Page 173 - Under the Cover of Darkness

Cobwebs: Creating webs in your pictures might reveal you
are trying to trap or control people. Are you becoming a
bit of a spider?! Are you trying to entice a romantic
partner? Or stop someone from leaving? Or perhaps
control people around you? Are you afraid of being alone
and so trying to keep someone in your web?
Dots n Spots: Carefully drawn, tiny dots & spots can
show a need to focus in on something. A desire to pin
point the heart of an issue or a need for concentration.
Are you a scatter brain using dots as a metaphorical focal
point?!
Above are a few common interpretations of popular
doodle themes, but please remember, everyone is
different! and there are no hard & fast rules. Although
certain shapes & images tend to have common meanings
among people it does vary individually. For example,
birds often represent freedom due to their ability to fly
but, if you have a phobia of birds, you’re unlikely to
choose them as your symbol of liberty! So bare personal
differences in mind.
Doodles & Zentangles are a particularly good way of
discovering things in our subconscious because they are
the sort of drawings we create whilst consciously
focussing on something else. If you draw whilst on hold
on the phone or while listening to a lecture, for example,
the drawing is not the main thing you’re focussed on – it’s
emerging naturally from your subconscious. This means
it isn’t being subjected to editing before it gets onto the
page. This, and the fact that Doodles and Zentangles
tend to use quite abstract imagery makes them an
especially effective type of art for psychological
interpretation.