It was a late Thursday evening.  A light rain piddled on the windshield as a group of teenagers pulled into the parking lot.  The teenagers left the car, backpacks in tow, and ducked inside Starbucks.

As the evening of homework and tan hot chocolate commenced, soon supplies were running low and attention deficit disorder was setting in.  Before long, a notebook was opened and doodles began.  A game was soon to begin that would not quickly end.  It was a challenge of sorts: draw a few random shapes then complete the picture.  May the best picture win. 

(The highlighted green is the original shapes)

I think it’s interesting how both went with people in their pictures.  While they took a different approach, the idea of people is still there.  They both drew another circle to be symmetrical to the original.  Both added to the small triangle because it didn’t seem to fit otherwise.  They kept the parallel diagonal lines rather untouched.

  These pictures are rather different.  The first picture took the approach of an alien attack and the second was a cowboy on a flying hippo.  Neither attached the oblong shape to the rest of the picture, and chose to leave it practically the same.  The box became the center of the picture not only because of proximity but because the rest of the picture was drawn around it.  The circle was more of an after thought for the first picture, while the second picture made the circle essential.  The small rectangle in the bigger one was left almost untouched and is nonessential to both pictures.

  The first picture depicts a yoga class while the second is a robin hood figure.  The first picture chose to use words to describe the picture better because the picture is is more in motion than the still of the man.  Both used people in their pictures, but one decided to make the lines a person and the other decided to make the lines an object.

 These pictures are probably my favorite.  The first one is Jack climbing the bean stalk, but he has the option to choose other paths.  (Quite profound for a doodle, right?)  The second picture depicts a hot air ballon that popped mid air.  If you look closely, you can see the people hanging on to the basket.  The picture started out as two short, parallel lines, one curved line, and a square.  The first picture shows Jack going up into the sky and the other shows the people falling from the sky.  The curved line made both the artists think of the sky, just in different directions.  The box is more or less the base of both pictures yet it is essential in the second drawing, but not in the first.