
The pieces below are a subset of my sketches from a Drawing Marathon held by the Bay Area Models Guild. Nothing compares to these fabulous sessions: the models are amazing, there are so many of them posing in one room, there are long poses and short ones, models posing in pairs and alone, and just such great energy in the room.
Here are Sparky with Recycle Bot and Nick with Marauder. I sketched the robots and their human friends as they wandered up and down this wide walkway. Whihc might account for the extra-loopy linework.
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One of my favorite evenings that week was spent listening to Gnawa music performed by Hind Ennaira and Hadid Ibrahim. The evening involved dancing, drinking beer, (see that Casablanca beer label I stuck on my sketch?), and sketching with my fellow sketchers Laurie and Steve. Doing all three together might account for the quality of the sketches.
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is used widely in variety shows, comedy talk shows, and some sitcoms and children's television series. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their work from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit")[1] while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character, or situation.[2]Sketch comedy is a genre within American television that includes a multitude of schemes and identities.
While separate sketches historically have tended to be unrelated, more recent groups have introduced overarching themes that connect the sketches within a particular show with recurring characters that return for more than one appearance. Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show; The Family from The Carol Burnett Show; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live; The Nerd from Robot Chicken; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums. Recurring characters from Saturday Night Live have notably been featured in a number of spinoff films, including The Blues Brothers (1980), Wayne's World (1992) and Superstar (1999).
The idea of running characters was taken a step further with shows like The Red Green Show and The League of Gentlemen, where sketches centered on the various inhabitants of the fictional towns of Possum Lake and Royston Vasey, respectively. In Little Britain, sketches focused on a cast of recurring characters.
In North America, contemporary sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of The Second City in Chicago and Toronto, which was built upon the success in Minneapolis of The Brave New Workshop and Dudley Riggs.
Notable contemporary American stage sketch comedy groups include The Second City, the Upright Citizens Brigade, and The Groundlings. In South Bend, Indiana, area high school students produced a sketch comedy series called Beyond Our Control that aired on the local NBC affiliate WNDU-TV from 1967 to 1986.Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, Mad and Right Now Kapow.
Australian television of the '80s and '90s featured several successful sketch comedy shows, notably The Comedy Company, whose recurring characters included Col'n Carpenter, Kylie Mole and Con the Fruiterer.
NSF requires a biographical sketch for each individual identified as senior personnel. See PAPPG Chapter II.D.2.h(i) for complete coverage on the content and formatting requirements for the biographical sketch.
NSF has partnered with the National Institutes of Health to use SciENcv: Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae as the NSF-approved format for use in preparation of the biographical sketch section of an NSF proposal. Adoption of a single, common researcher profile system for federal grants reduces administrative burden for researchers.
A biographical sketch (also referred to as biosketch) documents an individual's qualifications and experience for a specific role in a project.
NIH requires submission of a biosketch for each proposed senior/key personnel and other significant contributor on a grant application. Some funding opportunities or programs may also request biosketches for additional personnel (e.g., Participating Faculty Biosketch attachment for institutional training awards).
Applicants and recipients are required to submit biosketches
NIH staff and peer reviewers utilize the biosketch to ensure that individuals included on the applications are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research.
NIH biosketches must conform to a specific format. Applicants and recipients can use the provided format pages to prepare their biosketch attachments or can use SciENcv , a tool used to develop and automatically format biosketches according to NIH requirements.
I also thought this would be the perfect opportunity to introduce him to CAD through the Rhino importer so I brought it into Rhino at the end. You can explore the file here: Gravity Sketch 3d_shoe_sketch.3dm (8.0 MB)
I saw your 3D shoe sketch tutorial and explored the model in Gravity Sketch in VR, it is truly beautiful! The export feature in the app is awesome.
I am a researcher working on developing automatic 3D sketch surfacing algorithms and I would love to get in touch about using your art as example and test material in an upcoming academic publication.
Please let me know who I should get in touch with to discuss that.