Dip pen experiments

I hope I’m going to be able to do this. Even doodling takes time, and I seem to need to warm up to be able to just doodle – and I thought that’s what doodling was: the equivalent of piano scales before you get down to the business of playing music. Darn it. I did these with a dip pen, which is scratchy and wobbles but seems to be the tool of choice of “real” cartoonists, so I am determined to make friends with it.

Here’s some cross-hatching.

Here’s Gordon Brown.

Here are two doodles trying to prove that perspective isn’t important.