I didn’t know what to draw; my colleague Tamara suggested I do a portait of her. HERE IS THAT THING!
Kit and I were talking about classical music; specifically, how Vivaldi’s Four Seasons manages to perfectly capture each season in a way that - even without knowing the title or theme of the Suite beforehand - one would be able to tell it was a piece of music about seasons. Its meaning transcends language, and is universally accessible.
This was the seed of today’s Doodle Buddy Challenge: to try and convey something abstract in a way that could be extrapolated by anyone looking at it. We settled on longing for our theme because it’s universal, but difficult to indicate visually in an elegant way.
Doing this in a visual medium is particularly difficult because it’s very easy to be ham-fisted about it. I think we both put in a valiant effort.
My friend Kit and I are trying to get each other to draw more - and post more. Today, we had our friend Les tell us the FIRST word that was in his mind. He lied and told us it was “crap,” but then admitted it was, in fact, “ba-bump.”
Here’s the result of Doodle Buddy Challenge No. 2!
Kit and I agreed ba-bump is WAY better, so the seeds for our drawings, which were undisclosed until their completions, was a word in a lyric in a random hip-hop song Les was listening to.
I thought of a guy getting smacked in the head with a seagull, and Kit thought of something very clever.
I’ve got a coworker with a great last name. She and I are going to try and keep each other drawing for awhile.
Edit: This was the first installment of the Doodle Buddy Challenge; Kit and I both felt we needed motivation to keep drawing, so we challenged each other to keep going.
This is the type of thing I’d draw at school when I was asked to seriously analyze a problem and come up with an industrial design solution.
heinoushenry asked: would you rather have gills on your neck and be able to breathe under water or have wings for arms and be able to fly?
I think I’d rather have a bird body and regular arms. That would be badass.
heinoushenry asked: would you rather have an adult head and baby body or baby head and adult body?
I don’t think either of those has an advantage. I mean, figure you have an adult head on a baby body. Is the baby body going to be able to support the head? Probably not; it probably won’t even have a big enough heart to pump blood through the brain so you could function well enough to have coherent thoughts and not die, and so on.
Figure somehow that the baby body WOULD be able to support and sustain an adult head, then you’re still stuck in a teeny, tiny body, and NOBODY would want to ever have sex with you for the rest of your life. That would be the WORST! Tiny, baby purgatory.
Well, it WOULD be the worst, but I think maybe baby head/adult body is pretty bad, too. With a baby head, there’d be no room for a large enough brain to handle adult things like doing taxes or telling a joke about taxes at a cocktail party. If anything, you’d also have the intellect of a baby, so you’d crap yourself and be like a dizzy, stumbly godzilla in a man’s body.
I really dunno what I’d choose.
heinoushenry asked: would you rather have mini fingers coming out of the tips of your regular fingers or ears that could taste what they hear?
Man, I don’t even know what tasting sounds would be like, but I think I’d know what feeling things more would feel like….
I’m gonna have to go with tasting sounds.
This is a little doodle I did one day. Not sure why I chose salad, but something felt “right” about this scenario.
I like to think he won somehow.
May I present: Dr. Fraunbrau and Mr. Squintly.
I don’t think I intended for these two to be on the same page, necessarily, but here are two characters I made up that involve weird eye configurations.
