Shadow Laughing doodle, plus setup video/photos of my process

Thanks for the kind comments and encouragement re: my recent shadow doodles on Twitter and FB. Much appreciated!

One of my goals with this most recent shadow doodle was to NOT have to enhance the shadow in Photoshop afterward. I like the idea of just taking the photo and not having to add anything else to the image except for copyright info.

And yay, SUCCESS! What I did: turn off the room lights except for my iPhone 5s and one floor lamp situated in such a way to provide enough ambient light for the final photo but not so much light to add an extra shadow.

I'm still using the lovely bouquet of flowers that my friend Hazel Mitchell sent, and I took a very short video to show how I looked for a good doodle shadow:

After I find the right shadow, then I add the ink line drawing bits directly on the paper/shadow using my Pentel Pocket Pen Brush. I do this while the paper is still taped up.

Here's a photo showing more of the setup:

As you can tell, I've changed my setup from my first shadow doodle four days ago and even from two days ago. For one thing, I find that setting up the light to shine horizontally rather than straight down gives me more flexibility in positioning shadow subjects. In this case, I didn't have to take the flowers out of the vase but just needed to rotate the vase until I found a good shadow.

Also, I find it far easier to do shadow doodles indoors. Outdoors, the shifting sunlight as well as wind forces me to work quickly. Which is fine once in a while, but keeps me from working with fine details in shadows. I also like taking my time in choosing an interesting shadow.

This is what the setup looked like after I turn off my iPhone 5s flashlight:

I've only just started experimenting with shadow doodles, but you can see my Shadow Doodle collection so far on Pinterest.

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I love creating found object doodles and post them on Instagram, "Found Object Art" gallery on Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr  and in my Found Object Art portfolio.