Exciting weekend/month/ TIME for me – finally moving into a new apartment (after moving 6 times in one year!) AND Christmas is coming up. Decorating the place with Christmas gear that I haven’t seen in a long time makes unpacking so much more cheerful. The same goes for trying to sing phrases like “Iiii’m moving iiiin to a new apartment” on the melody of Deck The Halls. Lots of cheer.
In spite of this windy Monday, a couple of lucky beasts got some colour. These three look a bit like squirrels.
They’re everywhere now! Squeezing their way onto my paper wherever there’s room for a beast.
I found these tiny, beasty doodles squeezed in between my work notes from a long meeting.
Now I’m having a lot of Sunday fun giving them a bit of colour.
… I think…
I drew this exactly 2 years ago, so waaayy before the blog days. But it’s still a favorite.
Happy Halloween!
Actually, I wear a scarf about 350 days of the year… But it’s oficially cold now.
Okay so. I drew this doodle about 6 weeks ago. Most often I switch off my thoughts while I’m drawing, and it’s only afterwards I try to decide what they mean. Based on the shape and colour of the above doodle, I initially thought:
“These look like colourful clouds from the 80’s or something! Nice to do some abstract work.”
But since then I’ve started working with social media, and I keep hearing Danes use the word “shitstorm” about situations in which a company gets a massive amount of bad press on social media.
Now all I can see in my colourful cloudy doodle are flying turds. Oh well. At least it led to this new non-abstract definitely-a-turd doodle:
My writer buddy Marie wrote a very informative blog article about the diva cup – Read her arguments for why the cup is a sustainable alternative to tampons and towels here (in Danish).
I volunteered to draw a doodle to go with the article and bam! Creative and friendly collaboration happening.
It was fun to do this specific drawing job because I have a lot of creativity that I don’t always know where to put. Having a deadline made me squeeze in some very productive doodle time after work, when I usually just watch Youtube.
Hug, don’t hog
I normally work alone on my drawings, but having a discussion with Marie about my art work as well as her text turned out to be very fruitful – for both of us, I think! So I definitely recommend sharing creative work with friends or colleagues. I’m at least going to try to fight the urge to hog my stuff – both drawings and writings – and show it to people before it’s 100 % done.
Here’s an overview of the creative process:
Aaaand shorts-and-sweater weather is back.
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