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February 17, 2012
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.

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.

Tags: Doodle Buddy Challenge Illustration Kit Chokly

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February 15, 2012

Ba-Bump

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.

Tags: Doodle Buddy Challenge Illustration Kit Chokly Seagull

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February 14, 2012

Kit Chokly Bar

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.

Tags: Chocolate Doodle Buddy Challenge Illustration Kit Chokly