Do You Doodle In Class?

Philippines
May 3, 2007 9:13am CST
I was just curious how many here are doodlers like me. :) I don't do it that often now, but when I was in high school, my notebooks were full of doodles, every corner, every blank space. There was one time when my teacher caught me doodling, and he was one scary teacher...
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@yanjiaren (9031)
2 Jul 07
I used to doodle a lot and do some really good pictures too..Actually I remember one teacher came up to me in class and I was expecting her to give me the bollocking of my life lol. Instead she made a very positive comment about my artistic talent and said I should take up art as a major subject and do it seriously. I loved drawing from a young age, including doodles lol. At least my doodles brought some happy results and from a teacher, which was not at all expected.
• Philippines
19 Jul 07
Wow that's great! I wish a teacher said that to me. I don't think they saw any of my drawing lol! So, did you take up art as your major? :)
@vega83 (6342)
• Bahrain
8 May 07
yeah, I remember classes, some 6 years back. They are so boring, that you can't do anything but doodle, except Chemistry class, we could get nothing past the chemistry teacher, plus I also found it interesting, so I wouldn't doodle then. But my textbooks were filled and covered with my scribblings, if I look at it now, it will seem like a book out of a horror movie, with these mad scribbles but I guess any teenager's book in class would look like that, ha ha.
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• Philippines
19 Jul 07
My Chemistry teacher was scary too! And I was sitting at the second row so she can see everything I do. Back in high school, whenever the year ends, I'd kind of collect my books and check for some drawings worth keeping. I did tear some out from notebooks and stuck them in my diary. Lol!
3 May 07
I have always been a doodler, at school and at work too. I find that the worst time is if I am on the phone and I find myself doodling on the note pad.
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@prestocaro (1252)
• United States
3 May 07
I doodle as well. I still do it if I'm on the phone or trying to brainstorm. I go through weird phases where one week I'll doodle fruit, the next week cartoon characters, the next week geometric patterns. I have notebooks full of doodles too! :)
• Philippines
4 May 07
Wow, it's like you've got themes for each week! Lol! Most of the time I doodle flowers. It's weird. I'd start with a tiny flower. Then it'll become a sun... Then whatever comes next... There was one time when I drew like mini storyboards of the second Harry Potter movie. Major boredom.
• United States
30 May 07
I always doodle in class. Sketching, nothing like a big project or drawing that I'm committing time and effort to. But keeping my hands busy makes it easier for me to listen and absorb what a teacher is saying. If my hands aren't occupied, I tend to get distracted by anything and everything imaginable in the classroom, or random thoughts.
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@windhair (498)
• Germany
3 May 07
That is what I do all the time, even during working now a days. I always have two notebooks near hand, one for my real work, one for doodle. I begin this when I find work notebook in a mess when I want to show others something. Now, everthing is just fine, one full of doodles, another have nothing else but my work. :D
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@dianagnes (1088)
• Singapore
21 Nov 07
yes,i do too..i just feel like my hand are itchy and love to scribbles like that.for me,i dun care what and where the place..if i have got piece of paper,i will just use to fill any blank place..i there's a picture i will draws onto the picture and will turn out funny.
• Philippines
4 May 07
Yeah, when I was in high school. Most of the back of my notes were full of drawings. I'm a big doodler too, lol and when I'm bored its what I usually do at school back then. My classmates are sometimes amaze with my drawings and asking if they can have it. I sometimes give it to them since they want it. And there are times that they ask me to draw for them, I don't really mind doing it for them cause I find it good to help them out.
• Philippines
8 May 07
Really? That's so cool! My doodles are crappy so my classmates mostly laugh at them. Haha! You should've sold your drawings to them,; you could've gotten some extra bucks. Lol! So did you keep your doodles? There were some doodles that I cut out from my notebook and pasted on my diary. :)
@kabukii (88)
• Brazil
11 Jul 07
Hello rockerwitch! Oh, who never doodled in class? I do it always! In the beggining it was just on the last page, you now, that's the special page for doodling, but now, everytime I search for something in my notebook, I find something draw in the middle of the notes. My geography teacher always caught me drawing and she got really mad sometimes, but I just can't stop doing that! =)
• Philippines
19 Jul 07
Lol! I know about that last page. Almost everybody had that special page. One of my classmates now even labeled a page Bea's Doodles (her name is Bea). Sometimes I draw on the margins, little things, and then as the class gets more boring, the bigger the drawing is... Lol! One professor caught me once, and he's one of those terror teachers. That was a really scary moment in my life! Luckily I passed that class lol! :) I even kept my doodles from high school.
@21China (29)
• United States
26 Jul 07
I first started doodling when I was in second grade, during Spanish class. I already understood what the teacher was talking about, so I began to draw in more notebook. As I went to higher grades, I started drawing pictures from books, and before you knew it, I drew in every notebook I had. I drew in my notes, in my math binder, everywhere. It was mainly because I had nothing else to do and I already understood the lesson that my teacher had taught us that day. As I went in 6th grade, I began to doodle less in my books because teachers checked your notes. Nonetheless, still drew during the boring classes because I had already completed my assignments on time, and there was extra time. I had drawn because I realized some of my doodles were meaningless. I think that the teacher does realize I draw during class, but I think he's OK with that because I'm one of the few who had finished their work already.