“Come right here !” – Controlled scribbling

2017/07/30 | by Eric Bourdon | Comment

“Come right here !” – Controlled scribbling – Video © Eric Bourdon

A 3 min creative scribbling experiment…

(video speed is 3x the real speed)

Other videos of improvisational scribbling by Eric Bourdon on Vimeo !

“While coloring books for adults are something of a trend, there’s another artistic outlet that requires even less effort than colored pencils and markers. It may have more benefits, to boot.

Doodling — the spontaneous act of drawing, typically in the margins of whatever one is really supposed to be working on — is more than a humble distraction. While doodling gets a bad rap, it’s actually associated with better learning, creativity and performance. Here are five of doodling’s benefits :

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On the road to holidays… and bullfights

2017/07/16 | by Eric Bourdon | Comment

[ click to zoom ] [ dessin en français ] [ dibujo en español ]

“On the road to holidays… and bullfights”

(Spanish-style bullfights = corridas de toros)
Pen and marker on paper, 2017
© Eric Bourdon

This drawing was inspired by the contrast between the awareness campaigns against the abandonment of pets on the roads to holidays, carried out by the animal welfare associations, and the festive torture of other animals, supported by the law and mostly funded by public money.

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. While empathy is stimulated on one side, it is reduced to nothingness on the other. Even more, one encourages not only to stay passive, but also to take a positive pleasure in the spectacle of another’s suffering.

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