Thursday 8 January 2009

Squares are better than lines.

When I was almost 15 I spent two weeks in Spain on a language exchange trip, and one thing I noticed was that lots of the kids used exercise books with squared paper rather than lined paper. I took a fancy to it, and now whenever I see a notebook or file block with squared paper, I have to buy it and use it for writing notes in class. Sadly we don't seem to get it here very often. This notebook started life as a book for writing down new Portuguese words I learned in my beginner class, but I only used about a third of it before getting lazy. I feel sorry for it, poor neglected little notebook, so I've started to draw in the back of it, and will work my way forwards until I use it up.



Funny enough, I read magazines backwards too.

I did this little doodle with a pen and coloured it in a bit with my Derwent coloured pencils. I don't draw in pen ever, except when I'm at work and doodling all over my bills and letters. It's quite liberating not being able to rub out the mistakes.


4 comments:

andrea joseph's sketchblog said...

cute drawing

Ricardo Sérgio said...

Bons desenhos; gosto muito do seu blog. Boa sorte com as aulas de português.

cherry girl said...

Great drawing! I write in my journal back to front too! And read magazines the same way! Often non fictional books too. I wonder if that has some psychological reason!

Cecelia said...

Interesting. I start with the back of magazines and books too, flip through to the beginning. If it looks interesting, I will start at the beginning and read what I may have missed.

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