Let us introduce you to Real Life Doodles. That’s the name of an artform that’s been sweeping across the Internet for a while; you may even recognize a few of the examples in this blog.
It’s been pioneered by a few creative Imgurians who add doodles over GIFs from normal videos. It could be a clip of anything; raking up cut grass or making a cup of tea but by adding doodles to them the scenes come to life and objects are given adorable personalities.
We reached out to Imgurian SooperDavid who has been making these real life doodles since April 2015.
SooperDavid first started posting on Imgur due to “ease of use,” he explained. “I started doing the doodles after seeing a dog playing with a ball and I thought it would look real cute if the ball was a little guy and then a lot of people liked it so I kept going. ”
“I think I also got the idea from the classic dog with arms gif which has been floating round the internet for years and I just expanded on it and made a lot of them.”
His first doodle now has over a million views.
Since then, he’s drawn happy little faces on countless more items.
He gets his inspiration by imagining what he thinks is he doodling on would feel “if it really was alive,” SooperDavid said. “Then I draw on them, I’ve been drawing cute stuff for years so I’m well experienced in cute face drawing.”
“I use a program called Flash 8, I mostly use it because it’s the program I have always had. I make my gifs frame by frame and it can be quite time consuming but I kind of like repetive tasks and getting lost in them for a few hours and then coming out with something cool at the end.”
The future looks doodley for SooperDavid as he told us that “I shall be continuing with many doodles. I’m always looking for more suggestions of gifs to do so if anyone’s got any send them my way.”
