Author: admin

First came Wiggly Man. Then he cleaned up his act and acquired a hat and umbrella.

A croak and a roar popped out of my iPad last night. The croak came first, in the spirit of a rather complex, geometric-looking frog. The roar came second. I think he was complaining about all the time the frog took to materialize. After all, this business of art can be quite simple. Below is…

That thought occurred to me as I struggled with the incoming storm surge of yet another technical evolution. There are really no answers to all the questions. It will rain on some parades, and not on others. It’s like Alice’s deck of cards in Alice in Wonderland. It will mean to us whatever it will…

One day there was not a thought in mind, but randomness. I looked at the mess confronting me and faces began to look out. The style called “Expressionism” floated through thought channels. An arrangement of faces began to unfold itself. I liked the image above, but found that a different selection of colors gave it…

I like to abstract and stylize, but I have to admit, it was very satisfying to doodle through this normal scene, as I played with Procreate brushes. It was done in stages. I did some work on it, and then some more work, and the third time out, it finally arrived where I wanted it…

The doodle portrait below was the inspiration for “Wall Street Gothic”–a parody on Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” I tend to think of Illustrations as cleaned up doodles–they go through a messy stage as detail is added and erased, but as the polishing process continues, a finished illustration eventually emerges. For the initial doodle (below), I…

Yesterday, I ran across a photo of a woman whose head was tilted at an interesting angle. It gave her a sense of  intrigue, and I traced her features to understand that expression better. I wasn’t sure where I was going with it, I just liked the position of her head and hand. As I…

I had finished developing some geometric shapes into a compact design and was in the midst of rotating my iPad, when I saw him. A bulbous, snorting nose. At first he defied finishing him off nicely. But I kept prodding him with my Apple Pencil, filling in negative and positive spaces, and fencing him in…

I try for different digital styles when I doodle. A designer might refer to that approach as “variations on a theme.” Personally, I think of it as visual adventure, since I just plunge in and let it take me where it will. The “Man with a Tea Kettle,” above, is one of my favorites. Below…

Says the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. And the best thing to do with tea is to let it steep. It’s the same with a hot new idea. As it steeps, it becomes more refined. And like tea, some ideas need to steep a little longer than others. (With this teapot doodle,…