I wish I could draw. I mean, I can draw, but I can't draw. Just like most people can sing but they can't get 85 million hits on Youtube the first time they go public. People can dance but they can't choreograph moves that'll get Jennifer Lopez or Beyonce quaking in their Louboutins. People can also cook but they aren't even close in trying to create fake candles made out of white chocolate and edible cutlery (props to Heston).
Anyway, my point here is that even my doodles look like a drunk toddler who is clutching at the pencil with her mouth....]#
Nina Chakrabarti's do not look remotely like mine. They are a little bit (a hell of a lot) more sophisticated and fun.
Yes, FUN/.
Yes, FUN/. 
<------------- This one is from 'Voodoo Dolls' part of a collection of doodles Chakrabarti did for 'I Want You' Magazine. Here are some more..........................................yah yah VERY GOOD.
So is this one...and a couple more. 
Her doodles are tongue-in-cheek. Simple but effective. Laughable. Enjoyable. Stupid and lovely.
'My Wonderful World Of Fashion' - Chakrabarti created a drawing book for young girls.
(Maybe if something like this had been around when I was a little girl, my predilection/fondness
for drawing would be finer tuned, no?)
Alongside doodling on magazines, Chakrabarti has also designed posters for Marks & Spencer, illustrated book covers, designed product labels for 'Cowshed' and reinvented the Map...to make it look less boring and more exciting...
If only we all had the ability to make our doodles look like something that should be admired or framed. I guess all there is left to do is keep twisting my biro, (maybe in my right hand to shake things up) and see what I come up with.
Or maybe stop..........
And just look at Nina's.
Probably (obviously) the latter.
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