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A good hour of phone doodles!

Just play… a little doodle time to play with some designs.

I sketched/doodled some designs for the batik project I’m hoping to do this weekend. I’ll keep you posted!

I have been drawing a lot of silly doodles the past few days, one of which is posted here.

Yesterday I spent my day working on an installation in Max/Jitter, with a friend, still in progress.

A new development with Sustainable South Bronx and the Fablab is turning my illustrations into prints

I’m terrible at drawing and really intimidated by it, so tonight I was talked into playing this “game” where someone draws a scribble and the other person has to make a semi-sensical drawing out of it. Here are some results (both before & after) - I’m not telling you which one(s) are mine!

And now I’m all caught up and it’s going to stay that way!

that’s right!! another perpetual calendar!  this one is a new design, and i put it in my etsy shop today!  i like that this one isn’t particularly girlie, it’d be just fine for a guy, too!!

Tonight I started out doodling with no direction whatsoever….

Then I got to thinking about my Thing-A-Day partner Joonbugg (who IS participating and participating well, she just doesn’t post as often as me) and did this for her…

“Never was a cornflake girl, I hung out with the raisin girls…”
It’s a reference to the Tori Amos song “Cornflake Girl”. I may not have got the last part of the lyric right (she pronounces things funny) but you get my drift.

I decided illustrating song lyrics might be fun, so I went to the next one that popped in mind…

This next one is posted in thumbnail format because it has a tiny amount of female nudity, and I am a little unsure of the TAD terms & rules. I don’t wanna get kicked off the blog.

“She liked to keep her body clean, clean… She thought the world to be quite obscene”
From “Oedipus” by Regina Spektor.

And the last one, also in thumbnail format because it features a little male anatomy lesson that everyone who’s ever watched Shin Chan on Adult Swim knows… Please be forewarned before you click, lest you be offended by Mister Happy…

“To be a man you must have honor, honor and a penis.”

Well you can pretty much see every object in the drawing’s thumbnail anyway. Oops! Oh well, if you’re offended by the tiny THUMBNAIL weewee, you may just need to lighten up some.  SRSLY.

(You can tell I was a little shy about drawing the penis, I didn’t bear down with the Ebony pencil near as much as the rest of the sketch. I’m such a shy little girl sometimes. Nevermind that I’m almost 25 and married. LOL.)

These are from the 10th. I’m keeping up pretty well with doing stuff every day but not so great with posting.

And to spare everyone a separate post for the 11th, I’ll put my picture of the first crocuses here too, for a touch of spring!

So I know everyone across the internet has been so anxious to hear what creative stuff I have been doing while I’ve been having these annoying internet problems. Well, the answer is, doodling.
lol, I think that is the best word for these. ^This was drawn with crayons. We did a project in art in high school with crayons where after you covered the drawing in black ink, then washed it off, and the ink only stuck to the parts of the paper where there was no crayon wax. Unfortunatly my art teacher kept telling me mine needed more crayon, including balck (which I did not understand the need for) and by the time she decided it was good enough to put the ink on, there was no paper left that had no crayon on it. Funny enough, the one that I think came out best, was by one girl who didn’t really listen to the teacher’s advice…..

^Back to high school art class stories, the same teacher used to complain whenever wle worked in color that apparently we just got to caught up in the color and there was no difference in shade in the pictures (to demonstrate this she decided to use a computer to show them in black and white, the painting of mine she made this complaint about looked the same except without color in black and white, it still had shading- was hard not to laugh out loud when she did it on the computer. And then she mumbled some reason why she was still right…) So in honor of her, I did this, no black or white or anything used except in the background, just blue, pink and purple.

Sometimes I did feel bad for my teacher because none of the students liked her…. but every time I started to feel bad, she just had to go and remind me WHY no one liked her. (this teacher also used to lock- yes LOCK- my puse/bag in her office during open houses that I went in for, because it had pentacles on it, and it was a catholic school. Putting it in my “locker” was not enough. It had to be LOCKED in a separate room. … The doors look kept the evil aura away from the junior highers and their families I guess)

[I took out one photo from the post here because it may be triggering to this who have engaged in self-injury, it’s on my blog if one wants to see it, but I decided not to post it here since people may be less prepared for triggering images. ]

^ Apparently this is what I look like. lol. I’m not good at drawing the tilted heads. And yes, the head is floating in darkness with no body. That is how much I hate drawing any sort of background, lol.

Now I feel the need to remind people that these are NOT representative of my best artwork or anything, these are very quick (a few minutes)- doodles basically. I didn’t do any measuring and making sure my proportions were right, I didn’t do any pre-sketches, I grabbed some crayons and pastels and started drawing for a few minutes.
It was very fun for me though, even if the outcomes aren’t terribly awesome to look at, because I usually do try to measure proportions and get it just right, and it was fun to just pick up a pastel and whatever shape hit the paper stayed. No pencil, and erasing and fixing. Whatever went on stayed.

I did a cleaned up version of a sketch to get it ready for coloring.  I like to call it No Worries!  This Thing-a-day is proving to be hard.  How do you guys have time for it. I also scanned in the cover of a book I make for x-mas presents.  It was a mini recipe book to go with chocolate chip cookies in a jar (pre baked).  I was very proud of it, but now it makes me sad.  My computer was stolen so I don’t have the original file.  Sadly this is just a scan from one of the copies I borrowed from my boyfriend’s mom.

 I’ve been wanting to draw dinos for a while now and this idea came to me the other day.  I wanted to color it, but the day just isn’t long enough.  Also, I dunno if it’s coloring material?  On another note, I originally planned to paint dinos on rocks I got from the beach.  I dunno if it’s Dinos I want to paint anymore.  Anyone got any other ideas?  I want to sell them too, so I’m trying to think of things lots of people would like.  Maybe you want to buy one?  what would you want painted on a rock?   Here are the rocks to give you an idea of what I have.  Most of them are palm sized.  Some are smaller.  And as you can see some are larger. 

I was lazy today!  Tried something new.

Here’s my first Thing-A-Day.  It was kind of a struggle since my computer was stolen recently and  I haven’t quite set this one up yet.  I also think I found a dead firewire port while doing this >: (  Anyway, I’m doing this in hopes to make more art, and hopefully sell some of it in order to help offset the cost of buying a new computer.