Doodle

For other uses, see Doodle (disambiguation).

Various doodles

A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Drawing is a Visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium They are simple drawings which can have a meaning, a shape or just irregular forms.

Doodling is mainly made by young people around the world, notably students. This activity is normally made during long or boring classes as the students begin daydreaming or losing interest. A daydream is a visionary fantasy experienced while awake especially one of happy pleasant thoughts hopes or ambitions They do it mainly on the notebook margins or in the back pages starting as random lines and sketches and then becoming more elaborated.

Doodling can also be made while talking by telephone for a long period of time if a pen and paper are available. Basic principle A traditional landline telephone system also known as "plain old telephone service" (POTS, commonly handles both signaling and audio information

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.

1 Etymology
2 Famous Doodlers
3 See also
4 External links

Etymology

The word doodle first appeared in the early seventeenth century to mean a fool or simpleton, and is thought to derive from the Low German dudeltopf, meaning "fool" or "simpleton". As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar Low German or Low Saxon (in Germany: Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch; in Netherlands: Nedersaksisch or Nederduuts This is the meaning meant in the song "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. " Yankee Doodle " is a well-known US song, often sung Patriotically today In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots" This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression.

In the movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" Mr. Mr Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 Comedy film directed by Frank Capra, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Deeds mentions that "doodle" was a word made up to describe scribblings to help a person think.

Famous Doodlers

In published compilations of their materials, numerous historical figures have left behind doodles. Erasmus drew comical faces in the margins of his manuscripts and John Keats drew flowers in his medical note-books during lectures. Ralph Waldo Emerson, as a student at Harvard, decorated his composition books with somber, classical doodles, such as ornamental scrolls. Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25 1803 &ndash April 27 1882 was an American essayist philosopher poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century In one place, he sketched a man whose feet have been bitten off by a great fish swimming nearby and added the caption, “My feet are gone. I am a fish. Yes, I am a fish!” In many other situations he commented that they helped with compositions. Larry aka Doodle was a famous mobster during the time of the Depression. His local street gang, the Shambas, was responsible for the deaths of over wes people.

External links

Asemic writing is a wordless open Semantic form of Writing. The word asemic means "having no specific semantic content" Marginalia ( plurale tantum) is the general term for Notes scribbles and editorial comments made in the margin of a book Graphology is the study and analysis of Handwriting especially in relation to human Psychology. Alien hand syndrome ( anarchic hand or Dr Strangelove syndrome) is an unusual Neurological disorder, in which one of the sufferer's hands seems Automatic writing is the process or product of writing material that does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer Split-brain is a lay term to describe the result when the Corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the Brain is severed to some degree A scribble is a Drawing composed of Random and abstract lines generally without ever lifting the drawing device off of the paper Oekaki (お絵描き is the Japanese term to describe the act of Drawing, meaning "doodle or scribble" " Yankee Doodle " is a well-known US song, often sung Patriotically today

Dictionary

-verb

to draw or scribble (something) aimlessly

-noun

a small mindless sketch etc

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