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Absolute Nonsense! | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #001

Nothing of any meaning here… just me doodling on my legal pad while waiting for a huge file to finish auto-saving throughout the day yesterday.

Actual “artists” - those to whom get paid drawing for a living - would label something like the below “Warm Up Sketches”… just some crap they do at the beginning of the day before any actual creative stuff happens.

For me, when these scribble-dee-doo-dahs were barfed up, it was mid-afternoon (I was all coffeed out, exhausted, dying to get home and dive into a warm bath) and, every time Illustrator auto-saved an open file that’d take 5 minutes to complete, I’d lean over to my legal pad on my left and:

  1. clumsily draw a bloated shape with a colored highlighter;

  2. if it started to look like a “something”, I’d lightly draw in some structural lines with a red pen;

  3. continue this until whatever-it-was looked MORE like a “something”;

  4. grab a blue or black pen to define the shape and shading of the “something”;

  5. add a background color with a highlighter so the “something” can pop off the page;

  6. add more tones to the “something” with a highlighter.