Doodle Diaries: Drunk doodles, July 23, 2016

It was a Saturday and the family had fried chicken and beer for dinner because why the heck not, it's Saturday and people want to indulge every once in a while.

I had too much beer and got super drunk. After crashing into all of the home appliances, I ran into my room and sketched my character being drunk because haha, I'm drunk and he's drunk and that's hilarious!

I came to my senses after a few hours and properly drew how I felt afterwards.

Don't drink and doodle, kids.

I'll write/draw about the more normal trials and tribulations of drawing next time, I swear.

Doodle Diaries: The beginning of Original Characters

I don't know where I should begin talking about my doodles and whatnot, but I guess I should mention from the beginning.

So the fabulous man isn't dressed very fabulous right now, but he's still around as a character! So is the tiny girl.

I've created original characters in elementary, middle school and high school, but at age 26! That's something I certainly did not expect.

Creating original characters is equal parts very fun and very embarrassing. It's fun because creating your own world is fun in general, but it's embarrassing because can you imagine how you would sound in front of people?

There's a reason I made this blog private.

So right now I have four proper characters, as seen below (I had more but the others have been discarded for the time being as I realized I designed them just for the sake of it and actually had nothing much going on for them)

I drew this at like 1AM so they look kind of sloppy. Ah well.

They live life and play this fictional... sports thing that I have failed at establishing for the past three months.

The initial idea I had (based on the aforementioned mental image) was some sort of MMA type sports mixed with fast-paced music, like Dance Dance Revolution but instead of stepping on arrows on a screen, you beat the crap out of each other.

I've toyed around with a few ideas and everything sounded stupid. This is what I get for not even being interested in sports but trying to put my characters in a sports setting. If anyone has good ideas please send help. I'm still working on it.

Meanwhile, I've just been drawing them living life without the sports part.

I also occasionally draw other things.

It's a very strange hobby but it's a hobby nonetheless.

Doodle Diaries: Some sort of beginning

So I've mentioned to a small number of my friends that I've started drawing consistently again for the first time since high school/beginning of college.

To clarify: technically, I've never completely STOPPED drawing: I have always doodled something even during my "off" years.

I remember drawing this because I got anxious about not drawing as much anymore.

It's just that I used to draw roughly 3-4 times a week, but during the "off" years, not counting the art class I took in senior year, the amount dwindled to roughly 3-4 times a month. And most of that consisted of doodling on my college notebooks during class, so while I technically drew something, it wasn't really anything of substance.

(That's drawing for 36~48 days out of 365 days versus drawing 156~208 days out of 365 days.)

Most importantly, I was just less excited about drawing in general and needed to be "forced" to draw for a class or something to get any sort of joy out of it.

So I was pretty happy to have gotten back that burning will to draw after so many years. Of course, there's no way of knowing if or when it would go away again, but I'm hoping that it stays for a while this time.

Since I resumed drawing regularly I've also wanted to announce every little thing about it to the world, like all the joy and pain and the blunders and progresses... basically, I wanted to act like those parents on Facebook who overshare stories about their newborn babies.

But I know everyone hates the parents on Facebook who overshare stories about their newborn babies. So I decided to dump all of my stories here, on my very old and very dead blog.

I will blather about pointless things a lot and sometimes I will sound like a completely mental person and not at all like a mature, functioning adult of 26. But I don't care.

Entries will vary wildly in length and updates will be sporadic. And knowing me, I might not bother with this after like, the first ten entries. But hey, here we go.