vikings and ogres

a viking, a viking-ogre and an ogre.

transform and chill out

more transformers, this time drawn from memory of the old cartoon series. you can see i was not confident in drawing of megatron's helmet. i probably had to google some images after i'd done a couple of these.

to do: ignore to do list

one thing i really envy is the ability to draw technology well. some people can just make up realistic (or futuristic) creases and joints and tubes for tech drawings all day long. my robots always turn out looking very clunky and simple. in fact, the "transformers" doodle in the center looks like it was probably photo referenced (movie version), cause i never would have thought of anything as cool as car door shoulder-blades.

the close-up is clearly freehand, though. not only could i not figure out how to make a face look robotic, but i struggled with shading it up the middle, too.

predator is looking fine, though. the hardest part of drawing him is conveying the netting in his costume without letting those lines dominate or read too heavy. medium success here.

from the looks of this comic, i'd given up a few months later.

inauguration

ah, the inaugural doodle post. here are a few really old notepad pages i found in my desk. i guess back then, i was just doodling right on my work-related "to do" lists. it seems i've grown more wasteful, as my more recent doodles tend to be found on otherwise clean pages.

and what do we have? looks like hurley from "LOST" makes an appearance, most likely following the claudio sanchez (from the band "coheed and cambria") in the bottom left, their common haircut serving as an obvious segway.

there's a cylon from "battlestar galactica" up there, or part of one anyway. i guess that means i first gave the miniseries a chance 2 years ago. it took another viewing many months later to get me interested in moving on to the series.

i see that i briefly revisited former territory with that graffiti squiggle. very reminiscent of some of the things i used to do in my VCU sketchbook - and one of the few strokes of color viewers are likely to ever see on this blog.

and lastly, it took me several minutes to figure it out, but at the bottom center - a shoelace tied in a knot.