Taking notes in class. :: Sketchbooks.

Last week, I shared with you some of my doodles of colourwork designs and patterns in my Summer 2011 notebook. In this notebook of mine, I also had a lot of doodles during lectures or talks that I went to. I have a nasty habit of drawing what people are wearing next to me (see the roses two pages down) or the room I'm in, or the lecturer. haha. They are mind triggers, and help me remember being there. Also, I'm a big believer in taking notes! I find I remember things better if I write them down. So anything that is relevant to me- key words, favourite phrases, and thoughts while I'm listening to a talk all go down in note-form. (Often accompained by arrows or boxes or other doodles!)Yup- I'm that girl at the front, jotting down notes like a regular Hermione! No shame in that!! :]
Do you take notes at college? Did you? Do you have funny doodles from high-school saved in a shoe box? I think they are so fun.
kimxo 

Comments

[eef]

Love your notebooks! I took a lot of notes in college, but most of my classes were not ones that really inspired me to doodle. I was also really weird about having super-organized notes, and everyone always wanted to copy them. lol

[Nicola]

I am a huge fan of doodling and took it up when I started Teacher Training...I find it helps me to stay focused. My collegues and friends always want to see what I have created at the end, and they give me advice 'a little colour there would be good' haha. I like that they feel they can contribute. I save them all, I have a square lined book just like yours that I journal in and doodle, but also I doodle on handouts in meetings, on anything!
Ah, I will blog mine soon too...inspired to share x

[Hannah]

I just wanted to drop by and say that I saw one of your watercolors on The Beauty Department! Congrats! I love that website!

[Madeleine]

Your notebooks are so inspiring! I love them :)

[Jennifer]

I used to draw robots in the corner of my french spelling test ~ but I had a habit of doodling rather than taking notes.
The roses you've drawn are very lovely, I love looking at others notebooks/journals/sketchbooks.

[Megan]

I'm never without my laptop in classes - taking notes by hand at a rapid-fire pace is too much for my poor hands! So unfortunately I can't doodle on/next to my notes... love yours though! So creative.

http://ewe-knitphomaniac.blogspot.com/

[Michelle Clement]

I take tons of notes - and I refuse to take them on a laptop. :) I wish i had more time to doodle, but I'm a slowish writer...lol. Always scrambling to keep up. I listened to a Ted Talk the other day about how beneficial doodling is - that it helps us process our thoughts, more, so kudos to you & your lovely drawings! he he.