doodlejam

Anti-social Car

2011-12-01T14:02:00.001Z

Doodle done in a notebook while listening to a police representative at a Community Area Board meeting talking about "vehicles seen acting in an anti-social manner".

Bank phone call doodles

2011-10-24T10:30:00.000+01:00

On the phone to my bank, while waiting for the call centre member to consult his manager, these two little doodles decorated my page of notes. Signs of stress? Hmmmm.

Ellis Nadler's Sketchbook: Bird Brain

2011-10-23T11:27:00.000+01:00

Excellent sketchbook / ideas work by Ellis Nadler.

Ellis Nadler's Sketchbook: Bird Brain

Tree: Animated Colour Scribble

2011-07-22T16:16:00.000+01:00

Created on an Apple iPhone 3GS using Brushes.

Tree: Colour Scribble 2

2011-06-06T11:19:00.000+01:00

Water soluble pencils and crayons. Sketchbook. Sunday afternoon.

Tree: Colour Scribble

2011-06-03T16:41:00.000+01:00

Playing with colour pencils. Cheap ones. From Lidl. Doodled over a period of several cups of coffee.

Slobber Dog

2011-04-25T09:54:00.000+01:00

Pencil drawing of happy dog.

Upon the thoughts of @helloitselliot

2011-04-15T18:09:00.000+01:00

Sketch upon the thoughts of @helloitselliot at Belvedere cafe.
This is one that almost got away. I'd forgotten I'd originally uploaded it to Twitpic.

City have a strong bench

2011-04-15T11:30:00.001+01:00

Doodling in sketchbook while listening to radio commentary.
Summariser: “City have a strong bench.”

Lamy fountain pen and digital colour.

Ooh! A lovely new fountain pen!

2011-04-15T10:17:00.002+01:00

A new Lamy fountain pen, bought in Brighton at Pen to Paper.

Absolutism

2011-04-14T22:44:00.002+01:00

Sketchbook doodle that developed ideas above its station.
Ink and watercolour. A5.

Meat

2011-04-10T14:34:00.000+01:00

Coloured pencil. More about this drawing on miketoons.com

Three little doodlettes

2011-04-04T10:22:00.002+01:00

Alipanga. Dancing and skipping doodlettes. Listening to ska by Don Drummond. Fountain pen.

Blobs (oily or otherwise). Pencil

Doodle with man, car and motifs. Fountain pen.

A woman I have never met

2011-04-02T20:28:00.000+01:00

Sketchbook drawing in indian ink with watercolour.

Fine Doodle by Mr Emilios Hatjoullis

2011-03-29T15:30:00.004+01:00

Doodle by friend 'Mo Hatjoullis who I've known since our days working together in the early 1970s at Brunnings Liverpool.

Thanks 'Mo. :-)

Charante River at Taillebourg

2011-03-19T08:00:00.003Z

View from friend Paul's gîte in Taillebourg.
Rooftop of outbuilding, Charante River and bank opposite.

Caran d'Ache Neocolor water soluble crayons.

The birth of Roger Frames

2011-03-18T00:09:00.000Z

Very first ideas for the Roger Frames cartoon character and page masthead scribbled in a reporter's lined notepad.

Top scribble looks like a spiv!

Commissioned by Commodore Format (Future Publishing) in 1990.

Angoulême sketch: Walt Kelly's Pogo

2011-03-17T11:07:00.001Z

Pencil sketch of a Walt Kelly panel from a Pogo cartoon strip: original art dated 9 May 1955.
Sketch done at Les Musées Imaginaires de la Bande Dessinée, Angoulême, France in June 2003.

Telephone doodles

2011-03-16T08:00:00.006Z

Doodles in a reporter's notepad done while I was listening to someone on the 'phone.
I've used Photoshop to edit out the notes I took during the call.

Love Crazy P

2011-03-15T08:00:00.001Z

Pencil and watercolour sketchbook doodle.

More Dave Cooper-isms

2011-03-14T08:00:00.021Z

Doodles inspired by Dave Cooper's 'Porcelain Girls' (painting and preliminary drawing), 'pip and norton' (strip cartoon).

(A5 sketchbook. Pencil and watercolour.)

I am simultaneously entranced / horrified by Dave Cooper's art.
On reflection, that double edge applies to many of my artistic and musical interests.

George Grosz
Kirchner
Egon Schiele
Lucien Freud
Eric Gill
Robert Crumb

Béla Bartók
Alfred Schnittke
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Poul Ruders

Just a quick shortlist. There are many more.

Three fingers. And different black lines.

2011-03-13T09:00:00.003Z

Comparing the quality of line from different pens and brushes. And some doodles with ink and watercolour.

View from Tate Modern: October 2002

2011-03-12T23:26:00.002Z

Pencil sketch in Moleskin sketchbook. View from the cafe terrace at Tate Modern looking towards St Paul's cathedral, River Thames and the Millennium Bridge.

Imagined hieroglyphs

2011-03-11T08:00:00.001Z

Sketch for an ancient iTablet app.
May need to learn stone carving.

(Faber-Castell Pitt brush-pens.)

Whodunnit?

2011-03-10T08:00:00.007Z

Sketchbook doodle: Whodunnit?
Ancient worlds, ancient languages, archeologist, Dutch landscape artist, dead body.
It's a mystery.

doodlejam lettering

2011-03-09T11:19:00.000Z

playtime with lettering: watercolour and colour pencil

Branching out

2011-03-08T12:48:00.003Z

Pencil sketch in Moleskin sketchbook.

Inspired by Dave Cooper

2011-03-07T10:15:00.002Z

Sketchbook drawing inspired by ('copied' from) Dave Cooper - Porcelain Girls.
25 January 2011.

Red pen doodle - man with basket

2011-03-06T12:09:00.001Z

Doodle in A4 ruled pad. Telephone doodle, drawn whilst listening to client droning on.

Begging cup

2011-03-05T08:58:00.002Z

Watercolour doodle.

Moth planes. Or plane moths.

2011-03-04T00:30:00.001Z

Someone left the window open this evening.

Amsterdam sketches: September 1997

2011-03-04T00:26:00.001Z

Inconsiderate hairstyle.

Concert interval.

Sketch of customer in Gollem Bar, Amsterdam. Plus note of beers sampled.

Crazy traditional design of glass for Pauwel Kwak Tap, which needs a wooden brace to keep it upright.

Another customer in Gollem Bar, Amsterdam.

Sketch of guy from Memphis. Sitting at beer table during the Heineken brewery tour. Stereotypical American: loud, opinionated, egotistic. Why did nobody tell him?

People in the Zuiderzee Museum Restaurant, Enkhuizen, Netherlands.

Brillen - Nederlands word for spectacles.
The museum's window featured these strange sculptural display stands.

Doodles from 1994

2011-03-04T00:10:00.002Z

Subconsciously Libya?

2011-03-03T16:08:00.000Z

While investigating what I could do with a new box of watercolours, this image emerged. In a week dominated by the revolt and strife in Libya it seems to have been influenced by those events.