I doodle a lot, and I cheerfully admit my visual language is unsophisticated. A lot of it is just scribbled faces with various expressions:
Do you doodle? If so, what form does it take?
December 21, 2013
I doodle a lot, and I cheerfully admit my visual language is unsophisticated. A lot of it is just scribbled faces with various expressions:
Do you doodle? If so, what form does it take?
December 21, 2013
I regret no. Somehow I never did take to it. And now with all my writing done using a computer I hardly ever have blank paper and pen or pencil before me to start.
I used to doodle mostly abstract patterns while sitting through classes. Learned as much or more doing that as I did trying to take notes.
Rummuser,
That’s too bad.
Mike,
Thanks for telling us about it. I never did it in class — it probably would have been a good idea. I used to take notes but I probably didn’t think about the ideas as much while I was writing.
No, but seeing your face expressions makes me want to. I could do that!
Just remembered: I used to make comic birthday cards for my bicycle group members (“Cyclones”). Everybody laughed. I’ve been accused of putting myself down but these cards were really good.
In fact, you showed me one of your cards years ago, and you were one of my inspirations to try drawing cartoons. I remember wishing that I could draw something like that too.
Doodling for me is a little difficult at times, because the “pencil” as such is a fine motor skill and my tremor knows it and at time acts accordingly so I end up with lines and things going all over the place…
But on the other hand I have made some very entertaining art works, when I was doing my art course that way.
I have beside me all kinds of paper – some attached to books through to scrap paper that get notations on them all kinds of reasons. I also have a lot of different pens/pencils which are used in a doodling sort of way. But mostly my doodles are written words…
My doodles are often big and expansive, so maybe they don’t need fine motor skills? I often use magic markers, and the wide movements feel liberating.
Very rarely. When I do it tends to be a grid which I fill in with different patterns.
That works too.