This morning (and every morning) I need my coffee to get going. Sometimes for the caffeine, sometimes for the ritual.

It seems Brandon Ortwein would agree. Since October 2010, Brandon has taken to making a daily coffee cup post-it note drawing. As you'd expect from a caffeinated doodle, they are full of color and energetic marker streaks. I love these drawings as a collection. It's a reminder of how something simple, done overtime, could look impressive and complete.

Tokomo draws cute characters that interplay with Starbucks coffee cups. Day after day she uploads doodles to her Instagram feed that receive quite the love (over 2,000 likes an image). Her consistency is incredible and I'm always pleased when she reveals how the drawing will play onto the surface of the cup.

Starbucks owes this girl some stock options. More after the fold »

It's time for round two of our August Sunday Grins! This week we asked our ten doodlers to imagine what the average coffee cup might look like 1,000 years from now. Will we (or, more likely, our great-great-etc grandchildren) be getting our coffee fix from a drip in our space suit, or will we just pop a caffeine pill?

Maybe we should heed Krysthopher Woods advice (above) and start to be a little more suspicious of those humble liquid-holders!

Some people have sugar with their morning coffee, some have milk. But a few artistic fellas seem to be taking their morning brew with a side of pens & pencils, thanks!

First off we have Colin David Stewart who hand-doodled a bunch of portraits for the coffee-sippers at Six Eight Kafe in Birmingham. I love imagining that a dude walks in, orders a coffee, and is handed this one-off portrait that looks surprisingly similar to his friend Jeff... or his sister Megan, or whoever. What a trip!



And if we're talking about coffee-cup doodlers, I can't not mention Boey. He's a true cup-drawing machine! Sip slowly and enjoy these hand-picked few...

Cecilia Levy stains the inside of her books with coffee and then adds delicate lines with a fine liner pen to create these simple and beautiful patterns. I'd easily frame any one of these to hang on the studio wall.