A lot of my inspiration comes out in doodling. I started taking doodling more seriously my freshman year. At first I would work from photos out of textbooks, during less challenging classes. Later, I started taking real-life people and experiences and transforming them into cartoon-like characters and settings. This eventually turned into comic booking, where I would record conversations and then illustrate very literally. This grew tiring, and I instead began a visual journal (a doodle diary) which would collage together little paraphrases of experiences. I would try to convey in a single image (along with word bubbles) an entire memory. Here’s a more visual storyline:![]() My take on an image from my Health textbook. (Pens.) ![]() A rather dramatic version of a photo from my Biology textbook. (Pens, markers.) ![]() Another image borrowed from my Health textbook. The original photo warned against road rage. (Pens.) ![]() A portrait of my mother. (Pens.) ![]() A self-portrait. (Pens.) ![]() A portrait of my brother, drawn from a photo I took. (Pens.) ![]() A vast departure from the original photo of a man I found in a magazine. (Pens, markers.) ![]() A drawing inspired by a dream. The legs were drawn from life. (Pens, color pencils.) ![]() A rather sad self-portrait. (Pens, markers, color pencils.) ![]() A doodle of our old yearbook company’s representative, Jeff. (Pens, markers, color pencils.) ![]() A quick doodle to remember a moment at yearbook camp. My French is not exactly fantastic. (Pens.) ![]() My first attempt at comic booking. (Pens, markers.) ![]() The comic didn’t go very far. (Pens, markers.) ![]() The best page of my documenting comic. In it, I show my trip to Subway and the rather dorky conversation held at lunch. Obviously I haven’t quite mastered the art of word bubbling. (Pens, Photoshop.) ![]() A later journal entry about my trip to Vegas. I went with my journalism class on the way to Phoenix for a journalism conference. The Vegas stop was not school appropriate. (Pens.) ![]() Still on my journalism trip, I tried adding value to the page. The previous photo and next few are just pieces of a collage such as this. This page, though, doesn’t contain much: just the inside of our bus and a hilarious run-in with a toddler armed with light sabers. (Pens, markers.) ![]() A note in my journal about being interviewed by two college kids from Syracuse, New York. They then made a multi-media presentation, which is what you’ll find under the Video section of this site. (Pens, markers.) ![]() Another excerpt from my journal. Here I’m shown eagerly dissecting a pig fetus during Anatomy and Physiology, easily that class’s highlight. You can also glimpse last year’s senior graduation. (Pens, markers.) ![]() A partial page of my journal, showing me reading Catch-22 in my room. Here’s a rare illustration in which I write out my thoughts; in this case I have a terrible song from Old Navy (my place of employment) stuck in my head. You also see a bonfire at a friends’ house. (Pens, markers.) ![]() An excerpt from my latest diary. A conversation with my best friend’s father. (Pens, markers.) ![]() A full page of my diary, illustrating my house, car, and room. In the corner is the illustration I mentioned in my essay, where John Bringetto is shown taking a trumpet solo at Café Mundo. (Pens, markers.) Thanks for checking these out! If you haven’t already, take a gander at the other sections, as linked below: |
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