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The deal is I’m trying to set some image published each Thursday. I missed last week for sure. Today is a double-header from around 2006: practice sketching cartoon characters based on a book I purchased on impulse on how to draw cartoons:
The first page is just practice drawing a simple character from repeated elements: nose, eyes, chin, ear, hair, smile. Then he gets a trapezoidal boy, simple arms, easy legs . . . . then we try posing him. On the next page we try to bring in some action.
A healthy reminder as to how you can achieve a great deal with simplicity, and that I should practice.
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/07/31/mr-iconoclast/
This is the first contemporary “doodle” that I’m posting. I hope there will be more. I have long had a crush on the word “iconoclast” which basically means non-conformist, someone who marches to their own drumbeat, conventions be damned. I like it because it kind of sounds like “ironclad”. The “ironclad iconoclast” chugging along the seas blowing up wooden preconceptions!
Yeah, anyway, that crazy guy with the mug is me. Seriously, I can drink coffee from a paper cup if I have to but why should I have to? So, if I’m headed to a cafe I pack my own mug. Of course, Starbucks will still hand me my pastry in a bag, like I’m some sort of cretin.
I don’t actually talk as much as “Mr Iconoclast” but I have smiled and answered “MUG SIZE!”
Also, that overly-wide middle line could be considered a bug, which I could have fixed on the computer, but have chosen to preserve for posterity. Nyah!
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/07/17/woman/
My other favorite. She kind of came out of nowhere, and for me evoked Jordan while doodling in Thailand.
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/07/10/violet-guy/
Inspired by a guy in Hat Yai, Thailand, but all mixed up, Picasso-style.
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/06/19/self-portrait/
Done in Thailand. I don’t recall if this was before or after I got sunburned. Pretty colorful for a white guy!
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/06/12/rhinoceros/
I was sitting in the Danish cafe in Kata, Thailand. I was thinking of the rhinoceros I photographed two months before at the Berlin Zoo. I drew him from memory, so this guy is one horn short and has floppy ears like my old dog, Max. I did try to move him, in my fantasy, from institution to the great outdoors.
This is a favorite of mine.
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/05/15/lines/
I had started with the lines of a womans face, and how her hair flows in a way that conveys motion, then played with the idea of scan lines. Food for thought, anyway.
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/05/08/lady/
I was doodling in a cafe or a bar in Thailand and a woman told me to draw her. Obviously I am not a portrait artist and this woman looks a bit odd. But I like this drawing somehow: I think its the eyes, and how she almost comes out right but since she is off-kilter she is more interesting.
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http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/05/01/guy-2/
Again, at the Danish cafe in Kata, Thailand. This green man and the blue bookshelf are on the same page as the coffee cup.
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