When I sit in a lecture or meeting I inevitably begin to doodle. Not good doodling by any stretch, but doodling is what it is. I noticed today as I sat in a staff meeting that I always end up drawing the same things. Year after year, speech after boring speech, I always doodle these items:
- men’s lapels
- sneakers
- poofy skirts and dresses
- hamburger
- varsity style block letters
- milkshake
- girl’s ponytail
- eyeball
- paper cup with a straw and a lid
- lightning
You would think after all those many hours of doodling the same objects that I would have gotten halfway decent at it. Don’t kid yourself.
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maybe you should have a doodle365 in addition to the photos. the “eyeball” made me laugh. when i teach drawing, one of my rules is “no floating eyeballs!” of course, i still find myself drawing them from time to time.
I don’t think that I ever did any decent doodling. I would just draw squares and fill them in until the paper wore through.
I would like to hear more of the rules from the drawing class.
This girl in my class in high school who was a kick ass artist taught me how to draw an eyeball. She said it was a starter sorta lesson. She taught me how to shade around the pupil darker and how to be sure to make a reflection in the eye. I actually got sorta okay at drawing the eyeball since I had someone good show me how, but I never, ever got good at drawing eyelashes, that shit is hard.
I always doodle comic book crap like faces and eyeballs, buff dudes and buxom females, and ninja. Wannabe tagger letters…
I’ve doodled the same shapes for ten years, too. In any lecture or class. I think it helped me concentrate, actually.
Y’know what really focuses my mind?
Shooting some old, rich jerk in the face, and not talking to the cops for 14 hours.
I love when that shit happens. It’s better than 40 orgasms.
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