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Picking Up a False Start and Running with It

15 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by timcoffeyart in Blogging, daily doodle, Etegami, Inspirational Doodles, Thinking Outside the Box, Writing

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Yesterday, when I started the first drawing of a hand holding a balloon I abandoned it immediately, because I realized it was positioned in the wrong place. It was obvious that I needed to start again with a fresh piece of paper.

This morning, searching for an idea, the false start from yesterday jumped out at me and became the idea for today’s daily doodle. As I imagined what the image should be, the words took shape first – “Picking up a false start and running with it.” I was excited to come up with this idea. I signed the paper in the usual spot in the bottom right hand corner and scanned it into my computer. It appeared upside down on the screen, but that’s when it became clear what the image should be.

I clearly saw that the line should be the tail of a kite. It made perfect sense for the image and words. Sometimes you have to turn something upside down to get the right perspective. This is something Zendictive has written about and drawn in his Etegami. It happened quite literally here, as you can see from the position of my signature in the final drawing.

Something to Crow About

08 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by timcoffeyart in Art, daily doodle, Journal, Thinking Outside the Box, Writing

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I’m contemplating a series of doodles without any words to accompany them.

This takes me back to the idea I posted a few weeks ago – “creating equals playing”.

Thinking Outside the Box

29 Saturday Oct 2011

Posted by timcoffeyart in Art, daily doodle, Thinking Outside the Box, Writing

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I started off wanting to create a concept to represent “Thinking outside the box.”

This first image, while cute, did not satisfy me. I thought what if the box had a label? What if the label was a little deceptive? So I started to think about replacing the cat with a lion.

I was also thinking about how the world wants to label everyone, but people are much more than the labels the world gives us (and we are more than the labels we give ourselves).

I felt this concept had improved, but I still felt it needed to be taken a step further. So, I doodled the final two panels below.

I felt satisfied with this concept. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I don’t revise my ideas for this blog. The daily doodles are almost always one shot drawings. However, it seemed appropriate for today’s theme to show the process of taking a simple idea and transforming it into a more “thought out” concept. Isn’t that what “thinking outside the box” is all about?

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