(Click to enlarge)Back by popular demand ... yeah, sure.
These are all doodles even those that have been coloured. Whether I'm on the phone or watching TV, I use whatever is at hand. Before I got a computer, I did all of my colour work either with inks or pencil crayons.
So, here we have a buncha Batman; an exercise in dynamic proportions (in heels, too); at the top is Canadian actor Christopher Plummer as General Chang from one of the millions of Star Trek movies; some kinda princess wearing some kinda weird helmet; and I took good ole Glyx in a completely different direction impersonating a David Bowie album cover. Here come the lawsuits!
At the bottom are three doodles of my baby, the spaceship I call "Serendipity" (serendip.ity - n. faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident). It's linked to a story I've been working on since the beginning of time. I wanted the ship to have an organic look, almost as if it were alive. I chose the form of a sting ray 'cuz they look cool! And so began the evolution of "Serendipity". You can see the first doodle wasn't very organic at all but it was a beginning. The second was closer to what I had in mind but I still wasn't satisfied. In the last drawing, I had been studying pictures of actual sting rays, so much so that I had sting rays just pouring out my ears! Finally, during a long phone call, it hit me like a ton of fish; design the ship using the exact shape of a sting ray! That's the inspiration part. Between the first doodle and the final designs were dozens of doodles and sketches. That's the perspiration part. (The saying goes, "Art is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration).
To clear up any nasty rumours, let me set the record straight; I have never, ever taken an art course. Whether this is good or bad is hard to say. I learned all I know about art by watching every single thing very closely, and asking real artist all sorts of silly questions. I taught myself to play flute in more or less the same way. I listened to my Jethro Tull vinyls so much that there were more scratches that actual vinyl. I must admit that I did follow one course in drawing nudes. One of the a fore mention artist friends recommended this course because he found my sketches of people were kind of stiff. I never actually enrolled in the course. Instead, I would sneak into class 30 minutes early and got all my stuff set up before the class started. I went through the whole semester without anyone knowing I wasn't supposed to be there - although I think the teacher suspected something. Of course, all my friends were teasing me about drawing actual naked people. In fact, I was so focused on drawing whatever human was in front of me correctly - getting all the lines right, getting the muscles to look like they flowed - that I wasn't really distracted by the nudity.
As I told my friends, the women were just as hairy as the men! Must've been a bunch of Italian models. Ka - ching! I just made a tasteless joke!
I think this may be the last doodle page. It's getting harder to find these things.
Your comments are, of course, much appreciated.
