I was never good at doodling. Not in the way that artists were supposed to be anyway. I had friends in college who could sit down and draw the person across from them in perfect detail while I was drawing the same cartoon dog and always changing patterns all over my notes. When I realized that doodle drawing was actually something that is taught (I learned about it during my only actual art education class) I was thrilled.
To make a Doodle Drawing you scribble all over a piece of paper and then find an image in the scribbles. Most kids are really good at this. They’ll see a giraffe, playing football, under an umbrella. On the other hand, some older kids only see hearts. It all depends.
I stretch this assignment a lot. In graduate school yesterday, I was drawing random lines on my paper and then I tried to see what I had made. It was none other than an octopus impersonating Elvis. Who would have known?
P.S. The reason the Elvis Octopus was saying “Hello Mermaid” was because my wonderful, illustrator of a friend was sitting next to me rapidly sketching out a beautiful mermaid on her notes. Compared to her beautiful maiden, my Elvis Octopus felt like the out of place creeper, so that’s exactly what he became.