In defense of doodling

I drew this while sleeping. 8/21/2011

No bad days. 5/12/2011

Messing around with a brush pen on a large envelope. 5/11/2011

Sand painting from several years ago, hanging up at my mother’s in law apartment.

I tried drawing tonight but it just wasn’t happening. Too distracted and preoccupied. So in lieu of that, here’s a painting from summer 2004.

More workplace doodles

Pompadour, sometime in Aug 2006

Assorted shapes drawn around a flowchart, Jan 2008

Better paper but not as relaxed as the previous entry. 4/26/2011

Another old drawing from the Newton days. 4/6/2001

And now for something completely different. Maybe I should be drawing on something other than scrap cheap copy paper. 4/24/2011

The one nice thing about this awful job I had in Newton, MA was the park on the other side of the Mass Pike. 4/20/2001

Self-portraits, then and now. 4/23/2011

Bats. 4/21/2011

Some animals on scrap paper while working. 4/20/2011

I found this napkin doodle in a box of work stuff that had been sitting unopened and unexamined since I got laid off in Aug 2009. I don’t know why I kept it in the first place.

From the back page of this notebook, so date unknown. I need to figure out what to scan next.

Dinosaur riding. 5/25/2008

Stump at Big Lake, Oregon. 7/21/1999

At least I’m aware of it. 4/2008

Take that! 4/2008

More faces. 4/2008

I wonder what’s in the box. 3/25/2008

Just some doodling. 3/25/2008

Godzilla. 3/9/2008

Spunky looking doodle. 6/21/2008

Mt. Washington as viewed from a camp site at Big Lake, Oregon. 7/21/1999

The game ended before I could finish her top half. 4/26/2008

Experimenting with digital inking and coloring. 4/7/2011

John McCain. 4/19/2008

Ok, so maybe Hillary Clinton’s overbite isn’t this bad… 4/19/2008

Doodle of a coworker. 4/19/2008

I could go for some neural jacks at the base of the neck. 4/12/2008

Showing doodles in real life

Last week, I showed the Red Moleskine to someone and got all flustered and shy in the process. *boggle* I guess there’s a big difference between posting to the more-or-less anonymous Internet (and not being particularly sure anyone is listening) and sitting across a coffee table from someone while they flip through the unfiltered versions and all the notes surrounding them.

Some more D&D doodles. 4/12/2008

Hey! This isn’t a doodle! Well, I never said everything would be… I framed this drawing and hung it up in my living room. 7/27/2004

Sword and a faint medusa. Maybe she’s a ghost medusa… ooh, that’s good. *scribbles notes furiously* 4/5/2008

I’m not sure exactly onto what she’s holding. This was doodled while DMing a D&D game on 4/5/2008.

More doodles from a D&D notebook

A couple of faces from the margins made while playing Dungeons and Dragons

1/17/2005

6/6/2005

Lesson learned: using ‘tomorrow’ as a date for a queued post can have unexpected results if you edit that post after midnight

Continuing the vampire theme from yesterday, an old doodle of Batboy. 6/7/2001

Just a little Nosferatu doodled while working on my taxes. 3/28/2011

Only doodle in a black moleskine I found in a box of papers. 3/27/2007 Yeah, sitting there unused for 4 years. Why do I waste money like this?

Now, this is a handlebar mustache. 11/6/2010

A beholder, which was the name of the ship we were on. 11/6/2010

I was thinking about the Burgess Shale between 2/6/2010 & 2/13/2010

More organic designs from D&D night, and evidently an idea for a +5 adamantine cod piece. 2/6/2010

Since this isn’t a doodle on company time, I don’t have to crop out any of the incriminating details. Although this is a doodle from a Pathfinder game session, so maybe that’s incriminating enough on its own… sorry Mr. Skordal, my handwriting never got any better. 2/6/2010

One last doodle found on a back page in the Red Moleskine. Date unknown 2008-2009.

A faceless head. Unknown date, found in a Moleskine from 2008-2009

Some doodles while I was waiting for some tests to complete. Yes, yellow legal pad. The two characters, of course, are inspired by Evan Dorkin’s Milk & Cheese. 3/15/2011