Color Whirly Spiral

This image accompanied a get-well card I made once.

Sketchbook Page 30: Whirly Design Gallery

Inspired by the walls of the Paris Salon during the period of the Impressionists, I drew this salon wall of whirly designs.  

Whirly Salon Wall
pencil
2014

Sketchbook Page 29: Psychedelic Landscape

What do all the whirly designs, grid patterns, symbols and characters add up to? Hell if I know, but for now we'll call it "Psychedelic Landscape."  Warping grids show alien topographies of the mind.  Odd symbols defying meaning suggest an other-worldly language, extra-dimensional syntax.  Entities and ghosts pop in and out, cartoonish faces suggesting and interacting, guiding the eye. 

Psychedelic Landscape
pencil
2014

Sketchbook Page 28 More Scribbling and Whirlies

Just filling up the page with lines, patterns, value (shading), shapes, symbols.  In ink.

Scribbly Whirly
Ink
2014

Sketchbook Page 27: Ink Scribble Design

More of the same style of whirly abstract I've been showing lately.  This in pen.

Whirly Scribble Design
Ink
2014

Sketchbook Page 25: Spirally Composition

Just doodling on a pad for long enough can lead to some compelling designs.  

Spirals and Lines