Marginalia - doodles from my old college notebooks
Cleaning out the attic this weekend
I came across boxes of my old college notebooks. Looking through them I am not 100% sure why I saved them - for the most part the notes I took listening to lectures don't really make sense now looking back at them.
Melty Face Thing
Lecture classes in college were usually a bit of a waste of time for me anyway; I always read (and comprehended) the assigned material, and then had to sit through a class where everyone else who didn't read or comprehend the assigned material kept interrupting the professor to ask asinine questions.
I spent most of my time doodling in the margins of my notes, or on a facing page, occasionally scribbling down an important bit.
I threw away most of the notebooks today, keeping two that actually might still conceivably serve as a useful reference to me. I did snap quick pictures to share of some of the doodles in the notebooks I threw away. I am not sure any of this is "good" art, but I would say this is "weird" art and may be interesting to other weirdos like me :)
I did find an amusing note (below) from a teacher on a test essay response, asking me to "eliminate the doodles next time" - so I guess my doodle art is not for everyone LOL
Marginalia
Marginalia are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses, critiques, doodles, or illuminations. Wikipedia
Scorpiondemon Tentacletaur Facetorso
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Redsunhead Landscape
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Multiface Pen
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These are all amazing, they are such high fine arts I can see them as sculptures exhibited in some fancy museums or in the deep recesses of my nightmares. Same difference, really :D
That lecturer's note is roooood~
Loves these, Carl. My favourite is Artist Has Achieved Enlightenment :D
It looks and feels exactly like how I feel when I make sommit somewhat decent :D :D :D
Yeah that is a happy little dude-le
Wow you drew those in your college days :O. I'm glad you don't throw them out, they're really nice especially that two headed faceshoulder :D.
You should draw more :).
I did throw them away (yesterday) :) I have been obsessing over my digital alien art process for the last year and a half or so but I am sure at some point the pendulum will swing back toward pen and ink drawing.
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What a great idea Carl!
Just because they are old doodles doesn't mean they aren't good doodles.
Now I need to go look through my sketchbooks. :)
Nice work my man!
Hey glad I inspired you! It was kind of a trip looking back through all these pages that represented hours and hours of my life (not to mention a hefty student loan debt), and the only thing of value I was finding in them was the doodles LOL
Good for you but for me, I got understanding from attending lectures. I never really read materials unless it's close to exams, because attending lectures was good enough.
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Yup that is how the majority of college students operate I think. Definitely that is how my classmates operated. This was my second stint at college, after dropping out initially after 2 years. When I went back to college a few years later I actually wanted to be there and wanted to learn the material, so I read everything thoroughly and then was frustrated during classes when we basically spent the whole time rehashing what I had already learned, for the benefit of everyone else who didn't actually do the assigned reading. Oh well - gave me lots of time to doodle :)
It's all good