What's on my mind -?

I am a pretty organized person and I always have imagined that there was a little birdie  in my head who neatly keeps all my lists, loves and things I should forget in a tiny filing cabinet. She keeps me organized and cleans my mind. I don't count sheeps when I can't sleep...I watch her sweep and tiny my brain and pass out.

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.