Swirly doodle #34

The exploding volcano... yes, no, kind of? Well that's what I think anyway, what about you? please feel free to comment on any doodle, tell me what you think it looks like.

Swirly doodle #33

I really like this one, I don't know why this one got more complicated... where the hell did I get the time? Oh well, no matter. It looks like an insect of some sort, and that's pretty cool.

Swirly doodle #32

Alright, exams are over for now, no more all-nighters for a bit, it's time to play catch up. I have been doing doodles every day still (simpler ones due to time constraints, the aforementioned exams being the cause of that), just not getting them darkened to scan well, so I caught up on that today after doing today's doodle. I kind of like the pointy nature of this one; two lines, yet elegant.

Swirly doodle #31

Mom wanted one that looked like an infinity symbol... it's vertical though so it's more like an eight, but what was I supposed to do, I explained to her how these work with my almond-shaped base. Artistic license I guess. Also this marks the one month anniversary of the start of this project. So far so good and going strong. I've made up my mind that I will start the second 366 project on January 1st, since that is sort of a requirement for the next one, at least it is in my mind. I'll reveal more details when it gets closer to time to start.

Swirly doodle #30

This one looks like some sort of jellyfish or octopus or squid, something like that, to me. I was going for a little more horizontal length since I was noticing that most of them are longer in the vertical direction.

Swirly doodle #29

And finally here's the one that I actually did today. I was a little stressed for time on this one, and was distracted by the baseball game (we actually won today! Yippee!), so I could have done more with it, but I think it's decent anyway. And since what I think is what counts around here I guess you'll just have to live with it, so there ;-P

Swirly doodle #28

This one took longer to make, as most of my radial doodles do. The idea was based around those center parallel lines that cross each other at the sides of the base there before moving on separately. Definitely enjoyed doing this one.

Swirly doodle #27

This is the smallest one I've done so far. I intended to do more with it, but I got this far and everything I tried to add just made it look ugly. I figured this cute little one was good enough for one day.

Swirly doodle #26

Alright time to start playing catch up with the scanning, starting with #26, from October 10th. This one I especially like the way those two points come together on the sides near the bottom. I think that really turned out neat.

Posting delays

Sorry I haven't scanned in the last few doodles yet. I have been keeping up with making them I just have been distracted with other things *cough*postseasonbaseball*cough*. Anyway, tomorrow should be a good day to get caught up on scanning, so expect a flurry of doodles tomorrow/today, whatever you want to call it. Maybe I should just use the date and say the 13th, Thursday. There.

Swirly doodle #25

Here's a smaller simple one I did in about an hour and a half, since I wanted time to do this one, darken it for a good scan, and get my spades doodle from yesterday darkened as well. All of this had to be done in the four hours I had after getting home from the awesome Brewers win in game 1 of the NLCS against the Cardinals. I suppose some of it could have been worked on before leaving for the game, or even while I was at the stadium before the game started, (I usually arrive early to avoid traffic and crowding to make sure I don't miss any of the game that I've paid for to attend) but I just didn't feel like it. So this one's a little simpler, but I like it, though that bottom half circle part is a little crooked compared to the one on the top. Oh well, as I've said before this is partially an exercise in being satisfied with things even if they aren't perfect. Anyway, here it is.

Swirly doodle #24

Look, this one was completed at 11:40pm, but it's not ready to scan and I just don't feel like taking the time to do that right now. I don't care if nobody else believes me that I did one before midnight, I wouldn't be able to count the project as being legit if I didn't and I would scrap it to start anew. I wouldn't lie to myself is basically what I'm saying, I'm not that proud. So I'll edit this post sometime tomorrow with a nice scan of my Spades doodle, probably at the same time I post #25. See ya then, after the Brewers hopefully win Game 1 of the NLCS! Woot!
EDIT: Here's the doodle.

Swirly doodle #23

I can't believe it, we actually won and are going on to the NLCS against the Cardinals. This is about the best outcome we could have hoped for.
Here's the third in the card suit series: Clubs. The right, uh, leaf part is smaller than the left one, but it still turned out nice I think. Also the top looks a little funky. I would've changed it but I was running out of time so I decided that it was okay how it was. Whatever it still looks like clubs, more or less, so mission accomplished.

Baseball

Well, we've unfortunately come down to the wire, if the Brewers manage to suck today like they did in Arizona then their season will be over. I'm really shocked that they did so poorly in both of those games, at least from a pitching standpoint. I was really hoping not to be going to a game today, but alas, here we are. I just have a feeling that it's over, I don't want to jinx it by saying that, but I think it's true regardless. We have a history of buckling under pressure, I know Ryan Braun said he lives for those pressure moments in games, but most of the rest of the team seem to have trouble when it really counts. They expand the strike zone too much and try too hard to hit those big home runs. They get too tense and make bad swings at bad pitches (or god ones, depending on whose side you're on). I've noticed this trend especially from Rickie Weeks. This entire postseason he's been doing this, and it's only worked out once. It's a shame since he's normally a pretty decent hitter, but whenever he's in those pressure situations he almost always seems to fail. I really hope I'm wrong about them losing today's game, I really do, but somehow I think this is the end of Brewers baseball this year. Also if Prince does not sign with Milwaukee, which looks more and more likely, it will be the end of an era.

Swirly doodle #22

It's done, but I haven't darkened the lines for a good scan, and I'm way too tired to do it right now. So here's a crappy scan instead (for now). By the way this is the second in my card suits series: Diamonds.
 EDIT: Re-scan

Swirly doodle #21

As promised, here is the first in a series of four based on the suits in a deck of cards. Quite obviously, this one is hearts. Looks to me like it got a titch lopsided, but like I mentioned once before, the bigger ones tend to do that.

Swirly doodle #20

Simple one today, got a late start on it. Nothing else to say really.

Swirly doodle #19

I don't feel like writing a bunch of stuff about this one today, had a nasty fever earlier, going to bed now. Here's the picture.

Swirly doodle #18

I was going to keep doing stuff to this one, but I like the way it looks now so I think it's good, not to mention my eyes were starting to cloud over from sleepiness. Also keep it up Brewers 2-0 in the NLDS against the Diamondbacks... hell yeah!
After I finish this piece of paper, which is two more doodles, I will do a series of four based on the suits of cards. I did one in chemistry my freshman year of college that coincidentally looked like it could be spades. I will be doing an original design for spades but that first one gave me the idea. So that will be doodles #21-24.

Swirly doodle #17

This one got a little lopsided on me, which considering its size is a little unusual since it's typically the larger ones that get lopsided. That's okay though, part of this project for me is an exercise in perfection, in the sense that I can't spend hours and hours perfecting something that has to be finished in a 24 hour period. So they aren't all going to be absolutely perfectly symmetrical and I'm okay with that.
Actually looking at it again it doesn't seem that bad, it looked pretty bad when I was right up in it while working on it. Which is also odd since they usually look worse when I look at them from a distance. Whatever, it works, it's done, time for bed.