Catloaf

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Facebook Project

I know I should be working on my San Francisco cityscape, but when there's something you're more excited about, it can be difficult to put that something off. While I'd probably be best served putting all my effort into my major project (building a collection of full-sized city etches), I jumped head first into this huge new other thing, for no other purpose, really, than sharpen to my skills. I'm etch-a-sketching the profile pictures of everyone I know. Not just my best friends or family. Everyone. Okay, maybe not everyone. Right now I have a little over 190 friends. I'll do as many as I can 'til I get sick of it. I'm favoring people who have interesting pictures, as well as friends who comment and "like".

If you're a friend of mine and you're wondering if I'll get around to doing your portrait, here's a few things that might prevent me from getting to you:

• You're not in your profile picture
  
• Too many people in your picture. I might be able to capture one likeness, but the likelihood of getting two or three people right is much lower.
  
• You have a very plain face. Or you're just impossible to capture. I attempt these people, but unfortunately, at my current skill level, not everyone is possible.

Here's some of the friends I've already sketched (click to enlarge):

   
   
   
   
   

I'm aware this is all a lot less impressive without knowing these people and seeing their actual profile pictures, but here they are anyway. I only recently caved on my resolve to never etch-a-sketch people. Every prominent etch-a-sketch artist I've ever come across does mostly portrait work, so I never wanted to jump into what I considered flooded territory (although I don't suspect there really is any flooding in this medium). After doing a few small commissioned works for some people on reddit, I've decided it's time to improve my abilities, bite the bullet and just start sketching people. I've come to learn I can actually do it, and I was likely just trying to protect my art-ego by saying I would never go there...

I'll be posting these as I do them, I need to stop stockpiling work before blogging. Thanks for checking out my Etch A Sketch art! Visit again soon for something new or check out my other pages online for things that might not appear here...

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San Francisco underway

Construction has begun on a new etch-a-sketch cityscape. Here's San Francisco after an hour or so...

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Pixelated Hombre

I made this pocket etch for somebody on the internet tonight. I'll divulge more details about why in the near future, as I have a lot of new work to share. In the mean time, dig this:

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Based on this image.

Etch-a-Sketch Christmas Gift

A good friend of mine commissioned me to do an etching of his parent's home, the Vail's House on Peach Lake, NY to give them as a Christmas gift. I had a little over a week to finish it, as he was expecting to see them the day after Christmas. I finished it that day. Probably around 8-10 hours to complete. He said they enjoyed it, and that I saved Christmas (I added the last part.)

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Thanks for checking out my Etch A Sketch art! Visit again soon for something new or check out my other pages online for things that might not appear here...

For my most up to date work, please follow me on Instagram!

Art Inquires, Parties & Commissions:
BryanLeeMadden@gmail.com

Reddit Secret Santa etch

This year I participated in Reddit's Secret Santa gift exchange. Everyone who signs up is assigned a random redditor to buy/make/gift. Once you find out which user you've been assigned, it's your task to look through their comment and submission history and determine what would be an appropriate gift for your Secret Santee.

Once I learned who I was going to be sending a gift to, I looked through their history and learned through a question and answer session he had conducted that he's a 3rd generation carnival employee, so I figured something carnival themed would be most appropriate. I thought an etch-a-sketch would be a good gift for me to send, so I created this Reddit Alien Carnival. He seemed to enjoy it, here's his post.

(Click to enlarge) Thanks for checking out my Etch A Sketch art! Visit again soon for something new or check out my other pages online for things that might not appear here...

For my most up to date work, please follow me on Instagram!

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Central Park pocket etch

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Been a while since I posted a new etch. This one isn't my best, but it's finished.