The sign company was loading out a sign for installation. I show no date, but am guessing it was late November. I had taken a few minutes to find something to draw when I came upon this boom truck sitting here late in the day ready to load the crated sign. Or maybe he was off loading it. No one was around for the entire time of my sketch -must'a gone inside to check his paperwork??
I did this in a small sketch pad with nothing but an extra fine Sharpie. There is a point when they are neither totally new nor totally exhausted when they are great for line drawing. Drawing is always an education; you learn a lot about the subject that you did not know before, and about how poorly you actually see it. Sometimes I start first with a pencil for the basic view, but did not do that in this case. It does look a lot like pencil in the reproduction though. Maybe that is because getting a photo of this drawing that would look decent digitally was not easy with our camera. I ended up "Gimping" ("photoshoping") quite a bit extra in this case just to clean up the background.
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