Doodles and Diaries
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:

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My take on an image from my Health textbook.
(Pens.)


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A rather dramatic version of a photo from my Biology textbook.
(Pens, markers.)




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Another image borrowed from my Health textbook.
The original photo warned against road rage.
(Pens.)




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A portrait of my mother.
(Pens.)




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A self-portrait.
(Pens.)




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A portrait of my brother, drawn from a photo I took.
(Pens.)




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A vast departure from the original photo of a man I found in a magazine.
(Pens, markers.)




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A drawing inspired by a dream. The legs were drawn from life.
(Pens, color pencils.)




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A rather sad self-portrait.
(Pens, markers, color pencils.)




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A doodle of our old yearbook company’s representative, Jeff.
(Pens, markers, color pencils.)




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A quick doodle to remember a moment at yearbook camp.
My French is not exactly fantastic.
(Pens.)




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My first attempt at comic booking.
(Pens, markers.)




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The comic didn’t go very far.
(Pens, markers.)




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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.)




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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.)




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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.)




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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.)




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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.)




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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.)




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An excerpt from my latest diary. A conversation
with my best friend’s father.
(Pens, markers.)



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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:

home drawings photography
video