Just so that you know what those mysterious scribble blobs look like… here are a few.
One of them is caught in mid-mutation; turning into a poodle.
Not sure what I’ll do with that blob at the bottom of the page… Man! That’s what I call a tricky-messy-multi-scribble-blob.
Here’s Miss Poodle. She likes red.
She’s a digital sketch working from the scan at top. I like the effect of watercolour, but sometimes a quick doodle poodle is a good doodle poodle.
Lunch break bird blobs.
Felt tip, watercolour pecking and white acrylic flecking.
I could’t help noticing that these blobs painted late last night when feeling tired and a little low, all have one thing in common.
Despite the fact that they all were generated from random colour blobs, they all look downward to the bottom right of the page.
contemplative cassowary
Scott pointed out that this fellow looks Muppetish. A compliment :-)
pondering purple person
preoccupied parrot
Ptentative Pterododal
No wonder this Ptreposterous Pterododal is Ptentative… His wings are ridiculously inadequate for his size. I’d stay on the ground, if I were he.
Naturally, after playing with the grey blobs on the weekend, I was tempted to whip up some colour ones late last night to squeeze some in for the 52 Week Illustration Challenge – week’s theme ‘Colour’ before the new theme today. (Themes change each Wednesday.)
It really was late at night. So these were ‘one pass’ illos. I nearly didn’t bother scanning them because I wanted to go to bed, but the photos were too awful. Here they are in their scanned, and unedited state.
Stork on holidays at the beach.
Dramatic bear… koala… creature? (someone suggested music conductor)
Elephant unsuccessfully pulling on trousers.
Little bird
A sentimental dinosaur. I actually thought this was a bit too corny. Don’t know what came over me. Maybe Facebook-Peer-Pressure!
A thoughtful baby rabbit. I love the way the fuzzy edges and curves of the blobs can just summon a character into my head… if a character doesn’t appear fully formed in my mind’s eye beforehand, it generally doesn’t turn out well on the page. Of course the fuzzy edges on this coarse watercolour paper are quite suggestive of animals because they look a little hairy. But let’s admit it… there’s a bias there anyway!!
Today, I spent half an hour doing a second pass with more colour to enrich them… and to experiment of course. Some were improved and some were ruined by the second pass. I’ll see if I can find time to scan these and post them tomorrow or the next day.
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