This is an element of a thing I’m working on for someone right now. I was playing around with texture and thought this sort of looked cool. So, here is something else!
This is an attempt to teach myself a bit more about making something look old, using “dirty” textures, and just layout in general.
It started as an attempt to make a desktop wallpaper (which does exist, if anyone wants it) but morphed into a record album cover ‘cause I thought it worked better this way.
I’m clever.
Why? Because.
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.”
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.
