The French Connection

A Crpitt and TJ Lubrano collaboration

Bonjour! and with that my French capabilities run out..

This blog was always been about two things for me, raising the topic of body awareness and improving my doodle skills. My doodle mentor of sorts, TJ, has been a big fan of this project from the beginning and has already chipped in several times with an illustration of her own and providing the Dutch translations. Luckily for me, she is now an active part of this project and has spurred me on to try new things.

Chucking out the same doodles and adding the different translations was getting a tad boring for me. To be honest, I had started to notice some glaring errors in my doodles, that began to horrify me (slightly dramatic). So I thought to myself, why be precious about it? Just doodle them again. So I posed the idea to TJ about doing some international characters for each language and after a few back and to epic emails, we agreed on a plan. Each language would have its own special character and we would do a version each. Then I would use my character to redo each of the 'step by steps'. Its a win win situation for me, as I get much needed doodle practice AND I get to do some cool collaboration work with TJ. You can see the collaborative piece at the start of this blog post, which TJ pieced together using some photoshop magic.

I went away and  worked on the six characters that we already had translations for, which where English, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Dutch and German. These where then used in the post 'International ladies coming soon'. TJ has now gone Freelance with her Illustration work, so she was very busy over the Christmas period, once that had quietened down, she picked the French lady to work on first. Once I knew this, I cracked on with doing the 'Step by Step' element, using my French character.

Replicating the character over the various steps, getting the colours right and all that fun stuff, was harder than I thought it would be, but fun still. I am learning new stuff all the time and it's really cool to see how these Breast self exam doodles are evolving with every new version.  So without further ado, please gaze at the French version of Breast Self Exam! (click the 'click here').

Voilà - Click here

If you know anyone French, who speak French, French bloggers etc etc. Please feel free to share the link with them, as that is who this version is for! Cheers/Merci :)

The Dutch Connection

As mentioned in the 'Universal Language of Doodle', TJ was next in line to translate the Breast Self Exam Doodles. Not only has she translated the doodles, she has also done this awesome doodle to introduce the Dutch version of the Breast Self Exam.

Who is TJ? You can read all about her here 'A Look in a Creative Mind', which is her blog about creativity and the wonderful illustrations that she is currently working on. I created this site, because I love doodling and I wanted to do something cool and worthwhile whilst improving my doodle skills. TJ has been a doodle mentor of sorts, recommending paper, watercolour techniques and drawing styles, basically a fountain of doodle knowledge for me! In fact she provided that paper that I doodled the Breast Self Exam doodles on, which is lucky, because the paper I was going to use, is like toilet paper in comparison.

So far it has been wonderful collaborating with fellow bloggers like Diana and TJ, on this project, as I know they are on hand if I needed help again. Having someone I know translate the doodles also adds the personal touch I was going for, without any scary google translator mishaps. So if you want to join in and help with the translations, then have a read of this post and let me know.

The first of many Lubrano ~ Pitt Collaborations (I hope)

For the Dutch version of the Breast Self Exam please - Klik hier

Breast Self Exam - Dutch

Hooray another translation is ready for the world. This time the lovely TJ has provided the doodle and the translations for this Dutch edition. For more information about TJ, please read this post and click here to read her blog  'A Look in a Creative Mind'

Blijf Boobalicious! Klik hier 'A look in a Creative Mind'

Universal Language of Doodle

Universal Language of Doodle

Doodles are fun and accessible, because hopefully they make sense in any language (or they are at least nonsense in any language). Making these doodles, as accessible, to as many people as possible, is my aim. That includes those that maybe wouldn't read about this particular subject, either because it's embarrassing or because it's not something readily available to them. Not only that, illiteracy in this country (UK) and around the whole world is still a very sad statistic indeed. So if people can 'see' these doodles, that may be enough to set off something which leads to them checking out their naughty bits.

With that in mind, I hadn't thought about translating the doodles, it simply didn't occur to me. I wasn't sure who would read/look at them in English, let alone another language. So when Diana, sent me a message about translating them into Spanish, this set off an idea explosion that eventually led to the creation of this site. It is another bonus of being a blogger for years and collecting people that I can call friends from all over the world.

Translations/Translators on board so far:

• Spanish translations have been provided by my Mexican blog chum Diana, as mentioned above. Diana is the person that has kicked off the international Mexican Doodle Wave (hehe/jeje).
  
  Breast self exam in Spanish (Español)

• Dutch translations will be provided by my Dutch Doodling chum TJ, who will be providing a wee doodle/s and the translations. TJ is a super talented illustrator and I am so pleased that she has agreed to help out.

I wonder if there are any other nice translators out there?

Special Wish-list:

The guys on the Mongol Rally aka the Mongolia 5, as mentioned in Going the extra mile, will be travelling through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. I thought it would be cool to get the breast self exam doodles translated into each of these languages! Especially because the guys are raising money for breast cancer awareness and it would be excellent to provide some doodle awareness as they hurtle across the continent.

Let me know if you can help! I have Holland (Dutch) covered, but the rest?

I of course want the doodles translated into every known written language, but I just wanted to highlight those particular countries, as it's for a particular special cause. World dominance can wait for now....

Learn something new every day...

I know how to do squiggles!!! Erm I mean accents. Using TypeIt I can at least cut/paste them anyways. This blog editor goes a bit daft, when I press down the ALT key and try any fancy shortcuts.

Update: Norwegian and German coming very soon! 

• Dutch translations are done! 
• French Translations are done!

Welcome to Self Exam Doodles

Welcome to Self Exam Doodles!

What started as a fun idea has now evolved into this little blog monster. I had initially posted the doodles on my personal blog and a blog chum had said why don't you delete all your blog posts and just have the breast self exam doodles. I think they were rather taken with nudey rudey aspect of it, rather than the more important message they try to convey.

Breast Self Exam

Then another blog chum emailed me and asked whether I would put up a Spanish version on my blog, if she translated them. That sounded like a cool idea to me! Hang on, my blog is a personal/ramble of a blog and not really the best home for these doodles.

So I thought about it for a while (about ten seconds) then ran off to get the domain name 'Self Exam Doodles' and set about creating this blog. The ideas behind the doodles will be mentioned on their relevant pages, which you will find in the navigation bar. I will be adding more stuff as I go along, so check them out.

At the moment I have finished the Breast Self Exam doodles in English and Espanol 

coming soon....

Coming soon are the Testicular Self Exam Doodles

Any comments, suggestions about new doodles are all welcome and much appreciated!

Breast Self Exam - Espanol

I don't speak, read, think or write in Spanish, but luckily I know someone who does.. So muchos gracias? To Diana from The Hidden face of the moon for translating the doodles for me.

So here it is in Spanish! Español