If you see someone drawing in a meeting, do you think they're not paying attention, even if they look up most of the time and make a lot of eye contact with the speakers?

I worry about that, too, but it doesn't stop me from sketching outfit designs while I'm listening.

I've drawn a lot of coffee cups and water pitchers over the years.

All we have on the table are conference call phones. I have done some heavily modified pictures of attendees. I hope to never get busted on that.

If you see someone drawing in a meeting, do you think they're not paying attention, even if they look up most of the time and make a lot of eye contact with the speakers?

I assume they're like me and need a controlled distraction so they have at least a hope of paying some degree of attention to the speaker.

If you see someone drawing in a meeting, do you think they're not paying attention, even if they look up most of the time and make a lot of eye contact with the speakers?

I draw stars, crescent moons, the back of elephants, and then these weird freeform blobs that I fill with little boxes and circles.

Zenkitty, I got the "current styles" thing, too. What poppycock! If I were interested in current styles, I'd shop at Ross.

Let's see...they're picky about what clothes they'll buy second-hand, they have jacked up the prices of what THEY sell...I'm guessing the hard core of second-hand shoppers are going elsewhere. I wish I'd had more ability to sell my clothes online before I moved. I had to keep the house in showroom shape which made me more loathe to conduct piecemeal Craig's List transactions. I ended up giving away loads! Jilli, do you sell via Craig's List or etsy or what?

My main interview suit apparently belonged to Mrs. Magic Jordan.

Wait, what?

I'm guessing the hard core of second-hand shoppers are going elsewhere.

Yeah, we're going to Etsy and eBay.

Jilli, do you sell via Craig's List or etsy or what?

I sell via LJ, but I get an insane amount of traffic on my LJ. But there are also LJ communities for just about every type of fashion out there.

I'm too afraid to draw people for fear they'll notice it and get offended. I generally only draw people I see at cafés or public places where they're distracted enough not to notice me doing it.

I get entirely self-conscious when people pay attention to what I'm drawing. I should be flattered when they say nice things, but I hear "You must really have been paying attention to your drawing to get it to come out like that." What am I going to tell them? That it sucks?

But sometimes I just need to get stuff out of my visual centres, and that doesn't happen too often recently, so I jump on it when it does.

I'm a geometric doodler. The only way I can NOT doodle is to put down the pen, and then I can't take notes (and believe me, you want me taking notes if I'm supposed to be listening to you). I can't make a realistic representation of anything, that's one of those magical abilities I envy no end.