From cartoon to real life

Looking at these pictures next to each other makes me feel like a bridge between second life and first has been made. While, I know countless architectural drawings have been cast into stone, steel and wood prior to now, this is my first time to take part in such an endeavor. Also, using Google Sketchup is as close to playing "Second Life", the online game, as I have come. And, although I didn't draw the one posted here, I have many versions of my house that I have cartooned in Sketchup and so I feel steeped in the mindset you can get from being able to rotate and walk through a cartoon while meditating on the goal of actually building the model one day. As we started this project, I had this cartoon printed on my desk at work so I could keep my eye on the target. It's so cool to see it all in real life.