11 April 2006 37 views One Comment Print This Post

I can’t remember how it happened, but I came across Tom Murphy 7’s Invincible Web Page a while ago. He has a great page of his Illustrated Notes from Computer Science. The notebook illustrations are really fun.

I think at some point, I stopped doodling in my notebooks. In college I didn’t take many notes, and consequently didn’t doodle much. At least in CS. I drew in my notebooks when I was in a breeze class that was intolerably long.

I started doodling in some of my longer, weekly meetings at work. I found them to be just like those anonymously huge intro-psychology classes: intolerable. Doodling on my handouts was a sort of out-of-body experience. A survival method for coping with my circumstances. Most of these doodles were tossed when the meetings were over.

But, I was inspired by Tom 7’s drawings. I’ve switched from lined notebooks and legalpads to a small 7×10 Canson Field Sketchbook. It’s a nice portable size, and the blank pages are great for UML diagrams, robot sketches and actual notes.

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