Cat Portraits and Mutants from the Archives

I know that I will absolutely not have time for new Doodles today (my Doodle well seems a tad dry at the moment anyway). But here's something I've had lying around as a draft for a while, wondering if I should actually post it or not. Since there will be no new (or old) Doodles today I've decided to go ahead and post it after all:

Alright... This has nothing to do with Doodles or doodling, but since my Mildred Loves You blog seems even less like the right place for this post, I will deposit it here...

Once upon a time one of my cousins asked me to draw a portrait of a cat of hers who was getting on in years. I did several from photos she sent, but wasn't happy with any of them really.

They are hanging on my cousin's walls though, and looking at the photocopies I made of them back in the day (while sorting through boxes recently), I've decided they're not really all that awful after all.

The following are scans of these photocopies...













And here is a series of mutant animal "mash-ups" from even further back in my foggy past. It was so long ago in the meantime that I'll spare you the details. Don't ask, just look at the pictures... ;)













The drawing materials used for these animal "mashups", by the way, were a Rapidiograph technical pen (the 0.18 nib - if I'm remembering correctly), a no.2 pencil, layout markers, and white bleedproof gouache (for some of the the highlights).

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Doodling Again: Day 50 (Rejects!)

...My Pentel GFKP Refillable Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen, by the way, is apparently not frayed after all, but was only slightly clumped after being somewhat dried out (I guess). The line has become nice and smooth again.

But I still can't draw worth crap this evening - in spite of what should be inspiring brush-stroke smoothness.

I think I have mentioned before that my Doodles are done with no pre-planning and no models, so it's not often that the first Doodle that escapes from my pen or pencil also makes it onto this blog.

But I'm exhausted at the moment, so tonight you get these 2 rejects instead of new People-Doodles...

New rejects:



...Um... Hm. As I was posting these Achim came in and asked me why the left one is a reject. Well, alright then; the left one is a new People-Doodle and the right one is a reject. How 'bout that? :P ;)

And here's the old Creature-Doodle to finish off the day:



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Doodling Again: Day 49

...Continuing to stay with my Pentel GFKP Refillable Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen for today's new Doodles as well...

A new People-Doodle + a new Creature Doodle:





An old Creature-Doodle:



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Doodling Again: Day 48

I'm staying with my (now slightly frayed) Pentel GFKP Refillable Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen for today's new People-Doodle too...

A new People-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



And there's been an update over at my "Mildred Loves You" blog today as well. We will be throwing a party on June 15th to celebrate MildredLovesYou.com turning 3 on June 16th. Please click this so-tiny-it's-practically-unreadable flyer to see more:



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Doodling Again: Day 47

For today's new People-Doodle I have returned to my - now slightly frayed - Pentel GFKP Refillable Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen...

A new People-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



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Doodling Again: Day 46 (with a vintage pencil)

Two new People-Doodles:



This first new People-Doodle was drawn with an honest-to-goodness vintage pencil; an Eagle Turquiose 4B (U.S.A. Quality Control No. 82056). According to the website I found while Googling for it, it must have been produced sometime during the 1970s: if you scroll down a bit you can find it at this page of the Leadholder Drafting Pencil Museum.

And here's my rather dreadful scan of the actual pencil in question:



I have no idea why I have this pencil. I'm assuming it once belonged to my dad, and that he never used it because he's an H-pencil kinda guy; not the sort of fellow who would use a B-pencil at all. This would mean that this pencil has been with me for years and years and years, traveling with me from Mississippi, USA to Berlin, Germany in various boxes or other, to eventually land in a drawer next to my desk lying in wait to be used by me at long last. I can't recall ever having used it before. Ever.

But enough of that! Let's move on to today's 2nd new Doodle of the Day...

For this 2nd new People-Doodle I simply used my tried-and-true uni-ball eye (fine) pen once again... ;)



And now the old Creature-Doodle of the Day (one of my favorites)...




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Doodling Again: Day 45 (with a 3D bonus)

...Today's new People-Doodle was drawn with a uni-ball eye (fine) pen and a Faber Castell Polychromos pencil in Light Carmine (127)...

A new People-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



And as a bonus today, here's a 3D version of Doodle #C33 that was made for me by my bro, Mr. Invisible, as a birthday present once upon a time long ago. It doesn't happen to be my birthday today, but does happen to be #C33's turn to be the Old Doodle of the Day, so here it is...



This video is very old by the way, so the www.kaykay.com address you see there at the end no longer leads to anything having to do with the video's maker - just so ya know! ;)

...Oh, right - and there has also been an update over at my "Mildred Loves You" blog today: "FaceBook Prudery + An Upcoming 3rd Anniversary Party" featuring naughty voluptuousness and event flyers (speaking of birthdays) for the night of June 15th leading outrageously into the 16th...

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Doodling Again: Day 44

...Today's new People-Doodle was drawn with 2 Faber Castell Polychromos pencils; Peacock Blue (153) and Vermillion (117)...

A new People-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



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The LaLaVox Box - "The Sea, The Sea"

As I posted yesterday, Achim Treu (aka UFO Hawaii) and I are collaborating on a little musical project together with Lorelei Vanora and Carolyn Turgeon.

We (as The LaLaVox Box) are in the process of writing, recording, + producing a series of nautical tunes featuring vocals by Ms. Vanora and designed especially to be presented at Carolyn's "I Am A Mermaid" blog. She has just presented the first of these today, and has said that it's fine with her if I present a copy of her sparkly + glamorous post here. So without further ado...
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24 May

So as I lovingly mentioned on Friday, I have a gorgeous little mermaid ditty to share with youse and am doing so fashionably late because I am very glamorous.

So you have seen Ms. Lorelei Vanora. And here's the rest of The LaLaVox Box, who are very good looking, which sometimes you have to be to hang out with mermaids in fashion-forward cities like Berlin, Germany:



And here is their sweet and sumptuous song, "The Sea, The Sea," sung by one real-life mermaid, making its debut. Just be careful you keep your head about you and don't start crashing any ships as you listen.





Admit that is a most mermaidly and awesome song. I have generously included links so that you might buy said song at iTunes and/or Amazon.

You are welcome. And next month: song number two, plus a sweet video for this one...

From Carolyn Turgeon's "I Am A Mermaid" blog, May 24th, 2011
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This particular song is of the jaunty-pop-song breed of tune. The songs we have planned for you over the next 12 or so months will cover all sorts of emotional territory though, and we hope you will find yourselves quite entertained along the way!



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Doodling Again: Day 43 (having run out of Doodle-Gallery People-Doodles)

My general practice for my posts so far has been to always post either a new Creature-Doodle and an old Creature-Doodle together, or a new People-Doodle and an old People-Doodle together (for the business-as-usual part, that is).

Unfortunately, although I have not yet run out of old People-Doodles, I have run out of old People-Doodles that are already numbered, scanned, and included in the online gallery.

I didn't get past #P15 back in the day, and the gallery has remained that way ever since, while other web-site things happened and grew around it.

Since I simply don't have the time these days for major website updating, I will, for the time being, always post an old Creature-Doodle for every new Doodle - whether it be the Creature or the People variety! :P ;)

...And, yes - before we continue - just so you know - today's new People-Doodle was drawn with a uni-ball eye (fine) pen. And I was, by the way, also thinking a bit about one Xanthippe Svanström and her imagery and interests as I drew this one. ;) (Thank you for inspiring me, my Dear.) Shall we?...

A new People-Doodle:



An old Creature-Doodle:



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The LaLaVox Box (a music project)

So... I've just put together a little web page about a music project that Achim Treu (aka UFO Hawaii) and I are calling The LaLaVox Box:


www.lalavoxbox.com/thelalavoxboxmusic.html

This is the project that I was hinting around about (or posting something related to) before closing my Doodling Again: Day 28 (with a Mermaid Bonus) + Doodling Again: Day 40 (with a Mermaid Bonus) posts.

We decided it would be nice to do a nautical album - posting one song a month for the next year or so. And we have the pleasure of being able to add Lorelei Vanora and Carolyn Turgeon (with her "I Am A Mermaid" blog) into the mix as well!

In a past post, I said that in the future I thought I would probably be posting mermaidy stuff more over at my "Mildred Loves You" blog, but it looks as though at least The-LaLaVox-Box-oriented mermaidy stuff has found its home here instead.

I'll be keeping you posted!

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Doodling Again: Day 42

...The brush tip of my Pentel GFKP pen (which I've used for all of the previous new People Doodles posted this month) seems to have gotten a bit frayed in the meantime, and it's not giving me those smooth + juicy brush strokes that I like so much. So, I thought I'd draw today's Doodle with something else. Today's weapon of choice is an edding 1800 profipen 0.1.

Today's new People-Doodle:



Today's old People-Doodle:



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Doodling Again: Day 41

A new People-Doodle:



An old People-Doodle:



By the way... Some of the old Doodles (dated 2001) were drawn before 2001. This one (#P14) is a good example of one that was scribbled on a corner of paper well before 2001. They are dated 2001 because that's the year I had the idea to begin collecting and numbering the little collection of doodles that had been piling up in my archive bit by bit over the years. ;)

Since the 2001 beginnings however, I've made an effort to number the Doodles in chronological order according to the order in which they've made their escape from my pencils and pens...

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Doodling Again: Day 40 (with a Mermaid Bonus)

Dear me! It's been another mad day of racing and panting, just like yesterday - so this is the 2nd late-in-the-day Daily Doodle in a row.

On a less hectic note, it's also been a very mermaidy day today. Which is why today's new People-Doodle is actually a Mermaid-Doodle.

Unfortunately though, I don't have a Mermaid category in my Doodle Gallery. And since I don't feel convincingly enough inclined to put her into the Creature-Doodle category, the label "People-Doodle" will simply have to do.

...More about why today is a mermaidy day below, by the way. But first, the business-as-usual stuff...

A new People-Doodle:



An old People-Doodle:



And now for the mermaidy stuff...

...I hinted at it a bit in my "Day 28 (with a Mermaid Bonus)" post back at the end of April. And today the aforementioned Carolyn Turgeon (aforementioned on Day 28 that is) has blogged in sparkly and delightful ways about one Lorelei Vanora (The Singing Mermaid). She mentioned yours truly as well (introducing upcoming musical activities hinted at back on the aforementioned Day 28)... :P ;)

So now swim with great haste to Carolyn's I Am A Mermaid blog and see the giggly goodness contained in her "Berlin’s Singing Mermaid, Lorelei Vanora" post!



Oh, and one more thing before I go...

There's been an update over at my "Mildred Loves You" blog today as well; another reminder for a Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin session. Yes, it's that time again! If you would like to see this reminder (and simultaneously be informed about tomorrow's mind-warping Saturday-afternoon madness), you can do so HERE...

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Doodling Again: Day 39

Oof! Argh! - Full-on day today! But I've managed to squeeze these in anyway - if a bit later in the day than usual (I'm very determined to keep the daily pace going)...

Two new People-Doodles:





An old People-Doodle:



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Doodling Again: Day 38 (Back in Berlin)

Alright then. I'm back in Berlin now. Time for daily doodling once again... ;)

A new People-Doodle...



Two old People-Doodles (I thought I'd post these two together today since they are so similar to each other)...





And one more thing before I go for this time around... In my "Day 37" post on the 9th, I posted a new doodle drawn with an almost completely dried out Pentel GFKP pen. Since then, I've found myself increasingly dissatisfied with the way it had turned out. So upon returning to Berlin and snapping a refill into my pen, I found I couldn't resist updating. Here's the result of the revamping. ;)



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Doodling Again: Day 37 (last Daily Doodle post until next week)

I've been pretty pleased with the fact that I've actually been keeping up with the daily pace since beginning this Doodling Again series back at the end of March (with only April 1st deliberately skipped and a couple of days missed during the Pictoplasma Festival). But I'm going have to take a week-long break now.

For one thing, my Pentel GFKP Refillable Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen is in the process of running out of ink at the moment - as can be evidenced by the lack of nice juicy solid blacks in the brush strokes of today's (below) and yesterday's People-Doodles.

I could of course just use another pen for my People-Doodles (I do switch the pens I use back and forth quite a bit with my Creature-Doodles). But I've fallen in love with the Pentel GFKP, and besides that, I will be leaving town for a week on Wednesday anyway, and have tons of other stuff to take care of between now and then.

So this will be my last Daily Doodle post until around Tuesday (the 17th) or Wednesday (the 18th) of next week. Here 'tis:

A new People-Doodle...



An old People-Doodle (including a couple of color versions)...



...I was busy teaching myself PhotoShop back in the day, and played around with some color versions of this one. Here are two of them...





See you next week, lovelies!

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