June
10th
by RaShell on 2008-06-10
Swirls, spirals, twirly-thingamajigs. No matter how you call them - they’re some of my main doodling obsessions. See, other people may be perfectly happy with nice and smooth straight lines, but not me. I need my swirls. My lines have to turn and turn around until they stop in the middle of the cozy tight cocoon of a swirl.
This Spiral Galery is an awesome sourse of inspiration:
Klimt, aka The GOD of Swirls is one of my favorite artists:
And of course, wonderful Flickr provides an endless pool of swirly magic in it’s groups or individual photos/drawings:
www.flickr.com
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:14 am
3 Responses to “Summer Swirls”
Pretty! Are those first examples some of your swirl doodles? They remind me of the Mexico rocks, so I’m guessing they are
I love the textures you create with the lines!
June 11, 2008 @ 2:33 pmHi LaurenMarie,
You’ve guessed right
I looked through some of my drawings and picked details with swirls (of which there were a ton, as I said, it’s one of my “signature” doodling moves 
June 11, 2008 @ 2:56 pmThanks for the compliments.
p.s. I’ll try to answer your interview questions tonight. I’m your colleague in “real life”
Oh yes, doodling has to be curly. Curls and eyes. And tears. And in my case, apparenly, calenders. You’ve inspired me to put some of my doodles on my blog:
June 12, 2008 @ 1:57 pmhttp://masha.nightcity.co.za/blog/2008/06/12/doodle-meetings/