Bad Designs

  

Of late, the universe has conspired to fill me with courage to take up…the pen and draw. Or wait, maybe let’s just give myself credit. I picked up the courage to draw. And this time, I’m determined to draw the imperfections that have always held sway over me. 

And so, as part of that daily quest, I was using these alcohol markers from a brand called Twin Markers. The markers are longer than most other markers you find. They have two tips on either end - a broad tip and a fine tip. 

The markers are designed to be all white with a tiny color bad at the spot where the cap meets the marker. This tiny color band will tell you what color marker it is. And this arrangement exists in just one side of the double-sided marker. It’s on the fine-tip end. Each cap has the color indicates at the top as well, the flat top of the cap.

In drawing my glorious imperfect drawing, I sometimes get into the flow of it. I pull off caps and start shading and coloring enthusiastically. And when the drawing is done and things are being put away, it’s a huge pain to get the matching caps back on the markers. They’re not intuitive. 

I would love for those external evaluators that I talked about in my previous post to put a nail in the marker-design coffins. Smh.