Happy Monday! This drawing came about one night. Keeping in mind Ivan Brunetti’s advice to build characters out of basic shapes, I found myself tinkering around with different ways to create an easily drawable figure that does not rely on any reference images, a figure that I could be creative with. Sketching, I found a knack for drawing these characters using my 0.3 Copic Multiliner pen, and enjoyed drawing lots of them. They came one after the other until I had an interesting community of 56! — bear gals, mice gals, rabbits, kitties, crickets bats…
I learned that, if you stay open, you can let a doodle grow into a daydream that unspools according to its own logic. I also learned that creating variations of the same figure is one of my favourite ways to work (or, in the words of my partner, “you like to draw lots of small things”). I guess that’s one way to put it; the picture reminds me a bit of the Where’s Waldo books I loved as a child. To draw with that level of density of the page! 🙂
So, until next time — lots of small things.
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where is the “love” emoji?? SO cool
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Thanks, Melissa! I hope the semester is winding down smoothly. 🙂
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This is great. How long has it taken you to let the mind wander while drawing?
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I find I’m able to find a good state after warming up with 30 mins or so of sketches… colouring also helps get the ideas flowing. Thanks for reading. 🙂
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So cool! They look small, what paper size did you use? Love it
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Thank you, and thanks for reading. 🙂 The paper size is 9 x 12 inches, so yes, the characters are tiny.
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That’s crazy, with all those details! Tiny people dancing. I really like it, thanks for sharing!
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Haha, well it helps to have a tiny pen! Thank you for commenting and reading. 🙂
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Oh my goodness you are so talented! Those are quite the doodles!
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Thank you for reading. 🙂
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Oh Shirley, I love these! Each teeny figure distinctive, and with so much personality. They made me a little nostalgic for Richard Scarry’s books, did you ever have those?
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Thanks for commenting, and the reminder of Scarry’s work – I remember reading some of his books at our school library. His characters are delightful; his whimsical and busy world is so cute! 🙂
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