Bow-ties & Other little Things

 Here are some two interesting scribbles. I will provide no elaborate explanation, no metaphors or similes, I will just post these two drawings for mere enjoyment and out of sheer, bloody boredom. Enjoy and keep a sharp eye out for my next post.

Ink'd Birdbrains

 Here are some semi-new doodles, I hope not to ramble, but give a brief description of each and the process as well as what medium that I used. This restful little character to the left was just something done out of boredom one day when I was fiddling with a partially secondhand calligraphy set. Now, if you have been following this blog with some deal of effort, you will recognize this meandering character. This is the very first drawing on this very blog! I have to say that it is still one of my favorites. That very drawing was done with just a regular pen and a lot of time to spare. Now this last character is very much like the first character that I have mentioned. This rather stern creature was also done out of sheer boredom and just an itch to play around with my calligraphy set. Now, with that done, I hope you enjoy these small doodles. Thanks and keep a sharp eye out for my next post.

A Simple Drawing & A Simple Story

To accompany this drawing, I will not write a novel as I have done with the previous posts, but I will do my best to summarize. Here goes. During the winter of this previous year my friends and I had a small party and were told to bring white elephant gifts. I, quite literally, made a small painting of a white elephant that was picked up by a friend of mine. Another friend then asked if I could make her another white elephant, but with a green background (the first one had a blue background). So I painted it, but for months on end I kept forgetting to give it to her. Months had passed and finally I have given her that small painting and, as a sort of apology, I made this little drawing of a white elephant in a green, and yellow, suit (note that the blue-ish colors were originally green, but after years of mixing different watercolors, they now have a blue tint). So, I shall end quite simply: here is an apology from me, mon ami, I am truthfully sorry for the delay. Keep a sharp eye out for my next post.

Books and Scribbles

 Over the summer months I have had time, quite a lot of time, actually, to go to the bookstore in town to buy some secondhand books just to keep myself occupied as the summer rolls onward. One of the books that I have purchased is a children's book called Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear, but what I hadn't realized was that it was illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, an illustrator who I greatly admire. If you have not heard of Mr. DiTerlizzi and his work then here are a few of his pieces of work. He is mostly famed for his collaboration with author Holly Black with the series The Spiderwick Chronicles, which are lavishly and quite creatively done. Another is The Spider and the Fly, it is a delightfully macabre poem that was written by Mary Howitt and illustrated by Mr. DiTerlizzi. He is, in short, one of my favorite illustrators that is still in the land of the living and if you want to try to take a personal gander at his work before purchasing any of it go to his website here, I will grant that you will not be sorry.
To get back on track, this small scribble of the man with the camera was inspired by one of the characters that was in Dinosaur Summer, the main character of the book, if I am correct. To briefly summarize the book it is set in the thirties in America, but it isn't the world that we are all familiar with, it is set in the same world that was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It isn't Sherlock Holmes' bustling world of London, though, it from one of his more strict characters, Professor Edward Challenger. For those not familiar with this particular character, he is a bearded, brutish man who finds an island that is inhabited with dinosaurs, this story of Mr. Bear's is very similar in that regard. It is a great adventure story about dinosaurs, fictional and otherwise, and film-making as well, I would recommend it to anyone who has time to kill.
This regally bowing character to the right here was inspired by one of my favorite stories when I was growing up, and it still is, it is Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Although this very much looks like a mouse, I always sort of thought that it was Rat from the whimsical story. Granted that I didn't truly doodle him to be a spitting image of Rat from the story, I enjoyed doodling it all the same.
This last and final scribble in this post needs no real introduction, mainly because it has his name clearly scribbled upon it. This is just a small doodle of one of the most eccentric sleuths in detective fiction, Monsieur Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's famous brainchild. Although he may not be the quintessential Poirot with the messy and owl-like eyebrows, it started out as merely as an experiment. I have recently gotten a dip pen with different nibs as well as a practically brand new bottle of ink. This small scribble was mainly the result of me experimenting with that particular pen on a scrap piece of watercolor paper.
I know that I may have crammed three new drawings into one post, but finally I shall quit rambling and end...keep a sharp eye out for my next post.

Nostalgia & Comics

This is merely a post that expresses my excitement for a new movie that is due to come out sometime in the holiday season. The movie in question is called The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. As the post's title clearly specifies, this post is mainly about me reminiscing about the "early days," so to speak. When I was a little kid I loved the Tintin cartoons when it was on TV and I also loved the comics that inspired both this upcoming movie and the cartoon series.

Here is a brief bit of history of Tintin. The creator of the series is named Hergé (a pseudonym that belonged to a cartoonist whose real name was Georges Prosper Remi). He was a popular cartoonist and actually was one of the many cartoonists that inspired me to continue drawing. Some of my favorite characters in the series was Dr. Calculus and Thompson and Thomson, as well as Tintin, of course, and his faithful companion, his wire fox terrier, Snowy. Hergé had taken his lovable characters all over the globe in various adventures, but their adventures only seemed to merely halt momentarily when the creator died, but the franchise of the investigative reporter still goes strong today, and especially with this scribbler. I would recommend to anyone who enjoys adventure stories to check out some of the Tintin exploits and hopefully enjoy them as much as I have. I am, in short, very excited about this upcoming movie and I have here posted the new trailer for the movie. I, also, shall be posting some other scribbles in due time. Thanks for enduring the rambling. (Note: I realize that the subtitles and such are in French, but I believe that you, being a clever audience, will get the overall plot.)

Update...Possible Series in the works

During the summer months, thus far, I have been scribbling some stories. Most of the stories are mainly small mystery stories and some adventure stories. As I was typing away at the keyboard I had an idea of a possible series of drawings that I might scribble. This next series of drawings will entail a series of caricatures of various detectives and private investigators that I enjoy reading, and sometimes watching.
Of course this idea is still in the works, just as some of my stories are, but I think that it is possible that I could do this small series of drawings, just to keep the senses sharp, and mainly just to give me something to do when I am not typing or writing. I will be posting a list of possible detectives that I will be drawing sometime later, but this is merely a notification and update, that's all.

An Ending & A Beginning

I think that this is will signify the end of the series that is entitled "The Brilliance of Boredom". To finally end the series I have posted here a re-creation of an iconic British poster that was created in the beginning of the Second World War. It was said to have been created to boost the confidence and morale in the British people, for the quite obvious fear of being invaded. So, to put a new spin on it, I decided to replace the crown that is on the original poster and replace it with my emblem, just to keep things interesting.
In this final picture for the series I did this entirely through a site that I have talked about previously. The site is called picnik, the link for the site can be found in the very first post in this series of "The Brilliance of Boredom." The font that I had used in this reminded me mildly of the first part of the poem called "Jabberwocky", by Lewis Carroll:
Twas brilling, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
So, to finally put an end to this small series of doodes, I shall be producing more scribbles and meandering about with a somewhat pensive attitude about what will come next. Considering the fact that I don't know what I will produce next, keep a sharp eye out for my next post. Thanks

Brilliance of Boredom, No. 4

HUZZAH! Here is the newly edited picture of the character Rayleigh.
After a couple of weeks of technical difficulties I was finally able to present to you readers this new doodle in the "Brilliance of Boredom" series. After some due pondering over the course of the week, I thought that this quote really seemed to work for this character of Rayleigh, which was partially inspired by Doyle and another author of which I admire. This author's name is Henning Mankell, who created the Swedish detective, Kurt Wallander. I would highly recommend this series of mystery stories to anyone who has a fascination of truly disturbed main characters, especially detectives such as Wallander. I was first introduced to the series actually by the new adaptation of it through television. On PBS, there is a program called Masterpiece Mystery and the adaptation stars Kenneth Branagh (who might be known to some as Lockhart on the second Harry Potter movie as well as his work with Shakespeare's adaptations) and he he plays the main character of Kurt Wallander. It is a very good series and the books are well written.
So, with the recommendations over with, here is the newly edited doodle character of Rayleigh and I hope that there are more doodles to come, keep a sharp eye out.

Brilliance of Boredom, No. 3

Here is the second small doodle in the series entitled "The Brilliance of Boredom." Although I have never been truly prone to giving names to small doodles such as this, I, somehow, thought that the name Rayliegh seemed to fit this observatory character like a glove.
This character came as an inspiration from another one of my favorite authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but particularly of his creation, Sherlock Holmes. Although this bohemian is not an exact replica of the world's greatest consulting detective, I thought that he had to be a character that sat in a chair just observing his surroundings, much like the great detective's brother, Mycroft, but not as corpulent. So, just to go with the inspirational genesis of this character, I think that a quote from Doyle framing this sedentary and observational character is just the thing it needs. Keep a sharp eye out for the edited picture...

Brilliance of Boredom, No. 2

Cue The Fanfare! Here is the newly edited picture of the character that I had copied from a sketchbook of mine. The quote, as before, is not my own, it belongs to the great author Edgar Allan Poe. At the left side of the picture is my emblem that I usually hide within the picture, to signify that the drawing is complete. Considering that it is, quite literally, at the feet of this meandering character, it seemed fitting to put it where there was some space to spare (although, now that I think of it, I should have put Mr. Poe's name in the spare space instead of my pretentious logo, to show the distinct brilliance of such an author). I hope that the whimsical little quote fits the wandering character swimmingly and I am working diligently on posting another drawing, so keep a sharp eye out...