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The Upcoming RNC Lineup Committee | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #009

DNC's virtual convention is done - by most accounts, a critical success - now, we take you into Trump's "Executive Time" room where a dialog as to RNC's lineup is underway:

Scribble Me Sideways! | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #008

Yes... more scribbles. Sorry.

Clockwise, from top-left: a cheap political shot at Trump, and a very topical message on the blatant gutting of the USPS; USPS trucks will most likely be the next casualty in the Postmaster general's "budget cuts"; our tethered space cadets abandon ship after discovering a stowaway space spider; and, to fill out the page, more and more communities take notice their beloved USPS drop boxes are missing.

More Mindless Mess | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #007

Yet another Scribble-dee-doo-dah Day.

Clockwise, from top-left: space cadets foot patrolling it on an untamed alien surface; drew this while watching Trump at his N.J. Bedminster golf course as he declared - yet again - "the virus will disappear" in front of a supportive covid-19-ignorant rich bastard audience (golf clubs/bags represents said audience); Don Vader "enlightens" Capt. Needa the need to be less incompetent; and our space cadets run into some trouble with marauding space mollusks.

Have Page Will Fill | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #006

Another Scribble-dee-doo-dah Day.

Clockwise, from top-left: space cadets scale alien planet cliff face; Trump visits Florida in the middle of a raging pandemic... and a friggin' hurricane; nobody likes Trump because, apparently, people keep dying; and we go back almost 20 years to figure out how we got into this whole mess in the first place (the answer will shock you!).

By Popular Demand: Page Fillers | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #005

Waiting for a guy to come 'round and fix a leaky roof... and waiting... and waiting... gave me time to scribble out more nonsense.

Clockwise, from top-left: every now and then, a guilty pleasure of mine is to play old episodes of the discontinued podcast "Serving Donuts"; sunny Acapulco with bonus kraken assault; some citizenry from Farmyard Heights; Buddy, the dog; and Bat-Person.

Sunday Boredom | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #004

Oh dear! Another scribble-dee-doo-dah to fill the emptiness of my Sunday afternoon.

Clockwise, from top-left: space cadets on mission; crazy hairdo lady (page filler); nobody tells horse head mask wearin' guy to wear a mask; horse head mask extra; Beardo and the Beard Bear.

More Couch Potato Doodling | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #003

Time for another scribble-dee-doo-dah session in front of the TV on another frosty Friday morn' (with pancakes!!!).

Clockwise, from left: Brick Tamland cheats on lamp; Governor Kemp knowing what's best for his state; random space cadets and 1-spatula general; aaand, as always, one clueless Trump.

Here We Go Again! Another Pointless Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dah

As posted in my Facebook:

I think this scribble-dee-doo-dah is telling me something... that I am way bored at work right now.

If anybody can tell me what was on my mind when I drew a misshapen mustachioed fez-wearing marshall sucking on an empty striped straw (#drool) and a finger that’d just poked him in the back of the head... I'll owe you a gorilla #thegoonshow

Absolute Nonsense! | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #001

Nothing of any meaning here… just me doodling on my legal pad while waiting for a huge file to finish auto-saving throughout the day yesterday.

Actual “artists” - those to whom get paid drawing for a living - would label something like the below “Warm Up Sketches”… just some crap they do at the beginning of the day before any actual creative stuff happens.

For me, when these scribble-dee-doo-dahs were barfed up, it was mid-afternoon (I was all coffeed out, exhausted, dying to get home and dive into a warm bath) and, every time Illustrator auto-saved an open file that’d take 5 minutes to complete, I’d lean over to my legal pad on my left and:

  1. clumsily draw a bloated shape with a colored highlighter;

  2. if it started to look like a “something”, I’d lightly draw in some structural lines with a red pen;

  3. continue this until whatever-it-was looked MORE like a “something”;

  4. grab a blue or black pen to define the shape and shading of the “something”;

  5. add a background color with a highlighter so the “something” can pop off the page;

  6. add more tones to the “something” with a highlighter.