Generic Doodles

All the scribbling, none of the skill

Doodling is therapeutic, a form of art that never has to be good. Sometimes it helps me listen better. Sometimes it helps me cope with anxiety. Sometimes I'm just surging with energy and need to put some of the millions of ideas zooming through my head.

Sometimes I just draw what my subconscious tells me to, because my conscious is lazy and my superconscious is waaaaaayyy too high to focus.

Lined beige paper with uncomfortably narrow eyes looking up and vague lines indicating brows, nose, and mouth, with a caption at the top that is supposed to say 'A tired person's guide to staying awake' but 'awake' is nearly illegible as it turns into an uncontrolled line moving downward.

A dancing leprechaun in the bottom right corner with muppets Statler and Waldorf in their balcony seats in the top left corner saying 'Even I could dance better than that leprechaun!' and 'Please! I'm traumatized enough as it is!' In the bottom right there is one of those noodle-like muppets that could dance.

Stick figures at a table with a coffee maker. Frame 1: first person: 'Hey! How are you doing?' second person, holding a mug: 'Good...' Frame 2: first person, pouring a mug of coffee: 'Whatcha been up to? Anything fun?' second person: 'Losing purpose. Abandoning dreams.' Frame 3: first person holding mug stares at second person. second person, drinking from their mug: 'How 'bout you?'

A drawing of a bunch of bowling pins, all but one knocked over. The remaining standing pin is smiling while a bowling ball looks at it with angry eyebrows. Caption: To be in defiance while also under observation... (top) ...certainly picks one up from a rotten mood. (bottom)

swirly hand-written fancy text saying 'Being insecure and defensive is part of my Brand'

a cartoonish skull wearing a colourful party hat drawn on beige lined paper with the caption 'don't say toodles to doodling doodles just because you have a job

a can of soup on the left drawn with sharpie marker with the text 'Well that wasn't so hard.' written next to it on the right.

a simple sketch of Mona Lisa on the right drawn with sharpie marker with the text 'How do you draw...a lack of eyebrows?' on the left.

a simple sketch of Starry Night, with a swirly moon and stars, with the text 'I...don't know much Van Gogh' below it.

a sketch of a cup of milkshake with the antifascist flag flying through the air, spilling out milkshake as its lid and straw fly off, with hand written text on the top: 'Bad: milkshakes that make you shit your pants' and on the bottom 'Good: milkshakes that make fascists shit their pants'

a big orange sun in the top left corner with squiggly lines coming out of it and three messages written in all caps along the trajectory of the squiggly lines. Message one (in red): 'The sun is a crab / it causes cancer' Message two (in blue): 'The sun is a sick insult / it burns / (this is not good art)' Message three (in pink): 'The sun is a jellyfish / it stings'

a miniature city on a table with breaking wooden legs (chunks getting shaved off, poorly hammered nails) above a drawing of a generic featureless body sitting at a desk typing at a computer. Text: 'If our whole social and economic structure is built on weak, decrepid pillars, and we're all just pretending it works...' '...is all of our work just pretending as well?'

a white flash card with the 'you wouldn't download a car' meme drawn very close to the font and background of the original, but with the text 'you wouldn't hand-draw a meme'

drawn in permanent marker, a tidal wave made up of dark blue curved lines filled in with light blue, crashing towards a stick figure in black on a brown surfboard holding a red umbrella

featureless gingerbread-like bodies with giant smiles on their faces holding hands in an arc shape, with a caption above saying 'Let's hold hands and pretend we're accomplishing something!'

Lined beige paper with blue ink drawing a midriff with a big beer belly and a hand held over it, with the caption 'Live and Let Loose'

An arrow pointing to the left with 'wait where was i going' written inside the lines in capital letters from the tip of the arrow to the end

a stick figure doing a silly dance saying 'ow my knee'

'I Demand Retribution' in big outlined capital letters with 'for the minor inconvenience you have caused' handwritten in the corner, with an amused laughing face in the top right

A frowning tombstone with 'The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side' written on it, with an arrow pointing towards the dark green grass right below it, then a black line, then brighter green grass'

letters with eyes on them drawn in the order of QUEUEUEUEUEUEUEUEUE (et cetera)

a scroll with fake calligraphy writing saying 'Ye English of modern vernacular is mostly illogical garbage as per arbitrary decisions of arbitrary men

a pair of bright pink lips half closed by a zipper then a speech bubble from the non-zipper side saying 'Look, unless you can do a better job of drawing a zipper, shut the fuck up'

a pencil drawing of a bee approaching a flower with handwritten text 'In a just world we wouldn't work to pay the bills. We would work to pay it forward.

a sharpie marker drawing of a coffee mug with a guillotine on it with fancy handwritten text below 'start your day with the third estate

a stop sign at an intersection where a car is stopped and a person is lying on the hood looking up at a dark sky