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Significant Nonsense: Doodles

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DOODLES
 
Some days it was nice to take a break from the computer and just draw. Many of these started out as a doodle in the margin or pencil sketch in the notebook later to be elaborated on with a very fine tip black pen (sometimes watercolors joined the party). I never considered myself much of an illustrator, so it is nice to look back over these and see how my skills have developed.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
November 29: Sitting at my mom’s sunny desk in their new house, doodling and enjoying a relaxing morning.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
November 30: Another line drawing in the works.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
December 1: A chalkboard doodle following the pattern I established yesterday.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
October 6: After seeing a vintage, Egyptian-inspired, beetle necklace on an episode of Antiques Roadshow (a guilty pleasure of mine), I started thinking about beetles. I did some research and decided to draw a few.
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October 7: I thought I would like the simplicity of these scarabs more than yesterday’s somewhat realistic beetles, but I thought wrong.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
July 23: I spent some time today reading about honeycomb; it’s pretty interesting stuff. I also participated in a brainstorming sesh at Parson’s with members of my AIGA Mentor group regarding our group project. My notebook is currently on fire.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
July 26: Painting with watercolors and honey.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
October 9: My pal Christian tweeted at me this morning asking to see some color, which made me realize what my recent designs have been lacking; so I broke out the watercolors.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
October 10: I really liked how yesterday’s arrows came out, so I thought I’d doodle some more today. I’ve been reading about archery and decided I’d try a more accurate arrow design.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
July 2: Finding this hand drawn version of yesterdays design much more appealing. Not quite sold on the color palette, but I scanned the line drawing before I colored it in, so I can play around with others in the future.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
June 10: Saw Glen Hansard and Lisa Hannigan at the free Millennium Park concert series, Downtown Sound; it was awesome. I did these little doodles while singing and basking in the sun.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
December 22: Working on a little watercolor for my mom’s birthday.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
August 10: I am not exactly sure how the conversation started, but my friend and I were talking about pulling up carrots today, so I drew some.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
August 11: Made yesterday’s carrot drawing into a logo. 
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
December 9: I spent some time this morning thinking about my blue experiment and thought that some fish would accompany it well. I planned to fill up this whole page, but these fish were pretty time consuming.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
December 10: More fish doodles! I like the deep sea angler best because it’s weird looking.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
December 12: Finished my sketchy fish skeleton. This guy was very difficult because of all the little details, but the process was enjoyable.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
December 16: Ditched the fish and went right for the gold. Picked up some new paints and pens and am going to see where this takes me.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
December 17: Drawing over yesterday’s painting with pens. My scanner is yet again doing these no justice, this is more metallic in real life, but you can get the idea.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
October 17: It’s almost time for a new notebook, thus I plan to create some new prints and such to fill the signatures with. The monotype methods I use lend themselves nicely to linear drawings, so a doodled this today. 
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
August 30: I’ve been experimenting with woodgrain patterns, so tonight I drew a few more and plan to manipulate them on my photocopier in the morning. I’m guessing this one is going to prove most interesting.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
August 31: I’m finding these to be much more natural looking than my original drawings, something about the gesture and weight of the lines.
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
doodles Line drawings linear doodles pen and ink watercolor chalk beetles honey bee honey comb arrows Bow and Arrow notebook fish woodgrain watercolor and pen
October 30: Yesterday I asked Twitter for fine tip pen suggestions then ran to Blick’s today to pick some of those suggestions up. I purchased a few Copic Multiliners, a LePen Drawing and a Rapidograph, and am having a lot of fun experimenting with them.
 

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