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.
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.”
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.
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.
Homework?! You must have meant fart joke.
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.
The Brave Salad
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.
Dr. Fraunbrau and Mr. Squintly
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.
Ryan and the Wizard
The Grandma’s Virginity Podcast is one of my favourite things to listen to (usually while playing Minecraft.) It’s a podcast put on by Justin Roiland, Ryan Ridley, sometimes Jackie Buscarino. It features a wide cast of characters, and usually some improvised scenes acted out by whoever feels like it at the time.
One such scene was one in which Ryan was essentially forced to choose death, or to have sex with Casey Anthony, a woman acquitted in the death of her infant. There were doubts in Ryan’s mind as to whether or not he should even do this, because he wasn’t quite sure if Ms. Anthony was actually innocent. Jesus, God and a Wizard (and his orb) finally convinced him it was the right move.
I was inspired by my friend Taj to send in some episode art, so here is what I came up with.
I like to challenge myself whenever I do a “big” illustration, and this one was all-new for me. I’d never attempted a proper comic book cover; I’d never drawn someone lit from beneath using only highlights, and I’d never drawn Ryan Ridley #$%@ing Casey Anthony, either. This was really fun!
