When I grow up, I wanna be far far away from here

      Hey there. I know this is my first post of the year since last week but I haven't had much of a chance to really get a doodle done. I'm working on one right now but it needs a background and I don't feel like doing that so I'll put up something that I finished last year. 

I wasn't trying to be depressing when I did this (or started it) but not everything in life is one big happy comedy so art has to display this at some point or another. My sister just about always draws her characters happy because she prefers that but I'm a realist (that draws cartoons and likes comic books, I know, but don't argue with me) so this is an example of "no one is smiling" work. I know the shadowy figure on the top left is crappy but considering that the day I decided to do the shadows my computer shut off because of flickering lights and I lost all my progress, totally makes sense that I got pissed and when I redid it, I drew a crappy shadow. The characters in this are: Laura Kinney, Gaveedra Seven, Rahne Sinclair, and Tabitha Smith. Each scene actually contains a clue (or two) of who they grow up to be. Some of them are obvious, at least one is more subtle and requires a bit of thinking to interpret it but I think it makes sense. Anyway, hope this doesn't bring you down for the entire day and this is Mich Doodles signing off.  

When will it be over?

      Goodbye 2014! But I liked that number :( I like even numbers having been born on an even year so this is kinda sad for me but maybe 2015 will be better for me, who knows. For you guys on the other side of the pond, it already is the new year but I still quite some time to go before the ball drops here. This is my last entry for this year so I hope to return soon with my first post for 2015. 

Technically this already happened since these guys live in Japan but hey, haven't put any strips or doodles of them in a while so I figured why not? Oh, and yeah, Mike is not very good with waiting which is a total contrast to Sandra's patient nature. Maybe she should have given him one of her things to read so that he wouldn't be griping over waiting for the year to end and being born in December a large baby ;) . 

 

Bring in all pets, potted plants and roomates

      Oh my god, only two days left for 2014!!! Aaaaahhhhh!!! Where did the time go? Ok, maybe I know where the time went but seriously, this is the time of year for looking back and feeling that you wasted your time and feeling regretful so you come up with New Year's resolutions to make up for that. Whether you go through with them or not is entirely up to you but it is something of an American tradition to make resolutions that you are not going to accomplish. Forget resolutions, I want to fit in as many doodles as possible before the year ends. So, I have created a doodle that does not relate to me but since it's winter for the upper portion of the world, someone is bound to understand. 

No shading, I wanted it to be informal like this. As much as Aidan can tolerate extreme heat and make himself warmer, his weaknesses are getting too cold (by suddenly getting splashed with cold water or spending too long in the cold), overextending himself without consistent nourishment, or just not eating for an extended amount of time (he faints). Soooo, it would be a horrible practical joke for him to get locked out in the middle of a New York winter. I got the idea a while back but I only started it like last week and finished it today. Hope you guys enjoy and I hope to be back with at least one more doodle before 2015 starts but for now ttfn.

Some people need to learn to shut up

      Ok, last week I thought I might have something for last Friday but it took me longer to finish (besides that I decided to record my working on it and go over it later when I could have worked on the picture) but I finished it yesterday so now I would like to present you with a little portion of my fan fiction: 

This is basically if the X-Men mutants (not all of them) had kids and this picture is starring my creations Tanya Rasputin and Dylan Wilson. Tanya takes mostly after her dad but is as spunky and as much of a computer geek as her mom. Dylan describes himself as "part Irish, part Shar-Pei, all around handsome" while others would describe him as "half Irish, half crazy, all mouth". For non-comic book geeks the descriptions and names might not help but I don't want to give up too much, haven't developed these guys that much, and I'm sure Marvel fans would get it almost right away and if not, shame on you. Anyways, I'll come back when I have another drawing/doodle and maybe I'll load a video of me drawing this on youtube, who knows. 

Watch who you take selfies with

      I'm back! It feels like I haven't been here in forever but my motivation has been a little low but then I got inspired to draw a doodle for the modern age so enjoy: 

A fully digital Super Teens strip! Sorry if the placement of the dialogue seems odd/off. I personally don't get the purpose of the duck face and think it's ridiculous to imitate an animal that is not sexy in the least but it's like hand someone a smartphone and their brain goes downhill. Maybe I shouldn't be talking because I do have a smartphone (I'm not in the dark ages people) but I'm not like that. My phone is a tool, not a toy to take endlessly pointless selfies with. Well, hopefully after this I'll come back more often with doodles. Toodle-loo :)

Poker Face(s)

This is what happens when you play poker with a telepath - you lose. This is part of that project I've been talking about lately. I have this friend that loves the X-Men and thanks to her I've gotten something of an addiction as well so I drew this basically for her but while drawing/coloring it, I thought of this witty little caption because really, what else is Professor Xavier going to use that money for? He's already rich! So while he's collecting the "donation", Gambit looks ready to break down and cry and Longshot still can't wrap his head around the fact that the Professor knew exactly what cards he was holding without looking. So now I leave you to enjoy the rest of your week. 

Eat your beans! -But they're mushy!

      Hi there. I know that I'm not being very regular in my blogging but I happen to be feeling a bit blah lately and I'm also working on that little "project" that I'm doing on paper but I'm a little stumped right now as to what to do with myself and my drawings so then my blog gets put on the back burner. But I have this drawing that I started as a T-shirt idea but then my parents made me turn off my computer in a hurry and instead of saving it so I could finish working on it later, I hit to save it as bitmap instead. (I was standing and the option for bitmap file is right above PSD in FireAlpaca so....) It is a character of mine that I invented senior year and her little brother. 

I know she looks kinda like Word Girl but I happen to be a fan of the show and I was watching it pretty regularly that year (I know it's for little kids but it's not condescending thank god) so that probably influenced how her design turned out. Carolina (that's her name) was my attempt at developing a cartoon style and also to add a little Latin flavor to cartoons. Yeah, Carolina happens to be Cuban and she's my only Cuban cartoon character not related to anything with superheroes to date. The girl that nearly wrote on a tissue (see here) is another Cuban character of mine but she's manga and that is a totally different story. Why do I specifically have Cuban characters? I happen to be of Cuban descent and even though I was born and raised here with an American mindset, I find it a little saddening that there isn't much reference to Cubans in entertainment period. This includes TV, music, comic books, you name it. And since I believe in variety and diversity, I do my best to reflect that even among Hispanics there is variety and diversity and cultural differences that a Hispanic from another country may not fully understand or be aware of. So yeah. I haven't really come up with much for her after that and you can tell that her style is different from that of my X-Men but like I've said, I do a lot of experimenting to see what I like and I actually prefer the eyelashes up top but also for some characters, they just have a style all their own.