Σάββατο 23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017

Skeleton babe | day 631

So today I was studying the human skeleton.
It got boring really fast so I tried to make a more stylized skeleton.
So I made this guy
and I was pretty happy for him to be today's doodle.
He is boring though and sooo soooo flat and it wasn't the best I could do so I used him as a guide for today's doodle.
Which is also not the best I could do but it made the cut.
I'll continue stylizing the human skeleton, I'm not done with it yet.
Also, HALLOWEEN IS COMING!
kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekeke
~bye

Παρασκευή 22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017

Labyrinth!! | day 630

So... this happened! I did it!
To be honest I cheated a bit.
I used graph paper and I first sketched it with pencil.
But I did it!
And it was actually quite enjoyable.
I wasn't expecting that.

Can you believe I made it to 630?
That's a lot of days!
That's a lot of doodles!
You'd expect I would become better at drawing.
The point of being someone who's drawing every day was so that I would become better quicker than if I was only practicing when I felt like it.
I don't challenge myself enough.
I know that.
I'll try to work on it.
I know I'll have days when I will really not be in the mood and that's ok.
And I know that for some of those days I won't be able to push through and I'll end up with one of those doodles that are really quick or really sloppy or really tiny and that's ok too.
After all it needs to stay enjoyable.
I don't want it to be only hard work.
That's my piece of mind.

Maybe you can do better in something of yours too.
Or maybe you need to accept that sometimes it sucks and you don't feel motivated and that is part of the process - part of EVERY process I think.
We can't do anything about it.
But I would suggest not to make drastic decisions when it's one of those days.

That's what I think.
You do what you think.
~bye

Πέμπτη 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017

Romantic date | day 629

So we meet again,
coffee, my love.

Wizard | day 628

With an ostrich feather on his hat for reasons we may never find out.
~bye

Another square-ish one | day 627

Except this one doesn't look like a rug.
It looks like pipes.
Or the inside of a robot's nostril.
That's it.
~bye

Gardening | day 626

Cacti are my favourite plants.
That's not me.
Actually this is someone I know.
I had her in mind when doodling this.
It doesn't actually look like her but I'll say it's her.
~bye

Loneliness | day 625

A bit different but it's in the same series as the other round ones.
It's fun having a mini series of these guys.
They are all negative though.
Maybe the positive ones should be inside another shape.
Like a triangle or something.
Triangles are happy shapes, aren't they?
~bye

Ganesh Chaturthi | day 624

God of new beginings.
Helps you overcome obstacles.
Just in case you needed him.
~bye

boredom | day623

Too relatable.

HRRRCH | day 622

Fun times

Steampower | day 621

I really like these square-ish doodles.
They are really calming to make and I like looking at them afterwards which is not the case with most of my doodles.

Scream | day 620

Mothman |day 619

The mothman is a folklore creature from West Virginia.
My mothman is a very lonely man.
He locked himself in his basement after his wife's sudden death and hasn't come out since.
It's been almost 400 years since then.
He spent all this time painting portraits of her under the light of candles.
He eventually started loosing his mind and memories to the point where he didn't recognize the face in the portraits anymore.
He knew it was someone special but couldn't recall anything else.
Not even her name.
It was when he forgot her name that he started to change.
He grew wings and a proboscis and millions of tiny little sensitive hairs all over his body.
During that time he also started getting drawn on the sight of the flame of his candles.
He could just sit there and stare at the small fire all day.
So much that he forgot to sleep and drink and eat.
He was completely consumed by the sight of the flame.
There was nothing left of him. He was an empty shell with a blank mind.
He grew weaker every day.
He felt himself starting to fall.
With what was left of his instincts he grabed a chair next to him to stop his fall.
But he was so weak.
He fell on the floor along with the garment that was left on top of the chair.
The garment had a smell that reminded him of something.
But it was too late to figure it out.
He was so frail when he fell on the floor that he had cracked open.
From his cracked body emerged thousands little moths with beautiful wings full of life.
They flew here and there and filled the basement.
They got mesmerized by the candles too.
For some time after that they all stayed there watching the flames.
Some even got so close that their wings burnt.
More days passed and eventually the last candle went out.
It was then time for all of them to leave that basement.
They flew all around the world looking for flames.
And garments with that same smell.
The mothman's empty shell of a body is still on that basement.
His spirit though left with the moths to look along with them for that smell and flames.
Until he found her.
He recognized her immediately.
She was wearing that same garment and her hair were bright red.
Everything came back to him.
He missed her so much.
They are both happy now.
I just wish he would tell the moths that he found what he was looking for.
So they would stop ruining my winter clothes.
Also what's with the infinite amount of candles and painting supplies?
400 years?!
That's a lot of candles!

Mechanical combing | day 618

This is a tiny mechanical ghost that lives in young children's sculpts. If they are naughty during bathing time, he comes out and messes up their hair. Then they have to sit through their mother trying to comb them and it hurts. This ghost stays with the children until they are old enough to bathe and wash their hair themselves. He then leaves them and finds another child with hair to mess up.

Mine is still on my sculpt and he seems like he works all day.
I wonder when he sleeps.

On top of the world | day 617

I have nothing to say about this.
I like his beard though.

Κυριακή 3 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017

What I wore again | day611

When I don't know what to doodle and am really lazy to try something challenging, I usually doodle what I can see around me.
And then when I am really-really lazy, I doodle what I have on me.
I always expect it to look like a look-book or like one of those "meet the artist" but it never does.

The weird thing is that if I do this again tomorrow it will look exactly the same. I have two same pairs of jeans that I cut at the exactly same length and I have probably 20 of these exactly the same tanktops in black and two in grey. I also have around 15 pairs of the same socks. The only thing that changes is the colour of the same type of shoes. I have a pair in black, red, purple, yellow and green and I usually wear a different one every day.
Today was purple day.

I'd like to say that this type of wardrobe is a legit choise that I made so that I don't waste time deciding what to wear every day. The truth is that it just happened randomly. Over the years and at random times I go through my closet (or what's left of it) and fill bags of clothes I just don't love enough and donate them. So that's partly how this happened.
The "same type" happened because I happend to find really good deals on items that I knew I would wear a lot. The tank tops came in packets of 5 in a really good price for the material so I grabbed 4 packs. The jeans were also a really good price so I bought two, I wore them forever and they started to stretch aroud the knees perminantely so I cut them. The shoes I got from a shop that was closing down and they wanted to get rid of everything for as much as they could. Now the shoes I partly regret because I think I could bargain a bit more - after all I bought 4 pairs of them and they were pretty desperate - but I still got them at a good price. I'll need to get some more shoes in a while because they are starting to dissolve. And I mean it. DISSOLVE. The black pair is almost unwearable.

The more I write about it (and I already wrote a lot) the more I feel like this suits me. Even if it happened randomly. Now I'm starting to think for a plan for my winter clothes. They are not like that at all. Every piece is different. I'll have to fix this.

I like the idea of looking the same everyday. Like a Simpson character.
I wonder if the people that see me everyday think that I'm just filthy and never wash my clothes.
~bye

Σάββατο 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017

Le Rug | Doodle day 610

This doodle was really therapeutic.
Did it completely brainless.
It seems to me like a rug design.
There is not a single straight line in this.
But that's ok.
It's just a doodle.
And I had fun.
~bye

Παρασκευή 1 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017

Daisy | doodle day 609

This is a WIP from a project I'm working on. It's a card game that I'm illustrating.
It's going to be GREAT!
I'll share some photos here when it is done.
I don't think I'll doodle anymore so that's it for today.
I'll probably start writing again here.
We'll see how it goes.
~bye