So there I was, sitting backstage during the showing of 1940’s Radio Hour, doing my ultra-boring tech work that leaves me sitting on top of a ladder for two hours. I’m bored out of my mind. I listen for my cues, but there’s often a three or four minute gap 'tween each one.
I’m bored. Insanely bored.
I happen to have a pen in my hand. Oh, goody, a drawing utensil. But nothing to draw on. I’m eight feet in the air, there’s no paper, no hard surface to draw on. My solution? Just like my sex life, I use my hand.
An hour and a half later, I wound up with a wacky amalgamation of circles, flowing lines, sharp edges and contours, and divisions that formed a funky, wacky pattern. I traced around my knuckles, so when I made a fist it looked like a funkily-designed robot hand. It was nifty. It would have been a lot bigger, going up my arm and around my wrist, but my pen ran out of ink. I’ll post up pictures when the film gets developed.
So, Teeming Millions, do you draw on yourself? What do you draw?
No, but I do sometimes give my grandsons “tattoos” with multi-colored magic markers when I babysit. They love it, I love it …my daughter hates it … but hell, after all the shit she put me through when she was growing up …
I always told her, “just wait, someday you’ll be a parent”. She didn’t believe me.
Ah, the power vested in a grandparent, my head swims.
When I was a kid I use to draw on my sneakers with markers while I was sitting in class. One day I wore them out in the rain and the colors all ran together. Other kids liked my artwork so much they begged me to do theirs. Why bother telling anyone the look was just the result of natural disaster.
As for drawing on my skin – I can still hear my mother yelling, “STOP drawing all over yourself!”
Of course I never did. Now I’ve graduated to those toxic metallic gel pens ___ oooooh pretttty! I do those Indian designs you usually see done in henna.
Of course. We aren’t allowed to draw/doodle on the booths at work, but they have yet to regulate drawing on yourself. I love gel pens for this, or milky pens, the ones that don’t soak in.
What a world!
I usually do the free form whorls sort of thing, sometimes I contour map my hand.
Hello my name is Mandi, . . . and I draw on my hands.
I started drawing on my hands when I was in school, maybe just a reminder to do homework, then it became and obsession. I noticed myself drawing on my hands all the time, then it spread to my shoes, arms, and (sigh) ankles. It started off so innocent. Just a flower here a yin yang there then the designs got more intricate, a smurf holding a sign direction the ants to go left. Then I found fake tattoos, had them all over the place henna one here, stick on one there, ankles mostly, but maybe my arm or hand or back. Then I turned 18, it was legal. Save for the money involved I probably would be covered. But now I sport two tattoos, ankle, and shoulder. Poison Dart Frog and a Sunflower with a yin-yang center. Now that I am in recovery everthing is going well, THEN they made GEL pens! Sparkley of all colors, gold, silver, color changing blue, pink and green, I couldnt get enough. Someone luckily saved me, and bought me a pad of BLACK paper, now I can draw to my hearts content on there are it is so cool. Well thanks for listening.
My teacher once told me that drawing on your body is a sign of suicidal tendencies.
Wrists - arms - hands - occassionally belly, legs and feet.
Yesterday at a party face and jeans.
My favorites:
My comics - little kids with spliffs or “porns” - porns would be a little woman with big boobs and a potatoe shaped body. It kind of looks sweet and a friend allowed me to draw one on her hand yesteray eveneing. wahey!
I also like to write poems on myself, or lines from songs…
sometimes I just use myself as a notebook too. At least I cant lose the notes then, right?
all the time…whatever random doodles I either don’t have paper for, or just out of boredom. I also draw on my boyfriend…drives him nuts, sometimes, but at least I do it with a pen that either washes of easily, or somewhere he can hide it if he wants
I do all the time. Since I’m an artist, I draw almost anything. It was something I did more when I was younger though. In elementary school chorus, the other kids would flock around me and I’d draw on their hands. “Draw me a pig!” “Can I have a cat?” “Do you know how to draw the spot guy from 7-Up?” That was my sole reason that people knew who I was…I was the girl who could draw. Then again, they also knew me as the girl who was on Wheel of Fortune too, but I try to block that from my mind…
Gotta agree with liking milky gel pens. Those things rock!
I remember drawing this long twisty vine with roses on it all over my entire arm in 7th grade on the last day of school. My friend neglected to tell me that it was a permanent marker. I had that silly design on my arm for days.
I usually draw the Christian Jesus fish on my leg because that’s the tattoo I want.
sometimes i do that,and i used to write notes to me on my hands quite often. i have not tried to use the milky gel pens, but i have with the metallic gel pens.
i need some more gel pens, i cannot keep a gel pen in my house to save my life.<<although i think that is because there is a black hole in my house!!>>
On my hands and my jeans but since I am a bit of a writer I generally have a pad of paper with me whenever I have the urge to doodle or write… so my notebooks are generally full of weird poems and some geometric doodles and such… I’m not much of a drawer
I think my new one that I have a tendency is to number other people’s fingers, the five is always backwards b/c I insist on drawing upside down. I also like to draw little things like flowers and penguins and elephants, and sometimes I’ll draw little monkeys.
Is there really anyone who hasn’t drawn on themselves at one point or another? I adore gel pens, the metallic ones and milky ones are so very fun. I usually draw flowers and vines on my hands. On the weekends I can cover my entire left hand it’s relaxing really.
