Philip’s doodles

[pne]

(With apologies for today’s spamminess; I wanted to separate the different thoughts into separate journal entries.)

During meetings, I often doodle on a piece of paper—anything from geometric figures to Chinese/Japanese characters. I like to think it helps me concentrate, especially if the topic does not require immediate input from me.

Here’s an example of such a doodle page (with a little bit redacted; the blurring at the bottom and near the top is due to a bad picture, though):

I particularly liked the way my handwriting turned out in the word Pflichtenheft; here’s a closeup:

I hadn’t set out to make it especially legible or pretty or anything, but after I had written it, it struck me that I didn’t think I’d mind reading text set in a font made out of that. It seemed to have a kind of loose, readable sans-serif quality, a kind of je ne sais quoi that I can’t quite articulate.

Comments

[nitaq.livejournal.com]

I like that you can write in so many different languages.
Whenever I try chinese or japanese the signs turn out really ugly.
Arabic (that's what I think it is?) I haven't tried so far.
I prefer my russian handwriting over my german one, probably because I am trying harder.

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

Is there a reason why you did your f's differently?

[n-true.livejournal.com]

Your Hanzi look *really* much like mine!

Doesn't anyone notice you're doodling so much during meetings? Most people would probably think you're distracted and *not* paying attention.

[pne.livejournal.com]

No.

As I said, I hadn't consciously set out to produce any specific effect, and it just kind of turned out like that.

Free variation in glyph forms, or something like that.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Doesn't anyone notice you're doodling so much during meetings? Most people would probably think you're distracted and *not* paying attention.

Hm... I never thought about that (or worried about it).

I suppose I hoped people would judge my by my performance rather than the appearance.

(I've seen others doodle a little as well, though that's no excuse, of course. And it does tend to take up less space.)