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By: Georgia Maxwell, Gradlife Ambassador

It’s your lucky day folks! I am posting a bonus blog this week because our Grad Escape: Doodle Night that took place on Friday was just too fun not to share.

What’s Doodle Night?

Doodle Night is one of the many Grad escape events that Gradlife runs for grad students come together, unwind and have some fun! Since so many students are artists, art-lovers, or just learning, we created Doodle Night so that grads could hang out and access their creative side.

The Doodle Challenges

To spark inspiration, our grads were given 3 doodle challenges:

1. Draw something in your room
2. Draw your research
3. Draw a self portrait

As I’m sure you can see from the photos, everyone produced some amazing art, and had some very creative takes on the challenges. As one Grad pointed out about challenge #2, for a lot of people it was also an exercise in drawing their future. And I think they’re right!

While we had some very talented artists, the point of Doodle Night was to have fun and unwind, and many of the grads who joined us were new to drawing. As a result, the night was filled with laughs, chatting and lots of compliments! Also, I wanted to say a big thank you to our Grads who let me share their work on the blog–their art was simply too good not to be seen!

Wanna Come Doodle With Us?

Sad you missed out on Friday’s event? Fear not! Gradlife is running more doodle nights this semester (our next one is Nov 6th), as well as Recipe Share events and Virtual Game nights! Whether you are a professional artist/ chef/ board-gamer, or a novice, we’d love to see you there!

You can register for our upcoming events through the Gradlife Calendar on CLNx: https://clnx.utoronto.ca/home/gradlife.htm