Simple Doodle Art for Beginners With Name to Draw

So you've seen some truly fabulous doodling on Pinterest and Google Images and you'd like to try information technology for yourself, merely i problem - where do you showtime?  Well if yous are a doodling newbie then start here, but be sure to check out my section on DOODLING as this page is really simply a very cursory introduction.

What Is Doodling?

What is a doodle anyway?  Wikipedia defines a doodle as:  'an unfocused or unconscious drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can take concrete representational meaning or may just be abstruse shapes.'

Types of Doodling

At that place are many types of doodling, there is the increasingly popular Zentangling, there is tangling, there is StenDoodling, in that location are art doodles and there are doodles - Phew no wonder people become confused!  Today I am talking about the low stress FUN form that'southward just plain doodling, this is uncomplicated, fun and once yous begin it's difficult to stop.  It tin can be every bit simple or as fancy equally you like, the putter itself tin exist the art or it can be a component of the art.  Whether or not you realise it most of us doodle without even realising it.  Today I'm going to give yous some ideas so you can begin to incorporate these lilliputian drawings into your Copic Art Periodical - or whatsoever art.

There is a full supply list of the things I've used at the bottom of this postal service, but this is a list of things you will need to be able to begin doodling in your Copic Art Periodical:

• Copic Multi-Liners in a variety of sizes and fifty-fifty different colours if you similar
• Gear up of Gray Copic Markers either: T0, T1, T3, T5 or C0, C1, C3, C5 or N0, N1, N3, N5 (for shadows and shading)
• XPressIt Blending Carte du jour (aka Copic Blending Bill of fare) or the XPress It Blending Journal
• Rubber stamps with an open up design
• Stencils with an open pattern
• Magazine, photo or drawn image
• Your imagination!

WHAT TO DOODLE?

Merely where practice you starting time - what should YOU doodle?  This is a tough 1 as doodling is very personal, I tin tell y'all I dearest to doodle circles, lines and floral patterns - merely these designs may non be interesting to you.  I sometimes doodle images, other times I just doodle shapes or patterns - information technology's all proficient, information technology'southward all doodling.  The easiest thing to practise is to think back to childhood and the teenage years (not those horrible hormonal bits) only to what you doodled in course while 24-hour interval dreaming or what yous draw now while talking on the phone (or waiting on hold).  Use these as a starting point for your doodling.  Still not working for you - await around wherever you are now, can you see a pattern a shape that yous like - then try doodling those or drawing them and doodling inside those shapes.  It'south much easier to do if you depict something you lot like.  Here are a few ideas, simple things I doodled with my 0.5 Copic Multi Liner while watching TV, encounter they don't take to be perfect!  If you need a bit more inspiration you can bank check out  my 'Doodles' Board over on Pinterest.  To find your doodles try drawing some squares (about 5cm x 5cm) and just describe little doodles within these, then employ these on a larger scale.

These simple doodles, look more interesting when viewed as a whole and even better coloured with Copics!

This is where I got really excited virtually doodling, with a little colour and a scrap of confidence, y'all tin easily incorporate your doodling into whatever fine art or craft you lot already create, why not doodle on small pieces of card stock and turn these into the chief element on a card, or bookmark or fifty-fifty framed fine art, or putter designs effectually your photos on your scrapbook pages.  Once you brainstorm the possibilities are countless.

WHERE & HOW TO USE DOODLES?

Give these ideas a go.....

Doodle on Stamped Images

Using a Copic safety ink similar Memento, postage your image onto your carte du jour or journal.
Add doodle designs with Copic Multi Liners to part or all of your stamped prototype, here I've doodled designs onto Marci's Kimono to add together a pattern.  Whether your image is stamped, collaged or drawn, this is a fun way to add a fiddling whimsy to your art, effort a putter hair-practise, or doodles on a wearing apparel, even a doodle torso to draw attention to the focal image.

Use Stencils to create a doodle pattern

Using your Copic Multi Liner (I like Grey or Blackness) use a stencil to draw a pattern onto your menu or journal.   Using the pen of your choice, fill up in effectually the pattern or within the pattern (or both) with doodle designs.    Leave information technology every bit is or add colour if desired.   Use your doodled designs to decorate planners and diaries or filing folders.  I can't be the only person who still uses a diary or smash book!  Get to it and outset dressing up your dividers with a doodle or two, come to call back of it you could apply this to your files for work or dwelling, address books, recipe cards etc.

Doodle Within or Around Letters or Images

Using your Copic Multi Liner draw bold a upper-case letter (or word) with space inside the letters to add doodling or colour.  Use your favourite supplies to add doodling either within the letters or around the letters, again coloured or uncoloured the pick is yours.  On a more manageable scale, this would brand wonderfully fun and personal proper noun tags or identify tags for weddings and parties!

Doodle Within Shapes (or become fancy and accept the doodle create the shape)

Here are 2 examples of what I mean:

1. Try cartoon a heart (or lots) and calculation doodling within or around the shape to embellish it.  At present I chose a heart, you may prefer a flower, a circle, an creature - selection a shape and have a play.  You can use these simple doodles on cards or page backgrounds, and it'south all drawn by yous - so an original piece of putter art!

2.  Draw your eye in pencil and doodle effectually or within it, then rub out the pencil - your designs create the shape,  I really do dear the Copic Multi Liners for this, the coloured ones in particular.   Now only a note here, if you draw over pb pencil with either Copic markers or Copic Multi Liners, then the pencil covered by the Copic will non erase - foreign but true.

Doodle Backgrounds

Enhance your art by using doodles and doodle patterns in your backgrounds, a picayune or a lot information technology'south upward to yous - only make sure you are using pens which won't drain if you decide to colour over the top - I dear the Copic Multi Liners for just this reason - they are life proof!  When you are feeling a fleck more confident, endeavor creating scenery with doodles or using doodles as your art.  Doodles aren't only 'unconscious drawing' anymore - they are at present entering the realm of DOODLE Art.

More details on this page in a post coming very soon :)

Exercise you recall the doodle right from the start of this post - the 1 I drew while watching Telly?  This is what I used it for, I added a little stenciling, some gilt foil, stamping, black paint and white Molotow mark and turned it into this, even the simplest doodle tin can turn into something special.  If you'd like to run across how I turned this uncomplicated doodle into this page have a look here.

What I've used:

• Stencils: Stencil Girl - Michelle Ward Line Borders, Artist Cellar stencil ' Jane Daughter series',  and The Crafters' Workshop - Paradise 12 x 12
• Stamps: La-La State Crafts stamp Kimono Marci
• Copic Multi Liners: 0.3, 0.v & i.0 in Black and as many of the coloured Multi Liners as I could
• Memento Ink Pads: Summer Sky, Lulu Lavander, Tangelo, Bamboo Leaves and New Sprout, Tuxedo Black
• Copic Markers used on Marci'due south Doodled Kimono: R24, R27, R39, YR15, YR16, YR18, Y11, Y15, Y17
• Doodled Periodical Folio - Flower Garden:
  Copic Markers - R27, R29, R39, Y32, Y35, Y38
  Gilt Fluid Acrylics: Iridescent Gilt Deep Fine & Carbon Black
  Jenni Bowlin Acrylic Pigment: Malted Milk & Chocolate-brown Sugar
  Adirondack Acrylic Dabber: Watermelon
  Molotow Signal White Paint Marker Fine tip
  Colossal Zinnia Set (blossom stamp) from Stampendous
• Details for mermaid page in a later mail - I promise :O)

If yous'd like more than doodling info, ideas and even a few tutorials - then bank check out my section on DOODLING.

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Source: https://www.sparkletart.com/rsr/2013/08/doodling-for-beginners.html

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