A mark that looked back.
First there was a smudge. Then two circles. Then the circles started looking around. By the time anyone found the eraser, Scribby had already borrowed the pencil.
scribby.
The page was blank.
He took that personally.
Somewhere between a stray pencil mark and a terrible idea, a little owl started drawing his own way out.
Leave your markhe's got places to scribble.
Begin with a completely wrong line.DRAW RIGHT HERE
0 perfectly imperfect strokes
Try drawing a house that would rather be a teapot.
Your drawing stays in this browser. Keyboard: arrows move · Space draws · U undoes.
A few things found in the margins / 02
Between the eyes,
a whole lot of elsewhere.
Scribby wasn't planned.
Most of his best ideas aren't.
The trouble with edges.
He tried living neatly inside a sketchbook. The margins were too narrow, the lines too straight, and every good idea seemed to happen just outside the page.
More room for the odd bits.
So he kept drawing. Crooked houses. Unnecessary moons. A place for every thought that didn't quite fit. You don't need a plan to leave a mark here.
The pencil can wait / 03Even a busy
Even a busy
head needs
a little sky.
He couldn't sleep, so he drew a few stars. Connect them in any order. See what your mind makes of the gaps.
PICK A STAR. THEN ANOTHER.
NO RIGHT SHAPE / JUST YOUR CONSTELLATION
the ideas will stillbe here tomorrow.
An entire sky of possibilities.