Doodle 1006 - No Snow

This is mostly a last ditch effort to tempt fate.  In a few hours it’s going to be December 31st and we have had no snow this year…  none that didn’t wuss out and melt when it hit the ground.  Being that we’re moving to Texas in a week or so and have little chance of seeing snow there, I was hoping for at least one last coating before we left.  But I’m sure it won’t happen… or will it?

Doodle 1005 - God's Free Gift

As we celebrate another wonderful Christmas, I blessed to remember that though it may not be wrapped up under a tree, God’s gift to us is what’s really important today.  Merry Christmas to all!

LEGO Rubberband gun v2.0

For some reason I’ve been playing around with our LEGO Technics quite a bit lately and built a bunch of different rubberband guns over the past few days.  The one above was a good attempt, but them I started getting a little crazy with gear reduction.

Version 3.0

LEGO Rubberband gun v3.0

This one has a firing ratio of 4/3 (20 positions on loading gear, 15 trigger pulls for 1 complete revolution)

LEGO Rubberband gun v3.0 mechanism

 Version 4.0

LEGO Rubberband gun v4.0

This gun has a firing ratio of 8/9 (8 positions on the loading gear, 9 trigger pulls for 1 revolution)

LEGO Rubberband gun v4.0 mechanism

Version 5.0

LEGO Rubberband gun v5.0

Finally, this one has a firing ratio of 1/1, though it took an excessive amount of gearing to get there.

LEGO Rubberband gun v5.0 mechanism

Doodle 1003 - Kung Fu Panda 2 DVD

Tonight for our Friday night move we’re going to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 so I sketched this panda up while I was on hold on the phone at work.  We also caught the Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special that was on tv this earlier this week.

Doodle 1002 - No Thanks

This image seemed funny, then the post title seemed ironically fitting.  Now if only it didn’t seem really snarky and unthankful at the same time.  I’m a very thankful person, for my amazing family, our blessings, our health, and just being alive and kicking.  But I’m not sitting in for no jive turkey…

Doodle 1001 - Dinosaur for Jake

We’re back home in beautiful (cold) Iowa for a little vacation / house hunting trip / turkey day, and today we were hanging out at my nephews house.  Jake said a friend of his wanted me to draw a dinosaur eating a person, so I thought I’d doodle up a not-too-gruesome version for him.  You never know, the guy might still escape?

Doodle 1000 - Hiatus

With a sad heart, but a little bit of honest relief, I’m declaring a hiatus from the doodle blog (at least the daily requirement).  With our upcoming move, house hunting, holidays, and the normal schmutz of life; I just don’t have the daily time to devote.  I still plan to throw a doodle out when ever the mood strikes me, or on notable occasions.  It’s been a great 1000 day ride, and I’ll get back on the horse some time early next year.  Doodle on doodlers, I’m going to take a nap now…

Doodle 999 - STL

I know a couple of guys who are STLs (can’t remember what that stands for) and they asked me to draw them a heroic logo.  I thought this up as a simple start to see if the like it.

Doodle 998 - Bulletin Board Parts

A few years back I drew some bulletin board decorations for our sons’ school, and they asked me to recreate them as they’d been misplaced.  Of course I forgot to actually take a picture of them, so this is a little doodle showing how they fit around the board.

Doodle 997 - Plaque Gnome

This was a request for a going away plaque they are making at work.  The wanted to engrave a gnome caricature of the guy on the wood plaque between two emblems, leaning on one of them.  When the saw the line work they asked me to color it so I’m not sure exactly what they are using it for now?

Doodle 996 - Toothless Christmas

I just saw today that they are making a How To Train Your Dragon Christmas DVD, which I will definitely need to purchase, since I loved that movie so much.  I’m very excited…

Doodle 995 - Karate Kit

This one started out with two eyebrows, and just sort of became this…  I like it.

Doodle 994 - Block Letters

I had to do this Icon/Logo thing for a rather nerdy subject and just couldn’t find a font I completely liked, so I decided to just make my own.  This is a little sample sheet I printed up when I got all done.  I’m sure it’s really similar to a whole slew of fonts I’ve seen and not seen before but I just built this one from scratch and liked how it came out.

Doodle 993 - Odosketch Kermit

One more Odosketch piece, this one of Kermit the frog from the Muppets.  I’m really hopeful that the new movie will be successful enough to keep the Muppets alive and introduce them to the children of today, but not so wildly successful that the fools in Hollywood will ruin it with forced/inadequate sequels.  http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/476051