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Shell Doodle

At work, I am often waiting for things to load up. This is a doodle I worked on for a week while I waited for programs to open, searches to clear and processes to ... process.

I read this great book a couple years back called "Keys to Drawing with Imagination". In it, the author describes the process of "doodling" and "noodling". Doodling refers to the act of making completely random swirls, boxes and blobs. Noodling is the process of transforming a doodle into something more complete by applying a singular, unifying technique. In this case, I doodled a bunch of semi-connected swirls and noodled in some curved hatch lines to make them appear rounded.

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