I do. I draw stars more than anything, but also cubes, asterisks, really basic smiley-faces(think emoticons on paper), hearts, letters or whole words in a different handwriting than normal, and my name/signature.
On the radio the other morning, they were discussing some study(sorry-no cite) that somehow concluded that people who doodle sharp lines and angles are “less creative” than those who draw circles and spirals and curved lines. :dubious:
I doodle. It’s relaxing. I draw lots of interlocking, random paisley swirls filled with moire patterns. Seeing old school papers from elementary school, I was doodling that even as a kid.
If I’ve been given one or more pages of typed information for the purpose of the meeting, I’ll turn the existing letters into faces, animals or other objects.
I doodle, but it takes away from my concentration and I miss a whole lot of stuff. So I try to keep it to a minimum unless I’m really sure I don’t have to pay attention. Then I come up with stuff like “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Pringle”.
I can rarely have a phone conversation for over one minute without doodling.
My school notebooks are filled with doodle-graffiti in the margins and other empty spaces - mostly squiggly lines and stars and snakes.
I fill in the circles, connect lines, stuff like that.
One of the other things I would write in meetings, besides notes, was whatever I was thinking at the time.
Okay most of the time but one day I hadn’t realized my boss was looking over my shoulder.
One of my obnoxious coworkers was rambling on about something and I wrote
‘I wish somebody would make that asshole shut up’.
I heard the snicker and realized my boss had read it.
He seemed to like me a whole lot better after that.
I learned to be a little more careful about what I wrote.
I do that, too! I found an old notebook I had taken to a meeting, and across one margin, I had written, “Shut up. Shut UP! Oh, just kill me now!.” I’m guessing someone asked a stupid question.
Stick figures, swords, cubes, and patterns based on the lines on the paper
At the single most boring meeting (and longest!) I was ever in, I started keeping a chart. On the x-axis, I measured adjectives uttered by the speakers. On the y-axis, I measured yawns (anyone’s, not just my own.)
As you might expect, the curve was a very clean parabola.
“Doodle” is my middle name.
Scooter Doodle?
I like it.
‘Girl’ is a pretty unusual surname.
I used to get crap for that from my teachers. Well, guess what, Mrs. Coddlington, I ended up doodling for a living! And teaching business execs to doodle.
And now I frame my doodles and people buy them (seriously, I have trouble believing that one myself). So keep playing in those margins… you never know.
Yep. Put a piece of paper and pen in front of me during a meeting, and all I’ll have on it is weird, abstract cubes, spheres, triangles and squares, connected by angles, lines, and finely feathered ballpoint shading. Sometimes there’s a random word or three, like, “Due EOD Fri.”
No idea what that means or what anyone was saying. I have reams of the stuff. I wonder if I came through that Friday.
I doodle with pen and paper, and without.
HA~
The former must really chafe.
For years I doodled only stars. Then I switched to flowers.
I can’t draw for shit, though.
Yes, my name is Scooter Doodle Girl and it has gotten me far in life :D. No seriously, I love to doodle and draw… and maybe I’ll even share something. How in the hell do I attach something on here?
I’ve doodle my whole life. Not a phone person, so if I have to be on a phone on a meeting or something? Doodleville.