Two recent doodles.

Sometimes my impromptu drawings are like self-administered Rorschach tests. I’m always finding new ways of looking at the finished product. I would really be interested to know what it is you find in this one, which could be anything from futuristic sails unfurling to robotic DNA:

Here’s a quick one. I’m calling it moonrise.

Howdy. I’ll just leave this here.

I made a funny.

Marker on cheap white paper.

Here’s a marker gradient I did one night recently.

It makes a great desktop picture. Feel free.

Napkin + Sharpie.

Tonight’s story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This as you may recognize is a maintenance service elevator, still in operation, waiting for you.

While not the same image you may see on the attraction from which this quote comes, my sketch of a door drifting into a starry field certainly brings the scene to mind.

The illustration is ink & blue highlighter on 3-inch-square “sticky note”.

A quick marker sketch.

I was thinking about how the written word sometimes doesn’t quite convey the manner of speaking intended by the writer. Consider this sentence:

That “a bit ‘O home” may sound to the ears of those on the review board as somewhat uneducated hadn’t occurred to me but, what the heck, what’s done is done.

Of course the whole of the English Language is a hot mess ( [dialogue], [wiki] ); but as I see it what the heck is a sort of rhetorical question. Would a special mark help the reader? Probably not, but it was fun to design one anyway:

Introducing: The Rhetorical Question Mark

With my new invention (©2009 Mike Figueroa) you can craft sentences with rhetorical questions all you like, pretty neat huh

All this silly/serious talk reminds me of Victor Borge, awesome as he is:

I had a couple new shades of green marker to try out (including Green Tea), so here y’ar.This is marker on vellum, and is more dynamic in real life.

I forget why I did this hack job in Paint.Net, I hope you either like it or dislike it. No ambivalence please!