Three Mysterious Quirky Doodles and a Shadow

 It's been a busy week, but, because the questions for my Storyworth memory book for the last couple of weeks have required fairly short answers, I've managed to keep up with them and have my tenth memory ready to email to them, and I've published a couple of blog posts, plus I made two more large potholders, besides all of the life stuff going on, so I guess I've done okay creatively this week.

Here are three quirky doodle figures that emerged out of my random pencil markings over the last three or four days. Mixed media sketchbook, small, with rough and smooth pages, Ebony pencil and black gel pen.

These two jumped out at me right away from the tangled pencil marks, made last Friday night while I was on hold with tech support when our internet went out. I outlined them in black gel pen, which got on my nerves with its skipping ink. I like the simplicity of the figures. It reminds me of my shadow. I'm thinking I will go back and add some watercolor to it later. 

This one also jumped right out of the pencil scribbles at me, similar to the one above, but without the shadow figure. I love it and may add some watercolor to it later too!

Like the first two, this little character easily emerged from the pencil scribbles, but with a little more detail. Is she hiding a secret?

These three doodles seem to go together somehow, although they were done on different days. The first one was done four days ago and the last two this morning (Tuesday). I may have made a series, or at least at trio!

These doodles may, or may not have, been inspired by my subconscious after making the photos of my shadow a couple of weeks ago, although I had forgotten about them when I was doodling. Kind of eerie... 

The last doodle also finished up the last page in this sketchbook, which I started in June 2022, so I get to start a new sketchbook today, the third, and last, of my Arteza mixed media sketchbooks. Such fun to flip back through the pages of this one and see what all I've done in the last nine months. Of course, I have also done stuff in some larger sketchbooks along the way, but they are still works in progress.

I have ordered a 3-pack of new sketchbooks, I forget the name, but they have hard pressed watercolor paper pages, 30 to a book, so I will be trying something new when they get here. For now, I'm off to christen the new book I already have. See ya later!