How to Draw Doodle Art

Have you ever find yourself in the middle of the class or a meeting and subconsciously scribbling something on your notebook or paper? Or have you been in a long telephone call with a pen in your hand and realized that you have been drawing in your address book? In some time in your life, you have experienced creating doodle art. You may have not realized it then, but now that you are an artist, you are curious as to how to draw doodle art in a conscious manner.

What is doodle art?

Doodle art is a type of drawing that is completely unfocused and sort of unplanned. The artist creating the doodle drawing is not one hundred percent paying attention to the drawing process, but is thinking about something else. This kind of drawing may be simple, but they symbolizes something. And often, doodles are in abstract shapes.

You know if it’s a doodle drawing if there is a lot that is off about the image. Doodles are typically cartoon versions of students, teachers, comic characters, celebrities, geometric patterns and shapes, textures, landscapes, and animations. Mostly these drawings are found in sketchpads or notebooks, representing the doodling moments of the artist.

How to make doodle drawings

Doodle drawings are often personal, since they expresses your feelings and thoughts. They may not make sense to other people, but they mean something to you. Doodle drawings are a means of your subconscious to speak to you.

Be ready with your doodling tools

You can never plan the right time to make doodle drawings, so always be ready with your doodling tools. Inspiration can hit you anytime, anywhere, no matter what activity you are engaged in. So keep the following items handy just in case you have the urge to doodle:

For basic and simple doodle

• Pencil
• Notebook/sketchpad
• Highlighter
• Ballpoint pen
• Marker

For artistic doodle

• Artist’s pencil
• Sketchbook
• Charcoal
• Chalk
• Coloured pencils
• Pastels
• Paint

Get inspiration

When the urge to doodle comes knocking into your gut, grab your pen and let your hand do all the work. Focus on what you were doing, and let you hand and pencil think on their own. Just let the drawing flow, and see the doodle art you have created after.

But, as an artist, you do not need to wait for inspiration to come before you doodle. If inspiration will not come freely, you need to stage things andget it. Start by doing something to keep your mind off drawing, like watching your favorite movie or talking to someone special on the phone. Position your hand with a pen on your sketchbook, and start doodling intentionally. Then let your mind adrift and allow your hand to work its magic.

Doodle ideas

Do not limit your doodling art to names, flowers, animals, fruits, or ideas that you have repeatedly used while doodling. Expand your horizon and try to doodle other concept like landscapes, cartoon characters, buildings, body of water, mountains, and other more complex ideas. You should evolve in your talent for doodling, and you need to get out of your comfort zone in order to achieve that.

Here are some doodling ideas for you to try:

• Draw a vast garden with different kinds of flowers
• Play “He loves me, He loves me not” with your doodle art by crossing off petals one by one
• Draw flowers to form your name
• Doodle a face of your high school crush
• Draw a funny caricature
• Doodle your name in exaggerated cursives and loops
• Draw random art surrounding the first letter of your name
• Draw shapes and doodle within and around them
• Draw a wide ocean and doodle all sea animals that you know of
• Doodle animals with cute and adorable poses
• Doodle hybrid animals and humans
• Doodle the trees in your yard
• Doodle your city with a night theme

Design your personal doodle world

As you gain more experience in doodling, you can create your own doodle realm. You can doodle a world of your own, with subjects of your choosing. You can add hybrid people or animals or fruits, or anything you want to add. There is absolutely no rule in your doodle world creation. You are the creator and the master of your doodle world, and you can perfect it.

The more you practice your doodling, you can be more versatile with your doodle world. You have the option to create many versions of your world until you stumble on a favorite. Create a name of your doodle world, and share your creation to social media. That will surely be the bridge to achieve popularity in the art industry.

Five types of doodle drawings

Doodling is fun, but it is not all unconscious and unfocused drawing. There are five types of doodle:

• Zentangle – drawing of structured designs. It is easy, relaxing, and exciting to learn and create in a 3.5” paper squares. No colors.
• Zendoodling – no restrictions in shape, sizes, or design. It has color.
• Stendoodling – doodling an outline or pattern using stencils without actually drawing a specific design.
• Mandalas –doodling must be focused around a circle.it is perfect for achieving calmness and mindfulness.
• Doodle art–it is a term for any doodling that does not belong to any of the four doodling styles. It is also called simply as doodling. Doodle art is a general term that is often used to describe doodling drawings.

Bottomline

Doodling is easy to do, since everyone has done it at some point. But if you are gearing towards a more sophisticated and money-making doodling, you must invest in high quality doodling materials. Take the time to create doodle drawing, and learn what you need to know about this drawing style. Doodling is about letting your subconscious express what is inside you. And so it is important that you have an unquestionable passion for art to be successful in this field.