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.

Here is a sketch I made this evening. I’ve doodled this theme a few times but never bothered to save a copy for posterity. Problem solved:

Note: contrast adjusted to taste.

Here’s a strange little doodle,

Often my doodles look like they could be mundane objects from a far-future place. This has the look of some kind of pan-dimensional sextant. It reminds me of an epic doodle I made while still in high school. I think I kept it – if I find it I’ll scan it for you.

I drew this on Friday, but wasn’t able to get it to you until now.

Earlier this week, I saw an image of Indy which I believe to be during a scene from Last Crusade at Barnett College.  I thought it would make a good challenge for a couple of reasons:

• I have no confidence in drawing human and animal figures, so this was a good image to try to sketch (not trace) to push my envelope a bit; and
• When people think of Indiana Jones, they of course envision something to the effect of this:
  

  Source: www.indy4.info

• So if I stick to the conventional image of this character (bull whip, fedora, leather jacket, stubble), you could identify him even if I had drawn it with crayon. With my left hand. With my eyes closed.

Well that’s no good. I wanted to push myself to actually capture the person, not their effect. So here’s the image I used:

source: www.indy4.info

And the result:

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Not terrible, really. I think I should do more portraits, given this is my first in over a decade.