Girly Doodles

For me, the point of this blog was to provide myself with a bit of an outlet for pent up drawing hyperactivity. It also allows me to feel that all that time I spend drawing pictures of pretty girls in various states of disrobe had some sort of purpose. It might seem like a frivolous mission in life, but hey, we can't all cure cancer and stop wars. Some of us have to draw naked ladies so that the cancer curing people and war stoppers have something to look at on the weekends as a way to relax. Then they can be all charged up and productive on monday morning knowing that there are beautiful things in this world, and that humanity is worth saving. Besides, it's got to be almost impossible to start a war while you are looking at drawings of cute girls, so I like to think I'm keeping the wars from even starting, which really takes some of the load off the folks who are trying to stop wars. It's a huge responsibility, I know, but I'm ok with that.

Ordinarily, I try to post a drawing every week, to keep things interesting around here and keep the cancer people productive. I used to post whenever I had a drawing and time to scan it, but I found that without a regular schedule to keep me on my toes, things would get a little haywire. The drawing part isn't usually a problem, but the scanning, cropping, resizing, ftp sessions, logging in, posting, editing... I'd almost rather get caught in the middle of a cancer zone with an incurable case of war. So, Inevitably I end up sliding back into my comfort zone and steeping in the warm relaxing zen of pushing pencils around on paper. Before long I'd have a stack of paper six inches deep, nothing scanned, nothing posted and a shameful amount of time passing without posting a single doodle.

Now I'm much better, because I know, my chores for the weekend are, do my laundry, feed the kids, change diapers, post to my blog, clean the house, etc... It can be good to have some structure in your life. So now I post once a week, and once only. Very regular. It's like my blog is suddenly getting lots of fibre in it's diet.

Now, I definitely do more than one drawing a week, so I know I can scan a whole batch of drawings in a single session of scanning, save myself a bit of time, and have several weeks worth of drawings all lined up and ready to go. As a result, I sometimes find myself posting a drawing I did a few months in advance, which can have serious drawbacks. Mainly because I see the drawing in an entirely different light a few weeks later.

For instance,

A couple of months ago, The mismatched arm sizes and stiff posing of this drawing didn't bother me quite so much. Today I want to punch myself right in the drawing arm as a punishment.

I feel like I've let the cancer people down this week. If they don't find a cure on monday, you know who to blame.