Elaboradoodle

Richard Martin submitted this on his wife's behalf. 

He says "this is one of the more elaborate of my wife Katie's doodles. Five minutes a day to shut out the rat race or in staff meetings. She has a book full."

The first image shows how the doodles start out, and the second, larger image is one of the more extensive, finished versions.

"Dolly Doodle"

Anne says "I always doodle when on long phone calls to family and friends or while "on hold".
I seem to draw lots of circles or boxes with things trapped inside them and also lots of double headed arrows. PLEASE don't give this to a psychologist for analysis!"

Lecture doodles

Mary Goslett offers these as her contribution to the "Doodle by the Desk' competition.

She says "These are 'listening to lectures' doodles - fun to do, but not terribly useful when I later try to read my lecture notes!"

Horse with no frame

 

We'll leave the explanantion of this one to Peter Valerio, the man who drew it.

"I call this doodle "Horse with no frame". I'd like to offer you a deep explanation concerning this name but I should 'fess up... I have none. It just ended up looking sort of, kind of like a horse and clearly it's not fenced in. It's also sort of flying over waves or similar. I also see the Opera House top right. No idea what that's about. Anyway, I figure this name will do. Did it around 2005 and kept it to remind me of something. Can't recall what it was. Shame that."

Going around in triangles

Kerry kept it sinple in her description of her doodle.

"My contribution, these seem to get drawn a lot."

Angry Of Leichhardt

Selina McGrath sent us a cross between a rant and a doodle.

"Usually I'm quite adept with a brush, and spend many hours deliberating over the smallest decision  - but I must say, this is my favourite self portrait. I was having a ... shall we say... "moment".  Feeling as if there was too much noise around me; too many thoughts going through my head (school pick up, what's for dinner, where IS that chocolate), and this appropriate doodle appeared instead of the shopping list. 

I call it  'Angry Of Leichhardt'."

Hobby doodler

Linda Krestensen sent us this carefully shot photo of her drawings.  

She says "I tend to doodle mainly when editing with my writing friends, feeling relaxed, creative and dreamy. 

I never doodle at work despite nearly always having a pen in my hand."

Untitled

Tim sent this to us, but offers no explanation, surname or insight into the inner workings and meanings of his doodle.

Feel free to offer yours...

Newly invented doodle

Janice Moore works here at the ABC and sent her doodle in.

"I did this during rehearsals for The New Inventors. I always imagine they are aliens crawling around."

We assume she refers to the images in her doodle, and not the people working on The New Inventors?!

Digital doodle

Dave Bredeson went digital in his doodling.

Not quite in the remit of the competition but amusing and excellent nonetheless.

Brick Bird

Murray Alford says "this little fella I called 'brick bird', he's half bricks and half feathers. I doodle the 'feather' and 'brick' shapes all the time and this one morphed into a bird."
We can only assume Murray is a house builder who hopes to break free? Or a freelance chicken farmer who hopes for something a little more solid? Who knows.

Complex, with purpose.

Peter Valerio has some purpose in his doodles...

"I am a consultant in a field where things are (unfortunately) more often complex than not. Alas those new to the zone only appreciate the 'extra layers' after some years of involvement. A few years ago, I had a run of clients that shied away from the complexity and literally requested the solution on one page in black and white. Several genuine half-successful attempts at this later led me to a point of frustration where I actually doodled away and emailed "One page in black and white just like you asked for" to perhaps one of my most important clients. I am happy to say led to somewhat of a breakthrough and we moved on - complexity acknowledged."

Lace? Coral? Doodle.

Andrea Jones submitted these doodles for the competition. 

Although hers are 'doodle on the couch', not 'by the desk'.

She's an avid doodler, who frequently draws hearts and stars etc. 

But she calls these her 'lace' or 'coral' doodles. 

She describes the act of drawing them as 'simple, soothing, relaxing & addictive'. 

You can see the addition of a 'human factor' in one of them, where her son dripped tomato juice on the paper by accident!

Doodle ON the desk.

Thanks to Alan Bourne who sent this in on behalf of his son, Lachlan Bourne.

"This is not doodle by the desk, it's doodle on the desk. 

This is my son Lachlan's idea of studying for the HSC last year.
Material: pencil & ink on unvarnished craftwood desk top.
Question is: do I sand back and varnish while he is away at Uni or do I preserve the half finished masterpiece?"

Answers on a doodle-covered postcard please!

Troubled?

  Jim Grant says of his lovely drawing/sketch/doodle thingy...
"I find I do this when I'm feeling a bit troubled, (obviously).
I only stop when I can't take the RSI anymore!"

Accidental self-portrait

Matthew Thomas Ashbolt started doodling and it ended up as a self-portrait.

Now he keeps it on his wall.
I wonder if he really looks exactly like this?

Racing doodler

Andrew Rollason was our first doodler to submit his scribbles to the competition.

Like his speedy racing car, he was quick off the mark to show his interest in 'doodle by the desk'.

Although it seems to have unsettled him somewhat, with an offering of this insight as a postscript;

"I was wondering what the heck all of this means. Do I have some sort of latent desire to be a race car driver? Do I really need to get out and mow the lawn? Maybe I just like the smell of freshly cut grass. Who knows? Anyway, here's my doodle from the desk, and it is truly dodgy."

Thanks Andrew!