027/365 Tall Vanilla Latte

027/365
Tall Vanilla Latte

 This week's theme is FOOD and I have to be honest when I say, for me, coffee is definately a food group.  I like ice coffee and Nikki likes vanilla lattes.....well she really likes Thai coffee but nobody makes it right and even though this is a Starbucks cup Nikki prefers her vanilla latte's from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.  

Original Sketch

026/365 Zodiac Balloon Man

026/365
Zodiac Balloon Man

Original Sketch

025/365 Homestuck Aries

025/365
Homestuck Aries

Original Sketch

024/365 Maya Little Pony

024/365
Maya Little Pony

A good friend of mine named Maya made me a video message last night that was just about the cutest thing ever....so in thanks I drew her as a My Little Pony with a bow and arrow cutie mark because she is a Sagittarius.  The colors were chosen because she is a Golden Boar in the Chinese Zodiac... Thanks again Maya.  You're awesome-zingy.

Original Sketch

Happy Doodling

Chris

023/365 Kaci Zodiac Mash Up

023/365
Kaci Zodiac Mash Up

And last but not least our teenager Kaci who is a Saggitarius & a Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac.  Feels a bit funny drawing her since she could draw herself about 17 times better than I can, but it was still fun.  Thanks for all the inspiriation K.

Original Sketch

Happy Doodling 

Chris

022/365 Nikki & Connor Zodiac Mash Up

022/365
Nikki & Connor Zodiac Mash Up

 Sooo Nikki is a Capricorn and a Goat hence the two sets of horns, and Connor is a Libra and a Dog hence the awesome set of scales and the ears 'n' nose.

Original Sketch

021/365 My Zodiac Mash-Up

021/365
My Zodiac Mash-Up

Keeping to my Zodiac theme this week Tuesday's image was one of me with goat horns (Chinese Zodiac) and a ram's skull (Aries) on my shirt.  I'll let you all guess the significance of what's in my hand.

Happy Doodling,

Chris

Original Sketch

020/365 Zodiac Tag

020/365
Zodiac Tag

This weeks theme has been the Zodiac or Horoscope stuff,....you know astrology.  This was Monday's image.  It is a mixture of my family's Zodiac symbols.

here's the before

I'm forever playing catch up on the posts sorry for those of you that noticed.

Happy Doodling 

Chris

019/365 Happy Birthday Nikki

019/365
Happy Birthday Nikki

Today is my wife Nikki's 34th birthday.  She and I have been together now for over 12 years and married for almost two 

(Feb. 18th, our wedding anniversary, is approaching fast).

Without getting too sappy by speaking about how much I love her which I do!!!!!!

Without going on and on about how beautiful she is...her eyes....her hair...her heart. 

which she is!!!!!

Without going into great detail about the astounding strength of her convictions and character,

which is immense!!!!!!! 

Let me say this.

Everyone who meets you is better for it

Everyone you call a friend feels blessed by it

Everyone you love is richer because of it

Happy Birthday

Nikki Jennifer Gritti

I love you always,

Chris

16,17,&18 Nikki's Sentimental Adventure Continues

016-365
Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 04

017-365
 Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 05

018-365
Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 06



yeah I'm playing catch up so not a lot add.

Keep Doodling
Chris

015/365 Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 03

015/365
Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 03

014/365 Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 02

014/365
Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 02

I'll admit the my style is all over the place but hey this is how you find the style you like best....lol

013/365 Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 01

013/365
Nikki's Sentimental Adventure part 01

012/365 Hello Shappo

012/365
Hello Shappo

Soooooo....
Halfway through the week and I'm not posting any of my doodles.

Why?!? you demand with passion 

Mostly because I've been drawing them very late at night and end up falling asleep after.  Anywhooo... Last week's theme was Hello Kitty and this week's theme is the Sentimental Circus,one of my wifes favorites.  A good friend suggested a crossover/transitional doodle when I was having a bit of a block on Sunday.  That night I drew this or rather.....I drew this

Thanks Todd.

Since it's my better half's birthday this coming Sunday I'll be mixing her into the doodles if I can.  As I write this it's about 2am my time on Thursday the 16th which means I've got a little catching up to do with posting them.  But the important thing is to draw everyday not necessarily post everyday....though I wish I were that efficient.  Maybe by the end of this project I will be.

Happy Doodling
Chris

p.s.:  Shappo is the name of the character on the left.

011/365 Hello Batz

011/365
Hello Batz
I've always wanted to do a mash up image with the famous Totoro picture....can't promise this will be the only one...lol

Keep Doodlin
Chris

010/365 H + HK

010/365
H + HK

009/365 Whazz Up Kitty

009/365
Whazz Up Kitty

If I lived in Hello Kitty's world what would i look like?

008/365 Hello True Friend

008/365
Hello True Friend

What do you think is the mark of a true friend?

Chris.

007/365 Hello Midlife Crisis

007/365
Hello Midlife Crisis

Here's Tuesday's HK piece.  I sketched it out Tuesday and just finished coloring it last night.  Not that I didn't already respect Comic Book Artists a great deal but I'm learning how many steps go into bringing an image from sketchbook to finished work.  I would have taken even more time with this if it wasn't part of my plan to do a drawing a day.  If I spend to much time on one I'll get backed up.  At least I'm sticking to having a sketch done each day.

Here's the scanned sketch.

Here's to staying young at heart

Chris Gritti

006/365 Hello Peanuts

006/365
Hello Peanuts


Week two's theme is Hello Kitty...she's turning 40 this year and she's still as popular as ever.

005/365 Yearly Tarot Reading

005/365
Yearly Tarot Reading

This is the last drawing from the first week's theme of (New Years).  Every year I do a year encompassing Tarot reading for both myself and my with Nikki.  I know it's a little silly but we found it to be a lot more fun to have our own personalized monthly horoscope rather than follow anything we read in a book or in the newspaper (for anyone that still reads the physical newspaper0.  The top two cards are for January and the rest of the months follow clockwise from there.  The center cards are for the whole year.  So once I do the spread we enter the cards into our google calendars for each month and look up the meanings when a new month begins then add the year cards to that reading.  We've had a lot of fun with this and its become a tradition for us this being the third year we've done it.

Since I had a drawing project with a New Year themed week I chose to draw my spread for the final day of the theme.  I drew my own doodles to represent the cards so some of them are a bit kooky like me.  I'm still planning on coloring it all in at some point but I wanted to post it to keep up with this blog.

Keep on Doodling
Chris

004/365 Kagami Mochi

004/365 Kagami Mochi

Like my first drawing depicted we pounded mochi this year

and got ourselves another tradition.

(Mochi is made into a New Year's decoration called kagami

mochi (鏡餅), formed from two round cakes of mochi with

a tangerine (橙 daidai) placed on top. The name daidai is

supposed to be auspicious since it means "several

 generations.")

Huge thanks again to Barry and his family for including the

 Gritti's in their tradition...great fun.

And thanks to my daughter Kaci for this prompt.

One more day of Happy New year drawings and then on to

the next weeks theme...which you'll have to check back to

find out.

003/365 Bullseyes year

003/365 Bullsye's Year

Keeping with this first's weeks theme of New Year's stuff I'm reminded that we are moving into the Year of the Horse.

002/365 My social network map

002/365 My Social Network Map

This idea spawns from my next YouTube video which I'm still in the editing process but I really needed to map out how I was going to use each of these networks or I'd never be consistant.

001/365 Thor pounds mochi

001/365 Thor Pounds Mochi

So starts my sorta silly, self inflicted, creative drawing project of 2014.  I can't promise they'll get any better than this for the rest of the year but hey nobody's forcing you to look.