a decade of doodles

First drawing of 2010! It's my friend Sibylle, in a very Ai Yazawa influenced style. :)


A lot has changed in a decade! I decided to post up a few drawings from the last 10 years, and say a little about what was going on with each year. Kind of a cheesy idea, but personally, I like seeing other people's older drawings! Everyone with a blog should post their weirdest drawings from 2000!

2000

In 2000, my favorite artists were Ai Yazawa and Shane Glines. I'm still super influenced by them today. I made tons of those weird paper dolls!

2001

Lets get by 2001 quickly. This was my year for super weird Photoshop monstrocities.

2002

2002 is when I worked for Spumco doing layout, so construction became really important to learn. This whole year was full of drawings that were labored over and are sort of stiff. It also shaped how I would draw for years and years. I'm not sure I'll ever shake the Spumco influence completely.

2003

2003 is another weird year- I was really into mutant girls with elongated heads, topless people, and forest creatures.

2004

I kind of consider 2004 to be the year I had a drawing breakthrough. I suddenly started drawing fast and loose and making happy accidents instead of stiff, laborious looking drawings. These look a bit primitive to me now, but I remember how happy I was to be drawing back then, and kind of feel envious of those times. 2004 is also when I started getting back into coloring with markers.

2005

This year was the most productive ever!! I did tons and tons of drawings. I had a total obsession with teeth, weird hairdos, and Japanese fashion in 2005. 2005 is also when I started this blog, and when I worked on designing and doing layout for a video, which meant having to practice construction again.

2006

I got back into anime and manga in 2006. All my drawings are really weird and wiggly from this year! I like a lot of them more than what I am drawing now, though.

2007

2007 was all about vampires, and hand inking.

2008

In 2008 I started my hillbilly project, abandoned ballpoints for new types of pens, got a cintiq, inked and colored half the drawings I did on the cintiq, and started web-publishing my weekly comic "Skadi" with Luke. I liked 2008.

2009

2009 was all post-its and cats! I also tried hard this year to draw things other than girls, and to draw less cutesy. 2009 was a great year because I got into lots of new artists, including all the people who make comics in France.

Anyhow, happy new year, guys!! I hope 2009 was fun for everyone, and that 2010 is even better!