IF: Punchline and discovering a new medium that is Graffiti

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A quite literal take on Illustration Friday’s theme: Punchline.

I drew this on Facebook’s Graffiti, a simple paint application with an opacity-enabled brush as its most advanced feature. I love drawing on that thing. You can send drawings to yourself or to people on your friends list. You get a canvas the size of the one above, and when you’re done it’s resized to roughly a 315×150 pixel canvas and displayed on your profile (or a friend’s). It’s fun. I’ve been making little doodles there for the past two days (can you tell I’ve been veeerrry productive?) and since I’m already drawing there, why not take up IF’s challenge? i haven’t done IF for months and thought this would be a perfect opportunity to jump back in.

Thought I’d share with you the other doodles I’ve made so far. The bears are based on this bear character I’ve been drawing since college– I love that little bear. I’m always drawing him in different poses. I’m thinking of naming it Bernie Barga, which is a poke at an old local singer/actress here in the Philippines named Vernie Varga.

The turtles were made for my boyfriend Don, a turtle lover. Owee and Ishi are his pet turtles. The real-life Owee likes hitching a ride on Ishi’s back. I sent the doodle to him but he hasn’t approved it on his profile yet.

All the drawings were painstakingly made with an optical mouse because I’ve been too lazy to bring out my pen tablet. Soon, soon…

I actually don’t see the point of Facebook; I joined it out of curiosity last year but found the whole thing utterly confusing and completely meaningless (what is the point of sending virtual drinks and superpoking each other senseless?). I deactivated my account but reactivated it just recently, thinking I can get a few hits by plugging my website there. Now that I’ve stumbled onto Graffiti, it looks like my profile on Facebook’s there to stay, if only for the Graffiti application!

edit: Here’s a flash movie of the drawing process for IF: Punchline. If you see a static image, just right-click and press “rewind.” If that doesn’t work, move the position slider back to the beginning :)

Tags: bear, bernie bear, don, facebook, graffiti, illustration friday, ishi, owee, punchline, turtle

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