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1. What do you draw when you are idly doodling? Are there recurring themes/objects?
2. What do you draw/paint when you are doing so for artistic and/or recreational purposes?
3. What does what you choose to draw in each of these situations say about you?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago)

1. Aside from the standard "cube" and symettrical patterns, I tend to draw cartoony faces when I doodle. Sometimes I go so far as to add a torso.
2. I can pretty much only draw things that are in front of me or that I have a picture of, and even then, I can pretty much only draw man-made objects, not people or animals (though I did a pretty decent eagle's head on a recent flier I designed). I drew a variety of cameras for an album cover for my last band.
3. Not much, really.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago)

pentagrams

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Awesome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chud.com/graphics9/sixshooter.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure that's a photograph.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

he's that good

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I was going to say.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago)

1. Lots of squiggles, dudes with triangle faces, robots, bubbles

2.Paint:
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/bby2k/paintings.html

Girls, circles, sexy shoes, collage, pokemeon, darth vader

or http://www.angelfire.com/wy/bby2k/piclinks.html

3. I'm weird

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

sexy shoes?

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

generally stuff like this...

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/alexinnyc/jaz.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Mostly just pictures of cocks.

― Logged Out Moron, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

1. Eyes. Lots of eyes. I also write my name everywhere.
2. I don't. When I was younger mostly comic strips/cartoons or if I wanted to be arty probably a tree, with all the leaves falling off.
3. I don't know, but I was once told that if I was ever asked to draw something at a job interview I should avoid drawing lots of eyes as it signified mental instability. The repeated name writing apparently indicates identity issues which tie in uncomfortably with my love of staring at maps.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah bryan, like stilletto's from Vogue, I make prints outta them.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't doodle! When I was little I would draw pictures of cats though.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago)

ok good, jel. you had me in a cold sweat for a couple of minutes there.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Snails and Spiders dressed as pirates, fighting.
Eyes.
Bad Imitation Ancient Greek art.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

A doodle:
http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/torso.gif

A scribble:
http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/circle.jpg

What is means?: NFI

― choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

1. random faces, almost always faces

2. myself, often

3. desire to reimagine self

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

1. Lines and curves, spiral or koru patterns. Plants. Boxes. Hardly ever faces
2. Recently, dresses from the 1950s and 60s.
3. Drawing people is hard.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago)

I sometimes draw the shortest straw.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)

1. I always draw either a recurring spider's web pattern or a fucked-up Garfield face.
2. Consumer products and animals.
3. Materialistic, obsessive-compulsive, immature.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/acewhiskey/sp/shome.jpg

This little guy, since I was nine.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm not much of a doodler. When I draw out of boredom, I almost always draw imaginary women or animals. The most common theme is fish in top hats, although I branch out to other uncomplicated animals in various designs of hats. I very rarely draw men, I'm not sure what that means.

I discovered once by chance that someone else I know vaguely often draws fish in top hats. We wondered what that said about us. I think what it says about me is that I'm not very good at drawing and easily amused.

I hardly ever draw for artitistic/recreational purposes really, which is a shame.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago)

a blank

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't draw women.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

women are difficult.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Whan I doodle I draw eyes. Lots and lots of eyes. Sometimes I get as far as a nose.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I doodle a lot, it's a nearly compulsive habit. I go through phases: abstract shapes, decorative motifs, landscapes, and lots of faces engaged in strange dialogue. Sometimes in long meetings I'll start drawing someone sitting across the room, and I'll have to start tilting my notepad up so nobody can see. A couple of times my drawings (er, not the ones of people in same room) take a pornographic turn, but soon enough old superego appears to cover up the tracks with hasty "camouflage" of sorts.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

2. When I draw "for recreational purposes", it's anything, but especially: people who'll sit still.

3. Horny escapist with a perfectionist streak.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

1. Abject surrealism
2. Objects [buildings, objects, trees, &c.]
3. No focus

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:55 (twenty years ago)

100% of my doodling now happens on Photoshop.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm interested in this drawing men vs. drawing women. I almost exclusively draw men -- when I try women, they always turn out weird. But I'm wondering if men are actually more likely to draw men, and women are more likely to draw women (like Cathy)?

(FWIW, one thing I like about drawing men is big, exaggerated features, like huge noses and protruding jaws and monkey ears -- and I know there are women that have features like this, too, but whenever I try to draw them, they just look like men with wigs on.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:00 (twenty years ago)

one thing I like about drawing men is big, exaggerated features

omg can you draw me?

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago)

you have to know where to stop, with women.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago)

I used to hate when kids in school would ask of my doodles, "who is that?" -- as if the drawing had to be of someone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago)

I never understood that either, even more annoying was "who is that *supposed to be*?", both clueless and slightly insulting. All the more annoying cos I had no idea why I was drawing what I was drawing and thought it completely beside the point at any rate. I've also drawn men almost exclusively and near as I can tell it's because womanhood has always been so confounding and over my head that not even my creative subconsciousness is presumptuous enough try to capture it on paper. I've taken to drawing dejected old men for the last few years, with emotions ranging from rueful to very, very sad. I never give a thought to their circumstance or what put them there(I'm the opposite of a storyteller, whatever that is), just the emotion. Damned if I know what I'm after(beside the obvious, hating life) but I keep doing it.

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't draw much of anything anymore. I haven't for a few years now. I'd like to take it up again and even try to acquire some more technical skill someday.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:46 (twenty years ago)

Wish I had a scanner, I'd put up some sketches I did at work/uni a few years ago, that scared the shit out of me when I found them last week.

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago)

jaymc - that happens to me constantly, i can't stand it. i usually answer with "one of the many people that populate the inside of my head".

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:35 (twenty years ago)

i also find men easier to draw, in the sense that i can keep on adding wrinkles, facial hair, texture - when drawing females it feels like uglification. which is what jaymc was saying, really. and rjg too, probably.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:37 (twenty years ago)

1. spirals and trees and faces and embellishments
2. people and dogs (haven't for too long)
3. people and dogs are good to look at but I'll never be good at drawing them

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago)

1. faces, eyes, cats, the devil sign...
2. ...i used to want to be a comic book artist, and would draw my own comics as a kid. i gave it up when i realised i was weak at drawing anything but faces, and used to do portraits from photos, but never showed anyone, except one i gave to my ex-girlfriend's parents when she went off to Malaysia for six months. i've tried drawing in the past couple of years, as a therapeutic exercise, but i've found any skills i once had have evaporated...
3. what beanz wrote

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago)

I used to do posters for my college's coffee house that were basically doodles of particular people and archetypes - it was a campus job so students' parents basically paid me to satirise them.

1. Squids and octopi. If you put a punk Anarchy sign on the squid's anvil-head and give him an angry face, he is Squid Vicious. See also the happy face drawn with straight line for mouth and two vampire fangs and the Stussyesque skull and bone doodle.

2. Poodles. If you fuck up, easy to fix. Can draw a proper dog's nose in one stroke.

3. Horses. See childhood obsessions thread.

4. People. Haughty looking women in clothes I want (I draw what I want my look to be then I go and shop for it). A doodle of Morrissey being run over by a lorry including the burnt rubber marks. A doodle of Peter O'Toole's head with cigarette in holder at jaunty angle, similar to Steadman's Hunter ST. A buffed Atlas in a tulle ballet tutu with the world on his shoulders.

5. Spirals. Blame De La Soul and Shawn Stussy.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago)

1. What do you draw when you are idly doodling? Are there recurring themes/objects?

Swhirlies. Lots and lots of swhirlies. Eyes, too. And killer paramecium paisley and symetrical fisheye universe/atomic configuration/swirling geometric ornamentation things.

2. What do you draw/paint when you are doing so for artistic and/or recreational purposes?

Cute boys. And swhirlies. Cute boys being eaten my swhirlies. There's tons of my stuff on the web along these lines.

3. What does what you choose to draw in each of these situations say about you?

I'm boy crazy? I don't know. I remember once reading some personality test talking about how what you drew when you were doodling says about you, but I can't remember what it said. I think that the amount of detail and decoration and regular pattern in my swhirlies and paisleys and spinning-atom-configuration-expanding-fish-eye universes says more about me than the actual swhirlies themselves. Something about me being totally nitpicking and anal retentive, and everything has to balance. Or something. I should have been a medieval monk.

― Masonic Laundry Boom (kate), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Something I found myself idly doodling just now:

http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/stpauls/images/paul_illum2.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Beanz, fucking spoilers dude! Shit, now I know what happens.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

spirally swirly bits, all interacting with each other in various ways. my (now gone) dog, because he's easy to draw (terriers are just all liney, drawing-wise). sometimes thurberesque dogs too.

i used to try to draw all sorts of things but i'm bad at drawing so i've generally stuck with things i can draw, and patterns. it would be cool to learn how to draw well sometime...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)

i draw these:

http://www.tyrvald.com/pagan/art/pentagram.gif

hundreds of them. all the bloody time. i have no idea why.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago)

spiralling pattern thingies
faces
buildings
robots
landscapes
girls with big thingies

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago)

girls with big mobile phones?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

a draw cute girls in the office/on the bus etc.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

-"a draw" +"i draw"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

arrows and cartoonish things. i tend to photoshop Ned into everything imaginable though.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I too only draw men. My women also look like men with wigs on. WTF?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

i with you on the only drawing men thing. maybe we all secretly love teh cacks.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

In high school, I used to draw angels with enormous breasts. Got pretty good at it, too.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago)

i am imagining that as a line in a Petey Pablo rap

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Chuck it's coz you're a secret Satanist. or a goff.

Actually, I draw both genders fairly equally. If I'm drawing boys, it's coz I fancy them, but if I'm drawing girls, it's generally some sort of self projection or self representation.

Beanz, the scary thing is, back in high school during my scarily history obsessed period (just before I discovered punque rock) my doodles actually looked a lot like that. My mum framed some of them.

I also went through a phase where I doodled blueprints and plans of houses. My mum framed some of those, too.

― Masonic Laundry Boom (kate), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I am intrigued now about this only drawing men or women. If I try to draw men, like jaymc in reverse, they end up looking like women, and then I put a beard or something on them so they are obviously male. I get the shoulders too narrow and the lips and eyes too feminine.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I DRAW EVIL ROBOTS

When my friends moved into their house, they found a CACHE of amazing HIGH SCHOOL STONER art, like a drawn recreation of the red hot chili pepper's "mother's milk" album and tons of evil robots and evil clowns and it was like HEAVUN.

― planescapin' 'til dawn (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, well, my men are all quite effeminate, but that's coz I only fancy girly boys anyway. ;-)

― Masonic Laundry Boom (kate), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I used to do house plans as well, and car designs too. None was framed by my parents though.

I used to know a guy at school who would draw swords all over every spare bit of paper. Sigmund Freud to thread.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

The houseplans are actually quite pretty, coz they're all Victorian and twee and stuff. They look like a miniature village along one wall of her house.

if it's Freudian to draw swords, what does that say about all our swhirlies and circles?

― The Grain of Sand in Lambeth That Satan Cannot Find (kate), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

1. chairs, jars, teapots & other objects of the everyday.
2. steaks (t-bone, specifically).
3. lots & lots of thin, long lines with little blobby things at the end.
4. boxes & plants.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Here's you

http://www.geocities.com/emurphy23/mrstinky.txt

― fcussen (Burger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

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