These are some doodles that I did while taking breaks at work this week.

Pencil on paper. Cardboard and color added in Photoshop.

Here is a thank you card I made on Sunday for people who were kind enough to remember me on my birthday. Thanks, guys!

The typeface is Futura, set in different weights. Everything was done in Illustrator and printed on white, heavy paper and then rubber-cemented to white cardstock, which I folded in half to make a folded card.

As a fun experiment on my day off from work, I video-screen-captured myself making today’s drawing in Illustrator using QuickTime Player’s screen recording feature. Unfortunately, QuickTime conked out for the coloring portion of the drawing in Photoshop.

But I got everything that I did in Illustrator – all the scintillating Bezier-ing with the pen tool. The Illustrator work took me an hour or so. I compressed it into a more watchable two minutes plus. Here she is, for those who like to watch other people use Illustrator, at a really fast pace.

This is a frog-type alien guy. There are some things in his life he wishes he didn’t have to do. They are:

5. Exterminating shneekphors. Although they eat his flowers and spread disease, he thinks they’re kind of cute.

4. Going without eating for more than 15 minutes.

3. Fangmorgering.

2. Taking his vitamins.

1. Flossing.

I sketched this out with pencil on paper, then traced outlines in Illustrator, then brought everything into Photoshop to color.