Thing practiced: “drawing”

Tools used: index cards, pens, Sharpie, , , solvent

Thing practiced: drawing

Tools used: index cards, pen, colored pencil, phone

Thing practiced: handheld drawing

Tools used: free minutes, index cards, Sharpie®s

Thing practiced: drawing

Tools used: colored pencils, paper

I like seeing the doodles people make when talking on the phone at a desk. Some people sketch the things around them (their hand, the Shift key, a plant), some people draw geometric patterns, some people just write down individual words and put boxes around them. When I was a kid we used to spend class passing notes with terrible stick-figure illustrations of pretty much nothing, but it was fun, and idle phone doodling evokes the same feeling. Which is irrelevant, except that I spent tonight’s on-hold time with Comcast doodling:

Thing practiced: drawing

Tools used: sketch paper, colored pencils, pencil, eraser

Thing practiced: drawing

Tools used: Prismacolor pencils, solvent, drawing paper

(Haven’t posted for a while – it’s been busy, and spending a whole free hour any given day on random bullshit seems indulgent. I finally bought some colored pencils that aren’t meant for preschoolers, though, so I had to try them out.)

Thing practiced: drawing

Tools used: index cards, 4B pencil, eraser, pen

Thing practiced: drawing

Tools used: index card, pencil, eraser, and two pens