Doodle 156 - I Sea What You Deer There

Ah, back to work, Christmas decor will come down this weekend and I can get on track with my fitness.

I am excited though, next weekend we will be running the Color Run in Orlando, what is the Color Run you ask? I think this video can explain it:

A friend first posted about this on facebook and I just had to do it. We created a team "The Rainicorns" and recruited several friends to go along with it.

Don't get me wrong, I am NOT a runner, at all, I am swimmer, put me in the water and you'll probably have to fight me (if you can catch me), to get out. Tell me to run and I'll probably just flop on my side like a cat wearing a harness and refuse to move... what, you have never seen a cat flop on its side? Fine, here is a video for that:

And yes I have tried this myself and my cats were just as "thrilled" why do they make cat harnesses anyway? A mystery.

Ahem... talk about derailings, anyhow, I will power walk the Color Run and that should jump start my fitness goals and I am really looking forward to hanging out with my peeps as well.

Today I decided to draw something a bit odd:

I Sea What You Deer There - Graphite and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

Tah-Dah! Yeah... I imagine this deer was conjured by a sorcerer who loved both the sea and mountains and didn't want to be without either one.

Doodle 155 - Falconry

Finally made it home. We had such an awesome time, I really didn't want to come back LOL.
I made a quick sketch to finish the day.

Doodle 154 - Happy 2013!!!

Well, here we are, 2013 started great, with friends and celebrating a wedding.
We decided to explore the area, drove over to Sarasota and scoped the Ringling School.
Once there we also walked along the beach, saw dolphins and collected interesting looking shells.
All in all a wonderful start to 2013.
A year ago I tried to start this project without much success, and now I can't belive I have made it this far, I owe it partly to all of you, without your constant encouragement this would be so much harder to keep up.
So, thank you once more for all your support. Let's all go forth and make 2013 amazing!
Attached are photos of today and the doodle inspired by the shells we collected.
Happy new year everybody!!!

Doodle 153 - To A Brand New Year

Well, here it is, the last day of the year, 2012 was a good year all things considered, but we are ready for 2013.
I am getting ready to attend a wedding now, but I managed to doodle a bit.
Ok guys I'll see you in 2013. Stay safe, have fun and may 2013 bring you the best.

Doodle 152 - Queen of the sea king

We are in Tampa for a wedding, it was quite the adventure getting down here due to several Bowls going on at the same time.
But we made it in one piece, yay!
Our hotel is just by the bay, so I cant wait for the sun to be up and check the views.

Doodle 151 - Characters and Migraines

I was outside for a good chunk of the day today, it is really cold for Florida, I know, I know, you guys up North in Canada and Alaska for example, will probably be tickled to know us Florida birds start bundling up whenever the temps drop below 70... it is actually comical, I normally wait until it is below 40 to start complaining if I get caught without my coat, but people do wear parkas outside when it hits 69 Farenheit.

I tried to be "girly" and got a hair cut, manicure and pedicure, it might not sound like a big deal, but until very recently I would have maybe 1 haircut a year and never had manicures or pedicures at all. Finally a couple of years ago I found a hairdresser I liked and who I was comfortable with, so *gasp* I actually go to get my hair trimmed every month or so, I am thinking about coloring it and all, and for a tomboy like me, well, that's quite something.

Anyway, I am prettied up for the New Year, but once I got home I ended up with a pretty bad migraine crisis... I am squinting at the monitor right now as I type this as fast as I can (and I can type fast), because I am still not all the way OK.

Still, I persevered and managed to get some doodles out, I am definitely determined to never let a day go by without one, so, if I ever skip one, you have my permission to freak out lol.

Alright, my head is killing me, so I won't put much of an explanation on them, you guys can make a story up, I do have them, but I need to go lay down and be pitiful for a bit.

Doodle 150 - Playing Around

And so here it is, the last Friday of the year.

2012 is coming to a close at an incredible speed and we are running to meet 2013.

Today I had a bunch of work at the office before heading out. I have a wedding to attend to, so I'll be out of town for several days, I will still doodle though, like always.

Anybody has started making resolutions? I normally don't, because they are incredibly easy to forget, but I started early, I decided I wanted to be more active and healthier to feel happier. If I have the discipline to draw every day I can dig up some more to work out every single day without fail, so wish me luck because I can be incredibly lazy when it comes to exercise.

And now for today's doodles, I had nothing in mind, so I just started to draw and these came out:

Flying for Beginners - Mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 15 mins.

Snow Sprite - Mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 15 mins.

Griffin Cuteness - Mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

Doodle 149 - Random Stuff

I kept training on the tablet today... I am also very tired, work is crazy right now, so the new year is coming right us like a freight train.

I really have little to no explanation for today's doodles, but I'll try:

Super Shrew! - mechanical pencil on plain sketchbook. Aprox 8 mins.

 It's Super Shrew! (Hence the S squared... yeah...). It confuses the heck out of its enemies and fills in for Batman whenever Batman is busy calming Superman down. Yuuup... that's pretty much it... told you, I am as confused as I am.

Aaaanyway, moving along:

Random portrait - digital drawing on Cintiq. Aprox 15 mins

 Not a very good drawing, but I am trying to get my lines to stop being so shaky, the only way to do this is through practice.

And finally... well I really have no idea why I drew this, *shrug* things sometimes just happen and I don't fight it LOL.

Space Fighter Bunny - digital drawing on Cintiq. Aprox 5 mins

Doodle 148 - Aerialist

One of the many things Andrei did in order to try and get me to draw again was to gift me a beautiful Cintiq tablet I had always lusted after.

At first I was extremely excited, giddy even, but as I sat down to draw and tried to figure it out I became extremely discouraged, my lines were shaky on paper and on the tablet they were even worse. Oh I cried tears of frustration and the poor beautiful Cintiq just sat there acting as a second monitor.

After all the training I have been doing I finally felt it was time for my drawing hand to take a stab at digital doodling again. I had done digital painting while in school and was really getting the hang of it, but of course, after over a decade my skills were pretty much gone.

Today I grabbed my stylus and went to work:

Aerialist - digital sketch on Cintiq tablet. Aprox 15 mins.

It is far from perfect, but it looks like something and that's always the very start. I won't give up, there are so many ideas, so many things I want to draw, and the more tools I can master and relearn the better it will be in the end.

In other news, I uploaded several of the 12 days of Xmas cards I gave away recently. If you had your eye on one but didn't win it, fear not, you can find most of them for sale at my redbubble shop.

And just to sweeten the deal a bit more, there is a Boxing Day sale going on today, just apply the code CHEERS during check out and get 15% off!

Doodle 147 - Merry Christmas To All!

Oh Christmas is being wonderful so far here, we got a nice geeky haul from Santa, including an exact portal gun replica for Andrei, so jealous.

Our combined Christmas haul. You can tell all the toys are mostly mine LOL.

And now for today's winner!

Sparky!

Also, Christima LMT you won the Echidna a while back!

Please send me both your addresses at DrawingSaudadeBlog at gmail.com to claim your prizes.

Thanks to everybody for playing, I will be making the cards available soon on redbubble and don't worry, a new giveaway for my 200th doodle is on the works, this one might be much larger than the tradings cards, so be on the lookout.

And finally, today's doodle:

Merry Xmas from our family to yours - blue mechanical pencil, pencil and micron pens on plain sketchbook. Aprox 10 mins.

Just a silly quick sketch. OK now I better go cook, we have a dinner to attend and I don't want to be late.