My long lost doodle arts
I like to express myself through different medium – through poems, stories, pictures, music, cartwheel… err, scratch that last one. I’m a pound heavier to do cartwheel.
But there was a time that I used to draw too. I’m not really good at it, but I draw. My drawings were not ones that I can really be proud of, but at least I draw.
Just recently, I found an old notebook containing drawings that I made back in 1998. There were not actually “just drawings” but signatures of my classmates then in a training class that I was attending.
I asked many of my classmates for signatures in a space at the back of notebook. I asked as much as I can, and then figured out what I can make of them. Many were easy to “draw on” and became fishes, butterfly, profile, etc.
While there were others that are really hard to imagine of what they can be. Some were turned into insects, horse’s mane or flowers. For some, I just let them be, because I really don’t know what to make of them.
The idea is hardly original, I admit.
When I was still a child, I remember that every Sunday, we have a newspaper called The Daily Express (although, it was called The Sunday Express during Sundays though, I believe). Sadly, that newspaper is no longer in existence today.
Anyway, what I love about that newspaper then is that, it has a kid’s section every Sunday – of course, when you say kid’s section, you think of comics, arts, crafts and other things that kids would love. There is also a section there wherein readers would send their signature and the newspaper’s resident artist would create a doodle out of them.
It must have been one boring afternoon then during that training that I remembered the doodles that I used to look out for every Sunday.
My output though weren’t all great, but I must say my classmates were amazed, and many even volunteered their signatures.
That was the only instance I did it though. I never did again, nor asked for anybody’s signature to doodle on.
Some of these doodles are in my photo blog, and the rest are in the photo album in my Facebook account… but of course, you have to be my friend to be able to view them 
Tags: Art, bbmtp, doodles, drawing, drawings, fun, kids, looking back, Roy, signature, traces
I used to draw something like that when I was a kid. My notebooks were filled with sketches rather than class notes.
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