(Who can pick the theme tune I sang in my head when writing the above blog title??)
So why do I prefer doodling to drawing? They are similar in many a way…pen or pencil creating marks on a surface sometimes fast and free, sometimes tight and controlled. Yet they are worlds apart too… There’s been many a student who has scrawled and scratched and doodled their way through lectures, a lot of the time out of boredom, but it is also a great tool for visual and kinaesthetic learners (who need to be doing in order to learn) to help remember what was being said. If I doodle while on the phone I can look back at the star or flower I created and remember exactly what we were talking at that point in the conversation. Doodling is a process without completion in mind. It keeps you in the here and now. It’s begun with ease and finished/ abandoned whenever. It can be messy or beautiful (as can all art– beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all). Drawing, however – eeek! Who’s got sweaty palms just thinking about it? How many times have you heard someone say ‘I can’t draw’? (What that actually means is ‘I haven’t practised or learnt the skills’.) Everyone CAN draw if they wanted to. But many don’t. At some point in our schooling we had to start ‘getting things right’ and this pressure put many of us off. Doodling doesn’t have this same intense feeling of pressure. A ‘doodle’ isn’t meant for anyone else to view, it’s something we do for ourselves. And that is something hard to find these days. Here are some of the reasons I love to doodle: There is no ‘pressure’ to get it ‘right This can something just.for.me I don’t know what the outcome will be and this helps me stay in the moment It engages my creative ‘right side’ of my brain and it’s a great gateway for beginning a more focused art-work if I have that aim in mind I don’t care if someone sees it because they are unlikely to want to ‘critique it’ The mark making helps release emotions or tension without having to ‘talk it out’ It doesn’t have to be perfect (I suffer from perfectionism) I can play with it and have fun I can do it with or alongside others, including my toddler It calms me
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1 Comment
Kali
22/6/2015 05:03:39 am
I like to...doodle! Great song in your head and great post, love the ability to just free ourselves from the perfection and permission to just.be.me! Thanks for sharing :)
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