Inspiration - Doodlage

On: July 17th, 2008

Doodlage is a super-fun site that will make you smile when you see it. Anyone into art and design (well actually anybody) will like this site. Who can't relate to doodling and drawing little pictures?

If you're addicted to doodling, or like me you enjoy viewing random sketches and crazy visual ideas, then this site is for you.

Introduction

Doodlage is a fun niche art and design blog focused on the subject of doodling. I exchanged emails recently with the founders of Doodlage LeO and RaShell. They answered a few questions for me, as I'm a fan of the site and wanted to let people know about it.

I love how they capture doodles created while bored in a company meeting and elsewhere. They present both professional artist's doodles and average Joe doodles. You'll see sketchbooks filled with doodles. You'll also see doodles carried into greater works of art, like work that starts as a doodle and ends up a vase, a building, or another creation. All sorts of doodle fun.

Jump Over to Doodlage

If you want to, jump right into the Doodlage blog and check it out. Following are a few links to get you started. They show the diversity of content on the site within the topic of doodling.

Architectural Doodles

This article showcases the work of Austrian artists Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Rogner Bad Blumau. The work presented has a sketch to life feeling. The buildings are unique and full of the artistic vision of the balance between "art and nature."

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Coffee house heaven

What better place to doodle than a coffee shop? Also, I love the sketches in old book. They remind me of a project I did in college where I got to sketch in old books, fun stuff!

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Ukrainian Beauties

This is random collection of doodle artwork showcased. There is more than one Ukaranians work shown so it becomes the title of the post. This post has face sketches, sketches coming out of sink drains, caviar egg sketches, and other irreverent drawings.

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Doodles in the Sand

This article showcases some large sand doodles. They must require some planning to pull off well, but they still have a sketch and spontaneous feel to them. They also have the ephemeral feel of discarded doodles.

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Wall Art - the new generation

This post showcases some cool stenciled wall art. Much of the inspiration for the article is from children sketching on walls. "A few weeks ago, I caught our friends’ son in front of the vast white space in the hallway with a green permanent marker in hand… contemplating."

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Interview with LeO and RaShell

LeO and RaShell post to Doodlage roughly every other day and the blog's been around since March of 2007 - that's a lot of doodles. Let's see what they have to say.

Welcome to AiBURN! Please introduce yourself and give us a brief bio?

LeO: A web developer with a knack for art. Been a closet doodler my entire life.

RaShell: I'm a graphic artist, but I do a lot of drawing, gluing, painting and of course, DOODLING for fun. The fact that I'm a web-addict helps a lot too ;)

What inspired Doodlage and continues to inspire the site?

If you look close enough, doodles are everywhere! The inspiration is endless.

How did the site come about?

LeO: The very first Doodlage post ( http://www.doodlage.com/?p=10 ) sheds some light on site's humble beginning. I found that my day planner was full of "Boring Meeting Art", spontaneous and unpredictable. I'm a pro web developer, so it's only natural for me to turn everything into web sites. And I thought - I'm not alone out there, trash cans all over the world are full of doodled treasures. Let's save them for everyone to enjoy!

RaShell: The idea took off from there and we started seeing doodles in pretty much anything. Furniture, fashion, architecture, you name it.

What's the concept behind the site?

Everybody is an artist! They just don't know it yet.

What's the philosophy behind Doodlage?

The first tagline was "Trashcan Art Salvage". It summarizes our philosophy of discovering true art in its raw form. Doodling is by far the most undiscriminating form of self-expression - kids and grown-ups alike, of any background, any occupation, on any medium - people doodle. (I'm tempted to add - because it's so easy, even cavemen did it...)

Where do you find content for the site?

All over the place. Magazines and newspapers, web (youtube, flickr, stumbleupon), books, stores. When you have a concept in your head, things start popping up everywhere. Or, it can work the other way around. Something catches our eye, and then another thing that's kinda similar, and then you've got yourself a posting for a blog :)

Anything else related to the site that would like to mention?

RaShell: I wish our readers would be less shy. Commenting and sharing their own doodle-finds and actual doodles would be great. We are proud to report that we've had quite a few guest-doodlers to post for us, and several more are going to in the upcoming weeks. All of them have their own blogs and successful artistic careers, but they graciously agreed to participate in doodlage.