MEETING DOODLE: Harumph!

Hubert is always skeptical. About everything.

NOT A DOODLE: Posting a Portrait of a Poet Pal

My friend and co-worker, Cameron Lawrence, for the November-December 2016 issue of In Touch magazine.

SORT OF A DOODLE: Making Faces

So, “why is it ‘sort of a doodle’?”, you might ask.

What? You didn’t ask? Well, I’m gonna tell ya anyway, Mister Fancy Pants!

It started as a meeting doodle. No, really. I know you’re shocked. But then it was just sitting there on my desk, minding its own business, when… BAM! I watercolored the daylights out of that sucker, thus elevating it from mere “doodle” to the lofty status of “sort of doodle” for all eternity. I’m sure it’s grateful; you can see it in his eyes.

ENVELOPE DOODLE: I’m daydreaming of a white pencil

 

Lots of Christmas card envelopes lying around the house, just waiting to be doodled upon.

NOT A DOODLE: Co-workers

Three of eight portrait illustrations I’m doing of some of my co-workers for an upcoming article in the December 2014 issue of In Touch magazine. I get all geeky over the cool layers of color and texture watercolors create, and the way that contrasts with the pen-and-ink line art.

All images © In Touch Ministries.

DOODLE: Headroom

Not a Doodle: COACH

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Concept sketch and finished illustration for an ad to run in March 2014 issue of In Touch magazine.

lunch bag lion

 

I know I’m a little late to the “lunch bag art” party, but for the past eight years my kids have used lunch boxes. Kind of hard to draw on those. But, last night, I finally got my chance. My daughter is going on a field trip to the zoo today, and they requested that the kids bring there lunches in bags that could be thrown away. So- voila!– lunch bag lion!

Mister Beardsley, hirsute hat-lover

 

Pen and ink on moleskine sketchbook.

Kevin Kodiak loves him some good trash can grub.

 

Meeting doodles are the main reason I will never have a true sketchbook full of my doodles. I don’t take sketchbooks to meetings, so I draw on whatever is handy. This big guy was doodled on the back of our magazine grid for the August 2013 issue of In Touch.