March 2012 Doodle

This Doodle is my latest Ebook cover

For info on the book, go to www.booksbywilzeilinger.blogspot.com

Happy 4th of July!

First Doodle for June

The first "official" weekend of summer

Doodle for May 23, 2011

Doodlebug 2011

Doodle for the week - after doing taxes

What's in the closet?

What days off are for.

Cloudy day

Rainy days are great for painting drawing or writing. I think we were in central California somewhere when I did this - maybe near Santa Clara?

Toon for Wednesday Feb 16

Motoring along the beach

Baby Clown

Marvin and his collection of Mental Blocks

Nieuport 17 - drawn in 1986 on a Commodore 64

Back to the grind

Smile....

Doodlecar concept

The Fridge lady

Mouse

I dug this up from the pile of paper on the corner of my desk.

Here are a couple of quicky doodles done during a meeting. - enjoy

Hmmmm.

It's very hard to find doodles to post when you have a filing system like I do.

Not a doodle or a cartoon

In this age of digital art - doodling does not always involve pencil and paper - sometimes it's just a visual thing.

This was the bottom of an empty guacamole bowl that I photographed and processed in Adobe Photoshop.

Odd truck doodle

I started with the light on the hood of this funky truck and let my pen go from there. When I draw these kinds of things - the outcome is unknown. I'll put up some more of these unplanned doodles.

1965 Shelby GT350

Just a quickie doodle for halloween

Why I am doing this

As a graphic designer for almost 30 years, I've seen many changes in our field. The most radical being the transition from hand skills - paste-up, darkroom work, and cutting amber/rubylith. Twenty years ago, I made the switch to computer-based design.

Believe me - I would never go back to ruling ink lines or pasting up type galleys.

My attitude changed when a person asked me where I got a certain image that I used on a piece I had designed. Their reaction was one of shock and confusion when I said, "I drew that. Y'know - art?"

That is when I learned that for a lot of noobs to the field, actual drawing is an alien skill once practiced by artists now long dead.

To be fair, I've always been a doodler. I doodle in meetings, at church, on airplanes, restaurant napkins and in the margins of magazines. I do this because I am afraid that if I stop, I may lose the ability or desire.

I've gotten that way about writing letters or anything by hand.

With all this said - I will present some of my doodles and other visual stuff.