d.i.y.

Doodles are under-reported. But they have rights, too!

Think of doodles as fringe drawings: from the fringes of the unconscious.

Doodles can be our friends. Paul Klee had doodles actually living in his studio! They used to show up regularly at those Bauhaus parties….

The outline of a drawn object represents the place where the object ends and the background (next object, container of the object, etc.) begins.

So what about an object floating in empty space? No outline?! You’d want to blend it into shadowing of the object.

Here is a doodle from Captain Zero’s log, Star Date J709MSQRL1935-2/4/8:

[From the log:] “Depicted: a B7 Framptis disconnected from the jar ball gear and with the slide pelb so worn, it looks as if it’s been pounded with a hammer! Probably the gyroscope oscillator worked loose enough to pound the pelb during maneuvers. It would not have been so loud as to be heard with the engines revved.”