Outliers at our house are the NORMAL ones.

Lego mini figs are a big deal at our house.  But I'm not sure why. We get really excited about recognizable characters such as Cowgirls or Mummies, but within minutes they seem to mutate into decapitated unrecognizable aliens.  Pristine mini figs in their unaltered factory state are the true outliers in our house, and they are usually only found in forgotten dark corners or under couch cushions.  

Can you spot the outlier?

My sketch this week was motivated by my visit to the Red Dot Design Museum in Singapore. The museum is full of good design...well designed objects, technology, furniture, graphic design, posters, videos, etc. While there, I saw some books on typography and fonts. I love fonts. I'm kind of obsessed with them. Betsy's sketchbook theme is "Outliers". So, I thought I'd use fonts to think about outliers. Can you spot the outlier? It's obvious. But what makes that one the outlier? (Hint, there is more than one right answer.)

Exploring Colors on ColourLovers

Heather's book is about "exploration", and her previous entry depicts her exploration of shapes and colors within a grid on the page.  Keeping with my own goal of learning something new with each sketch, and being inspired by her own exploration I decided to explore color palettes in ColourLovers.  I know there are reasons why some colors go together and some don't - but the problem is that I don't know what those reasons are. So instead of learning about colors, I just headed over to ColourLovers and browsed for palates that were put together by other people.  I then applied them to my YouTube channel avatar to see what I liked best.  Pages on my mac allowed me to import the palate then quickly swap out colors using the color inspector.  I think I like the muted grey one the best.  Thanks, Heather for the inspiration.