I love it when summer is a bit chilly and windy (like in Denmark at the moment) so I can hang out outside in the shade in my sleeping bag.
We’re testing out our camping gear at the moment to prepare for a bike packing trip next week. So I need to REALLY check if my sleeping bag is good.
We spent two nights in our new tent in the garden, which was so fun that it almost made me want to stay home. But (luckily) we have family and friends to visit, so we have to pack up the tent and get going soon.
These puppers are only now realising that they’re on summer break. And it’s a very blobby feeling! (Yes I’m on summer break from today and my brain is a blob).
You’re welcome to print out the blobby dogs and put them on your office door (or wherever you work) to let your colleagues know when you’re away for the summer. I put a less creative tiny note on my door today, since I hadn’t made these blobs yet. Maybe I’ll make a “back to work” or “Hello I’m back” version in August.
This blob dog was the first one I doodled:
It showed up in the middle of another drawing and inspired the making of the rest of the pups, so I decided to honour it with its own colours (which very much makes it look like a balloon animal).
This chicken doesn’t really look cool or know how to drink from a glass.
But it remembers to stay hydrated in the heat and not only drink coffee but also water even though coffee is delicious.
This fox wants everyone to enjoy the weekend:
It’s basically me today, except I’m less orange, more human and indoors.
Summer went back to normal (cold) in Denmark. But it’s actually fine, because colder weather makes me want to stay indoors and draw lots of doodles of foxes and stuff.
It started with a simple enough question: “Can you draw a pelican kind of in the same style as the bear?”
Me: Sure!
Eh, I’d better Google what a pelican actually looks like.
There!
Except, they probably live near the sea and not in small lakes…
So here it is on a rock in some water:
One of the things that came up in the google image search were flying pelicans with their legs tucked in. Which is now one of my favourite things to draw:
What was the question again?…
I’m watching Parks and Recreation for the (just about) 10th time at the moment. It’s still such a great show, and it makes me appreciate working in an office! Even though there’s (a lot) less crazy stuff happening all the time where I work (luckily).
This is Ron Swanson’s face in Season 2, Episode 4 when Tom discovers Ron’s secret identity as Duke Silver, the smooth talking saxophone man:
It starts off innocently enough when I’m taking notes at work.
Gathering my thoughts and drawing a line to continue with something else, like so:
But then I sometimes just want to add the short vertical lines to make it look nice:
And then the dots are where the trouble begins:
Because then this is inevitable:
It happened (again!) today…
Living together means trying not to annoy your partner every second of every day. But… it’s difficult. So instead of being annoying IRL for a bit I made this gif 😀
I havent’ made a lot of animations so it takes me a while (read hours!). But I think the result is hilarious so it’s totally worth it.
I was in a hurry to get to the animation part so I drew the doodles quite fast, forgetting my glasses and other details. Also, I always draw hands wrong – the thumb is always on the opposite side of where it’s supposed to be. So you’ll notice me turning around in the middle of creeping up.
Time to practice my bike drawing skills! I’ve always found it almost impossible to draw a bike that looks normal. And, apparently, I’m not the only one, which Gianluca Giminis fantastic project Velocipedia clearly shows (shown to me by a certain bike nerd who plays an important role in this post).
I’ve become quite happy with mountainbiking these past couple of years. Fortunately, I live with the mentioned bike expert/nerd who is willing to help me improve my biking skills as well as my drawing skills.
Here are my doodles from today with a couple of helpful comments:
I don’t know what the last comment means. But I guess it matches my skills on an actual mountainbike quite well, since I’m probably about 25 years behind everyone else on the trail.
This week I discovered #mermay on Instagram, and since then I’ve had a lot of fun looking at the merpeople art in many different styles. And I, of course, had to draw my own.
In a lot of art with merpeople they are pictured looking like they are posing for the camera, which is fun, but I wanted to make this mermaid swim like she’s just going about her normal mer-business.
After finishing the drawing, I also made a second version without the pencil lines – for a more mysterious, blurry and magical look:
I’m impressed with the commitment that some artists have to draw each day like with #mermay and #inktober etc. It inspires me to draw something every day too, even though it’s just a tiny doodle sometimes.
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