Anyone who's ever seen any of my school notebooks or gotten a letter from me knows that I doodle on every piece of paper I come in contact with. It keeps my hand and mind busy, and usually I wind up with some neat ideas for projects or drawings from these doodles. (having an abundance of sketchbooks doesn't deter me from doodling everywhere else, by the way. You'd think it would :) ) It's nice I think to be able to look at some of the early sketches and doodles, you can tell a lot about someone's work that way. So here are a few doodles that I have, that may or may not turn into something else.




These I did at work once while on break on the backs of little notecards I found in the office. I really like the center one and did it up a little bigger in one of my sketchbooks:



Obviously it's still in the sketch and plan stage (if you look hard enough you can see some faint notes I put in there :) ) This would look nice on maybe a t-shirt as a nice graphic tee or maybe even on a tote bag. I'll continue to play with it.



This is something I did in my notebook during a history lecture. It took me a while to finish as I was copying down notes at the same time (no really, I was!!) but I liked it so much I traced it and brought it into my computer. I think I'll take it into either Illustrator or maybe even Corel and clean it up a little. Something else that would look nice maybe on a tee or tote or something like that... maybe even another notecard...



And this one is a more finished piece from a doodle I did in Corel, I was playing around with the Artist Oils brushes and I like the texture and the way it lays paint down on the canvas... I'll play some more with this one too and we'll see what happens.

Hope you enjoy and hey if you have any suggestions or comments I'd love to hear them!!

Something old and something new...

I've decided on giving up on finding a scanner for now, I'll just use a digital camera instead. With the right camera, no one can tell it wasn't scanned. (well almost :) )

This first one is my very first painting, done 3, maybe 4 years ago. Acrylics and I never really got along, but for this one little project I think we did marvelously well. At least I'm proud of how it turned out, I'm not much of a painter so my opinion may be a bit skewed.

This next one I just finished only about a week ago, inspired by a good friend of mine via text message. (thanks :) ) Just goes to show you never know when, where, or how inspiration will strike, so pay attention. (doesn't hurt to ask your friends sometimes, too) Done in pencil on a cotton sheet. The shading could have been a lot better, I know, and the faces are... yeah... but for what it is I really like it.