The second half of my NaNoDrawMo 2012 doodles. This includes my first attempt at doing a realistic drawing in almost 9 years. I probably should just stick to lettering.
The NaNoDrawMo[ref]NaNoDrawMo is inspired by NaNoWriMo (“National Novel Writing Month”), but “National Novel Drawing Month” doesn’t make sense. Many people have instead backronymed it to mean “National November Drawing Month”, but that’s redundant.[/ref] challenge asks for 50 drawings in 30 days. Fortunately for me, the only requirement is quantity, not quality.
My original plan was to do 50 tiny drawings using the Pilot Hi-Tec C pen on a single side of 8.5″×11″ paper, but I decided that I wasn’t up to that challenge. I instead chose to use two sheets of paper with 25 pencil drawings on each.
Here’s my progress at the midway point:
More dragons, doodled between people’s presentations during a VMware R&D conference in December, 2007.
(I really need to start drawing other things. Or I at least need to stop drawing disembodied heads all the time.)
A birthday card I made with Corrie in 1996 for Michael Feng, teddy bear nut. I sketched out the main parts and the poem title in pencil, and Corrie inked it, colored it, and did all of the other lettering. (In other words, she did all of the time-consuming parts.)
The eyes ended up inverted; I meant for them to be black with white glints (but who am I to question Corrie’s artistic judgment?). I think the way it came out, though, does give the bear some more personality as he tries to avert his eyes from the horrors inflicted upon him.
More ambigrams, this time of coworkers’ names:
- Lisa
- Walter
- plangdale/alex. Philip Langdale (whose user ID is “plangdale”) and Alex share an office. Alex has the inner seat. (And thank goodness for Photoshop’s polar distortion filter.)
I’ve discovered that John Langdon is releasing a second edition of his WordPlay book which has a new section about how to create ambigrams. I’m slightly annoyed since I already own the first edition, and it’s signed and personalized, so I can’t exactly sell it or give it away. Well, at least my first edition is a hardcover.
A themed collection of various pencil doodlings:
(Don’t forget to scroll to the right.)
I am feeling better than I was a few weeks ago, though.
John Langdon’s ambigram site inspired me to try to make ambigrams of my name and of some of my friends’ names.
Most of those could be refined quite a bit more.