Dudling: having fun and getting to know ourselves through drawing

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Everyone probably knows a lot of ways to while away the time in moments when you just need to wait, be it a long queue, an obscenely boring work meeting, or something else like that. Depending on the situation, you can look around, diligently portray concentration, selflessly dig into your phone … Or draw. Even if you don't know how. This article will talk about doodling, a relaxation technique that will help you get to know yourself better.

Stuck somewhere in line, at a meeting, waiting or listening to someone, and you have a pen at hand? You will most likely start painting. Images can be of different shapes: patterns, drawings or scribbles - whatever we produce while the focus of our attention is elsewhere. It's amazing how creative we can be without even trying!

There are other people who have turned squiggles on paper into a whole artistic direction. Its name is doodling, derived from the word doodle, which translates as "scribble". There are an incredible number of fans of this genre in the world who make whole works of art from ordinary squiggles. You can suddenly turn a set of circles into a turtle, punctuation into a tree or flowers, and from lines collect the name of a loved one.

But incredible drawings are not all that doodling can surprise you with.

Alexander Pushkin, Rabindranath Tagore, John Keats, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton - they are united by their love of squiggles in the fields.

“Doodling means 'taking spontaneous notes to help you think,'” says Sunni Brown, author of Doodling for Creative People.

She writes that doodling:

• increases concentration;
• improves memory;
• helps in research work;
• helps to solve both work and personal problems;
• makes you think outside the box;
• increases creativity;
• helps to see the big picture of the problem.

Meetings and phone calls can be very exhausting, and some people hate just sitting around while doing this. Doodling helps relieve boredom and frustration, and the desire to doodle grows as stress levels rise. Dudling is our relief valve that allows pressure to dissipate in a playful and creative way.

When you enter autopilot mode, only half of your brain is occupied with what you are doing. At this time, you can think about something that was already in the backyard of your mind.

By drawing pictures of a wandering mind, you are planning a new venture, worried about money, dreaming of love or a holiday. On an unconscious level, this is a seemingly aimless pastime, but in fact it helps people sort out their problems.

Doodles can tell a lot when you know what to look for. The theme will give you some hints, but the way the drawing is done will tell you even more. For example, if six people drew a rose, each rose would differ from the others in size, shape, color, position, and so on. The specific features of the drawing reflect the qualities that relate to the personality of the drawer. Drawings are fragments of a map that shows how your mind works.

The most amazing thing about doodling is that everyone can draw squiggles. You can express your imagination without limits. After all, there are no rules in doodling, it is generally a fairly simple art form. Doodling is available to everyone, and its possibilities are endless!