Do you doodle?

[Miss Chicken]

And if you do doodle when do you doodle? While you are in class? When you are on the phone etc?

What do you doodle?

I mainly doodle geometric shapes and patterns, and flowers. Sometimes I write down a word that has occurred during a phone conversation (even if there is no reason to write down the word) and then I incorporate that word into my doodling.

 

[Velocity]

I doodle while on the phone with a boring contractor or during a boring meeting to stay awake. Usually little teardrop shapes that congregate closely but turn in different directions. During long product line meetings I can fill the margins of my paper.

 

[RoJoHen]

I doodle random cartoon characters.

 

[auntiehill]

I doodle all the time: lines, geometric patterns, squiggles, etc.

I make lots of circles and then fill them in, or make lots of lines in a fan or wave pattern. I could doodle through pages and pages if I don't stop myself.

I can't drawn worth a damn---stick figures are hard for me--but I love to doodle. It's very relaxing.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I never doodle in public.

 

[jamestyler]

I seem to have a bad habit of doodling all the time. Whether I'm sitting having a chat, writing up an outline, at a meeting.. I'll just sit and draw anything from shapes and patterns to comical faces to symbols... I don't know why I can't just stay still.

 

[O'Dib]

If there's a pen in my hand and paper in front of me, I will doodle. Thus my grad-school notes were more art than words. Lately it's only been when I'm on the phone (and ready to take down some info). Once my cousin noticed that I subconsciously doodle items that come up in telephone conversation. But anyways, it's usually animals, real or invented, superheroes, spaceships, as well as the occasional metaphysical jumble of shapes and 3d objects.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Yes, whenever i'm on the phone. Seems i can't just sit and converse, my hands have to be doing something. And i seem to doodle eyes. Lots and lots of eyes. Freud would probably have a field day with that.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

When I'm in meetings and not taking notes, I doodle like crazy. Mostly geometric shapes, spaceships, patterns, etc. I feel bad for whoever had to sort through the 20-odd notebooks I left behind at my last job. They were just as full of weird scribbles and drawings as they were actual, useful notes.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I have a strange habit of drawing boxes. All the time--on anything and everything!

I guess it goes to show that I'm just a square.

 

[judge alba]

when i get bored on the bus or train i'll doodle. mostly cartoon characters or space ships

 

[Mary Ann]

I can't draw proportional stick people but I'm forever doodling. I could never sell any of my school books because I'd highlighted and scribbled all over them. Scribbling happens when I'm on the phone or in a meeting. My two older children doodle all over everything as well, so it must be genetic. When I'm watching TV I'm on the computer or knitting, as I can't sit still except when I'm reading.

 

[Mr. B]

Not really. I draw occasionally but there's usually a reason. I'm designing a new website at the moment and I've been drawing things to further that end. The technical and artistic merits are similar to doodling though.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

In my math class, i used to doodle in the margins of my notebook all the time.

 

[Miss Chicken]

When I'm in meetings and not taking notes, I doodle like crazy. Mostly geometric shapes, spaceships, patterns, etc. I feel bad for whoever had to sort through the 20-odd notebooks I left behind at my last job. They were just as full of weird scribbles and drawings as they were actual, useful notes.

I catalog almost a 1000 geologist field notebooks at one job a few years ago. The books had been written by maybe 3 dozen different geologists over about 100 year span.

Some of the geologists were great doodlists. However there was one guy who stood out from the rest in that nearly every page had some sort of doodle on it.

Doodle weren't the only extras in the books. One guy left behind plans for a house, another a very good drawing of his boat, several of the books had rummy 500 scores, one guy did a fly eye colour survey, there were also grocery lists etc.

I actually had to leave details (as a note) in the catalog entry of all these things.

 

[M'Sharak]

I don't spend nearly as much time now on lengthy phone calls or meetings or lectures and seminars as I have in the past, but when I did those things a lot, I was inclined to doodle quite a bit: geometric shapes in corners and margins, little cartoon faces and animals. An underline under a word or phrase on a page of notes might lead to an outline around the word and progressively more elaborate doodling would grow out organically from that - just the way the word was shaped would affect the way the doodle would go.

 

[kustirider2]

I always doodled. In fact, I always got told off in my French lessons for doodling in the book margins, although that actually helped me learn French.

 

[JRS]

I sometimes doodle
Mainly smilies, cars, pyramids..and cabins.

 

[MetalPants]

My two older children doodle all over everything as well, so it must be genetic.

Another genetic deficiency to add to my list. I am most certainly not a doodler.

 

[mimic]

I do doodle.

Usually when bored out of my mind back in statistics class. I figured it last least looked like I was taking notes, whereas sleeping would be harder to pass off as paying attention.