The People at the Meeting

Because of the nature of my job, I rarely get the opportunity to just doodle my working hours away. However, every once in a while I'll have to attend a slew of boring meetings complete with Power Points and laser pointers and handouts. When that happens, I doodle myself dinky. At today's day long seminar I decided to use the time to do some life drawings of my fellow victims.

 So, here are (predominately) sketches of old, balding white men looking to the left. I made these drawings in pencil, quickly, without erasing or fussing too much about details. Just quick, secret drawings of drowsy employees in the semi dark. Each sketch is only a few inches tall and most were done in only about 5-10 minutes. For those interested, you can get some insight into my very loose and light penciling style.

When I got home I broke out my brush pens and had a go at these poor slobs. Hopefully this will demonstrate a little about inking. Like, a lot depends on picking the right line. My pencils tend to be loose and scratchy, just giving a feel for the form and the shape. When I ink, I try to pick the one line that will best describe the subject and lay it down with as much confidence as I can muster. Then I just try to shade and shape that object as best I can. These are just doodles. Quick, throwaway drawings to keep my mind and hand active. But each little mark is a small step to something better, right? Anyway, hope you enjoyed this little foray.

--- H.

#DeskDoodle - week 4

This was our biggest week yet! Managed to land quite a few at this week's Sketch Charlotte meeting and a lil' begging didn't hurt either! ;)
This week's lineup (top to bottom): Brandon Padgett (me), Terence Hoskins, me, Mark Godby, Terence, me, Henry Eudy, me, Collette Kling, Collette, Henry, Henry, Joseph Mitchell Jr, Stan Ford, Stan, Henry, Herc Petmezas

Each week I'll be posting new #deskdoodles to instagram, twitter and tumblr with the hashtag: #deskdoodle If you'd like to join in, just gmail me (BigDogsStudio) your deskdoodle and I'll get them loaded!

#deskdoodle - week 3

Managed to get a few while on vacation! Here's all the deskdoodles I received for week three...

This week's lineup (top to bottom):
Stan Ford; Brandon Padgett (me); Mark Godby; Brandon Padgett (me); Jeremy Brooks; Stan Ford

Each week I'll be posting new #deskdoodles to instagram, twitter and tumblr with the hashtag: #deskdoodle If you'd like to join in, just gmail me (BigDogsStudio) your deskdoodle and I'll get them loaded!

#deskdoodle - week 2

This week was pretty slow up until last night's Sketch Charlotte meeting! Terence Hoskins returns this week, but other than me, it's an all-new lineup!
This week's lineup (top to bottom): Collette Kling; Herc Petmezas; Terence "Teeminus" Hoskins; Brandon Padgett (me); Mark Godby; and the last two are Stan Ford

Each week I'll be posting new #deskdoodles to instagram, twitter and tumblr with the hashtag: #deskdoodle If you'd like to join in, just gmail me (BigDogsStudio) your deskdoodle and I'll get them loaded!

#deskdoodle

I'm pretty sure we all doodle/sketch/draw at some point during the day no matter where you are. I thought it may be a good idea (and exercise) to do something and post it daily. I'm not talking about a finished piece, just something quick. It can be just about anything, let your imagination be your guide. This could be a good excuse for all of us to try new methods and tools! Another benefit, there's no pressure to submit every day, just do it when you have something you want to share. 

If this takes off like I hope, I'll create a dedicated tumblr site, but as for now I'd like to keep it to the Big Dog blog/tumblr sites. I'll submit them all to twitter, instagram and tumblr with the #deskdoodle hashtag. And then I'll group post them over here 1-2 a week.

FYI: everything I have is: BigDogsStudio - twitter, gmail, instagram, tumblr, google + etc...
If you'd like to participate you can g-mail me (BigDogsStudio) the pics and I can then import through instagram into twitter and tumblr. I'm still new at this mass/cross pollinated social media stuff so if there's a better mousetrap please let me know!

All that I ask is keep it relatively clean...PG-13 please! I'll throw the blanket statement out to cover most things...I reserve the right to post what I feel appropriate to the blog.

All that said, here's the very first #deskdoodle:

#deskdoodle: 08/31/12 - Brandon Padgett - Galactus themed sundial...