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The Sneak #2

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The Hide and Sneak. Realising in time that you simply cannot say hello to this person, because you forgot if they were in your high school class, or if they’re a colleague from another department or just someone you talked to once at a flea market.

Hiding is nice, because the person will never know you saw them, if you’re talented enough. And thereby will not be offended or hurt that you didn’t say hi. However, other people will most likely wonder what you’re doing behind the butternut squashes.

The Sneak #2

The Sneak #1

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The Greet and Sneak

I have this conversation with friends quite often:

Person A: I saw [Person C] at the shop today.

Person B: Did you say hi?

Person A: No, I totally did the sneak and ran off. I feel horrible!

Person B: That’s fine, I did it to [Person D] yesterday!

So why do we have this fear of meeting people we know around town? Basically, it should be harmless to at least say hi…

I discussed this phenomenon with a friend recently, and as we were talking I drew a bunch of doodles that made us both laugh, because we always feel stupid after sneaking off when we could just say hi to someone. So I’ll post these for fun, but it’s not intended as a guide like:

“How to never talk to people, ’cause people are gross”. Not the point.

I feel like the problem is mainly in the Sneaker’s head, and the Sneakee has less to do with it. Sometimes you want to say hi and sometimes you don’t, and it’s fine.

 

 

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Poop storm

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What on earth did I just draw?
What on earth did I just draw?

Okay so. I drew this doodle about 6 weeks ago. Most often I switch off my thoughts while I’m drawing, and it’s only afterwards I try to decide what they mean. Based on the shape and colour of the above doodle, I initially thought:

“These look like colourful clouds from the 80’s or something! Nice to do some abstract work.”

But since then I’ve started working with social media, and I keep hearing Danes use the word “shitstorm” about situations in which a company gets a massive amount of bad press on social media.

Now all I can see in my colourful cloudy doodle are flying turds. Oh well. At least it led to this new non-abstract definitely-a-turd doodle:

Poop storm farver faerdig version

Poop storm

Creative collab

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Diva cup - Ny og Grøn Version 02

My writer buddy Marie wrote a very informative blog article about the diva cup – Read her arguments for why the cup is a sustainable alternative to tampons and towels here (in Danish).

I volunteered to draw a doodle to go with the article and bam! Creative and friendly collaboration happening.

It was fun to do this specific drawing job because I have a lot of creativity that I don’t always know where to put. Having a deadline made me squeeze in some very productive doodle time after work, when I usually just watch Youtube.

Hug, don’t hog
I normally work alone on my drawings, but having a discussion with Marie about my art work as well as her text turned out to be very fruitful – for both of us, I think! So I definitely recommend sharing creative work with friends or colleagues. I’m at least going to try to fight the urge to hog my stuff – both drawings and writings – and show it to people before it’s 100 % done.

Here’s an overview of the creative process:

Diva cup solo sort hvid
1. Diva cup just chilling in black and white.
Diva cup - på hovedet
2. Me messing around. Obviously too silly.
Diva cup med kvinde 02
3. More appropriate placement of the elements. Colours are maybe a bit weird.
Diva cup - Ny og Grøn Version 02
4. Final version of the doodle based on feedback from the writer. Now including more green and a line-up of competing products.
Creative collab