About

Hi, I'm Dawson.

I draw monsters. Also dragons, skateboards, and whatever else turns up when the pen starts moving. This is where it all ends up.

Dawson, drawn as a doodle

How this started

It was supposed to be a phase.

I have been filling sketchbooks since I could hold a marker. At some point the stack got tall enough that people started asking to see them, and it stopped being a phase and started being a habit.

Nothing here is planned. There are no thumbnails, no layout pass and definitely no undo button. A page starts as one shape in the corner and grows outward until it runs out of paper.

A doodle character mid-comeback
A round doodle character

The rules

Four things I try to stick to.

One sitting. If it takes two, it usually gets worse.

Pen first. Pencil is a way of stalling.

Keep the mistakes. They are the interesting part.

If a character talks, let it finish.

The characters mostly design themselves. I just keep the pen moving and find out who turns up.

Dawson

Want to see the drawings?

That is the whole reason this site exists, so you may as well.