Doodle 136 - Silence for Newtown

Doodle 135 - 12 Days of Xmas Time!

First, I want to thank everybody who participated on my surprise flash doodle contest!

I now have the incredibly difficult job to pick only 3 winners. I have to say... your doodles made me smile so much it hurt my cheeks, you are awesome. I will announce the winner on Saturday, so be on the lookout!

Today I was supposed to be watching The Hobbit at midnight, but I was so exhausted after work that we decided to be "responsible adults" (What?! I know, right?), and will be going to watch it Saturday instead (after watching My Little Pony, of course).

Anyway, I worked some more on the 12 cards I will be giving away:

WIP masks - blue mechanical pencil on watercolor paper. Aprox 15 mins.

And I finished today's giveaway!

Seahorse Mask - blue mechanical pencil, watercolors, micron pen. Aprox 1 hr

Ta-dah! This is my first time actually finishing a painting in many, maaaany years, sure it is small and watercolors, but I am so happy I still know how to use them (more or less).

And now on how you can be the proud owner of this beauty:

You can follow me @DrawingSaudade on twitter and retweet the post mentioning this competition.
You can like my facebook page and share the post mentioning this competition.
You can leave a comment on this post.

All entries must be made before 11 P.M. E.T. tomorrow. I know it is a short time, but I have 12 of these puppies to giveaway. Word of warning, if you have your heart set on this one, do try and get as many entries as you can because I am only doing one seahorse.

Yes, you can do all 3 and get up to 3 entries! If your twitter handle is different from your name just leave it on the comments here so I can make sure you get your right amount of entries.

And so, let the merriment begin!

Doodle 134 - More WIP

If you haven't heard, I am holding a contest to giveaway 3 artist trading cards, to hear more about it, visit this post.

You have until tomorrow, December 13 at 8:00 P.M. E.T. to get your entries in the contest!

Today I kept working on the 12 cards I will start giving away Thursday after the surprise contest is done. These cards will be actually finished colored pieces, I will unveil them each day as I finish them and let you know what you can do to win.

WIP masks - blue mechanical pencil on watercolor paper. Aprox 10 mins each.

I better start coloring them in!

Doodle 133 - Good News Everyone!

I discovered I actually drew 3 extra doodles for my doodle swap.

This means I have 3 cards that need homes. I assigned them to my doodle swap group at random, so I will do the same for these. You will also get a greeting card with terrible greetings by yours truly, because I suck at writing things on greeting cards, so they are as random as ever.

What do you need to do in order to win this veritable bounty?

Errr... hmmm....

Give me a second while I think of something... on the mean time, here is today's doodle, yes it is a work in progress for one of the masks cards I will be giving away later:

WIP mask card - blue mechanical pencil on watercolor paper. Aprox 5 mins.

OK since these are winter cards you can doodle a snowman or woman or creature and post it on my facebook page here.

I will give away the cards based on:

Originality: Think outside the box, grab that box and toss it into a volcano while singing carols using a falsetto voice, just go and let your imagination take hold.

Artistry: Are you into creating intricate things? Are you ready to show your skills? Well, knock yourself out, go crazy.

Cuteness: And just so we are clear, I consider most doodles by beginners awesomely cute. I love children's drawings and drawings by peeps that are getting their feet wet, so if you have never entered a contest like this and think you won't win, then think again! Go and doodle!

Everybody will have until Thursday December 13 at 8 p.m. E.T. to submit doodles, tell your family, tell your friends, pester complete strangers you meet on the street to enter the contest, why? Because the more doodles we all get to see, the more fun it is!

Remember, they don't need to be perfect, just have fun!

Doodle 132 - Final Winter Cards!

WooHoo! I am done with my artist trading cards, this means I'll FINALLY mail all the art I promised to mail (sorry everybody, I have no excuses, we can pretend a giant T-Rex was accosting the post office, it nearly ate the post master, charred a couple of P.O. boxes and totally messed up the automated postage machine, that dino is going to federal prison ya'll!... ahem...)

Aaaanyway, here is today's doodle batch, yes, with color!

Winter Cards - blue mechanical pencil, prismacolor pens, gold and silver ink on watercolor paper. Aprox 20 mins each.

And now that those are done... I can start a new series! Yes, remember the masks from a couple of Fridays ago? Well, I will be making 12 cards for the 12 days of Xmas and I will be giving them away as we count down to the big day.

I am making the game as I go, but basically, I will ask things, maybe get you guys to doodle stuff too, trivia, maybe even a bit of a scavenger hunt and reward the best efforts with a card. Since there will only be 12, once you win you can't win again (no card hogging! ;-) ), but participation is always encouraged, the more the merrier, right?

Anyway, look forward to it, I know I am, after all, I have best readers ever!

Doodle 131 - Animals Acting Strangely (part 2)

Soooo... I wasn't very productive art-wise today, but you can blame it all on one thing:

Skyrim expansion.

Oh yeah, I got sucked into Skyrim again, those darned dragons!

I can proudly say though, I am single-handedly saving that world, like boss! Hey, someone has to keep the virtual peeps from getting charred or attacked by who knows what, and that someone is me... at least on my xbox account anyway hehehe... ah yeah.... I am such a dork.

Anyway, I did manage to get one more doodle today, hurray!

Heather T. suggested an octopus trying to roll itself smooth like an armadillo. And you know what Heather? I looked it up and yes, armadillos can make themselves into perfect spheres:

ZOMG they can do what?!? The top of the head and tail close the sphere perfectly, that's so cool!

 I learned a new thing today, and yes we have armadillos here, I hadn't seen one that wasn't an ex-armadillo with its four legs up on the side of the road until a couple of years ago.

Andrei and I had gone out for a walk early in the morning when I heard this odd noise... sounded like a miniature horse galloping on the concrete, we rounded the corner and there it was... a galloping armadillo hightailing it toward us, gotta admit I squealed and freaked out a bit because it was so funny looking, it made a sharp turn and disappeared into the woods.

And now for the poor octopus:

Ehn! So... many... tentacles... - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 15 mins.

And now... I am off to bed, my eyeballs are tired from all the adventuring.

Doodle 130 - Animals Acting Strangely (Part 1)

Thanks for all your suggestions guys, I am having a lot of fun drawing these!

Marebabe suggested an elephant stalking down low:

Stalking - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

 Charissa suggested a purcopine spinning a web like a spider:

Oh the web we... errr... weave - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 15 mins.

 NatalieG suggested a cat acting like a dog or vice-versa, most cats hate car rides, and most dogs love them, so:

Faster! - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

 And finally for today, Michelle H suggested a red panda hanging out like a possum:

Just chillin' - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

Tomorrow I'll do some more :)

Doodle 129 - More winter and new theme!

I stopped procrastinating on my winter trading cards (they need to go out next week), I think I only have one or two more left, I am still under the weather, but I think I am keeping it at bay.

I need to get out and buy more cards for my trading and for a series I will be doing for all of you as a holiday present of sorts.

WIP Winter cards - cold press watercolor, blue mechanical pencil, micron pen, silver and golden markers. Aprox 40 mins for all 3.

And now for this weekend's theme! (I will take 5 at random from now until tomorrow at noon and then complete as many as I can from that cut-off):

Animals behaving strangely!

Allow me to explain, you will pick one animal and then another animal it will be behaving as, example:

A cow bathing herself like a cat.

Now, if you have seen a cat bathing itself you can agree it would be a riot if a cow tried the same.

This theme is brought to you by Andrei, because he is as crazy as me.

Doodle 128 - Odd cuteness

I ended up having to come home at lunch today, the flu has been going around town and my office, several co-workers have already caught it, so when my throat started to hurt along with my head and extremities I didn't take second chances, grabbed my stuff, told my co-workers they were more than welcome to lysol me as I passed by and quarantined myself.

Andrei, being his awesome self, went out, got stuff to make soup and every other remedy to cure colds we have tried before with some success.

I am feeling better, but tomorrow morning will be the test, I don't want to spread disease, overall when we are under very tight deadlines, but tomorrow is the office's white elephant gift exchange, and it is one of the very few group things we get to do, (yes I even had my gift and everything ready to go), so I'll be disappointed if I am not well tomorrow.

Anyway, I worked some from home and was a good patient, finally sat down to draw and came up with these:

Flying jackalope fox? - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

 As I drew the little guy above I kept thinking about what would happen if I actually happened to find one fluttering somewhere... well it would probably go like so:

Me: "WHat In Tha?!?! Oh My... Goodness! What is that? I don't care, it is mine!"
Andrei: "Do you even know what it does?"
Me: "Nope"
Andrei: "What does it eat?!"
Me: "Don't know, don't care"
Andrei: "Does it lay eggs? Is it a mammal?!"
Me: "It is CUUUuuute!"
Andrei: "For all we know it could eat human souls for breakfast and kittens for lunch"
Me: "And it would eat them in some very adorable fashion... oooh what should I call it?"
Andrei: "We are NOT bringing that thing home, it looks evil"
Me: "But it is so fluffyyyy"
Andrei: "If it eats Legolas don't come crying to me"

Yup, he'd have to drag me away.

I have no idea? - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 15 mins.

 I don't know what this is either, it looks like a pup though, and I want one... no I NEED eet! (Anybody else sensing my biggest weakness here?)

Messeger - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

 This one looks like a character from Okami, which BTW is one of my favorite video games ever.

And finally:

"By George sir" - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 15 mins.

"Good sir, why I never! Are you staring at my bustle per chance?"

Ah yeah, I gots issues.

Doodle 127 - Random Doodling!

Sooo I was supposed to work on my winter trading cards, instead I started to draw cats and well... things went from there and no cards were done today.

I have decided to let my drawing do whatever it wants (most of the time) since I work on orders all day.

Kittehs! - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 20 mins.

"So you think you can beat me on a race?" - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

Randomness - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

Profile study - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

Spring - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 15 mins.