Woodpress

I recently went to Norway for what was supposed to be a week, but turned into nearly two weeks due to the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. To escape the ash cloud, we actually flew into Iceland. On the way, I was able to take a picture of the volcano from the airplane.

Recently at the hardware store, some mops tried to stare me down.

I won.

I drew a few squiggly lines down a paper, then noticed that I could see profiles of faces in them, so I added some detail.

Also, today is my wife’s and my 16th wedding anniversary.

Here’s an attempt at one of those faces that you can turn upside down (umop apisdn) to see another face.

… and another eye.

This is another doodle that I started with a scribble.

This taken aback robot is another result of starting with a scribble.

If I had a scanner on my desk at work (where I tend find myself doodling on sticky notes while I think about something), I could in theory scan the scribble before finishing the drawing, but that would require enough effort that it would take my mind off of whatever I was trying to think about.

Hmmm… maybe I could scribble on a bunch of sticky notes at home, scan them, then bring them in to finish. Maybe I could even get my kids to scribble on some.

I’ll throw in an extra doodle today. A dragon’s head–another of my standby subjects.

I really need to draw from reference more–not when doodling, but for more ambitious projects. In addition to improving the realism of my drawings, it would almost certainly increase my doodle subject diversity.