Origin of a Signature

I just started to doodle one day in my sketchbook and I was attempting to convert an old signature into a new one.  I developed my old sig. waaay back in 3rd or 4th grade and of course back then I thought it was cool.   Everybody else was just writing their names on their drawings, but I had a SIG.   Everybody say "Ooooo".  You can kind of see in the bottom center of the scan below.  It's sort of an "S" stacked on top of a "P".

I thought it needed updating...

I thought it needed a little updating to bring it out of the dark ages...  Branching out from the center of the page I came up with just plain "PDS".  Then I kind of mashed them together (over to the left) and I started to draw a fighter plane (just like I was in 3rd or 4th grade).   I've learned a few things since then and drew the progression of sound waves breaking the sound barrier.  That's the tiny "BSB" in the scan.  You should be able to find these diagrams in any physics books.  It shows a moving wave source and the interference patterns they create.  ANYWAY...  Moving right along...  I took that form and clung to it for dear life.  Slowly but surely the windswept signature was born.  Tah-dah!  The one in the box.

Of course it's gone through some modifications, but the general idea remains the same.  If you see in some of my art samples, on the following pages, I've removed the vertical bars and just went with the curves.  This way I can hide the sig. in a background of ripples or smoke.