In grade school, I picked up on swastikas, probably from GI Joe comics, or Wonder Woman, or such. I thought they were cool geometrically, and doodled them a lot. My father, a WWII veteran, told me in no uncertain terms, they weren’t. Somehow I got switched over to $ signs; lotsa $ signs.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ – I used to doodle them a lot.
(Didn’t seem to particularly influence my paychecks later.)
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 to 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’ve added in polyquetras (probably not the official name, these are like triquetra but with more points). On the other side, I’ve finished designs for my Swiss cards since last time, not currently working on a French one, though. Trying to resist the urge to start a webcomic, instead.
But my go-to since I was 10 has been house floor plans. Maybe just a doodle of a few rooms. Maybe the whole thing. Just pencil on whatever paper is around me. I love drawing houses.
@LaserEyes Did you become an architect? Actually I used to do that too wanting to design the perfect house for me to build to live in. Mostly did floor plans, sometimes did the outside (in the style, usually, of farmhouse Victorian).
@Kidsandliz No, I didn’t. At some point in high school I decided I wasn’t capable of handling the responsibilities of being an architect. I still went to school for architectural and civil CADD, but ended up spending nearly 10 years doing avionics engineering design for helicopters.
Just got stuck in the job, it was comfortable and familiar. I very much regret not going into architecture when I had the chance. I’m a stay at home mom now and don’t have any motivation to go back to the workforce. Maybe if I went the architecture route I’d still end up burned out and tired of office bullshit, company politics and all.
Now I doodle dream houses once in a while, or tiny houses like “maybe we could live in this tiny home for a little while until the housing market changes”. Or minecraft houses with my 4 year old
@PocketBrain@texmarc Hey the car I drew in first grade was far better than that photo above (I am presuming home that is a made car?) and actually looked fairly close to my dad’s vintage Packard. Driving that car above though would be good for a laugh. Driving dad’s packard was a guy magnet though. But not of the kind I was interested in.
@PocketBrain@texmarc
That looks like an old AMC Ambassador front clip grafted to the front of a wrecked van, and plopped on top of an old 4x4 pickup chassis. Do Not Want.
I don’t really doodle. The most I’ve ever really done is like fill in letters (if they are like a large outline only font) with like lines or polka dots or something simple. But as far as a blank notepad, nope, I don’t doodle.
Skulls.
@ZeroCharisma
How about a nice “Kermit the Frog”
@ZeroCharisma
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1126349
stars
I do not have a go to doodle I just doodle.
Bad Escher stairs.
Eyeballs
F-16 Fighting Falcon
lines on paper
@tweezak
Joke’s on you buddy
Bought paper with lines on it
No doodle required
In grade school, I picked up on swastikas, probably from GI Joe comics, or Wonder Woman, or such. I thought they were cool geometrically, and doodled them a lot. My father, a WWII veteran, told me in no uncertain terms, they weren’t. Somehow I got switched over to $ signs; lotsa $ signs.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ – I used to doodle them a lot.
(Didn’t seem to particularly influence my paychecks later.)
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 to 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’ve added in polyquetras (probably not the official name, these are like triquetra but with more points). On the other side, I’ve finished designs for my Swiss cards since last time, not currently working on a French one, though. Trying to resist the urge to start a webcomic, instead.
penis
@spacemart points for honesty.
@PocketBrain @spacemart
more than one peni??
I don’t doodle. I type.
3-D orbs of varying opacities and reflectivities. Pencil.
Flowers
Ribbons/flags
Crazy car with a dog driving.
As of late, canine paw prints.
Swirls or crosshatching for mindless doodling.
But my go-to since I was 10 has been house floor plans. Maybe just a doodle of a few rooms. Maybe the whole thing. Just pencil on whatever paper is around me. I love drawing houses.
@LaserEyes Did you become an architect? Actually I used to do that too wanting to design the perfect house for me to build to live in. Mostly did floor plans, sometimes did the outside (in the style, usually, of farmhouse Victorian).
@Kidsandliz No, I didn’t. At some point in high school I decided I wasn’t capable of handling the responsibilities of being an architect. I still went to school for architectural and civil CADD, but ended up spending nearly 10 years doing avionics engineering design for helicopters.
Just got stuck in the job, it was comfortable and familiar. I very much regret not going into architecture when I had the chance. I’m a stay at home mom now and don’t have any motivation to go back to the workforce. Maybe if I went the architecture route I’d still end up burned out and tired of office bullshit, company politics and all.
Now I doodle dream houses once in a while, or tiny houses like “maybe we could live in this tiny home for a little while until the housing market changes”. Or minecraft houses with my 4 year old
Spider-Man head. If there’s time, I’ll add the body.
@Nate311
I like to dig holes
And then if I have the time
I’ll add the body
@replicacobra Seems like too much work. I’d only dig the holes if I’m planning for a body.
@Nate311 @replicacobra
It seems more prudent
To have a few holes ready
In case they’re needed
My tag
Single-supply Op Amp relaxation oscillator.
@PocketBrain
Look out everyone
There’s a pervert over here
Take up tube amp art
I’m 68, been doodling cars since I got a Big Chief tablet and a #2 pencil…still haven’t done the perfect car.
@texmarc Is there anything better than this?
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@PocketBrain @texmarc Hey the car I drew in first grade was far better than that photo above (I am presuming home that is a made car?) and actually looked fairly close to my dad’s vintage Packard. Driving that car above though would be good for a laugh. Driving dad’s packard was a guy magnet though. But not of the kind I was interested in.
@PocketBrain @texmarc
That looks like an old AMC Ambassador front clip grafted to the front of a wrecked van, and plopped on top of an old 4x4 pickup chassis. Do Not Want.
@PocketBrain @texmarc @werehatrack
definitely a “because I can” vehicle!
/image doodle
@njfan 1,000 orange-dusted stars!
Flowers is about as far as I doodle.
Little ghosties!
Cars
I used to doodle the Battletech line art of the Locust battlemech. Like they would appear on about half of all homework assignments.
…circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back.
@2many2no Bet they look just like twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs
@2many2no @rancho
but were they used as evidence against you?
Dump trucks and forklifts. I have no explanation for this beyond the fact that they are easy to draw.
Sistine chapel… done with a white colored pencil…
I don’t really doodle. The most I’ve ever really done is like fill in letters (if they are like a large outline only font) with like lines or polka dots or something simple. But as far as a blank notepad, nope, I don’t doodle.