Evolution of a Doodle

I have trouble sitting still for hours on end when I have long days of class. Over the years, I discovered that when I doodled, I actually paid better attention and engaged more with the class. So, I started with a highlighter and pen, and made something like this:



Soon I started to make use of all of the pens and highlighters in my backpack to create slightly more complex doodles:



Then I began to try using Sharpies and colored pens, which looked like this:



Finally, two things gave me new inspiration. One was a classmate who brought coloring books and colored pencils to unwind between classes. I started bringing colored pencils and incorporating them in my old doodling scheme. Then I remembered some of the things I used to draw when I was a kid, using colored lines to fill in shapes. That was when I started creating doodles like this:



So, after 7 years of higher education, I've learned to follow my learning style and weaknesses to create something that's actually sort of pretty. My tuition dollars at work, folks.