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Blossom in Creativity: Master the Art of Floral Doodling with Easy Steps

teacher avatar Polina Jermolajeva, @Policorne | Illustrator & fine artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      1:06

    • 2.

      Required materials

      1:00

    • 3.

      Groundwork

      1:34

    • 4.

      Simple Doodles

      12:41

    • 5.

      Intermediate Doodles

      7:54

    • 6.

      Intricate Doodles

      8:07

    • 7.

      Create Doodle Composition | Full page art

      4:38

    • 8.

      Create your own Doodles

      1:41

    • 9.

      Class project

      0:49

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Not sure how to fill up your bullet planner? No worries. Join this captivating doodling class, where you'll uncover a multitude of ways to beautifully decorate your pages.

Doodling, the art of automatic unconscious drawing, empowers you to express yourself freely without the need for advanced skills. With each stroke, your journals, diaries, and notes come alive with captivating charm, while doodling also offers a gateway to creating intricate works of art.


Led by Polina, an experienced illustrator and advocate of finding inspiration through art and nature, you'll embark on a step-by-step journey to master the creation of 100 beautiful and cute doodles, along with creating amazing artwork and personalized greeting cards.

The course is designed in such a way that you can first try your hand at simple and quick doodles and then move on to more difficult ones. 

In this class, you will learn:

  • How to select suitable materials
  • How to deal with an art block
  • How to draw 100 doodles, step by step
  • Techniques for drawing doodle compositions
  • The best way to create a doodle greeting card
  • How to create your own unique doodles

Drawing doodles develops your fine motor skills, which directly helps you deal with anxiety. Such a way of drawing helps you concentrate your attention and get rid of unnecessary stress.

Discover the joy of transforming various surfaces, such as greeting cards, journals, postcards, and scrapbooks, into stunning artistic expressions with the help of doodles.


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Polina Jermolajeva

@Policorne | Illustrator & fine artist

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Hi! I'm Polina.

I'm an eco-conscious illustrator and fine artist from Latvia with a background in fine arts and printmaking.

My area of interest is

creating paintings using gouache/oil paints, Plein-air works, making Oshibana (pressed flower art).

The source of my inspiration is the quiet nature around me and I am happy to teach you to find this beauty and transfer it to paper.

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1. Intro : Drawing is one of the ways to develop fine motor skills, helps our brain to cope with the accumulated information during the day and has a positive effect on our nervous system. High in this course, you'll learn how to draw more than a 100 simple and beautiful doodles. And you'll be able to fill a full page of sketchbook or bullet journal with the doodles that I will teach you. My name is Paulina and I'm a professional artist, so it can help you if really master these beautiful, do those drawings. You can fill your sketchbook page planner or create a greeting card, maybe even a wall thicker. Why not? It's a great tool to have up your sleeve. And most importantly, do those are great way to relieve tension and get rid of anxiety. Sciences have Brew and many useful effects of drawing such two tools such as the poverty of these drawings to concentrate our attention and processing information more easily, as well as their ability to get rid of unnecessary stress in our daily life. It sounds amazing. Therefore, I invite you to try out this interesting skill, as I'm sure it will definitely come in handy for you. 2. Required materials: From the materials you can use a pencil and an eraser if it will be easier for you to start drawing, the most important material is a big one liner. It's best to take four millimeter thick ones since the line turns out to be just the perfect thickness. And I use Staedtler liner. In addition, you can also take a black gel pen to diversify the line, but it's not necessary. As for the paper, you can use any paper that is comfortable to work with. For example, you can use a sketchbook like I do, or a bullet journal, bullet blender. If you still don't know what paper you like the best work with, then I suggest you to use some kind of unnecessary old papers, such as old printouts or drawings. But I will you have at hand also for your convenience, you can print a file that all the doodles that I will show you in coming up videos in this course, you can find this file in additional resources. And now let's move on to groundwork and warming up exercises. 3. Groundwork: Before you start drawing, you can warm up your hand as we do it with the voice before singing. In fact, our main task is to relax hand and give ourselves some confidence. These are the qualities that will help you to create beautiful, amazing drawing. To do this, you can draw several lines and the separate than necessary piece of paper start by drawing various shapes. Then you can try to connect these shapes and different compositions. This will make our brain start thinking creatively. It also helps to adapt new materials. Another tip is to try different lines while holding your pencil or pen in different positions. I usually like to fill the entire sheet with all sorts of scribbles before I move on to drawing the main picture that will help you gradually enter the drying process. The scribbles allow you to feel free, which actually helps to get rid of the art block. Don't forget to practice drawing lines of varying thicknesses and pressure. Do I holding the end of the pen or even the tip of the pen and see what happens. Now let's start. The most exciting part will finally draw doodles. I created a system by which we will gradually complicate the, think of these doodles, but don't be afraid. I'm sure you'll be able to draw any of these doodles if you want to, especially since I will guide you to all of the drawings. Swell. Don't forget the doodling is a metadata of process. So don't give your attention to small mistakes because we will not give them energy. Let's hop into the next lesson then. 4. Simple Doodles: Let's get started. Here we go. Our first doodle, dot three triangles and connect them with lines. Those will be stemmed and we already have our first do though. Isn't that great? Where the neck is due to draw a line. And then I will connect a couple of diagonal lines through the first-line, draw a circle. Now fill in circle line with a lots of small curves and add a few triangles. And the last step is to draw a circle in the center and you can fill it in. Now the next one is really simple. You just need to draw as many as you want or circles and then just connect them with lines. For the next one, draw a longer line and fill it in with very long and thin curves. Next one, draw a line and add a little circle or oval on the end and draw a few diagonal lines in shape of Christmas tree and at the end of each line, another circle. The next one is really simple. Just draw two wavy lines and connect them at the end and draw another line in the middle. It will be a stem of the sleep. Really simple, but to get, now let's draw Morley use and draw a line at the end of this line, draw a dark shape. That'll be our firstly than that, other leaves make little gap and draw them diagonally through your first line. And that's already a full twig. And you can share these leaves, but just adding a few diagonal lines on, only on behalf of the leaf. Next one is really simple as well. Just draw three circles and a drag and I'll shade. And each circle you need to fill in with spirals and to finish it out, but you just can connect them. And now we go another variation of flower. When the next one just draw a line and very long drop shapes. For this next one, let's just draw a leaf. It's the one we drew before, but this one is just more simple and you can add more diagonal lines so it'll look more filled in or the next one you need to draw half of the circle and fill it in with the curvy line. And that's so simple. Just add a few leaves and the stem. And here we go. You can decorate this flower, for example, with the half of the circle in the center, like I did, where I can just leave it as that. For the next one, draw a big drop shape and I would advise you to draw a symmetrical shape. So it would look more interesting At long curves in the center. I really like this design. It's really simple but beautiful. Next flower is variation of an oval and line once again, but this time, let's add the leaves, but leaves will be just the half of the circle or oval. And you can decorate this flower as you want. Once again, the similar technique now let's draw a leaf, but just fill it in with the diagonal lines and center. Nixon's really cute and draw a line using lots of hearts and you can make them as big as you want. And it will look very cute. Care can see I use bigger and smaller heart. And we got a little bit more in the result. Next one is quite simple as well. Draw some drop shapes or oval, doesn't really matter. And the diagonal shape, it's fine if it's not diagonal and because we use are not perfect, right? So it's fine if it's non perfect and just connect them with lines. It's really simple and beautiful doodle. For the next one, let's draw a branch will need a long line and just fill it in with random shapes of leaves. Or you can draw hearts if you want to decorate the, just put a few dots here and there, and it's really cute. Now let's make flour. You'll need to draw a small oval and there'll be our center. And I'm very long curved shapes. It's just a simple flower, but nonetheless geared, let's add a stem and a few leaves. For the next one, draw a half of the oval and filled in with the zigzaggy line and just draw a few leaves at the bottom and a stem. Now let's make another branch. For this one, you'll need to dry just upside down parts and connect them with lines. And that's being can color these hearts. And you'll get all sorts of different effects. But really simple. Now let's draw a brunch with berries. And I like to put dots so they make a drag and they'll shape and then connect all the dots to the center line. And if you want, you can add a few more berries to fill in the gaps. Now let's draw up bigger branch, but just a bunch of drop shapes. And the, as per usual, just connect them all with one line and center. But these leaves, Let's make a little more interesting. I like to color just half of the leaf and then to make a really interesting effect. Next one, draw a line and filled in at the end, and draw a few more ovals connected to the line. But believe a bigger gap between them is now you'll need just to draw a zigzaggy line around these and leave just a little gap between o and the line itself. This one is really simple as well, but it looks interesting and complicated. But it's not. For the next one. Just draw curves in a cross shape and to raise them around with the line. It's, it's so simple, but yet another reason why not? Now let's draw a flower using ovals or circles, doesn't really matter. You can draw whatever shape you want. But the most interesting part is to fill in these flowers with different dads and ovals. Maybe draw another circle or put more that I didn't know be creative. It's an interesting shape to experiment with. For the next one, just connected bunch of different lines in the center. And that's it, a perfect flower stamp and a few leaves and you're done. Next one will be a little different draw card line and then draw another curve in the middle and add ovals at the end of each line or the next one, draw a drop and then make line, and in the center, just draw a half of the circle once again. And to make this flower more interesting, draw a curved line around the drop shape. And you can put a dot in the center of this drop. Next one is a cross shape made up. Once again, you can find center of this class and add smaller Olsen the gaps. Now let's draw roses. We'll need to draw a smaller virals and add three curves, arches around them and just connect them with lines, stems and add more diagonal lines to make leaves really good, really simple. Once again, for the next one, draw a dot and a curved line around this dot, but this time make this line a bit more thicker and add a novel in the center and maybe some leaves around the curved line. But the next one drive the same flower. But this time add lines in the middle of graphs connected to the oval shape. And to make it more interesting, gloves at a few more dots or ovals and the gaps between these curves. It's just a different variation of the similar flower, but it looks completely different. Let's draw another. Oh oops, a happy accident would not connected this L the way it's supposed to be, but it's fine. So let's continue to just add more curves around this oval. As you can see, with the different accidents and mistakes, you can make them into something beautiful like this flower. And you cannot have a notice that there was a mistake right now, right? For the next one, draw a line and make light of spikes and just make them smaller at the ends and bigger in the middle. This time, draw the same spikes but connect them in one center. For the next one, draw a more I can play via a line and draw filled in. It's really simple. Let's draw another. And you can see I made an hunter, happy accident. So use this additional declaration for this flower and draw another folding in the center and draw a line for the stem. And to fix this mistake, Let's just draw a few lines or diagonal lines. As you can see, the mistake has gotten really simple. The next one is actually my favorite. I always draw these leaves and the cornerstone, my notebooks. Those are just a bunch of drop shapes. And I made these lines very thick. But to make these leaves more interesting, I add another field and leaf in the center, but I make sure that there is a little gap. These leaves look amazing and they really helped me to get rid of anxiety if I talk on the phone or something. The next one, draw a circle. Let's make a flower out of the sun and draw another oval in the center, a few leaves and stem. That's it. This time let's make a flower. I'll do the heart, jaw higher than a few antennas between these curves and add a little drop shape and middle. And of course the stem and leaves. Next will be another oval and draw a line in the center, draw a stem. But let's make interesting leaves. Thanks to leave will be really simple and just draw a wavy line and draw a spiky lines around it connected at the end of course. Next one is not my favorite, but it's an option. Just make lots of triangles and then you'll make a flower. This time let's draw a drop shape and do more drop shape and connect them with the center line. Of course, this one is one of my favorites. Again, you can drive this in smaller size and to look really good. Now let's draw a line and add a three different sized hearts, the center of this line. But let's make leaf and just trace them around with another line, leaving a gap between them. Next one is Clover. Make line, Olson a triangle and draw another triangles around each. Next one is really cool, simple and ethic thing to draw these flowers made out of loopy line, just great five loops and connect them all and maybe decorate these loops. But that's, and I cannot start drawing these flowers. 5. Intermediate Doodles: Now let's move on to medium difficulty. Do those next term be more experimental? Just draw a wavy line and that zigzaggy wavy, curly line, whatever line you want around it. So it will make an interesting leaf. As far as the next one, just draw three small drops and connected to the central line. And this one as Aleve, we'll draw a spiral. Let's draw more simple hours. Add a line, then just paint built-in ovals, and then just add a few leaves. That's it. That's all. Do those need to be difficult? For the next one? Draw a line and oval at the end, and then just draw them with diagonal lines, leaving a little gap and that ellipsis to the end of each line. And to make it more interesting, let's add a line in each ellipse and don't forget to draw leaves as well. Very important. The next flower is one of my favorites. It's just five, exaggerate the thrombus connected at the center. It looks really cool, but it's so simple. It doesn't need to look perfect. Next one is another variation of flower just to draw a center dot and dried triangles connected to the center. But this time, instead of straight line, draw triangles using zigzaggy line, draw another line and a few leaves, and you can decorate these flowers, but just more lines in the center. Let's draw another simple flower. Just draw three Clouds and connect them with stems. For another variation of branch, just draw a bunch of spiky hearts and dry as much height as you want. The next one will be just a spiral with a bunch of smaller spirals on top of it. And you can color these smaller spirals and the center if you want. Now let's draw spruce branches. Why not just draw lines and fill it in with the diagonal smaller lines in the sun is really satisfying to draw, though, especially if the line is curved. For the next flower, just draw another circle or oval and draw a star around it, making a little gap between the oval and star. And you can decorate this flower. Here're you want. This time, let's draw another star-shaped flower. But this time, as you can see, if you can add the center circle with the star, it looks completely different to the previous flower from fluid, that's the curation. I decided to add a few more drops at the end of the star-shaped. And of course, don't forget the stem and leaves. For the next power, draw two curves and just fill these curves, but more curves connected to the center. As you can see, I drew a bunch of variations of this flower because it really depends on the way you draw curls and how you connect them, and how you decorate this flower. The flower is look completely different, that's made in a similar technique. Next one is another star-shaped flower connected to the center circle. But this time let's add more petals to just draw triangles in the gaps of the star to decorated. Let's just coloring these triangles but leaving a little gap between lines. Next one is really simple. Just draw a circle or oval and fill the ellipse line with lots of small curves and they can decorate it with the dot line in the center. Next flower is a variation of the Ruiz flower. But this time let's experiment with the shape of the ellipse. And instead of adding something in the center, well, let's draw a bigger curves around the smaller ones. Now let's draw the love using curly line, and let's just decorate it in an interesting way. I'm a bit tired of drawing the flowers, so let's draw a bunch of little and cute small flowers. So you can see, you can draw flowers and the star shape or consulting curvy line. Bunch of leaves here and there, filling the gaps. Let's draw another star with filled-in center or a flower without the center. And there is a bunch of different options how I can draw these small flowers using the techniques that I showed you before. Now let's get back to the bigger doodles. Now let's draw another heart-shaped leaves. But this time, just leave a bigger gap for the stamp. Just not colored them and connect them all with the line and center. For another branch, draw a spiral line, and it'll be a stem cell. Draw two more spiky lines around and you can color it. Then it's looks more interesting this way. Now let's draw another leaves, but this time arrow shape. Why not? And the full demand just draw more diagonal lines connected to the center line. That's it. So simple. The next branch, draft queue spiral lines on top of them to draw a bunch of triangles. Let's make another tool at this one, a bit smaller and more simpler. But let's add leaves using gloopy line. For another leaf, just draw a wavy line and drop and chose filled-in curves. Let's draw another variation of leaf. Just draw a silhouette of the leaves. Instead of drawing the stem, just imagining where the stem would go and fill in the gaps with the liner. Here's another variation of the sleeve. Now let's draw more leaf shape. So spiky hearts. 6. Intricate Doodles: So now I will show you my favorite doodles for the next doodle, draw ovals in a triangle shape. But now let's draw zigzaggy line around them and fill this gap with the liner. Looks really interesting. For the next flower will need to draw a bean shaped center, and you'll need to fill the center with the curves of different sizes and shapes and draw these curves as in the center and the outer line of this bean. For the next flower dried this interesting shape at the circle in the center. And the view antennas, my favorite ones, right? Stan, don't forget the stem and leaves of course, this time I'll do leaves with this loopy lines as well. For the next leaf, Let's draw a line, a hard at the end of this line and fill it in with a bunch of curves or hearts. Next, draw a bigger leaf and draw a spiky leaves in the center and make the outer edge of the flower is spiky as well. For the next flower, draw a bunch of circles that grass hour exactly in the middle. This one is really easy to mess up. Add more leaves. Yeah, another flower. Next n is a variation of the spiky rhombus flower that we drew before. Next one is really simple flower. But if the flower is simple, Let's make interesting leaves. Next, draw a dot for the center and around it you need to draw exactly three hearts. It's already really cute flower to be honest, but let's decorate with more petals and then different shapes and triangle shapes or smaller ovals. As you can see, you can create almost a similar shape by using just triangles, but I like the heart-shaped flower more for the next one, just draw a bunch of different sized leaves, and that's it. Let's draw next flower using a bunch of spiky triangles. Draw a line connecting the middle of these battles with the oval in the center and draw a stem and leaves. Next time it'll be another tulip. Draw half of the circle and draw another. It'll open the center just leaving a little gap. As for the flowers, draw half of the circles and you can decorate that by coloring it. And why not? These flowers are really cute. Just draw five really small hearts with a dot in the center and connect them with stems. It's cool when stamps are not straight, but when they're making another interesting shape. Let's make another flowery drying curve, but this time more complicated and the best way to decorate this by drawing gloves. So spiral, spirals and the center or spirals and as the leaves. The next flower you can draw by using brackets and just decorate it in an interesting way. For example, making strokes. Here I can see another variation of this flower. For the next one, draw circle, but another circle in the center and draw a star as we drew it previously, draw colored triangles in the center. And the most interesting part, to just draw a bigger cards around these triangles and to decorate this flower, you could draw spirals and put dots here and there. For the next flower. Draw an oval and a bunch of smaller hearts around it. And you can fill them in with liner. For the next flower, drop the color circle and inside the smaller circle. And then you can fill in another circle, inside a circle, bunch of circles and draw a bunch of curves along the edge. Decorated, draw a bunch of spikes in the gaps of these curves, and don't forget about the stem and leaves of course. Next one is just Greta look connected to the center line, would do leaves really simple. Let's draw more variations of these flowers. This one is similar to the tulip flower, but with curves and half of the circle and the center. For the next flower draw small tulip, but it's not draw these spiky drying girls making a shape of the flower around it. The last but not least, is my favorite flower, to be honest. Let me show it a few more times so we can clear understanding how to draw it. You need to draw a dot in the center and draw three bean shapes around it. And now you'll need to just fill in the gaps with more triangle shapes. You want to finish this flower. You can make them as because you want. Flower is similar to the previous one. But instead of being shapes, we'll start, I'm trying small, I don't know. Like our jobs were half of the circle shapes in the center and just leave bigger gaps as we go around the center. And with this technique, you can draw it bigger or smaller flowers. That's it. My friends. There we go. All of the doodles and here we go with did a great job and filled out the full sketchbook page. Hopefully you liked my doodles. 7. Create Doodle Composition | Full page art: Now that we already have a full library of various doodles, we can combine and create a full pictures how to them, for example, this is perfect for creating greeting cards or annotations. Actually can decorate basically everything that you wanted to. Therefore, I will show you how to create your own beautiful and unique picture. Now I'll show you how to create a simple greeting cards or birthday card. You will see a lot of different versions of these cards from which you can choose the one you like, the most Jews, the colored paper you like, and then select your favorite doodles can also print the file with all the doodles that you'll find in the resources and chose those doodles that will fit your greeting card. I draw all of the doodles but pigment liner out different thicknesses. I think the best thickness would be a 0.4 milliliters, but you can choose whatever pen or pencil you want. Use a pencil to sketch the future drawing in circles and lines. Now the sketch with pencil very lightly so that we could then erase it. Usually I mark the center of the composition and based on this, I outline the position of flower doodles. And now you can fill it in with the doodles that we have in front of our eyes, evenly distributing large and small flowers as well as dark and light ones. Then you can cut out a separate card that text and just write the word thing directly on paper by attaching a circle with tax, they will notice those places that can be additionally fill in or erase. And this is how the first sketch looks like. You may not add text at all if you like how it looks. Now I'll show you the second version of the composition with doodles. This time the flowers will create a frame and you can add a greeting card message in the center. This option. So it looks very beautiful for this sketch, I decided to choose our rectangular textbox is you can see with the cutout text box, you can find the perfect position for it. So it's very convenient and you should try it as well. But a third option, I decided to create a pre-K or flowers with a large bow. If you're satisfied with your sketch, then the next step would be easily erasing all the lines, so only transplant line remains. This is necessary in order for the pigment to soak into the paper. Then you need to trace all the flowers with the pigment liner. Once this step is ready, you can fill in some areas that you think would fill color. Then if you drew your picture on a colored paper, then you can additionally paint over various areas for a white pen. And that's what I did. Or you can paint the color. So if you do those with colored pencils, markers, or even the watercolors. Now it remains to choose a suitable message and glued onto the card. And this is how we created our own beautiful greeting cards from our favorite doodles. Amazing. My opinion, it turned out very nice. Such cards can be decorated both with children or even with family or friends. And that's a great relaxing activity. 8. Create your own Doodles: Well done. You've finished all the triangles, but now on the tube and more useful information in depth so that you can create these doodles yourself and find interesting new ideas and inspiration for drying. To do this, I have a few life hacks for you. My favorite way to find inspiration is to study drawings of people of antiquity or historic drawings, for example, you can Google ethnic floral motif, find many options for inspiration. But please be mindful of different cultures and their symbols that you might use in your drawings. The second option is to draw from real flowers or photos of flowers display you can create completely unique to those. The third option and the most difficult one is to capture the shapes around you. Use your imagination to make them into interesting but creative versions of flowers. Here you can see that I have selected the brush as the object of study to get the desired result, I draw a lot of similar drawing from a child, choose the best one. I notice that it's easier for me to start with more realistic drawing and then simplify it as I go. But for you it could be a completely different story. The key point and doodling is experimenting and finding new ways to draw things you like, enjoy this process as well. And this is the result. I hope these methods help you to find inspiration and you'll be able to create something new yourself. 9. Class project: Great job. We got to the last video of this course and that's awesome. And that's for your class project. And I would just invite you to share your drawings under those glass so we all can see that, for example, a page from your bullet journal with very drying, perhaps you'll be able to create their own doodles, then I'll be very happy to admire them down below in the project section. And you can also print an error for file with all the doodles that I showed you today down below in the class resources. You can also watch the rest of my creative courses on Skillshare. There are pretty good as well. You can find more of useful information and videos on my YouTube channel polygon. So check it out. Thank you so much for watching this course and I'm really excited to see your drawings have a great and inspiring rest of your day. Bye.