when I am just aimlessly doodling, I tend to just draw random things, upon which I build, as each idea inspires a new thought, as below:
or sometimes I have several unrelated images filling a page, which I may try to connect by creating a unifying landscape tying them together, as with this scribble from the back cover of an old notebook from school (spanish class, I think):
more examples of progressively-random doodles:
Here's some of the sketches that fall out of my pencils, pens, markers, or whatever utensil I have handy while taking in sermons on a Sunday morning. a few are cheaters as they actually were drawn at a Wednesday night Bible study.
an assortment of cats:
a portrait done on the sly during a bible study:
several quick caricatures done in bible study:
and an assortment of non-representational experiments in texture, form , color, etc:
Then i decided to ruin it by adding odd colors with markers. I did this on a photocopy, so that I'd still have the original b& w. the color seems to add a whole different meaning to the image, gives it and entirely different feel. i kind of like it, though it's certainly not much like how I pictured Conrad's story (with the colors, that is).
