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It does funny things to you

I admit it: the only reason I drew this doodle was to try out a new technique for drawing grass. Sad, huh.

The moon was a bonus, and where I found the title.

Seattle, WA | 2007.08.27 | Cast of Horribles | Meaningless, Moon

Moonlight always seems to have answers

The moon in an episode of Full Metal Alchemist inspired me to draw this doodle. It was another quick and simple doodle. Many times, they come out much better than the more complicated and intricate (and time-consuming) doodles.

I'm leaving for NYC tomorrow, and I probably won't have a chance to draw many Doodles until I return on Sunday. While I still have a number of backup Horribles, I won't be posting Wednesday or Thursday because of the Jewish holidays.

Seattle, WA | 2007.09.10 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Philosophy, Stars

The moonlight in your eyes

It's past New Years and this is the first Horrible of 2008. At the last moment, I switched the doodle. The next Horrible in the queue had a suffering tag, and I decided that wasn't a good way to start the New Years.

We had a relaxing day at home. Julie's sister Jennifer is in town until tonight, and we visited the local coffee house (where I managed to write something. I'm not sure if it's post worthy. After I finish this I'll take another look and see if I can clean it up), took Ziggy to the dog park, and I took a long nap. I don't remember the last time I napped. I think it's been a long time, way too long. I feel groggy but my soul feels rested, if that makes any sense. I definitely need to take more naps.

Besides the new mastheads at sewcrates, this is the first Horrible I've posted using my birthday gift.

Happy New Years!

Seattle, WA | 2008.01.01 | Cast of Horribles | Julie, Love, Moon

The sorry state of affairs

My mother is arriving tonight for a weekend visit. We all leave on Sunday, Julie and me to Hawaii, my mother back to Brooklyn. We have a Bat Mitzvah to attend on Saturday night, and our regular Friday dinner tomorrow night. I've just about mastered whole chicken. I should write up the recipe one of these days. The secret is rosemary. I've also had a hankering for mashed potatoes. I have a new cookbook, and I'll try to find a good potato recipe.

Seattle, WA | 2008.01.17 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Planets, Stars

It's looking at me again

I've been on a bit of a tear lately with new Horribles. I thought about increasing the posting frequency , but knowing myself only too well, I'm sure my tear will peak and I'll head back into the doldrums.

Speaking of doldrums, I've been in the hairy brown pit of doom lately. Not sure what sent me there, but the last few days have not been good ones. If I don't dig myself out soon, Julie will strangle me with a frying pan.

Mercer Island, WA | 2008.08.28 | Cast of Horribles | Moon

If you don't do it every day, you forget why you do it

This doodle is in league with my doodling philosophy: all good art requires is creating lots of art over a long enough period of time. This philosophy has been going around the internet recently through excerpts from Art and Fear (most recently via Kottke).

The book presents a study where pottery students are divided into two groups. The first group is graded on how much pottery they produce. The second group is instructed to create only one piece of pottery, and is graded on the perfection of that piece. The quantity group churned out plenty of pieces and learned from their mistake. The quality group, which sat around theorizing and thinking how best to create the pottery, ended up with lumps of clay.

While the experiment isn't exactly scientific (at least from the exerpts--as soon as the book's on Kindle, it'll go in my queue): We're not told the skill of the students. For beginners, this would be the obvious outcome. But for advanced students, perhaps with more time and thought, the results would be better. Thinking and planning doesn't always hurt.

For me, I realized that doodling as much as possible, and forgetting about quality or the perfect Horrible has made the creation process much more rewarding. This is a long way of excusing the current Horrible. It was another quickly drawn and titled doodle that sat in my queue for a while before I posted it.

I always hoped to apply my creation philosophy to my writing. I still haven't figured out how to turn off the filter and be happy with the words I scratch while I'm scratching.

Thanks to the magic of computer art, even my crappy doodles can be tolerable. I hope you've realized that the secret to my doodles is in the pen stroke. Take a closer look: the pen is splotty, with variable thickness and uneven lines. It makes even poorly drawn lines seem slightly artistic. And as long as I draw many poorly drawn lines, I can one day point to one or two Horribles to claim they're artistic.

Mercer Island, WA | 2009.02.19 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Philosophy

The day's demons still haunt me

I'm too tired to say anything this morning. This is not because of our visitor, who slept through the night. This tiredness was caused by too much sleep. I hate having to find the perfect amount of sleep every night. It's exhausting.

Mercer Island, WA | 2009.04.02 | Cast of Horribles | Demons, Moon, Night, Stars, Trees

My philosophy is overrated

I had a terrible headache yesterday. Today is a bit better but the pain is still lingering.

Mercer Island, WA | 2009.04.17 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Night, Philosophy

The universe must be looking out for me, right?

I've got nothing but scribbles for you these days.

Mercer Island, WA | 2009.05.17 | Cast of Horribles | Moon, Night, Stars

I should be sleeping

Another beautiful Monday morning. I can get used to this. The weekend went by quickly again. Lots of parks and dogs. I didn't doodle as much as I had hoped. I may end up paying for this.

Mercer Island, WA | 2010.02.22 | Cast of Horribles | Earth, Moon, Stars

The world is still watching

I intended to post my Olympics Horrible, but I can't find the energy to write about the experience. This one needs fewer words.

This was inspired from this cartoon background found in this collection of Pocahontas (1985) backgrounds.

Mercer Island, WA | 2010.03.01 | Cast of Horribles | Art, Moon, Stars, Trees, Water

You don't always realize when the universe is talking to you

. . . and even if you did, it's hard to hear what it's saying.

I woke up with a pain in the neck this morning. Literally. Not sure if I slept wrong or if I got whacked too many times in Naginata yesterday. As long as I don't look to quickly to the left I should be okay.