THE DOODLEPLEX
I have been a compulsive doodler my whole life.
In the eighth grade, a teacher even threatened to break my fingers if I kept drawing in his class.
Shortly after the pandemic, I was formally diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Suddenly, my compulsion to doodle came into focus: it was my own coping strategy when forced to sit in rooms for extended periods of time. It's how I survived my schooling, how I survive lengthy conferences, and how I keep myself in the chair in the writers room.
In 2015, while working on The 100, I decided to start doodling only on 5X8 cards and save the doodles at the end of every day (though some from my time in The Dark Crystal are on smaller cards, and there are a few digital doodles from an extended hiatus in 2025 as well, but those are all done in a 5X8 canvas and printed out in note cards to join the rest as paper-wear).
Ten years later, I have almost six thousand (including the Asho-Kochi alphabet).
My doodles are a stream of consciousness. They comment on what was happening in the writers room that day. They make fun of movies, feature quotes I have heard and liked, I use them to workshop ideas about writing and character designs, and they refer to situations in my life.
They also quote other people's art on occasion. No plagiarism is intended, naturally. What you see below was never meant to be public or monetized: this is literally the 20% of my mind's wanderings that I have to offload in order to focus.
I also draw a lot of self-portrait cartoons, all of them reflecting my varied neuroses.
I am posting these for two reasons. One is my insatiable need for attention. The other is so that if anyone stumbles on this who has - or suspects they have - ADHD, they can see that they are not alone. This is what I did as a work-around before I even knew what was really going on inside my head.
We are all in it together, after all, whether neurotypical and neurodiverse.
These doodles have been curated, so you will find none of the ones where I editorialize about the series I was working on at the time, nor will you find any spoilers for future shows in here...
But if you pay attention, you will know exactly what TV series I was working on when I drew them!
In the eighth grade, a teacher even threatened to break my fingers if I kept drawing in his class.
Shortly after the pandemic, I was formally diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Suddenly, my compulsion to doodle came into focus: it was my own coping strategy when forced to sit in rooms for extended periods of time. It's how I survived my schooling, how I survive lengthy conferences, and how I keep myself in the chair in the writers room.
In 2015, while working on The 100, I decided to start doodling only on 5X8 cards and save the doodles at the end of every day (though some from my time in The Dark Crystal are on smaller cards, and there are a few digital doodles from an extended hiatus in 2025 as well, but those are all done in a 5X8 canvas and printed out in note cards to join the rest as paper-wear).
Ten years later, I have almost six thousand (including the Asho-Kochi alphabet).
My doodles are a stream of consciousness. They comment on what was happening in the writers room that day. They make fun of movies, feature quotes I have heard and liked, I use them to workshop ideas about writing and character designs, and they refer to situations in my life.
They also quote other people's art on occasion. No plagiarism is intended, naturally. What you see below was never meant to be public or monetized: this is literally the 20% of my mind's wanderings that I have to offload in order to focus.
I also draw a lot of self-portrait cartoons, all of them reflecting my varied neuroses.
I am posting these for two reasons. One is my insatiable need for attention. The other is so that if anyone stumbles on this who has - or suspects they have - ADHD, they can see that they are not alone. This is what I did as a work-around before I even knew what was really going on inside my head.
We are all in it together, after all, whether neurotypical and neurodiverse.
These doodles have been curated, so you will find none of the ones where I editorialize about the series I was working on at the time, nor will you find any spoilers for future shows in here...
But if you pay attention, you will know exactly what TV series I was working on when I drew them!
