Counting and Doodling

This is a fairly small piece of paper, maybe three inches by 2.5.  I am guessing that this person was put in charge of recording the quantity of something while someone else called out the numbers. Whatever it was, it was incredibly boring. Barrels of nails, pints of paint, certainly not a food item, food is rarely boring.

In the meantime, our scribe got bored and started to doodle. I always say, and I firmly maintain, that faces are difficult to draw. Hands, also. You can practically read his/her mind as they are going along, starting a fresh drawing every time the nose isn't quite right. I don't know what is hanging off the neck of what looks like a flat chested girl. The face, totally a girl. Perhaps in peasant clothing, hiding the figure. Anyway, no clue what that could be.

Eventually, our scribe decided faces are just too darn hard and drew a bird. Lovely.