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Friday, September 30, 2011

Swirly doodle #16

And September is over, four full sheets of paper front and back are complete. I am actually really having fun with this so far, we'll see if that keeps up or not.
Two things have occurred to me since starting this project, both pointed out to me by other people. One is that these designs are very much like the tattoos that seem to be so popular among young adults, you know the "tribal" style ones. I suppose that's true enough, so if anyone wants to use one as a tattoo design I guess that's cool. I know I put copyrights on all of these but I'm not exactly going to hold anyone to it. What can I realistically do? How would I even know if someone had taken the design without permission? If it floats your boat than by all means go for it.
Second is that it would be much easier to replicate the symmetry if I used graphing paper instead of a simple sketch pad. That's part of what makes this fun and somewhat of a challenge though, trying to get that symmetry freehanded. So I will continue to use plain white paper for these. And without further ado here is #16.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Swirly doodle #15

Back to something simpler. I like this one quite a bit. I'm so tired, felt like crap today so I stayed home from school. Feeling a little off again now, gotta get a good night's sleep, that should help immensely. I'm not terribly happy that Game 1 of the NLDS in Milwaukee starts at 1:07pm, since I specifically picked my season seats on the other side of the stadium so I wouldn't be in the sun for day games. Even if they couldn't have put everyone in the exact seats they had as seat holders it would have been nice for them to at least try to put people in the same general location... Anyway here's the doodle.

Scanner part deux

Doodles should be better quality from now on, as I found a better way to scan them, it just requires that I make the lines a bit darker to begin with, which means they will take a little more time. Although I may finish a doodle before the midnight deadline, the darkening process for scanning may take a bit longer so that may cause delays in posting.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Swirly doodle #14

Did this one mostly between classes today. I like this one quite a bit, but it turned out a bit light. It'll get fixed later like all the rest.
Side note: Home field advantage and best single season record ever for the Brewers! Yay!

Swirly doodle #13

Stupid Diamondbacks, just go away and let us have home field advantage already, sheesh...
Anyway, here's #13 for you. Sorry it's late I was waiting to see how the aforementioned Diamondbacks did in their game, since it was kind of important.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Swirly doodle #12

Finally did one ahead of schedule instead of last minute. I think there's a part in the center there that kind of reminds me of Darth Vader's helmet, only the chin part is pointy. Heh, still neat.

Just a Thought

Looking back, really the only doodle that got a little too messy/complicated was #5, the rest have been just complex enough to be interesting. I've also noticed that the first ones were generally larger, with a larger base (that oval/almond shape in the middle is the base for all the doodles), again the exception being #5. Tomorrow's doodle (today, technically since it is the 26th at time of posting) will be an attempt at getting back to that. I really don't understand how they kept getting smaller but I think I'm going to try to be a little more consistent with the base size.

Actually, no I'm not going to be more consistent. That's just stupid. It's going to be hard enough to make 366 of the damn things without them becoming same-y, so anything to help them be a little more diverse is probably a good thing.

Meh, whatever, I'll probably just do what I've been doing: start drawing and see where it takes me.

Swirly doodle #11

Started this one while at the Brewers game today (awesome game BTW), I think it looks a bit like a frog.
Ribbit.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Swirly doodle #10

Between feeling unmotivated today and deciding that some of the doodles were a little complicated I made this very simple one in about 20 minutes. It seem more like the base for a better one but it was 11:00 when I started this one, so too bad.

Blah.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Swirly doodle #9

Here's 9. Late post because I was watching the Brewers WIN THE DIVISION!!! WOOOO!!!

Also, it seems that this is the smallest one yet. Hm...

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Swirly doodle #8

Ugly see through on this one guys. It'll get cleaned up later like the rest of them. At least you can see what I did today. EDIT: Fixed this one up so it looks better. :D

So my day started off crappy, had a real hard time waking up. I wanted to go to the arcade today when I was up yesterday, but didn't feel like it upon getting up today. Went to school, which was alright, came home and was going to take a nap, but I still had ITG on the brain and I wasn't sleepy anymore after being up for so long anyway. So I went to the arcade for a few hours after all, finally saw Dave there. Anyway that meant I wasn't home until after 7:00pm so I didn't get to make the awesome doodle I have in my had because that one will take more time to get right. So you get this, which isn't bad... it just isn't the one I really wanted to make today.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Swirly doodle #7

Holy crap I did it... a whole week. Since this one s early I'm going to start going back to clean up the images. I'm going to go back over the pencil drawings to make the lines a bit crisper and darker, then re-scan them and go in with the eraser tool in paint to make it so only the lines I want are left. None of that weird fuzzy crap around the outside and no see through of the drawing on the other side of the page... HMPH!

Uh, right sorry, here's #7!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Swirly doodle #6

6! One more and it'll have been a whole week! only 51 more like it to go! Well, here's to hoping.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Swirly doodle #5

Here's #5. Good on me for even getting this far. I think due to my scanner issues I'm going to go back and clean up the ones I've done so far, as well as cleaning the images before posting. This may lead to some being posted after midnight on any given day even if the doodle was done the day before.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Scanner

So it looks like this scanner is able to see through to the backside of each page thanks to that damned scanning light being so bright. This is causing some of the drawings to look a bit muddied up thanks to any drawings on the other side. I'm not going to waste paper just to resolve this, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. Just letting you know that I am indeed aware of this slight blemish.

Swirly doodle #4

This one is a little small I guess, but it's a little more intricate as well so... compromise!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Swirly doodle #3

I've been up tonight with insomnia so I did #3 already, since I'll be at the arcade at Anime Fan Zone today I figured I would post this one a little earlier. It is technically the 17th now so I might as well right? It was also the 17th when I started and finished this piece so I didn't cheat or anything.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Swirly doodle #2

Alright 2 in a row! I'm on a roll! This one is supposed to be somewhat arrow shaped as I am going to go play some Dance Dance Revolution tomorrow. Side note: most of these are not going to have shapes or inspirations behind them, but I'll let you know when they do.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Swirly doodle #1

Alright here's the first one of 366 (since it's going to be a leap year). Part of the shape for this one was inspired by the baseball diamond, since I was at the (disappointing) game yesterday I came up with using that as one of the main shapes in this doodle.

Revision

I meant to start that project ON my birthday, turned out to be not a very nice day to start something like this. See, one of our cats was diagnosed with diabetes about a month ago, but a combination of her age and difficulty getting the disease under control was making her miserable. We decided it was better to let her go. She wasn't exactly our favorite (sounds awful, I know) but we still loved her and it made me a little too sad to give a rat's ass about doing anything else today. (Okay I know it's technically Thursday already but only by an hour, so sue me.) Anyway I'll start tomorrow, that way the project will end on my birthday next year.

P.S. I realize there's basically no chance anyone is even reading this and cares yet, but I'm going to write as if all my loyal fans are hanging on my every word, so there.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

A simple introduction

Hi there, my name is Ashley and I live in Milwaukee. I intend to start a 365 project based on this website/book: http://makesomething365.blogspot.com. I also intend to do multiple projects, the first of which will be simple, and will start tomorrow on my 23rd birthday. I will simply make what I call a swirly doodle, which is more or less exactly what it sounds like. I've made some before, and once I start uploading the ones I make for this project you'll quickly see that they are all similar in style and don't take a whole lot of creativity or thought process. This is more to get me used to the idea of making myself do one each day in preparation for more involved projects starting on New years day. I will update you on this once I have the final idea and start this project then.

A few other notes. I am not emo, not even close even though the title of the blog may sound like I am. This is a combination of a play on words and the simple fact that this is an attempt to get my ass up and do something. The play on words is this. My name is Ashley, as mentioned before, thus the ashes. Also I love the phoenix mythology, so it all fits quite nicely. Also "blargimazombie" is my XBOX360 gamertag, and something I now use partially as a joke and partially since anything related to "ashes" or "phoenix" when coming up with things like HTML addresses is already taken since those things tend to be cliches and overused by people, therefore even if I tried I cant use them without overcomplicating them or adding ridiculous numbers and symbols and crap like that.

Anyway, my first post of the project will be tomorrow after the Brewers beat the Rockies. In fact the doodle will probably be done between innings. Go Brewers!