Doodling Again: Day 28 (with a Mermaid Bonus)

Alright then. The business-as-usual stuff first...

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



I have been concentrating mainly on Creature-Doodles since bringing this blog back to life back at the end of March.

There were of course People-Doodles included within the sketchbook pages I was adding here for a while, but with no real focus on them in particular. I will begin focusing on People-Doodles in particular a bit more in May.

As a sort of introduction to this intention I'd like to share some things that went on yesterday evening.

I sat down looking for an approach for little mermaid illustration I wanted to do for a project that Künstler Treu and I have up our sleeves. I wanted to find an approach that would be simple and relatively quick to do, and I thought basing it on the way my Doodles come into being might be a nice way to start.

So, I took out my Pentel GFKP Refillable Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen, and began doodling...





The above People-Doodles are the four most visually pleasing of a multitude of brush scribbles that helped lead up to this:



And this is a preview of one element of the-little-something that Künstler Treu and I have up our sleeves - which will involve a certain authoress by the name of Carolyn Turgeon...

...Who already had a great deal to do with this heavily mermaidy "Mildred Loves You" blog post from the beginning of this year.

Obviously I will be posting more mermaidy stuff in the future, but probably mostly over at my Mildred blog rather than here at this blog... ;)

Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 27

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Ha! It's happened again! - 3rd time now... ;) =)

Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 26

Two new Creature-Doodles:



An old Creature-Doodle:



By the way... There's been an update today over at my "Mildred Loves You" blog; a reminder for our next Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin session this coming Saturday afternoon. If you would like to see Mildred Mahler and Twiggy Torpedo as artistically inclined CAVE WOMEN (and simultaneously be informed about Saturday), you can do so HERE...

Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 25

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 24

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 23

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



...By the way... This is the 2nd time it's happened that the new Doodle of the day has ended up having a similarity with the old Doodle of the day. The first time it happened was on Day 13 - where the new and old Doodle both turned out to be running Doodles. Today, a bird theme has happened.

I didn't plan this. I don't look to see which old Doodle is next in line before I draw the day's new Doodle. I just draw the Doodle, and when I upload it for the blog, I then hotlink the next old Doodle in line (from the Doodle Gallery at my website) by simply changing to the next number, and what comes up in the browser when I preview it is a surprise (since I don't know my Gallery's chronology by heart - at least not consciously). It's kinda fun for me when this happens. ;)

And now to finish up for today...

Sketchbook Doodles from 2010
(the last of these for a while)...



Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 22 (Bunny Attempt Successful?)

A new Creature-Doodle (featuring bunny-ness - especially for Easter)...



...A successful Bunny attempt? ...More about the bunny dilemma below, but first the business-as-usual stuff...

An old Creature-Doodle (this bad little guy has always been one of my favorites by the way)...



Sketchbook Doodles from 2009 + 2010:



...And now on to the bunny dilemma...

On Friday I tried to create a Bunny-Doodle, but had to settle for a cat-like Doodle instead. Out of bunny-frustration, I posted these two Bunny-Doodles from the past:





Today's attempt was successful enough to make it into this post, but it wasn't the first attempt I made today. Here it is again, but this time surrounded with previous attempts and later filler-bunnies (for the purpose of venting left over bunny irritation)...



I guess the moral of this story is; Doodles simply can't be planned. It defies the very definition of a doodle:



...By the way, if you should happen to be in the mood for some non-Doodle bunny-ness on this sunny Easter Sunday, an Easter Greeting has been updated to the "Mildred Loves You" blog and website.

Happy Easter everybody!

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 21

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Sketchbook Doodles from 2009:




Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 20 (Bunny Attempt Failed)

A new Creature-Doodle:



...I had wanted to doodle a bunny today, because of the Easter holidays. But Doodles (since they are drawn with no pre-planning whatsoever, and seem, therefore, to appear more or less out of nothing) either appear fully formed or they don't. Today's bunny attempt was a failure - which is why today's new cat-like Doodle is the one you're now seeing above instead. To try and make up for this, I will now post two Bunnies from my Doodling past:





Perhaps today's bunny failed because it is Good Friday and not Easter Sunday. I will make a new bunny attempt on Easter Sunday. ;)

...And now for the old Creature-Doodle that was actually already officially in line for posting today... ;)



...And also continuing the Sketchbook-Doodles series I began recently (which will continue until I run out of pages - which will be quite soon actually)...




Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 19

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Sketchbook Doodles from 2009:




Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 18

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Sketchbook Doodles from 2009:




Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 17

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Doodled during Pictoplasma Conference talks in 2009:



Doodled at home - while trying to keep up the sketchbook momentum established during the Pictoplasma Conference talks in 2009:



PICTOPLASMA


Cheers,
LaLaVox
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

The Origin of All Creature-Doodles (And Other Toys)

In my "Doodling Again: Day 16" post yesterday I included this old Creature-Doodle from my Doodle Gallery archives:



This Doodle was drawn spontaneously out of my head one day, but it's direct inspiration has been with me since childhood. Doodle C17 is basically an interpretation of this toy, which I have kept with me for all of these years. All of the Creature-Doodles in my Doodle Gallery are probably direct or indirect descendants of this very toy:



I have no idea who designed it or where it came from. I have vague memories of a tiny fun park and zoo in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA that my Grandfather Smith used to take my brothers and me to when we were all very small. We got things like fat pink candy-wax lips you could wear until they were chewed through, chewable candy-wax pop bottles with colored liquid inside, and straws full of colored sugar. We occasionally got small toys there too. This rubbery critter of unknown origin may well have been bought for me at this half-remembered place.



The glitter, by the way, is not part of the original design of the toy. It's rubbery surface is a tiny bit gummy, and stuff does tend to get stuck to it. ;)

If anyone out there happens to ever have seen this vintage toy before, I'd get a kick out of hearing about it. =)

And while we're on the subject of toys, I'd like to take this opportunity to re-post some creatures that could well be its kin. I posted them originally over at my Mildred Loves You blog (here - right below the Adam Bowman Tree Frog and the Alexi Johanson Disco Bike)...

Freaky Nightlights


;) =)

Cheers,
LaLaVox
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The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 16

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



I have run out of sketchbook pages of Doodles from this year's Pictoplasma Festival (there was much less light on the audience during the talks this year than in 2009 - and perhaps I was also a bit lazier this time around too - who knows?), so I'll just begin posting 4 pages of 2009 at a time instead of the usual two...

Doodled during Pictoplasma Conference talks in 2009:





PICTOPLASMA


Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Meindbender Station IDs

This past Saturday Kaiserbrand posted a Meindbender station ID called "The Pirate" over at their "With Us or Against Us" blog. As a result of seeing this, I went and explored much animation over a Vimeo that evening (resulting in my Bonzom post yesterday, for example).

Here are some samples of their fabulous work...

Gifts for Greta - Cartoon Network ID shortie from Meindbender on Vimeo.

The Duplicators - Cartoon Network ID shortie from Meindbender on Vimeo.

The Pirate from Meindbender on Vimeo.

Cheers,
LaLaVox
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The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
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blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Doodling Again: Day 15

A new Creature-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



Doodled last week during a Pictoplasma Festival talk:



Doodled during a Pictoplasma Conference talk in 2009:



PICTOPLASMA


Cheers,
LaLaVox
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mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))