Doodles

[BlueSkyNick]

I am sure there are many others out there who sit in boring business meetings, daydreaming and doodling on the previous set of minutes.

My doodles always start out as a straight line followed by a couple of triangles, then when I add a hull, it usually ends up looking like a Mirror dinghy. If I apply more thought by adding a cabin, it is still not much more than a Lysander in design. If I round the edges a bit, it looks very much like a Benny 331.

I wish I could be more inspirational and original, to create something attractive.

Anybody else do boaty doodles on a regular basis?

 

[Goodge]

I occasionally do cars and try to do a view from passenger front wing aspect.

Anyway due to lack of imagination / skill t always ends up as a Mini !

 

[tcm]

Dangerous Doodles

i think i must have been very badly caught out with doodles at school, hence i don't do them at all. I've also been caught out at meetings, once quite spectacularly when i thought "jeez this is boring" and said "ok, so let's move on." - but gottem mixed up and accidentally said what i was thinking. These days we don't have too many meetings, cept standing up.

 

[jimi]

I usually do big splatts ... and then the meeting dissolves in disarray.

 

[paulskent]

For some reason mine always turn out to look like some parts of the female anatomy..

PK.

 

[Goodge]

Big splats...

Is your avatar an example ?

Most of your posts are in dissaray

 

[dralex]

Big splatts Jimi???

I usually end up with a page of concentric circles and triangles. Sail shapes are quite nice to do that with.

The other one is to draw a random closed squiggle then do outward concentric squiggles.

Isn't there a theory about doodles being an insight into your psyche and personality?

 

[rwoofer]

I like the dissecting the triangles to make smaller triangles doodle - sometimes I don't even need to look.

 

[Nickel]

Mine tend to vary from animals, like deer or dolphins, when I'm fairly happily bored, to daggers and grenades when I'm beginning to think that murder might be the only way out.
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[heartlander]

As someone who relies on the sale of paintings (my own and others) to contribute to earning a living i can classify doodling as CPD. The problem comes when the doodle becomes more interesting than the meeting (not uncommon) and you lose the thread of the discussion. Even greater problems arise when you start drawing the other attendees particularly if, like me, portraits are not a strong point. This is not recommended.
Boats are definitely safer territory and a welll known artist, Rowland Hilder, used to work up large seascapes from doodles at arts council meetings. I can't imagine though that he contributed much to the discussions.
Perhaps we should have a virtual exhibition on Scuttlebutt.

 

[AJW]

I am an inveterate doodler and frustrated naval architect. I can't do yachts but do a nice line in proper sort of motorboats e.g. fishing boats, work boats and tugs!