I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.
I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.
I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.