May inspiration always light upon you.
This blog will post doodles, random inspirations, observations and serendipity. Doodles are a favorite, because they’re the seeds for future ideas.
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Wiggly Man with Hat and Umbrella
First came Wiggly Man. Then he cleaned up his act and acquired a hat and umbrella.
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A Croak and a Roar
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…
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“You are your own AI.”
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…
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Serendipity
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…
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Sweet Nature.
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…
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A Gothic Parody
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…
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Tracing: how I use it occasionally
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…
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I saw the bull immediately.
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…
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Continuing with the tea theme:
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…
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“It’s always teatime…”
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…