I think at one time or another, everyone has a go at doodling out what they are thinking onto paper at least once - I seem to do this fairly often with at least TWO drawings under my belt.
It's really relaxing to do - all you have to do is draw what you think
is you. Then you start attaching things to your head as they come to
mind. You don't have to know a skill or technique - just grab the
nearest thing that writes and GO! And because your mind is always
thinking and always listing (in my case) things, there isn't a chance
that you will run out of things. You can do it by theme ( favourite
things, foods movies etc) or just randomly drawing.
This one I did of my favourite things...at the moment, which I did for my Moleskine book O'Doodles... and it's not all of my favourite things EITHER...it's just some that I popped into my mind at the time- basically whatever my little birdie read from a long list of what I love. I am sure if I were to draw another one RIGHT NOW, it would probably come out completely different.
What would be a really interesting theme to doodle out would be, things I
hate. However, there are so many that I would probably need a whole
wall or even a building XD
This one below I am uber proud of.
Originally it was a commission piece - but she didn't like the random
doodle idea and wanted specific Disney related images in the
..."cubbies" of the circles which I didn't mind. I drew one out for
myself after the commssion was done but I never really knew what to fill
it with so it remained blank in my sketchbook for a long long time (the
sketch on the left was done like, in 2010 I think). I stopped doing art
for a little bit after because I felt maybe I was wasting time doing
art and there were other pressing matters.
Then I just decided WELL, I'm going to pursue art a little harder. I
enjoy working on pieces for others and myself and its not like pursuing
it will harm me. In fact it would probably give more purpose to my life.
So I started to complete all the pieces I started in my sketchbook but never got to develop.
I think I spent 3 days trying to figure out WHAT TO DO with this space. I
wanted to represent me in some way and make me happy to look at it
before anything else. On my 3rd day I was moooooved to doodle -and not
just doodle but in COLOUR! In my weird little mind, doodling should
always be black and white so this urge was odd for me. But I let it flow
and this is what came out.
It was completely impromtu - I had no plans of what to put on this page except for the girl.Every inch was sort of a happy accident and decided as I went along. The patterns just FLEW(is this the past tense of flowed?) out of my mind through the Sharpies and onto paper- the way creative juices should. It makes me happy to look at it because it's oh-so-colourful.
If you enjoy doodling....this is definitely something to try out.
