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...
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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... ;)
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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).
Cheers,
LaLaVox
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