Category Archives: Doodle Tuesday

Tuesday Doodle • Stubborn Strathmore Sketchbook

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Joe

I finally killed off a small Strathmore sketchbook that was lying around the house. It was picked up years ago while it was most likely on sale. The price was probably too good to resist. I honestly don’t remember. It … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Comin’ At YA!

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Joe

Today’s digital doodle was a happy accident I made while playing with Affinity Designer’s step-and-repeat feature. I was playing around with a logo I worked up a while back for J.L. Curtis’s series of science fiction books and seeing how … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Automaton Powers On

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Joe

This is another vector doodle I did in Affinity Designer. In preparation for the occasional science fiction book cover I illustrate, I will play with metallic tones and mechanical shapes. I am figuring out how I may approach that starship … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Gritty City

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Joe

Back in the ’80s, there were a number of guys in art school playing with grayscale textures created by flicking a toothbrush loaded with ink onto a piece of bristol or illustration board. They would carefully cut frisket masks like … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Type of the Living Dead

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Joe

Affinity recently updated their whole suite of desktop publishing applications to version 2.4 so I’ve been trying to catch up with some of the new features of these programs. I’ve been mostly playing with Affinity Designer which is their vector … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Type Treatments

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Joe

I was searching around a few older hard drives when I found this digital doodle I did in Affinity Designer. In the same way that I scribble away in sketchbooks, I will play around with vector shapes, colors and textures … Continue reading →

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Hacking Away at a Cheap Sketchbook

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Joe

I continue to throw graphite at the unwilling little sketchbook of which I have written about lately. I’ve had no evidence of anything close to supernatural brilliance bubbling up from the pad’s cheap little pages, but I continue to make … Continue reading →

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