{"id":4532,"date":"2026-08-27T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:12:51","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-skoodic-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/08\/sketch-of-the-week-skoodic-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"“if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you” (Sketch of the Week for Week 34 of 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My wife and kids and I spent last week camping and hiking in Acadia National Park, where I snapped the above pic. My son and I both ended up using it as a reference for different drawings. My sketch is the first shown below, his drawing the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess what really struck me was how closely we both captured the posture and framing, despite working entirely independently and in different media with different techniques. I know that shouldn’t be surprising\u2014we were working from the exact same reference image\u2014but somehow it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, he headed back to college yesterday, and I’m missing him this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ever want to visit Acadia, a word of advice: the park is cut into several pieces. The most famous one is right next to Bar Harbor. The hiking is very nice, but the driving and parking and single sand beach (and Bar Harbor itself) are all sorta nuts crowded. The other major chunk is on the Schoodic Peninsula. That’s just a few miles across the bay, but an +1hr drive. The campgrounds over there are quiet and absurdly dark and misty and austerely beautiful. It was lobster season, and on the advice of the border guard (we came in via Quebec), you can get a lobster roll at the grocery store for $9.99 (a summertime Maine staple that will put you back $25 in Bar Harbor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the way to Acadia you’ll pass through Bangor, where Stephen King’s longtime home still stands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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