A grand discovery (day 5/x doodling)

Another day of random doodling. After a solid week of doodling, I can now say I’m more confident on the my doodling ability — the facial expressions, the angles, and the body anatomy is mostly passable for the human eyes.

With these doodling, I am exploring what my art style is. I want to know, but right now my skill level is skill limited and my exposure to different art/doodling style is narrow. So I’m copying and scribing other famous cartoon comic strip art styles — Calvin and Hobbes and Snoopy.

Turns out my favorite childhood cartoons had relatively simple art style and character design, something that I, at my current doodling level, can definitely draw. I don’t remember why I was gravitated to them as a child. Was it the cute cartoon art? Or was it the story? Or that perfect combination of both?

I never thought in a million years that I’d be doodling cartoons, but during this process, I had so much fun that I hadn’t had in years. Doing things for the fun of it is strangely therapeutic, and doing things with my hands is soul soothing. In a digitally addicted world, and AI generative one, doing hands on things reminds me what being a human is like.

Also I discovered that the comic strip name is Peanuts and Snoopy is the dog’s name. I never knew!