I’ve wanted to be good at drawing as long as I can remember. Funnily enough, this has never translated into me actually putting the time into seriously learning how to draw. However, I still love to doodle and sketch, and here are some prolific examples of my clearly untapped talent:

My impression of my friend Elliott’s math work (Snapchat, 2024)

Elliott's math work involving various integrals and spooky signs

We made this at Big Time Brewery – I was trying to explain to him that he is constantly writing and reading various tomes containing spooky math symbols like these.

Aragorn (MS Paint, 2023)

Aragorn

Aragorn on the cover of the DVD of LOTR (MS Paint, 2023)

An interpretation of how I thought Aragorn looked

Frodo (MS Paint, 2023)

Frodo

I was trying to draw the expression on his face that he makes in all three movies, all the time. I think I got it.

An interpretation of the Starbucks bee cake pop (MS Paint, 2023)

A doodle of the Starbucks bee cake pop

I don’t know why I drew this.

Nami from League of Legends (Notability, 2022)

Nami from League of Legends

I remember I was quarantining because my roommate had COVID when I drew this.

The Scooby Squad (MS Paint, 2021)

The Scooby Squad

I am almost 100% sure that this was the thing that impressed my girlfriend enough to start dating me.

A guinea pig (Notability, 2021)

A guinea pig

Back when I was a TA for CSE 142, we had a critters assignment where students would write classes that simulated behavior of various critters. I drew this to motivate my esteemed group of TAs to grade the assignment.

My friend Sasha at Cafe Solstice (MS Paint, 2020)

Sasha Thomas in a cafe

In pre-pandemic 2020, Sasha and I were both really miserable all the time, for different reasons. We would go to Cafe Solstice and just sulk together. I drew this to commemorate our shared misery.

Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion (MS Paint, 2020)

Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion

I was really into Evangelion for a while – I don’t really know why. I loved the visuals and the mechs, but I couldn’t (and still can’t) understand what’s going on.