{scribbler too: the online doodler}

If you're like me, doodling is a way of life. Empty notebooks, scraps of post-its, paper margins... all of them with random pen and pencil doodles taking up space. Ironically, that's usually where my best art emerges from, so I have a lot of things I've saved from over the years -- like old history papers, torn out text book pages, scripts from plays I was working on -- that are covered in margin doodles. You can tell exactly what I was doing at that point in my life based on the kind of paper on which I was drawing.

The other day I stumbled across an {online doodler} via {how about orange}, and I couldn't help but be intrigued. Though I usually do my doodles by hand, this online version is delightful and addicting.

The website is simple: draw whatever you like on the blank page, and it creates a series of "spider webs" where your lines touch. It has the effect of instant shading, and it makes your artwork quite interesting with very little effort. It's super fun to mess around with, as I quickly discovered, and most of my afternoon was spent making little pictures.

Check it out here to make some of your own! Here are my own quick efforts: