UKULELE HEADSTOCK DOODLE

Here's a sketch I made of a ukulele head stock. I work as a draftsman but drafting now is so much more about sitting at a computer screen and making exact layouts. That good feeling of the pencil in the hand doesn't get to happen so much any more. My sketches are always part drafting part comic doodle.

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The symbol in the headstock is similar to the one that I requested from Mike DaSilva on my custom uke. You see, I also studied mathematics at CSUH which is now called California State University of the East Bay. I wanted to create a simple symbol that combined mathematics and drafting - so that's what I wanted to express.

There's an area of mathematics called Fractals that I never studied. I like to think of my triangular symbol as the beginning of a musical Mendelbrot fractal. Perhaps it is just a humble pictorial beginning but the my music keeps expanding in friendships, playing skills, singing skills, and confidence as I creep slowly towards my 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. HU

Here's some famous Mendelbrot fractal images for the inquiring minds....
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://davis.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/fractals/mset.gif&imgrefurl=http://davis.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/fractals/mendel.html&h=300&w=300&sz=12&tbnid=D6G1jdLzIRRIyM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmendelbrot&usg=__jX30CwlB22JAamDJlXVVUnGcxAE=&ei=y_TRSp3oJofysQPHtJTwCw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CBQQ9QEwAw