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It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Friday Fun post, so here we go. The image above is from my little cousin’s sketchbook that I took around WWChicago with me. He just turned 10 last week and he’s into comics in a big way, so of course I have to stoke the flames a bit. This is my contribution to his sketchbook: a Wolverine and Rogue in their X3 movie outfits.
Next up, I was in a meeting about pet supplies and I just drew my dogs in pen. I have a weird thing about doodling in meetings, or in class when I was a student. They are my versions of notes. I can look at the doodle/sketch and remember everything we discussed. I didn’t think anything of it except I found out my brother and father do the same thing in essence: they both describe taking a “snapshot” of a page in their head which they can recall in a test later. I do that too, to some extent, but not as much as the doodling. I wonder if anyone else out there does that? I know I pissed many of my classmates off (especially in Art History) because I didn’t seem to or need to study; I’d just flip through my sketchbook or look at a slide and remember what we talked about that day.
Since joining the work force, I don’t doodle as much because well, they kind of frown on that.
LauraAug 25, 12:25 PM
I had a friend in college who used to doodle constantly during class, but she still took a few notes, too. One prof called her out on it and she insisted she was still listening. She said that something about drawing helped her comprehend things better. He let her off the hook.
Perhaps it stimulates a particular part of the brain that facilitates learning and memorization? I’m sure there’s some scientific explanation, but I’m too lazy to look it up.
BTW, I doodle as well, but you wouldn’t want to look at any of my crap. Hell, I’m not sure it’d even qualify as doodling! Looks like a 3rd-grader did it.
As a side note, when I’m making phone calls and especially when I’m on hold, I LOVE to deface the doctor/lawyer dude in the full-page ad on the back of the phone book. Now that, I have shown people.
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Aug 25, 06:46 AM
I can attest to the snapshot-memory thing. I would always doodle in the margins of my notebooks, then recall answers to questions on tests by remembering what doodle(s) was on that corresponding page of class notes. Not quite photographic memory, but it helped a lot during crunch time.