Too Much Coffee

The whole page was an accident.

Originally I just tried to draw David's funny glasses and failed miserably. The very next morning, I tried to draw my coffee mug in 4 different styles.

#1 was my usual style, so it was fairly easy and David liked it the most.

#2 was my experiment for loose line drawing, and it wasn't very good.

#3 was an idea that I got from Danny Gregory's The Creative License. (Jon Pile said that it was a right brain drawing or a negative space drawing.)

#4 was just a pure disaster. I tried to follow Gregory's example again by drawing the rough outline first. The result was OK and I should've just stopped there. Instead, I couldn't stop myself from adding lousy shadowing...

To do some damage control, I added more doodles to explain the whole mug devolution, and somehow the ugly drawing no longer bothered me (or you wouldn't see it here).

Media: technical pens.