Showing posts with label Creature Doodles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creature Doodles. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2011

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:



Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
mildredlovesyou.blogspot.com/
The "MildredLovesYou.com-Turns-Three" Party on June 15th
The LaLaVoxBox.com Doodle Gallery
(unlikely to be updated anytime soon, but thanks to this
blog, now continually acquiring new future members ;))

Saturday, May 28, 2011

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:



Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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 ;))

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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)...




Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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 ;))

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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...

Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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 ;))

Monday, May 23, 2011

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:



Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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 ;))

Friday, May 6, 2011

Doodle Rules

This post was sparked by online buddies yesterday mentioning liking the fact that I was, "pumping out new sketches." I replied thus:

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Thank you!!! I'm noticing it doing me a lot of good too - keeping up with the routine of doing one every single day. The Doodles are quick to do, so it works. The rules are: no prior planning + no preliminary sketching. I simply put the brush [pen, pencil, etc...] to paper and draw. If it's crap it gets thrown out. If I like it, it lands on the blog. Sometimes the first one works. Sometimes I have to do 3 or 4 before I get a good one. :) xx - LLV

...Oh, and rule 3 - no model! ;)

‎...If there's a model, it's not a Doodle as such anymore, but a sketch. :)

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One could philosophically argue, of course, that the models are in my head; which can only be true, obviously. But I never doodle with a model or photo directly, physically in front of me. ;)

As the dictionary states (and as I have posted here before)...



Special hellos and thanks to Sharleen + Iris!!! *muwah!*

Cheers,
LaLaVox
www.lalavoxbox.com
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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 ;))

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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
www.lalavoxbox.com
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 ;))

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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
www.lalavoxbox.com
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 ;))