@cengland0 Fun fact: wildly drawing sharp points and long straight lines in your doodles will actually increase stress. Instead, draw curves or pick a specific image to draw, as that option focuses your mind on the goal and progress more than the motion.
@Zigzagoon In the 7th grade, I drew a sweet snake that was saying “hi” and was made of a bunch of those “cool S” linked together. He was all like:
“hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss”
The unblinking eye, and the ugly one that never freaking matches, why does it never match?! Also, something I can see, made subtly morbid. The Smiling Beast (he can smell you) and the Eyeless Ones who follow at his feet (how they gnaw). Variations on Yggdrasil when I have a square page too fill. The Feast of the Serpent when I have a tall, narrow page to fill. The Wyrm Hunter when I have a note card to fill and want to draw a ton of mountains. I also have slowly been drawing designs for a deck of Swiss playing cards that may change to a French deck if I live long enough, so lots of doodles focus on ideas for that.
@Kyeh Pretty sure the kids I saw doing it in school were not paying attention. Or maybe they had crossed over into “drawing land” instead of true doodling.
I started coloring to manage my Stress and Anxiety. I don’t think it’s working.
@cengland0 Fun fact: wildly drawing sharp points and long straight lines in your doodles will actually increase stress. Instead, draw curves or pick a specific image to draw, as that option focuses your mind on the goal and progress more than the motion.
dicks of course
@spacemart dicks? Like, a man dick?
@spacemart Someone needed to say it.
@spacemart
Mostly squiggly lines that interconnect with one another.
Doodles.
The S
@Zigzagoon In the 7th grade, I drew a sweet snake that was saying “hi” and was made of a bunch of those “cool S” linked together. He was all like:
“hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss”
@rogerbacon For some reason your description took me back in time to Trodgor the Burninator.
@Euniceandrich @rogerbacon
Consummate V’s.
@Euniceandrich @PocketBrain @rogerbacon Burninating the countrydside!!
Usually squiggles and curly things. Sometimes mountains and happy trees.
School busses going off of cliffs.
Doodle? When I am bored, I sleep. I should be asleep right now as this poll bores me.
Just whatever comes to mind, but flowers probably a lot of the time.
The unblinking eye, and the ugly one that never freaking matches, why does it never match?! Also, something I can see, made subtly morbid. The Smiling Beast (he can smell you) and the Eyeless Ones who follow at his feet (how they gnaw). Variations on Yggdrasil when I have a square page too fill. The Feast of the Serpent when I have a tall, narrow page to fill. The Wyrm Hunter when I have a note card to fill and want to draw a ton of mountains. I also have slowly been drawing designs for a deck of Swiss playing cards that may change to a French deck if I live long enough, so lots of doodles focus on ideas for that.
@simplersimon What’s happened to the supposed Meh deck of playing cards?
Spaceships, the old Flash Gordon kind.
Skulls, eyes, birds
I never understood doodling. I always thought it was a waste of paper, and indicative of distracted thoughts.
@katbyter Actually, doodling helps you concentrate:
https://www.cnet.com/health/doodling-can-help-you-pay-attention/
@Kyeh Pretty sure the kids I saw doing it in school were not paying attention. Or maybe they had crossed over into “drawing land” instead of true doodling.
I. Don’t. Doodle.
While I often dawdle and occasionally dribble, I rarely doodle.
Cars, usually. But I’m not very artistic, so they don’t look all that great.
Circuitry.
I usually doodle a photo realistic copy of the roof of the sistene chapel.
Is that when you use those ancient marking devices way back before touchscreens and the Alexa mind control? Ya, I don’t do that.
Whatever pops in my head. It can be dangerous!
Boxes. I play with 2 point perspectives.
@dptalia Same here. I took two semesters of drafting/mechanical drawing in high school, and my drawing hand still goes back to it.
Cars, the ones like I never see on Meh, Carvana, or Vroom.
Chains
Mainly weird shapes… sometimes I do not ol acorns and tiny little squirrels
Absent-minded scribbles. Can’t draw a proper shape of any kind to save my life.
I draw goblins screaming. No joke. They dont look good, which may contribute why they are screaming.
It varies, but cartoon characters and three dimensional boxes are pretty common recurrences.
Math limericks.
Weapons. From ancient swords to star fighters.
mastur…oh… what do I DOODLE…
My eyes read it as “what do you DO when you’re bored”…
umm…race cars?..