Mandala Doodle Roundup, March edition

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Victoria

Almost Like Clockwork!

Another month, another roundup post!

Just as a reminder, you can follow me on Twitter @9thcircledesign to get these in your feed every Monday Morning, without waiting for these roundup posts.  Also, ongoing updates about my struggles with Adobe Illustrator, art I’m working on, and, well, retweets of other people’s stuff because that’s what Twitter is for.

#MandalaMonday

February 1:
February 1 2016 Doodle
February 8:
February 8 2016 Doodle
February 15:
February 8 2016 Doodle
February 22:
February 22 2016 Doodle
February 29, Leap Day:
February 29 2016 DoodleI’m already cueing up ones for March, so I feel pretty confident there’ll be an April edition of the roundup. :)

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Motivational Pelican

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Victoria

I’m Victoria and I’m an snowclonemaker

Occasionally, that means I make … image memes.  I’ve been working on more mandalas, but none are in the finishing state, so today you get this.  I’m not sure it will make sense to anyone who isn’t in the SCA, but that’s ok.

To give credit where it is due: it’s a take-off of the “Motivational Penguin” by chibird.

a stuffed pelican toy surrounded by text [Have a ... motivational pelican]

Have a Motivational Pelican

For something a bit more generally accessible:

A teal deer with black text underneath [your post]

Your post: tl;dr

This one is available on Zazzle currently and likely on RedBubble soon.

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The Quiet Heart Tree

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Victoria

A cunning plan so simple I would do it twice!

Last post was about trying out a new Illustrator technique on a relatively simple design for learning.  This post is about trying it out again with another relatively simple design for practice!

This one, I call the Quiet Heart Tree:

White background, a black silhouette of a tree with no leaves, some branches forming a heart

The Quiet Heart Tree

This will also be coming soon to a RedBubble near you.

404 Sample Not Found

Sorry, no sample for upcoming work yet.  I’ve been slammed with non-art responsibilities and so not cranking stuff out, but I have just started work on a really ambitious vectorization.  Guess which one?

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Mandala Doodle Roundup, February edition

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Victoria

A Regular Feature Emerges!

This makes the fourth in the series, so it may well continue until I wind down on posting the doodles to Twitter.  Not looking likely any time soon on that. :)

#MandalaMonday

Bonus New Year’s post:

Mandala_2015-11-01_005January 4:

January 4, 2016 doodleJanuary 11:

January 11 2016 DoodleJanuary 18:

January 18 2016 DoodleJanuary 25 (due to glitch with Twitter, was posted later, but it belonged on the 25th):

January 25 2016 DoodleStay tuned for next month, to see if I remember to do another roundup!

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The Windblown Tree

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Victoria

As promised, a tree silhouette!

For once, I didn’t throw a new technique at a complicated design!  For this new approach, I tried it out with something I posted here a long while ago – the windblown tree:

A tree that's grown up in a windy place

The Windblown Tree (original)

The process I used involved LiveTrace, but generating lines instead of solid shapes.  This resulted in an intermediate stage I could adjust and tweak before expanding and simplifying and merging and all that, without making a hash out of the twigs.

The result looks a lot like the original, and this is a good thing:

on a white background, the black silhouette of a tree that's leaning far to the right, as if constantly blown by windYes, this will be up on RedBubble shortly.

Yes, Victoria, there is a sample of what’s coming next.

White background; black silhouette of tree branches without leaves, clearly clipped from a larger imagep.s. I need your input on a small matter

I’m also giving thought again to doing backgrounds, instead of just plain white (or colors, as I do for the mandalas on RedBubble).  Let me know in the comments what you think of that, please!

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Simple Doodle Mandala 1

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Victoria

The Road To Good Intentions

After a while of doing doodle mandalas for #MandalaMonday, I found myself making ones complex enough that I wanted to recreate them with a better (much better) tool.  Once I found some ways to make LiveTrace work for me that made recreating trees easier, these were next up on the list.  So I picked one out of my saved images folder on my phone and went for it.

… Is Paved With Not Checking My Twitter History

Which is to say, I didn’t actually go through my Twitter history (or even my roundup posts) to make sure I picked one that I had already posted.  So, I guess I’ll be doing some of those another day.  Here’s the one I picked:

Mandala_2015-11-13_004

And here’s the vectorized version (click through to larger, as usual):

on a white field, a black outline of radially symmetric geometric design… and samples of upcoming posts.

Last year, by which I mean last month, I may have mentioned something about the return of trees to this blog.  Why lookie what’s coming up in the next couple weeks …

black tree branches on a white background, obviously clipped out of a larger image

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