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The doodle is the humblest member of the artistic hierarchy.
At the very top of the family is the regal “picture”, that completed idea or story flawlessly captured with all the talent and media that its creator can bring to bear. At the next lower down level is the sturdy drawing, imbued with robust lines and more than a suggestion of three-dimensional form. That too is finished. Below the drawing comes the flighty sketch, the spindly often incomplete fellow from which the drawing develops. Bits and portions of the sketch are usually missing since the whole purpose of a sketch is to quickly capture a fleeting expression or idea before it escapes the eye or leaves the imagination. Then at the very bottom of the purpose-driven artistic efforts comes the doodle, that shabby good-natured little hobo of illustrative creation.
Born mostly out of an artistic desire to fill what would otherwise be wasted time with some form of accomplishment, the doodle is a lyrical little fellow that embraces the fun of drawing with the barest of direction. Never formal and rarely titled beyond being called a “doodle”, it is a close cousin to the cartoon. Yet even the humorous cartoon has a humorous goal in mind when it is begun. For the doodle, however, if you can catch its attention long enough to ask it where it is going, it will probably give you a whimsical smile, shrug it’s badly drawn shoulders and tell you it doesn’t know where it is going – but that it expects to reach its destination right on schedule.
What you see in “Doodle_01” is a collection of three pages of scrap paper that had been “decorated” along the edges of in the random blank areas with doodles drawn while I was waiting for a computer program to load or enduring some other form of electronic waiting. Generally my doodles stem from idle wondering while I wait about ‘if I do this or that on paper what will it turn out looking like?’ Other times I’ll while away the seconds to “work” on some long-standing artistic problem (a hand, a “sad” or “happy” tail, pawfeet, etc.). I rarely solve any of those problems with doodling, but like scratching a random itch, doodling while not accomplishing very much, does tend to feel good while doing it.
At the very top of the family is the regal “picture”, that completed idea or story flawlessly captured with all the talent and media that its creator can bring to bear. At the next lower down level is the sturdy drawing, imbued with robust lines and more than a suggestion of three-dimensional form. That too is finished. Below the drawing comes the flighty sketch, the spindly often incomplete fellow from which the drawing develops. Bits and portions of the sketch are usually missing since the whole purpose of a sketch is to quickly capture a fleeting expression or idea before it escapes the eye or leaves the imagination. Then at the very bottom of the purpose-driven artistic efforts comes the doodle, that shabby good-natured little hobo of illustrative creation.
Born mostly out of an artistic desire to fill what would otherwise be wasted time with some form of accomplishment, the doodle is a lyrical little fellow that embraces the fun of drawing with the barest of direction. Never formal and rarely titled beyond being called a “doodle”, it is a close cousin to the cartoon. Yet even the humorous cartoon has a humorous goal in mind when it is begun. For the doodle, however, if you can catch its attention long enough to ask it where it is going, it will probably give you a whimsical smile, shrug it’s badly drawn shoulders and tell you it doesn’t know where it is going – but that it expects to reach its destination right on schedule.
What you see in “Doodle_01” is a collection of three pages of scrap paper that had been “decorated” along the edges of in the random blank areas with doodles drawn while I was waiting for a computer program to load or enduring some other form of electronic waiting. Generally my doodles stem from idle wondering while I wait about ‘if I do this or that on paper what will it turn out looking like?’ Other times I’ll while away the seconds to “work” on some long-standing artistic problem (a hand, a “sad” or “happy” tail, pawfeet, etc.). I rarely solve any of those problems with doodling, but like scratching a random itch, doodling while not accomplishing very much, does tend to feel good while doing it.
Category All / General Furry Art
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Size 711 x 600px
File Size 98.3 kB
Ahh, the humble doodle.
I've always seen them (and correct me if I'm wrong) as the birth of something that can grow and grow and grow into something 10x what it was originally. The doodle, sketch, scribble or whatever can be the beginning of something much, much more, yes?
As always, wonderful to see your work!
I've always seen them (and correct me if I'm wrong) as the birth of something that can grow and grow and grow into something 10x what it was originally. The doodle, sketch, scribble or whatever can be the beginning of something much, much more, yes?
As always, wonderful to see your work!
nice collection of ideas. :)
I tried it once, but I can't seem to just doodle on and let the pen go where ti may, I need an initial idea first which might culminate in a sketch, unfinished, but not likely to ever see continuation. just being there.
also, I rarely have any sketches in my own art collection, since I need to use/erase them due to lack of a light table.
I tried it once, but I can't seem to just doodle on and let the pen go where ti may, I need an initial idea first which might culminate in a sketch, unfinished, but not likely to ever see continuation. just being there.
also, I rarely have any sketches in my own art collection, since I need to use/erase them due to lack of a light table.
Danke.
I think the key to doodling is to not plan on it being anything but an exercise with a pencil. For example, some artists take an 8 1/2 X 11" piece of paper and spend ten minutes or wo drawing curves and circles just to warm up their drawing talent before beginning to draw a picture. It is like stretching before jogging or running. Another way of doodling is to have a dictionary and randomly open a page and without looking pick a work. Then doodle an image of what that word is, or what it makes you think of. Like doodling that method is sure to loosen up your drawing talent.
I do not have anything so professional as a light table on which to draw. The vast majority of all my drawings are done on a simple clipboard that I can take with me to any room I am in. In fact, my clip board is leaning up against my floor shelves directly behind my chair right now with the beginnings of a drawing that was inspired by my hearing music on an Internet music station from James Horner's movie "Titanic". You can never tell where or when inspiration will strike.
I think the key to doodling is to not plan on it being anything but an exercise with a pencil. For example, some artists take an 8 1/2 X 11" piece of paper and spend ten minutes or wo drawing curves and circles just to warm up their drawing talent before beginning to draw a picture. It is like stretching before jogging or running. Another way of doodling is to have a dictionary and randomly open a page and without looking pick a work. Then doodle an image of what that word is, or what it makes you think of. Like doodling that method is sure to loosen up your drawing talent.
I do not have anything so professional as a light table on which to draw. The vast majority of all my drawings are done on a simple clipboard that I can take with me to any room I am in. In fact, my clip board is leaning up against my floor shelves directly behind my chair right now with the beginnings of a drawing that was inspired by my hearing music on an Internet music station from James Horner's movie "Titanic". You can never tell where or when inspiration will strike.
ah, okay. normally I sit before the blank sheet of paper for a minute, and start doodling down what I have in mind, and at some point I refine it into a prelim sketch. for a time I had a little sketchbook with me while working, doodling down a couple 'primitive' pictures, but at some point I started to refine them. currently I have no means to doodle on without anybody noticing who shouldn't. :) I did have last week, but I didn't have my head free for it, so I rather concentrate on the few comissions I managed to gather. :)
the idea with the dictionary is awesome. I shall try it out some day. ^_^
hmm, music... I tend to use somg titles ot record titles for submission names, trying to see who would notice; but very few do, or at least speak up. :)
the idea with the dictionary is awesome. I shall try it out some day. ^_^
hmm, music... I tend to use somg titles ot record titles for submission names, trying to see who would notice; but very few do, or at least speak up. :)
Thanks Lionus, you really made my day when you posted this. You really made it sound like I should take pride in my art, even though most of them are barely loftly enough to be called "Drawing" tending to be more the doodle or sketch stage, just with some colors thrown in. I really do need to doodle more, because the whole reason it takes me so censored, expeditive deleted long to acomplish anything, is because, with my job, I'm perpetually short of time, so I've become frightened of making a mistake, when I do attempt something special.
And you've made me happy to know that my collection of doodles has given you the courage to go out and doodle on your own. Just remember, that like daydreaming, doodling isn't supposed to be an attempt to create a work of art -- it's just a visual way of having a little fun for yourself. It's when we start out a drawing of any sort with the thought in the back of our minds of showing what the result is to someone else -- and their possible criticism. Knowing that someone is going to be judging our work almost immediately tightens our grip on the pencil and turns on our own inner judge even while we are trying to create. Doodling is the ultimate in drawing freedom. We can make all the mistakes we want since there's no one to please but ourselves -- and besides, sometimes a mistake is the first step on a path to a new idea.
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