It’s that time of year again. Things start getting busy in the academic world. I invigilated (or ‘proctored’ as they say here) an exam today, during the air-conditioned silence of which I drew part of my bag (“draw what is in front of you”) in my rhodia notebook, in ball-point pen. I like drawing in biro, though I don’t do anything other than scribble endlessly and mindlessly in it (this accounts for at least 70% of all the drawing I do, mostly scowling faces and figures with lightsabres or football shirt designs, which you never see). Squared rhodia paper seems so appropriate (and I love it, it reminds me of France). Behind the bag, some of the extremely hard stats stuff, none of which I could make head nor tail of, but which I’m sure looked like elegant poetry to the trained eye.
petescully 
Nice touch on the biro, Pete. Great idea to draw while others are sweating over stats. I’m in no doubt about which one I’d rather be doing, myself…
cheers, yes stats at this level is unbelievably hard stuff
that’s an incredible bit of biro work; I’ve always done a lot of my sketches in biro (a habit I picked up as a child) – and it’s gotten me sanely through a fair few dull and boring meetings (I wonder if I still have those “sketched to death” meeting notes around here still :) )
Have a great day