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Dusted off the old sketchbook, but didn’t have patience for anything fancier than mechanical pencil:

They barely got any lines in the latest Potter celluloid. Here’s hoping we see more of them next time. (As seen on Fleen: Elsewhere, others are rendering Rowling’s characters as a run-up to Deathly Hallows. Saturday is Order of the Phoenix day, hence this particular doodle.)

The Rice Coffeehouse recently announced that they are planning a renovation, and have posted several concepts drawn up by Vaughn and Clarkson Architects. Of course, I can never leave well enough alone, and so when I read that the Coffeehouse was looking for additional input, I doodled some ideas of my own on the whiteboard in our office, and fired off an email.

Of course, I never heard anything back from the Coffeehouse, so I might as well share it with all of you. [Update 1/21/05: The Coffeehouse has moved ahead with a new concept.]

There’s more; read on. (I can’t seem to stop talking sometimes.)

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Leo brought it to my attention that BeOS goes totally unrepresented in the world of OS-tans. Despite the fact that I find it deeply bizarre that this sort of thing exists (basically, anime personifications of … operating systems), I felt compelled to sketch out what immediately came to mind:

Fig. 1. BeOS-tan. (Click for full image.)

I haven’t done any drawing in weeks. Months, maybe. It’s just that I’ve been so busy. Here, let me look at the last nonblank page in my sketchbook … OK, in the 6″x9″ there’s a 12/19, but that was for work; the last one before that is 11/15. And in the 6″x6″ — hell, I can’t even find it. Oh, here it is: 11/17. So, there you go, more than a month since I sketched or drew or colored anything. Suck.

Fig. 1. Hurts like a blinger.

I was thinking of starting to present some of my journal entries as sketches or inked drawings.

Then I came to my senses. What the hell was I thinking?

I need to force myself to draw more.

My line of work and time commitments have reduced me to doodling on the sides of source-code printouts and on Post-It notes.

This has got to stop. It’s just not right.

I have proof that I’m letting this part of my brain go to seed: I’ve had the same sketchbook for almost three years. You’re supposed to go through them faster than that. At least, I’d like to go through them faster.

For your viewing displeasure, and my unending shame, I took some truly miserable photographs of select pages and drawings from the book. The autogallery is set to preserve the order, so you can see the progression from eVilla (2000) to dieselsweeties sketch (2001) (cf. the finished product), to some figure drawings (2002) (1, 2, 3, 4), to the arrival of the Zelda Master Quest (2003) (0, 1, 2).