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Done and doodled.

When you’re saying something like “unoriginal but attractive” in a drawing, it usually helps if the drawing is actually attractive. Fortunately, for a last-minute scrawl before my vacation, I think I can comfortably let this one spread its wings and fly into Internet obscurity.

Speaking of attractiveness, I’ve decided to revise the oil spill cleanup t-shirt design I posted earlier this week. And by revise, I mean “abandon and start over.” Perfectionism is a curse, but I think we’ll all be better off for it in the end… well, all of us except my REM cycle. But that guy can suck a dick.

Keep your eyes peeled for the new design next week. Anyway, I’m camping and feeling mad naturey, so I think I’ll take a dump behind a tree… and then go take peyote behind my tent.

This little doodle doesn’t really make any sense — a bird and the name “dedleg” paired together for no reason other than simple aesthetics. And that’s pretty much art snob B.S. anyway… in all honesty it was just the first thing that came to mind. I tried to turn the enlarged, distorted “D” and “G” into a hot dog bun with a weinerschnitzel in between, but it wasn’t very easily recognizable and was, frankly, getting too weird, even for me. And if you think this is all completely pointless, just wait til you see the one under it.

If I say “you’re not supposed to get it”, that’ll make it seem better, artwise, right? Sarcasticallywise.

Now, the following drawing, by comparison, might as well have a speech bubble with the words, “Keep it simple, stupid” tacked onto it (god knows I tacked on enough other purposeless shit in an effort to make something vaguely resembling “cool”). It could learn a few things from the doodle above it, to say the least. I think I’ll title the piece:

Q: What the fuck were you thinking?
A: Almost literally nothing.

This was one of those creative projects where you’re not really happy with your progress and just keep adding more shit on, hoping that it’ll somehow get incrementally better. This is almost never the case, most often resulting in the drawing only getting incrementally weirder. At the very least, weird is better than boring so… uh… high fives all around, gang!

Welcome to dedleg, folks. We don’t skim the fat, because that’s what people who get paid for this type of shit have to do.

In light of our one-sided discussion about coats of arms leading way to modern logo design earlier this week, this is the story of a logo, who cried a river and drowned the whole… uh… hm.

I guess making parodies of cheesy pop song lyrics doesn’t really work when you switch out an easily rhymed word like “girl” with “logo.” 

Originally the idea here was to take an element from the first “logo,” as it were, and carry it over to a new doodle, letting it evolve naturally (hey, weed is natural, prudes). Nonetheless, I lost the reigns here a little bit, in case that wasn’t obvious, and I think this ended up as more of a devolution than anything. For one thing, “DG” isn’t even a logical abbreviation for “dedleg”. But not like that matters, considering by the third iteration it was totally illegible anyway.

I often lament that what I love to do doesn’t pay the rent. But sometimes, I can really understand why.

Anybody need a male escort? Special talents include mediocre logo design.