Showing posts with label Doodle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doodle. Show all posts

Friday, May 07, 2010

The Great Gatsby

Hey Bloggers!  Just wanted to change it up today by posting some of my random doodles instead of the usual cafe sketches.  Two things I really love are old pictures and books...They fuel the imagination and are really great inspirations for costume design and character details. 

One site that I go to quite often is SHORPY.  They've got really great old photographs from different eras scanned in at super hi-resolution.  I was scanning through the site the other day and saw these two pictures.   For some reason, the book "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald went through my mind so I decided to do some doodles based off these two photographs.  

This could, perhaps be the book's narrator, Nick Carraway, the young 29 year old who is the neighbor to the enigmatic Jay Gatsby... 

Next up is this photograph of  three women on a miniature car.  Their hairstyles and carousing attitudes really spoke volumes and just made me want to draw them!  As you can see from the drawing below, I pretty much took the pose of the girl on the left and tweaked it a bit...
In Fitzgerald's novel,  this woman would have been Daisy Buchanan, Nick's lively cousin, long believed to have been inspired by Fitzgerald's love affair with a Chicago heiress!
She does look like a "Daisy" wouldnt you say! Hope you all enjoyed this post and be on the lookout for more!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Sketchbook Doodles

Hey bloggers, here's a couple of random doodles from the 'ol sketchbook for ya.  
I'll be posting more soon so stay tuned.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Friday, January 19, 2007

Ah, winter....An Ink doodle

Hey Bloggers....This here is Just an ink doodle that I did the other night. I'm working on a small comic that I'll hope to have done in a little while (which I will of course post here!!) But for now, here's a little peek of what I'm doing to loosen up. Enjoy!




Done with india ink and sable brush

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Old west Banker

Lately, I've been reading Amid Amidi's CARTOON MODERN which has been inspiring me to do looser, more stylized drawings and this was the result. This guy is a banker in the old west done in the old daguerrotype style of photography with a monochormatic sepia tone.




watercolor and pen with slight computer color alteration