Back Archiving: Doodles

Here's a collection (a rather large collection) of sketches I wanted to share that were floating about in my sketchbooks. Originally I wanted to put these in a particular order but for some reason blogger places photos in reverse order that you attempt to load them in... I'll give a little explanation of each. Partly because I like typing, partly because I like explaining myself and partly so that you might connect images that are to be placed together and place each image in a loose timeline; important for me because I feel that each time I create, my new piece outshines the last. 

I'm very light handed so Colin said, "Here! Draw with pens!" He gave me some of his favorite pens, the Mars Staedtler watercolor pens. (I had worked with Copic Brush tipped pens a little, you'll see those drawings later.)

Here's a sketch of a tree I did while waiting for the SCAD Shopping Shuttle. I drew this in a Utrecht Sample Sketch book that I accidentally stole from the Art Supplies Trade Show here at SCAD. I used a Carbon pencil that I legitimately got for free from the Trade Show.

More of my practicing with Mars pens.

This is from an inside joke I have with Lily and Diana. I originally set out to make Lily a tote bag with this image on it several years ago...I finally drew it out over the summer.

While at Colin's mom's house I continued working with those Mars pens and got to play with sparklers! I've come to really like drawing myself; I think I've finally found some facial landmarks that make it easier to draw myself. I also tried to draw everyday and experimented with drawing what I did during the day. 

Here I was trying to see how much visual information is needed to identify an animal. 

SILVER BEAR! 

Part experimentation with Pilot Pen, part truth...

I need to loosen up and am always seeking the best way; most efficient way to represent something. This is no masterpiece but an attempt to loosen up. Oh yeah, and not lift the pen from the paper.

More scribbles.

More from drawing what happened during the day. We sent our first rent check and I got underpants. 

I love drawing women. They're much easier. I was experimenting with exaggerating proportions and line weight.

A character design? I dunno... 

This doodle has a fun story... On the way to Kroger one day (Colin donning a pair of yellow House Wife gloves), we ran into a man who wanted money and or food. He claimed to be a concert pianist; someone who rattled off a list of music you'd play as a bar player... He said he came to Savannah for an audition, he said he blew everyone away at the audition by playing John Lennon's "Imagine." He claimed he was staying in a mission and wanted to discuss a great many things over a Power Bar, which we soon found we would be buying for him. Other extraneous details: he saw Colin's Marilyn Manson T-shirt and said, "He's an amazing performer." He wanted many Power Bars, we ended up having to lay down the law and tell HIM how many we would be buying for him. He seemed to have a stolen bicycle that he didn't want to leave out front. (It had a lock on it but he kept saying, "Should I leave it out front? I don't know...I guess I could...Should I? I...don't know..." The eerie thing is that this doodle is probably the most accurate depiction of this weirdo either of us could create.

Colin and I collaborated on this weird thing while sipping drinks at Blaine's Backdoor Bar... The local Bear Bar.

Here's the second half of doodles based on Japanese Noh masks.

The first half of sketches based on Japanese Noh masks which were originally inspired by a character you will see later in this entry.

MOSQUEEDLE!

Here I'm working with line weight. This was one of the first pages I did with a Copic Brush tipped pen.

I want to say this was a Mars pen again. Line weight tests again.

Bad doodle but funny all the same. The tag line here is: "You probably know Jesus' face better than you know your own." In other words, you're more likely to be able to draw Jesus' face from memory than your own... A scary comment on how Christian imagery is just burned into your brain.

MORE JESUS! The doodle on the left is of a Jesus Comic Book Colin and I picked up for a dollar in Mt. Dora. 

More of me.

More work with line weight. More mars. More fun.

This, for some reason, is a popular doodle on mine. I've been told that people want to get this tattood on their skin. This lead to a concept for an animation that I want to make. I forgot to scan the character concept I made, but will put it in another entry and remind you of this. 

Line weight and silliness!

Chat de Jambon.

Here's the second of two drawings based on a dress I own. More work with pushing proportions and was initially going to be a concept for a character of myself. This was created as a relief from the first drawing (which is below; you can see the charcoal around the edges, I used this to define the edge with a Copic pen).

Here's the original drawing. Sadly you cannot see that it's shiny. 

Colin doodle. He said, "This is the best drawing anyone has done of me." A sad thought in my opinion...

More drawing from the day.

This...is kind of self explanatory...kind of... Someone was throwing out a TV with a VHS slot at Boundary Village (one of my dorms). I went and grabbed it and immediately felt like the rat from Charlotte's Web. 

What does it take to make a bunny? Bits.

Here's the only sketch I liked that I made with a Pentel Brush Pen. I love what this pen does but I'm not very good at controlling it yet.

This comes from a selection of "Rules" or "Truths" I've come to understand while living with my boyfriend in our first apartment. (Another you saw earlier: The birth control one).

Do you like how I misspelled "squirrel"?