About the Doodles

I started doing daily doodles in my office, when I changed desks and found myself with a whiteboard on the outside wall of my cubicle.  Soon, coworkers gave me gentle grief when I didn’t have a doodle on that whiteboard every morning.  When I moved cubes, I didn’t have the whiteboard, so I got a 99¢ IKEA TOLSBY picture frame and some 4″ x 6″ note cards, and continued the workplace tradition.

Since most of the doodles were colored in on their note cards with either crayon or colored pencil, they didn’t scan into a computer particularly well. I re-drew a ton of them with just line art so I could color them in on the computer and upload them here. So most dates before September 2013 are incomplete.

From September 2013 onward, the Doodles were drawn as line art and colored in digitally.

As of July 2016, I retired the Holiday Doodles project. It was fun, but very time-consuming, and that time needed to be redirected toward bigger and better projects. Since the archives still get a lot of traffic, I’ve revamped and reformatted a ton of doodles where all of the holidays fall on the same day every year. (Some of these are holidays that might be, say, “the first Monday of October,” and as such they roam around the calendar.)

NEW: Starting in mid-2019, I’ve been reposting the yearly Doodles, and filling in some of the gaps where I didn’t already have a doodle for a date.