BU Doodlers Offer a Revealing Peek Inside Their Notebooks
Their Work Will Amaze You: Meet the Doodlers of BU
Their Work Will Amaze You: Meet the Doodlers of BU
Who hasn’t spent time during a class lecture or a seemingly endless staff meeting drawing geometric shapes, faces, flowers, or animals instead of taking notes? If you’ve done that, you’re in good company. In fact, 75 percent of Americans say they doodle occasionally, and one in four say they doodle at least once a day.
For some, doodling is a creative outlet, for others it’s simply a way to relax. Some even use it to help with memorization.
We reached out to a number of BU doodlers—staff as well as students—and asked them to tell us why they do it. They let us peer over their shoulder as they took pen or pencil to paper to create some pretty imaginative designs.
“I think my doodles reflect the love for life I want to have every day. I never know where it’s going, but I know I want to live it to the fullest,” says Emmanuel Reid (CGS’18, COM’20), whose notebooks are festooned with imaginative sketches, from conceptual storyboards to cursive quotes from his mother.
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