So last week I had mentioned that I was gonna continue with the mural project by coloring in Mabel and readjusting the lines. I’m taking a quick pause on that to work on this year’s Doodle 4 Google. The prompt this year focuses on how we take care of ourselves and how it calms or energizes us. Personally, I take care of myself by listening, playing, or finding music, even in the most uncommon places and I do this so I can filter out not only the chaotic world, but the mess it creates in my head.
Firstly, I took the Google logo, using it as a reference, and traced over it as to build upon the text itself. Here’s that in action:
Then, I made 5 straight horizontal lines with an ending bar at the right and sketched the letters into actual musical phrases to represent a staff. This took a little bit of creativity and time but it was definitely worth it since not only does it resemble the Google logo, but you can actually play this tune. Here’s the following result:
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