September 17, 2004
marginal scribbling
The capacity to laugh at one's own notebook graffiti has to be a proof of the hope of heaven.
I love you Joy, you're awesome!
People hide paper from me because I have to doodle on everything I see. It's a lovely curse.
Posted by: Gypsy at September 17, 2004 05:32 PMyes, i love the way you've littered your notebooks. i used to cut mine up at the end of the semester and make collages.
Posted by: kelly at September 18, 2004 10:37 AMi especially like the get portfolios... because i had first thought it said get portillos, thats when i had the sudden urge to jump in my car and drive 5 or so hours to get some...... Aaaaahhh big italian beef drenched in peppered juice, but i only see carbohydrates, neutral colors, and grease to cook for 900...
btw the duck is hot.
do you use microns or gel pens?
personally i favor either bic (b/c they draw oh-so-smoothly) or sepia microns...sepia b/c usually i run out of room on the margins of my notes and end up doing micron renditions of henna on my hand...when this happens i simply make a photo copy of the decorated appendage and add it to my portfolio. :-)
maybe i'll post a blog whenever i figure out the new scanners at school...
typically just whatever's on-hand? although i am pretty picky about what's on-hand. i have pilot precise V5 extra fine (i think that's the red in these) -- i used to swear by these in college, but i'm a writer, not an illustrator. i loved the blue ones for note-taking and illustrating my notes. :) and, yes, micron .5's of diverse colors and depending on the weather and the bulge in my pocketbook, i can be a big fan of the 2/$.88 main-stay black gel pens that wal-mart sells. or various other gel pens and uni-ball vision micro.
well i'm in love with your 'iliad' illustration and i wonder that you never took up art major-dom b/c frankly, your doodles are way cooler and better than mine!
you should see cory's....
hmm. well, that's nice coming from an authoritative-qualified source such as yourself. not sure i believe it, in fact, but nice nonetheless. :)
that's why i say hope of heaven. i've never been able to get the art training i wanted. i started a second minor in art. i got as far as DSR with E.Bopp and AA with M.Slattery.
then something happened and i aborted the extended-stay undergrad plan in order to snatch up a grad assistantship. my "art fixes" after that point were provided almost singlehandedly by sarah "change your clothes let's go" snook...everything from throwing clay to collographs to making paper to painting...but i'll never get enough, not really. maybe i can retire somehow to an art school and just learn all i've never gotten to learn. :)
kind of like my dream of being a pilot. the next best thing would be marrying one. and then i made two of my younger brothers swear that if no pilot married me, one or both of them would change careers to something aviation and just hang out the rest of their lives with the spinster flight-loving sister.
heaven.
(c.f. the babette's feast post.)
p.s. i love cory's work. he makes me want to be a cartoonist.
Posted by: joydriven at September 26, 2004 10:38 PMheh. i love flying. i think God gave me awful eyesight b/c He knew that the possibility of being a blue angels pilot would have been one of the few things to induce me to rebel against my dad and join the navy.
so now i just pacify myself by watching the blue angels imax every once in a while...
love the doodles, but i love your handwriting more. always have. i miss seeing it everyday.
Posted by: laurel at September 30, 2004 06:04 PMso you can see my handwriting, laurel...
Posted by: joy at October 1, 2004 04:54 PM...I never thought I would meet in my short time on this earth someone that doodled so similarly to myself...in fact, so similar are they to my Bible/World History class notebooks, it's quite scary...
I would solicit my own blog here, but I don't want to tromp on another's territory without permission...
Cheers!