Lazy Sunday Drawing Session

Suffered through a too-lazy-to-do-anything weekend. So I played with the cats, did small amounts of house-keeping and sat at the desk for a couple of hours staring at Pinterest and drawing some of what I saw there. 

I also had some Old-Time Radio shows playing to distract me from those worries that bubble up when I sit quietly and draw; and mostly to keep my brain away from current events. We are in a very dark time.

OTR has been a favorite distraction and entertainment for me since the late 70s. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Gunsmoke. "Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look for, and the last they wanna meet. It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely..." That's the stuff!

A nice, quiet couple of hours. And now, back to work...

Head Shots

Head doodles. How is it done? Just play along with me...

First! Draw a circle or an oval or a square, then make an eye or a mouth or a triangle for the nose, then let the features flow from the tip of the pencil and see what you get. Maybe look at a picture to get an idea for hair, or find a nose that doesn't look like the noses you usually draw. The characters stack up and rarely do two look the same.

You can reference the work of other cartoonists, too; maybe there are head shapes you haven't happened to have doodled yet. Copy a head shape, but put the eyes a bit higher, make the nose bigger, turn that smile into a frown.

My heads here are fairly restrained, they do not venture into the realm of the more distorted cartoony caricatures, but I have recently not been so daring.

I might try to expand my idle-doodle-time to include full figures. That takes a bit more concentration but it's a lot of fun, too.

24 cartoony head doodles.

I suppose could make videos of these drawings with the screen capture feature in ClipStudio. I've done that before but I wasn't amused by the effort of wrangling iMovie to make it presentable. It wasn't hard after all few tries but I burnt out on it while learning how to do it. I should go back and take another shot at it.

There. A project for my next bout of insomnia!

The end.