20+ Funny Textbook Doodles That Are So Clever, Teachers Won’t Be Mad

Best Textbook Doodles by Bored Students

Photo: @brocubaMY

For a student, sitting in a classroom for hours at a time can get monotonous—especially as a instructor lectures on and on, day after day. Many bored students can't sit idly by without doing something, so doodling is a great way to keep their hands busy and minds occupied while class goes on. Not all of that drawing is technically allowed though; doodling in a textbook is generally frowned upon, but in some cases, the resulting illustrations are so clever and funny that teachers can't stay mad—they're impressed!

Some of the best textbook doodles are incorporated into the images that are already in the publications. Using pens and pencils, they're transformed with crazy outfits and drawn into absurd situations. With this bit of imagination, the previously stuffy photos and dry diagrams are given a much-needed comedic upgrade.

Two of our favorite textbook drawings add a modern twist to conventional historic portraits. In separate images posted by Twitter user @brocubaMY, each of the illustrations feature a man's photo that's redrawn and imagined as a selfie—selfie stick and all. It's certainly one unconventional way to bring “learning” into the 21st century.

Check out bored students who broke the rules to create some of the best textbook doodles around.

Funny Hair Observation

Hilarious Textbook Doodles

Photo: Imgur

Physical Education Prediction Doodles

Completing the Periodic Table

Pop Culture Meets Calculus

Selfie Time!

Best Textbook Doodles by Bored Students

Photo: @brocubaMY

Baseball is Older Than You Think

Neandertallica!

Drawing Out of Boredom

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Textbook Doodle Reboot

Drawing Out of Boredom

Photo: Imgur

Jurassic Storage Case

Drawing Out of Boredom

Photo: Imgur

Portrait Buddies

Hilarious Textbook Doodles

Photo: Imgur

Funny Hair Observation

Hilarious Textbook Doodles

Photo: Imgur

Shocking Chemistry

Best Textbook Doodles by Bored Students

Photo: @peten0739

Curvy Calculus

Hilarious Textbook Doodles

Photo: Imgur

Unexpected Action Beyond the Portrait

Selfie Time!

Physical Education Inner Monologue

The Food Chain

Hilarious Textbook Doodles

Photo: Imgur

Choose Your Own Adventure

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Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled 'Embroidered Life' that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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