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What do you doodle?

Posted by Sebastyne • 10/15/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: art, artistry, doodle

I just wrote a weird post about artistry and doodling. It started out as one thing and ended up another. Didn't bother to edit it, as it ended with something I find kind of interesting. What do you doodle when you're on the phone or otherwise preoccupied? Scans anyone?

www.sebastyne.net/blog/2008/10/artists-make-me-tired/

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10/15/08

Phillyzero

I doodle for my comic -.- (blackrussiancomics.com)

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1. 10/15/08
  
  Sebastyne
  
  Haha, cute ones! They remind me of one of my favourite cartoons, about a Chinchilla.
10/15/08

crpitt

Ohhh doodling my favourite subject!

In college when I am making notes, I sometimes drift into the world of doodle.

Then at home, while I am working on homework or blogging I always have a piece of paper in front of me and just go mad.

Doodling is like art therapy for me

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1. 10/15/08
  
  Sebastyne
  
  Guess what? It was your site that inspired my blog post! The one I referred to as "totally unique". I just decided not to link back as my post turned out being about "disposable art", and I thought yours would be way too cool and would make people self-conscious!
2. 10/15/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Bloomin heck! I am rendered almost speechless.
  
  What a nice thing to say
  
  Okay maybe not speechless.
10/15/08

legbamel

I draw a sort of puzzle from hell, with narrow, twisting pieces ending in sharp angles. If left to my own devices long enough, I'll fill the whole page and then start coloring them. It actually looks pretty cool when I'm done, but mostly it's a bunch of pointy shapes branching out and merging.

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10/15/08

chrissymarie321

If I am not working on proper stuff: eyes, fairies and mystical looking people:)

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1. 10/15/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Wow that's so cute
2. 10/16/08
  
  chrissymarie321
  
  Why thank you Clair, from someone I consider to be the mistress of doodle, thats a great compliment...;)
  I love the one of your teacher(not), LOL....
  Do they ever get embarassing? I confess that when I was at a important conference recently one of the guys from the top of the tree leaned over "thats a quality doodle".......ooops, caught out!!
3. 10/16/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Definitely gets embarrassing, as the doodle is not of my tutor! She thought something Freudian was going on and maybe I was subconsciously doodling her. Bloody counselling tutors
  
  Also I always doodle big boobs and tentacles, which some people think is a little bit naughty
10/15/08

CarolC

@Sebastyne - I like your paper cone doodles...cool! I like to doodle here: bomomo.com/ cause I ran out of paper :o)

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1. 10/15/08
  
  Sebastyne
  
  Oh I love that one! And you can save your doodles too, which is... Dangerous to the hard drive and completely useless, but so cool. I just spent quite some time doodling on that.
10/15/08

ThriftShopRomantic

I used to draw quite a bit. In college, I'd had a weekly comic strip in the school paper, which I scanned recently for fun and put online. You can see that here:

cabbages-n-kings.blogspot.com/2008/10/sheep-thrills-from-dusty-archives.htm...

Currently, I still have fun illustrating stories with little online graphics I do in Microsoft Word.

I think my favorite is here:
cabbages-n-kings.blogspot.com/2008/08/doodle-week-or-further-adventures-of....

I agree with Claire-- the doodling is therapy.

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1. 10/15/08
  
  Sebastyne
  
  I'm not sure if these classify as "doodles" but I do love them.
10/15/08

cranelegs

i'm not one to doodle but my neighbor timmy tansworth has been doodling the young gal up the way for some time now. everyone knows it too.

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10/15/08

calais50

My drawing is terrible, but my handwriting can be pretty artistic, so I often write names and words in my best handwriting. Another thing I do is write a matrix of dots and connect them to make some interesting shapes.

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1. 10/15/08
  
  Sebastyne
  
  Oh I do that too, now that you mentioned it. I try to come up with names containing a lot of S's and L:s, as they usually turn out beautiful... You see, normally my hand writing is not that pretty. In fact, most of the time I'm the only one who's able to read it.
10/15/08

lordsomber

doodles from meetings:

pungeon.blogspot.com/2008/03/hub-lisper-meeting-minutes-030408.html

pungeon.blogspot.com/2008/01/ids-rendage-meeting-minutes-012908.html

pungeon.blogspot.com/2008/01/ares-den-dig-meeting-minutes-010208.html

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1. 10/15/08
  
  Sebastyne
  
  Mate, what do you do at the meetings? Are you the coffee cup holder or something? These are certainly not doodles by someone who is busy.
2. 10/15/08
  
  crpitt
  
  I think he is an uber doodler
3. 10/16/08
  
  lordsomber
  
  You are both correct.
10/16/08

mizhelena

usually weird shapes and i trace over things alot

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