Doodle Drawing

I used to doodle during class lectures, meetings and sermons. I filled the white space in and around my notes with lines and shapes. Then I graduated to drawing in an around my notes. I found that doodling helped me to mentally process what the speaker was imparting.

So while drawing and doodling are both the result of mark-making, drawing takes it up several levels. Drawing is the evidence of focused thinking and attentive observation. Drawing is meaningful. It communicates something, whether form, space, likeness, action, or ideas.

Doodle Drawing

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This exercise does not ask students to think in order to do. It simply asks them to do, and start getting used to creating lines and tones in general. This is very different from writing. The point of the exercise is to explore mark-making and separate from the control of writing and moving the hand only. In drawing, you need to move from the elbow, shoulder and wrist.

My doodling exercises also help with drawing expressively, in which gesture and exaggerated contrasts come into play to create emotion and action. It leads to overstating a straight-curve contrast, for example. And to coloring outside the lines, connecting the figure to the surrounding background.

But do you ever worry about doodling? Productivity? Concentration? Well, worry no more. I am officially giving you permission to doodle. Doodling helps to increase focus, reduce stress, boost recall, enhance the thought process, and it sparks creativity. Here's how:

So what should I do? Do I need to give up my doodles? Is it really that bad to be drawing during a meeting? Can I somehow look professional and attentive while drawing a skateboarding dog on my memo? Help!

We actually did this as part of my history class in highschool. Our teacher allowed us to have notes in quizzes as long as there were no words on the papers. I did better on that final than anything else that year and I usually suck at History. I actually remember the contents of that class to this day (shout out to my lion-doodle of William Lyon Mackenzie King).

+1 doodle notes. My manager and I will go to town whiteboarding ideas or concepts when we have 1:1s, and we adopt the same technique (although in paper margins, rather than the actual whiteboard) in wider meetings. There are visual learners in every field, for every subject.

I think this is a great piece of advice if the OP can work in some actual text along with the images/doodles and have them relate to the meeting. If you ever look at a lot of creative people (think film directors, writers, designers, engineers) they use some variation of this process when thinking of ideas. And it would definitely show you are paying attention and understand the discussion.

Adding another vote for visual note-taking (I learned it as sketchnoting). You can doodle your way through everything, plus you can bring a whole bunch of pens to colour code it and it looks amazing afterwards! I find it more useful in webinars/learning/planning sessions than quick day-to-day stuff, but your mileage may vary.

With a small caveat that mandalas do have spiritual connotations and culturally/religiously symbolic elements and depending on who is in the meeting, drawing one may come across as culturally insensitive.

Alison is right tho about making sure the doodles are not distracting other people. I find geometric shapes and borders, cartoony alphabets and numbers, that kind of thing, helps me focus without being particularly interesting to people who can see my paper.

Recommendation: Please do something other than draw if you have to look at your hands the whole time you are drawing. Few people in your hopefully long career will believe you are paying attention if you are looking down all the time. I do not suggest anything involving rubber bands though.

There was another thread about this sort of thing a year or two ago. OP should not doodle. Others will perceive that she is tuning out, or actively being disrespectful. I suggest that she buy a pair of kolomboi (Greek worry beads) if she feels that moving her hands helps her concentrate.

My daughter has a similar issue. She also draws, but it is closer to taking notes in pictures than doodling. If your doodles are more relevant to the topic of the meeting (e.g., you are talking about a food bank, so are drawing bananas and canned goods) it might help.

I am a successful lawyer and lifelong doodler. Over the years, I have more often than not made the calculation that, in long term/repeat work relationships, my work would eventually speak for itself and I was willing to take the initial reputational hit/skepticism associated with being a known doodler. My doodles are intricate and geometrical.

But ask yourself this: Do you doodle during the finale of your favorite most tense movie? If you doodle while watching football, do you pause drawing when an interception happens? Do/can you doodle while hearing something which requires your FULL COMPLETE attention?

In 2009, psychologist Jackie Andrade asked 40 people to monitor a 2- minute dull and rambling voice mail message. Half of the group doodled while they did this (they shaded in a shape), and the other half did not. They were not aware that their memories would be tested after the call. Surprisingly, when both groups were asked to recall details from the call, those that doodled were better at paying attention to the message and recalling the details. They recalled 29% more information!

In addition, paying continuous attention places a strain on the brain, and doodling may be just the break your brain needs to keep attending without losing total interest. A report on the learning styles of medical students (who generally have to absorb large amounts of information) indicated that even they may find doodling helpful, as long as they limit the time they do it. A simple 30-minute doodle helps them remember information, fills in gaps in their thinking, and provides a much-needed reprieve from the loads of information they must wade through.

Spontaneous drawings may also relieve psychological distress, making it easier to attend to things. We like to make sense of our lives by making up coherent stories, but sometimes there are gaps that cannot be filled, no matter how hard we try. Doodles fill these gaps, possibly by activating the brain's "time travel machine," allowing it to find lost puzzle pieces of memories, bringing them to the present, and making the picture of our lives more whole again. With this greater sense of self and meaning, we may be able to feel more relaxed and concentrate more.

Although doodles may look like a scribble, random words that make no sense, or a partial face that suddenly becomes something extraterrestrial, they are not quite as random as we might think. Dr. Robert Burns, the former director of the Institute for Human Development at the University of Seattle, uses doodles to diagnose the emotional problems of his patients. He believes that doodles can reveal what is going on in the unconscious. He asserts that, in the same way that EEG leads transmit brain activity to a piece of paper, your hand also does the same. Many other doodle researchers would agree.

It seems then that if you're struggling to concentrate, find yourself stuck or feeling "incomplete," a time-limited doodle expedition could be just the thing you are looking for. It will likely activate your brain's "unfocus" circuits, give your "focus" circuits a break, and allow you to more creatively and tirelessly solve a problem at hand.

Drawing stylus

DRAFTSMAN: Complemented by a two-ended stylus to generate two different line types

TactileDoodle: Complemented by a short, single-tip drawing stylus (ideal for use by younger students)

They simply invite individuals, schools, and companies to create doodles and then submit them to Epilepsy Action with a suggested donation of 5 for each doodle. You can mail them in or send them by e-mail.

I prefer the zendoodles because they allow for you to be totally unique and not follow any type of pattern but your own. This one ended up with an almost 3D effect to it, resembling a vortex type design.

I created this doodle as an exercise for relaxation. I enjoyed the process. And I did end up drifting off.

I was too lazy to get my colored pencils so I used my blue and red ball point pens and a yellow and a green highlighter that were on my work desk. (Coffee break.)

My youngest son is a doodler....in class! He would never sit down to just draw, but put him in class, and he will come up with the most gorgeous art work on his classwork!

In elementary school, this distressed many a teacher, and bewildered them as well, because whenever they would call on him, he was always on task! They could not understand how he seemed to be zoning out, but was always on top of what was going on in class. He always got excellent grades, also.

One year, he had a teacher that told me that she had done some research just that summer on doodlers. It turns out that when some children doodle, it allows them to concentrate better and focus on what is going on in the classroom. That was definitely the case with Tony.

Moral to this story, if you have a child that doodles in class, tell the teachers that it helps them to focus better, and don't forget to frame some of that beautiful 'class work'!

The purpose of the present study was to determine the extent to which doodling, which we define as drawing that is semantically unrelated to to-be-remembered information, enhances memory performance. In Experiment 1, participants heard auditorily presented lists of categorized words. They were asked to either doodle, draw a picture of, or write out, each item while listening to the target words. Participants showed poorer free recall for words encoded while free-form doodling compared to words that were drawn or written, with drawing resulting in the best performance. In Experiment 2, target words were embedded in a narrative story to better resemble a real-world situation in which one might doodle. Participants monitored each auditorily presented narrative while either free-form doodling, drawing, or writing in response to the target words. As in Experiment 1, doodling led to the poorest subsequent recall for targets compared to drawing or writing during encoding. In Experiment 3, we used a structured doodling task at encoding, such that participants shaded in geometric shapes printed on paper rather than create their own doodles. Structured doodling led to similar levels of recall compared to simply writing. Creating a drawing of the words at encoding, rather than doodling, once again enhanced recall significantly. Taken together, these findings indicate that unlike task-relevant drawing, structured doodling during study provides no benefits to free recall, and free-form doodling leads to memory costs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). e24fc04721