doodle-a-day november

While browsing illustrations on Instagram, I came upon the Doodle-a-Day trend. Rhianna Wurman (@ellolovey) creates a monthly Doodle-a-Day for people to follow. I thought I'd give it a try for the month of November. I also signed up for NaNoWriMo, but that's a different story...

I was determined to draw something related to each day's subject. However, I started off in failure as I completely missed the first day's doodle. I gave myself the deadline of midnight of each day to create a doodle & upload it to Instagram. I realized that if I didn't have an idea for a doodle that came to me rather easily, then I wasn't interested. And it's not that I couldn't come up with ideas, but it's that I wanted to come up with clever a/o unique ideas.

Anyway, I failed. After I got a few days behind, I kind of gave up.

The Doodle a Day November list created by Rhianna.

Day 2 - "Classic"
Classy redhead in a little black dress.

Detail.She reminds me of Elizabeth McGovern.

Day 3 - "Medieval"
Little friar with his severely-angled halo.

Day 4 - "Roots"
Happy [creepy] baby carrots on brown paper.

retro logo sketches

I've been working on a project for a friend. The art direction inspiration is from 1950's design. While attempting to create a logo for this project, I've been looking at retro ones. These are some loose, sketchy reproductions of some that I found via Allan Peters' Instagrams. It was helpful for me to look at these and try drawing them by hand. It's much more engaging to try to reproduce something than simply look at it. You can learn the nuances of the design as well as the difficulties or ease of the construction. My favorite logo was the "Crisp" one with the orange circle. :)

Thursday Throwback: Pop Princess

I used to just love Britney Spears...

Thursday Throwback: America's Future

Her text says: Yo, I'm Ashley. I've been pampered and spoiled since age 6. I own 60 different thongs, and I love boys. My goal in life is to be pretty and popular...like now! *teehee* I look good. I'm here to tell you about accepting everyone and being equal.

His text says: Hi, I'm Bradley. I play varsity football, soccer, and basketball. The girls all dig me cuz I'm so frigging gorgeous. I've seen the backseat of a million cars and 30 types of women's undies. I'm here with my girl, Ashley, to tell you about safe sex and being real!

I went through an "anti-high school" phase. Which was basically a rejection of the "in" crowd, even though I got along with them well enough (a few of them were classmates since grade school). I was never in that crowd, I was more of a Band Geek.
Prismacolor markers and color pencils. This makes me so sad, because the "fashion" from my old drawings is really dated, and so, that dates me. "One on one is more fun" imposed with "69" was a phrase taken from a real Abercrombie & Fitch shirt (are you surprised?) that I had. Oddly enough, I think my parents bought the shirt for me for Christmas - I doubt they understood the innuendo. UGH, remember when bold highlights were "in" for hair? Eesh.


I can smell the influence from Daria, can you?