doodle
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right|thumb|upright=1.2|Doodle by Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia, c. 1795
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Effects on memory
- As a therapeutic device
- History
- Notable doodlers
- See also
- References
- Further reading
right|thumb|upright=1.2|Doodle by Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia, c. 1795
A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines or shapes, generally without ever lifting the drawing device from the paper.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “doodle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.