Obsessions are like an avalanche. They start with a break and then roll into this death ball. I was thinking about how a digi-pad would feel nice to doodle my very professional art work and then it hit me that in the MEAN TIME, I could use an app to see how my sketches would turn out to be. So after a vigorous 4.8 minute search I came across an app called “Sketches”. I fell in love with it to a point where my border-line obsession is what is driving me to write this post.
It was neat and simple but the real reason why I loved this app (which I had for barely a few hours) was because of a particular brush. Yes, the way the brush left its mark on my virtual-canvas sized-the-screen-of-my-phone got me hooked.
So as you can see, the below sketches are only done because I liked THE BRUSH. It came to a point where instead of typing a reply, I’d draw out expressions and send them.
Below are testaments to my obsession
I don’t know what I was doing here, probably checking out the “tools” the app had to offer (very few because I apparently don’t have the expensive paid upgraded version). She’s an angry teenager who’s into martial-arts and doesn’t want to be associated by her name. 
Why do I have a face on a potato? Because I like how this brush imprints itself. There’s nothing more to it. Her name is Hilda.
This one came out when I was just tipping off the obsession peak.
PS, yes she’s hinting at EXACTLY what you think she’s hinting at. 
If somebody wanted to know the core of each of my blog post ideas – there isn’t any. My posts are usually driven either by incidents that happened within the previous 24 hours or because a doodle turned out to be interesting enough to write a post about.
Yes, sometimes my blog post ideas sprout from accidental doodles that spark an idea.
99% of the time I start doodling with absolutely no aim – just drawing asymmetrical lines in hopes that they’ll join to become some beautiful piece of artwork that’ll motivate me to make it into something understandable. When I finally decide what to draw and make those lines – they seem to know what they want more than what I want.
Like, I’d make a curve in the opposite direction and POOF out the window goes my inital idea. I then revamp the doodle involuntarily and think of a post I can relate to it.
THAT is how I write a post (mostly).
For example, This doodle below – you see the mermaid fins but then you see her feet as well with a visible silhouette around her lower-half.
This is how I started thinking of that idea:
- A girl with her hands up, sitting on the chair while her hair sways upwards. (I don’t know, she’s happy that life is going her way I guess)
- A girl with her hands up but now standing since I got the torso to look decent if she were to stand
- A girl with her hands up but now standing with her hair down since if her hair were up she’d look like Medusa.
- Pose all worked out – but in my head *what if we randomly drew mermaid fins*
- Mermaid fins and an outer body covering the lower half
- Do I draw a head? Fine – I’ll draw , but do I need features? It can be a message in itself. It can be artisitic with a message.
So as I debated with myself about whether or not I needed a face, I thought this doodle could ignite an inspirational post about “being free and being whoever/whatever you wanted” [ hence, the fins with the feet if you didn’t get the symbolism already]
Clearly, that didn’t workout out since this doodle is only being used for example purposes.
My imagination is like a computer worm. Once I get an idea, it propagates and expands itself over the data base and the creative juices start pouring. Actually, quite contradictory to what an actual tech worm would do, but I’m sure the picture has been understood.
Q. So when does my imagination hit a chord? Where do my ideas come from?
A. When I completely off-track from my original idea [90% of the time].
Example: Random mythical (?) creature below. I don’t know what I intended to do with this. His name is Meeka.
Vertigo Madness 