Week 31 of Sketches: The Known World
Hi from Maine! I'm here, after an incredibly uneventful day of travel (possibly one of the first positive experiences I've had flying United in recent memory, actually, but that's neither here nor there). Anyway, since I was thinking about travel yesterday when I started sketching, today's offering is related to travel and the places I've been:
This is the world, in terms of just the countries and states that I've visited - or more accurately, that I remember visiting. I also added in some of the main flight paths connecting all of these places, which ties the entire thing together in a kind of interesting way (and three major hubs that I go through frequently - SFO and/or SJC, ORD, and JFK - get stars, just because). [Actually, Texas really shouldn't be on this map, but I didn't really think about that until after I'd already done a lot of other work on the image, at which point it was too late to go back and edit it out.] It's kind of funny how patchy the world looks when drawn out this way, and it makes me think about the places that I'd like to go: India, China, France, Spain, and North Africa currently top the list, but I'm sure there are others that would be fascinating as well.
I've got about three hours to kill before this conference starts in earnest, and I'm debating whether I should spend that time napping (have been up since 3:30am) or going out to explore the area a bit. I think the latter is going to win out, just because I've had too much caffeine to fall asleep right now... :-)
Anyway, I'll probably post more later this week, but for now I think one of the other girls in this suite needs to borrow my ethernet cable, so I'll let her have at it. And by the way, the title of today's sketch is a reference to an absolutely wonderful work of fiction by Edward P. Jones, about the life of a black slaveowner and his slaves in the pre-civil-war south. I highly recommend it if you think the subject would interest you!
This is the world, in terms of just the countries and states that I've visited - or more accurately, that I remember visiting. I also added in some of the main flight paths connecting all of these places, which ties the entire thing together in a kind of interesting way (and three major hubs that I go through frequently - SFO and/or SJC, ORD, and JFK - get stars, just because). [Actually, Texas really shouldn't be on this map, but I didn't really think about that until after I'd already done a lot of other work on the image, at which point it was too late to go back and edit it out.] It's kind of funny how patchy the world looks when drawn out this way, and it makes me think about the places that I'd like to go: India, China, France, Spain, and North Africa currently top the list, but I'm sure there are others that would be fascinating as well.
I've got about three hours to kill before this conference starts in earnest, and I'm debating whether I should spend that time napping (have been up since 3:30am) or going out to explore the area a bit. I think the latter is going to win out, just because I've had too much caffeine to fall asleep right now... :-)
Anyway, I'll probably post more later this week, but for now I think one of the other girls in this suite needs to borrow my ethernet cable, so I'll let her have at it. And by the way, the title of today's sketch is a reference to an absolutely wonderful work of fiction by Edward P. Jones, about the life of a black slaveowner and his slaves in the pre-civil-war south. I highly recommend it if you think the subject would interest you!