I was inconsistent from post to post with numbering. In this picture 1 and 3 may match, but not 1 and 2 or 2 and 3. EDIT: I missed a 2 in the top right.
Scott you should vary your doodles. Do something different. Or alternatively do the same thing, but bigger. In the last page picture all the doodles were small and boring. Instead of tiny little doodle on the corner of the paper do the same thing, but as big as you can fit to the paper. It takes longer to fill out and looks a lot better in the end.
Also, note that you can use white (i.e. no coloring in) as a color - that gives you 5 colors to work with.
The point is to occupy my hand.
The tradeoff is worth it because although the doodles take less time individually, there's more than twice as many possibilites if you use white.
In any case, you're right that there's not many possibilities given your restrictive ruleset. The number of possible colorings is simply: 4 choices for color 1 * 3 choices for color 2 (cannot match color 1) * 3 choices for color 3 (cannot match color 2) * 4 choices for outline color = 144
With white, you get 5*4*4*4 = 320.
Of course, if you drop the requirement that it be a "checkerboard" (but still keep the requirement that areas sharing a face must be different colors), you have a heck of a lot more different ways of doing it.
If I'm going to doodle something different, it has to meet some conditions.
1) It has to be easy to draw, because I suck balls at drawing. 2) It has to have nice outlined areas to fill in solidly, because the solid coloring is what allows me to color and work my hand out without thinking.
Colored pencils are your friend if you want width diversity, no bleeding, and a good variety of colors. It's incredibly easy to not get pencil shavings all over the place. Just use a sharpener that catches the shavings.
I don't understand why this is such a complicated subject. It's doodling, not fine art. You're mostly doing it for the tactile sensation and the mental diversion.
I don't understand why this is such a complicated subject. It's doodling, not fine art. You're mostly doing it for the tactile sensation and the mental diversion.
Yeah, this is all a bit silly, really. Also, if Scott actually doodles as much as he claims, buying art supplies and notebooks or art paper instead of just using office stuff and printer paper is going to get quite expensive, quite fast.
I don't understand why this is such a complicated subject. It's doodling, not fine art. You're mostly doing it for the tactile sensation and the mental diversion.
Yeah, this is all a bit silly, really. Also, if Scott actually doodles as much as he claims, buying art supplies and notebooks or art paper instead of just using office stuff and printer paper is going to get quite expensive, quite fast.
A sketchbook completely filled with similar doodles will be quite impressive to leave for a person to find and go WTF?!
If I'm going to doodle something different, it has to meet some conditions.
1) It has to be easy to draw, because I suck balls at drawing. 2) It has to have nice outlined areas to fill in solidly, because the solid coloring is what allows me to color and work my hand out without thinking.
If I'm going to doodle something different, it has to meet some conditions.
1) It has to be easy to draw, because I suck balls at drawing. 2) It has to have nice outlined areas to fill in solidly, because the solid coloring is what allows me to color and work my hand out without thinking.
So, why the checkerboard?
It's just what my hand draws when I'm not thinking.
If I'm going to doodle something different, it has to meet some conditions.
1) It has to be easy to draw, because I suck balls at drawing. 2) It has to have nice outlined areas to fill in solidly, because the solid coloring is what allows me to color and work my hand out without thinking.
So, why the checkerboard?
It's just what my hand draws when I'm not thinking.
I don't mean the shape, I mean the coloring of the shape.
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In any case, you're right that there's not many possibilities given your restrictive ruleset. The number of possible colorings is simply:
4 choices for color 1
*
3 choices for color 2 (cannot match color 1)
*
3 choices for color 3 (cannot match color 2)
*
4 choices for outline color
=
144
With white, you get 5*4*4*4 = 320.
Of course, if you drop the requirement that it be a "checkerboard" (but still keep the requirement that areas sharing a face must be different colors), you have a heck of a lot more different ways of doing it.
1) It has to be easy to draw, because I suck balls at drawing.
2) It has to have nice outlined areas to fill in solidly, because the solid coloring is what allows me to color and work my hand out without thinking.
Just get a MLP coloring book and crayons instead.
I don't understand why this is such a complicated subject. It's doodling, not fine art. You're mostly doing it for the tactile sensation and the mental diversion.