Since I was in high school I use to buy cheap drawing pads to doodle on. I also use to doodle on just about everything I could get my hands on, but I liked having a nice clean sheet of paper to mess up. Some times these doodles led to bigger ideas, characters for comics, or nothing at all. When I didn't have any drawing paper sometimes I would take a peices of copy paper and fold them in half to make a little sketch book.
This piece was inspired by coral. I had been diving in Honduras recently when I drew this and was trying to capture the uniqueness of the coral, especially the brain coral down there. I also like to do stuff like this to relax. The exactness and definition need concentration and it helps me to focus and relax. This was drawn on a piece of standard copy paper folded in half. I'm sure this is third or fourth attempt after a bunch or doodles that helped me get the look right. And led me to draw a bigger version.
Now this was actually drawn on the back of a piece of waterproof plasticized paper. A while back the Alaska Fisheries Observer program would issue you these for working on longline vessels. The front has a sample form printed on it but the back was left blank to do tally sampling and to make notes. It holds a pencil line very well and is awesome to draw on. And while digging through a pile of old doodle I found another piece of on waterproof paper
As I look at this now it's weird. I was thinking about clocks for some reason and this design and doodle kept coming out. This is a fleshed out doodle. All three piece were done sometime in 2003. I've decided this year that I'm going to start adding the month to my signature. I was looking at some MC Escher drawings and I was impressed that he actually would put the day in his sig. I don't know if I'd go that far but after thinking about it. It's a great way to be able to track your art through time.
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