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Doodling with color and an online doodle toy.

Posted by Ampersand | February 3rd, 2007

This is kind of fun… a painless way for me to try and doodle around with color (I’ve always been scared of color, but now I’m trying to get over it). This site (which I found via the very well-drawn blog Watch Me Draw!) allows you to create animations showing how a drawing was made. I’ve made a couple of the animations, which are below the fold…

Like a lot of my drawings, this face looks a bit like a muppet.

I’ve been doodling this guy, or variants on him, for many years.

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8 Responses to “Doodling with color and an online doodle toy.”

  1. queer dewd formerly known as ( ) Writes:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 4:41 am

    wow. that *is* awesome Amp.

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  2. DJ Writes:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 5:58 pm

    Love it! But now there’s one more way I’m going to waste time out of my day procrastinating! :)

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  3. Ampersand Writes:
    February 3rd, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    Thanks, QDfka() and DJ!

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  4. Blue Writes:
    February 4th, 2007 at 12:38 am

    Very cool.

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  5. karpad Writes:
    February 4th, 2007 at 2:02 am

    you know, this might just be because of my recent rereading of Contract with God/Droopsie Avenue, but has anyone told you your art reminds me of Will Eisner?

    I would assume you’ll take that as the compliment that’s intended as.

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  6. Ampersand Writes:
    February 4th, 2007 at 3:13 am

    I can’t say I see much resemblance to Eisner in my drawing. But I certainly do take it as a compliment! There’s no one whose cartooning I like better than Eisner’s.

    (I actually took a class from Eisner once.)

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  7. karpad Writes:
    February 4th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    it’s not an aping of style directly or anything. just something about the charactierization. a weird hovering between realistic and caricature (of these, punkboy is much more in the vein I’m talking about than redhead.)

    that, and the page flow and dynamics you had on Hereville (really loved that by the way). I swear I’m not making the comparison simply because I’ve never seen anyone else write about jewish kids.

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  8. B Writes:
    February 6th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Wow. You are a good artist.

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