Staff Infection
No, I don’t have one…(although I have been feeling pretty rough this week with the remnants of a stupid pink-eye infection in the early week teamed with the onslaught of this season’s allergen attack and not one but two broken molars that eneded up having to be crowned, ugh) . Staff Infection is my “verbal slip” for “staff meeting.” This is probably because I’d rather have one than go to the other.
I don’t know why, but I have recently found myself being called into the big, weekly staff meetings at my “day” job to brief what is going on in the Creative Services Group (which is no longer a group since they outsourced the only other designer and the marketing chick quit and was never replaced - it’s more like just the Creative Services Person). Personally, I feel that large meetings are a gigantic waste of time and resources. They seldom are organized enough to accomplish a purpose and rarely do they achieve a predetermined goal, much less a predetermined time limit. This week’s staff meeting lasted almost two hours. I had about five minutes (or less) worth of information to pass on and none of the rest of the information being shared was pertinent to my ability to complete my tasks. So, I make the most of my time in allowing my mind to wander and I sketch all over my notebook.
The scan happens to be yesterday’s rambling doodle and a pretty good idea of how I think (pretty random, eh?). I have found that it’s good for me to exploit whatever opportunities I can get to draw. I Drawing every day and it keeps my mind going with fresh ideas. The sketch started out as a study of people’s hands. I have been pushing myself to work on the tough subject matter that I normally avoid. Seeing with new eyes and what better place to take advantage of about 25 life models with all different sizes and shapes of hands than in a meeting?