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D is for …

…doodles

Doodles used to be something you did in the margins of your study book whilst attending a particularly boring class or lecture during your schooling years. Doodles may have transitioned into your life, if forced into a career or job where you now find yourself attending a particularly boring meeting during your working years.

In December 2005, doodling became an actual recognised artform, speedily lapped up by digital scrapbookers. Instead of doodles in handwriting form, a final transition now means that doodles come now - in pixel form. Who would have known?

Known in some circles as brushes or digital stamps, digital doodles are small images or little bits of word art, which have seemingly been drawn as line-drawings onto your computer monitors (or digital artwork). In actual fact, they have probably been drawn by someone doodling with a pen on their electronic writing tablet attached to their PC, saved as a png file with transparent backgrounds, and given away (or sold) to you as the latest trend.

Pay heed, though, fellow doodler stash gatherers. Although a doodle of a christmas tree or little line-drawn angel might be an interesting piece to use on your Christmas photos, layouts or greetings cards - collecting a series of other icons might not be as usable. Think twice before buying that Mouse doodle - although cute, how often will you think you will need it? Like rubber stamps, doodles can be very appealing, but significantly can also take up storage space and gather pixel dust.

There appears to be one difference between real-life doodles found in your school-age child’s notebook, and that of digital doodles. For the first, we don’t sell these on to other people as an artform.

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