I call these RuneDoodles.
I don't post it because it is great art (though some of them are kinda groovy looking), I post it seeking advice. You see, whenever my brain is idle, I draw one these things. Apparently my brain is idle an inordinate amount of the time, because I have thousands of them... on napkins, the back of junk mail, graduation programs, ticket stubs. They vary widely in style and complexity. The only thing they have in common is their uselessness - I can't conjure up an application for them. This one sort of resembles a tattoo one might find just above the backside of an inebriated sorority girl, but other than that, I'm stymied. So I thought I would throw this out to you, my treasured little group of friends, in hope that someone could figure out a marketable use for them.
I mean... how many sorority girls can there be?
Thanks,
Eric
They could accompany each page of your book with the page number--or you could sell them to a tatoo artist--I live in a university town and believe me there are that many soroity girls.
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely!You could do tatoos or t-shirt with this illo!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jan & Monica - I had thought of tats but hadn't thought of the page #s. I'll look into T-shirts.
ReplyDeleteThanks again!
Eric
I was thinking tatoos like the previous posters.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Medeia... and everybody, for your input.
ReplyDeleteIt kind of reminds me of some of the American Indian art in the Pacific Northwest region. I see a bird when I look at this doodle (wow-wish I could 'doodle' like this!). Check out the artist Joe Wilson if you get a chance!
ReplyDeleteCould you market it in the form of a question to children: "What do you see here? Do you see a bird? Or a cat?" I know I've seen picture books in question form for children somewhere-but my minds drawing a blank.
Thanks for sharing and good luck!
Kim
Thanks, Kim... your suggestion is a new one I hadn't considered! I'll have to tinker around with that one.
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ty for my welcome is vry kind of you.your doodle as u term it reminds me of the original fantasia where the artist freeformed to music i see a bird playing a violin when i look at but u are wrong when u say it isn't art anything that is pleasing to look at and makes u think is art it also has a celtic feel to it would make a nice pattern for jewellery though i do feel for the silversmith that would have to do it but its beautiful really Bonnie
ReplyDeleteThanks much, Bonnie - Jewelry is another area I hadn't considered.
ReplyDeleteAn incredibly detailed design, Eric. Well defined and bold.
ReplyDeleteEric,
ReplyDeleteThese would make into a wonderful game. You cannot call this one 'Yoshi' but each one needs a name and a virtue perhaps.
If you print out a pair, laminate and add earring wires they look great. Thank you.
Petrina
Thanks much, Mervyn!
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Hello, Patrina. I want to do paper engineering so badly!
I have to admit I didn't know what Yoshi was, so I looked it up [geeeezer alert!]Earings - cool idea!
Thank you for dropping in!
First, thanks for your kind newby welcome today. I love the design. Suggests short stories about a bird whose curiosity (the question mark) gets him into all sorts of pickles. You should write them.... I'd like to see the rest of the designs.
ReplyDeleteI too see an opportunity for a children's book or even for elderly with some memory problems. What do you see in this picture and can you begin to tell a story about it.
ReplyDeleteI see a Doodlebird feathering her nest with the question where are the hatchlings???
Laurie
The Rune Doodles are great, can you post more?
ReplyDeleteI will, Frank... gladly!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Put them together in a harmonious way to make a single or a triptic for framing, as original art or as a serialized set, signed, numbered and remarked for an individual buyer.
ReplyDeleteSince they are not a language, one could not be embarrassed by an Asian visitor. I have a little grouping of Chinese, which my designer said meant Quality in Chinese and an old trusted friend told me it did not and sketched the real symbols, for me. I handed them out to Asians for two years.
Oh, AD, I think we have a winner! That might be the best idea I've heard, and I've heard some good ones!
ReplyDeleteAnd the story with it was priceless.
Thanks.
A meteorite lands in New Mexico. From out of it oozes some sort of thick black slime which, curiously, can flow uphill. With help from daughter Chelsea, brilliant scientist Zachary Jones discovers it to be some sort of organic ink, forming different patterns when an electric current is passed through it. The patterns become a sensation, appearing on T-shirts and posters (and tattoos?) around the world. That's when things begin to go wrong. The adults in close proximity to the designs start to behave very oddly, ignoring their kids. At first it seems fun to be left to your own devices, but Chelsea realizes that, with no one looking after the next generation, the human race could descend into anarchy. Can she solve the puzzle of what the symbols mean and where they came from, reversing ther effects to save the human race?
ReplyDeleteOr something like that...
Thanks for the site welcome!
Keith
Oh, yeah! I like it!
ReplyDeleteI could do something with that.
Thanks again, Keith.
Hi Eric,
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine just created a temporary tattoo for learning how to play the guitar, you should check it out at www.TheNotedNeck.com. I think this is a great idea for your art work!!
I don't think that its useless, actually I like it, and I'd like to see some of your other designs, I think it would be good for a tattoo.
ReplyDeleteI also make some designs for church dresses which i don't really give much importance, I just keep them in my drawer.
Your Runedoodle has so much movement! I can see it on personalized stationery (maybe an otter, unicorn, ermine, gerbil, ogre.... as well as a bird...). I keep seeing a nonverbal animation of the rune, puddling and transforming to a life-shadow that changes and flits through our "real" world, leaving sensations or emotions to those it touches (this could explain nightmares with an ogre-Runedoodle!). It would then shimmer and puddle again, returning to its static state of temporarily quiet, inked Runedoodle possibilities!
ReplyDeleteI would say it's very beautiful and your art it really attracts to all my children in preschool here in American Samoa.
ReplyDeleteSoon you'll have as many comments as rune doodles ;-) I think that you've already got some incredible ideas brewing, but a very simple one might be for you to make posters/prints along the lines of StoryPeople (Brian Andreas), especially if you could write what you were thinking at the time of inspiration. They're wonderful. Thanks, btw, for the welcome note.
ReplyDeleteHi Eric, I'm a friend of Todd Michael's is how I got here. I think they make a great alphabet font, I also have a children's book that needs an illustrator. Someone started on it years ago, then left and it's sat around since. Maybe we can work something out.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff, Eric!
ReplyDeleteI love the Runedoodles. The one you show has a bird in it, if you wish. The circle is the eye, and there's a fine curved beak to the right. What about bookplates or note cards? You could start a line of cards or stationery. The t-shirt idea is good, too.
Mary
Hey, Poet's Pen: Alphabet font is a new one. Thanks! Thanks GarettyRose and others for the numerous ideas.
ReplyDeleteThey don't need to have a purpose. I always carry a Sharpie (love those things). Sometimes I doodle on pebbles. Smooth, white ones are best, of course. Designs like this or sketches of bugs, fossils, or draw odd, stone coins (on flat pebbles). Times I have gone hiking and made a few while resting, then leave them for kids to discover - in places only a kid would look. Appeals to the Boo Radley in me.
ReplyDeleteThat is great, John - I hope it's OK if I borrow it.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all let me thank you for your kind welcome.
ReplyDeleteThe first thoughts that came into my mind about your RuneDoodles...well after the idea of tatoos, was table ware. Like coasters and table mats etc. You could probably start up own unique company known as RuneDoodle Table ware with different sets of designs.You never know, you could also use your designs on crockery too. Creating something really special.
Just a thought.
Yvonne.
Thanks, Yvonne - I like a new idea.
ReplyDeleteLike many others I saw a bird and then the question mark. You definitely have a talent because I was drawn to the picture to try and figure it out.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be really neat to see all of your drawings in a book...not quite a where's waldo, but you get the point.
Also, I would like to see some of your other drawings to see if there are similarities.
Thanks, Ben!
ReplyDeleteI have other work on my FB Page -
Facebook.com/pages/Eric-Hammond-Art
and my website -
EricHammondSite.com
Thanks much for your interest.
thank you so much eric. i am from colombia and i live in bogota. i am catherine, jeronimo is my son.
ReplyDeleteHi You should add the story of what you weren't doing at the time you did it and sell them as moments in time for busy people who don't have time to stop and doodle themselves - like time outsourcing.
ReplyDeleteThat is really cool looking. I was thinking it could be used as symbols for a language, but it might be a tad too complex.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of t-shirts and tattoos though.
very cool- they remind me of some modern version of ottoman calligraphy. I love your illustrations too. I am new to the site and I am having trouble uploading images- only 2 so far. I will keep trying.
ReplyDeleteDoes it surprise you that these doodles are my favorite thing or yours? Not that I do not like your pictures, they are awesome... i just like abstract art
ReplyDeleteI think your Rune Doodles should turn into something more specific. I like the bird head at the top, why not add a body? Maybe some of the other shapes could be adapted to feathers, leaves, foliage. You could do a series of birds or wildlife. Then you might have a market for them. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteCheck out a friend of mine's artwork. He kinda of does something like you do. He does very well exhibiting and selling his work. http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/63986-pablo-ramos
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw your work it reminded me of Pablo's art.
Hi Eric,
ReplyDeleteI'd first of all like to thank you for your most warm welcome to me. I see for your post here you have invited comments on your sketches. Now this internet game is all very new to me, so I hope you bear with me. Right if you haven't already disposed of your doodles, I would like to add my humble opinion on your sketchings. I would agree with you on the utter uselessness of these sketches and since you have thousands of these, I think you need to make a conscious effort to stop right here and do no more and turn your mind and your obvious talent to something useful. Instead of working on napkins, junkmail etc. carry a sketch pad with you for your new type of sketch. These present thousands you should try to sell in lots on the net and if you can't get them sold, just dump them, clear the clutter and move on, with both pen and mind. Your mind and talent is worth more than the emptiness of these superdoodles.
Ah, but I am finding uses for them, which makes them no longer useless. I will keep them and, in the future, post some of the concepts I am working on.
ReplyDeleteFor a poet, you lack economy of words.
Super cool! I really love this. Keep doodling. My book series deals with runes and Celtic themes. Hope you will drop by my blog and Follow the Hollow: www.ghosthorsehollow.blogspot.com Your artwork is very inspirational.
ReplyDeleteI like it Eric... like everyone else, tribal tattoos come to mind. Some of them could make cool shirt designs as well... just big and full center.
ReplyDeleteBut have you ever thought about making patterns with them and licensing them as surface / fabric designs ?
Marty
Eric, I don't think your doodles are useless if so many people appreciate them. I have a number of beautiful and quite useless things at home, which are very dear to me. But if beauty is not enough for you I suggest that you should sell them to carpet-makes.
ReplyDeleteI think you could make clear stick-ons for the back window of pick-up trucks or cars.
ReplyDeleteRune-Doodles is a good name.
Young folk taking the bikes and sleds really would like something like this.
Good luck and thanks for the welcome to Jacketflap.
Kate
Oh, that's my gmail account...when I first came to this site the other day and joined I used my hotmail accnt:katemaxon@hotmail.com..sorry
ReplyDeleteThanks, all, for the great comments and suggestions!
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty cool doodle! Adding one to each page is a cool idea, but this is art as far as I'm concerned and should be framed. How big are the doodles? Too small to frame? Maybe a cluster of them framed together would be cool.
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you!
Hi Eric,
ReplyDeleteI'm not very familiar with Jacketflap. I want to sign up to follow your blog, but I can't figure out how to do it! Help!
I agree, these would make awesome tatoos.
ReplyDeleteWow this is beautiful! What did you use, some kind of ink?
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I thought of was that this would be really cool to animate, as part of a classic music video. The circle area to me looks like an astronaut, or an angel.
These would be beautiful on textiles--I can see bolts of fabric with these patterns. Also, screensavers...or silver pendants (for jewelry).
ReplyDeleteAnother idea...have you seen the mandala coloring books? How about DoodleRune coloring?
ReplyDeleteHello Eric,
ReplyDeleteI also saw a bird in flight...
Your doodles remind me of aboriginal iks and prints. Also a chinese friend of mine wrote my name in Chinese, your doodles look like them also.
Hi, I am new here but responding to your post about Runedoodles, I tend to see things in inexplicable patterns and I see in this one a bird. Maybe these could be put together in a book with a title something like " What do YOU see?"
ReplyDeletePeople like challenges like that and it might actually become a viral seller!
They're very much like Benjamin Chee Chee type of drawings - love that type of thing. You should have them signed and framed. Sure they'd sell well.
ReplyDeleteHi Eric, I guess I am the out-of-the box person, seeing a person with wings, and a tail. Being an artist myself, I could see adding some color to these, adding movement to several of them, and creating not just a children's book, but a film. They would be beautiful moving, and the story around them totally fun, and outrageous in a good way. This might sell to a network, who knows?
ReplyDeleteAre you on LinkedIn? You may see everything I am working on there. I look forward to getting to know you, and reading more about your work. (I am still working on my website, since I am always adding to it, I find it difficult to call it finished). If we connect, I will share more with you about your work, and mine. We are both professional doodlers.
If you are interested, let me know how to connect on JF, since I am new to it, or I will see you on LinkedIn if you are able to access my page.
Thanks,
A
You are very welcome Eric. I enjoyed viewing your work.
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Try for the stenciled teeshirt brands. Look up "Wicked Jester" teeshirts out of Minnesota and check out what they do. I think you may be able to springboard from that and make some $$$$. Otherwise, there are indeed many inebriated sorority girls...or so it is said.
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