Doodling 101 for When Your Mind Takes a Vacation! Create an Idea Book!

1. Doodling for When Your Mind Takes a Vacation: Hi friends. It's Tammy prayer. Thank you for joining me today. I have for you a wonderful class. And it came about because I heard another Skillshare teacher speaking about I'm running out of ideas as she was creating. Have you ever had that problem? I have that problem. And so I bring to you an idea book. And in it we're going to collect over a 100 doodling ideas. And that's just the beginning. There'll be lots of space for you to come up with more ideas. And as you fill in your idea book, and it'll be a springboard for when you are creating. You can look through your ideas and it'll spark new ideas. And you will keep creating, keep doodling. Doodling one-on-one is for you. If you ever struggle with thinking of something to do, this is the class for you. So stay with me as I continue to teach doodling one-on-one, the materials you need. And our class project is going to be fun. So thank you for joining me. Let's begin. 2. Doodling 101 Materials: What will you need for our class today? Easy, easy stuff? Do you have copy paper? I have two sheets of white paper and it's 8.5 by 11. I have two pens. These are micron. I have a 0.02, and I have a 0.05. The size isn't very important for your idea book. I do tend to like a smaller size, but I'm using a larger for demonstration, so it'll show up nice and clear. If you have a pencil and paper, you're ready to go. For our class project if you care to do it. I have a piece of card stock. This is like an index card weight, nothing super fancy about it, and it'll be the cover of our book. A glue stick, some washi tape. And I am providing to PDFs. This can be the title of your idea book. You can cut that out and put it on your card stock. That's what our glue sticks for. And I have something fun. I'm adding as a bonus. Can you doodle this? Some big block letters that you can doodle in the letters are around, you can cut that out and put it in your book as well. So here's some options for you for our class project. Let's begin. 3. Doodling the Line: Here's a sneak peek. Our final project will be an idea book. All it is is 8.5 by 11 pages. So down the middle, folded in half. Before we start writing, take a piece of 8.5 by 11 paper and fold it in half. Let's do our doodles on here, and then we will combine our pages and make our idea book. Okay. Collecting doodles is going to be such a time saver. Now, I want to show you that Skara micron pens come in many sizes. 0.000 50.01 030508. For demonstration today, I'm going to use the 0.05, but really, I prefer something much smaller for all the tiny details. Okay. So 0.5 just means that the tip is half a millimeter. That's what that is. A half a millimeter, 0.05. Make sure you save your cap. And on the front of our folded sheet of paper, I'm going to start doodling lines. In fact, this whole page will just be about lines. Basically, it starts with a point. Let's zoom in just a bit here. It starts with a point. If I just tip my pin and touch the paper, I've made a point and that's what lines are, point to point. I can make a hash line, a single dah. I can make long dashes and thick lines. And how do you do thick lines? I would just either get a larger pan or go over and over your line until it's bold and thick. Look at that four doodles already. Take your line and go diagonal. Drawing towards you, tends to help keep your line straight. What about going the opposite direction? What about joining the two sides. You've got the peak, the top of a triangle. You can start combining these two things. Take your V shape, draw a line in the middle there. How about 4. Doodling Circles and Curves: I'm going to open up my mini booklet and work on circle shapes because this space can be used for more ideas as you combined just lines. Inside, I'm going to work on circles. And let's start with our dot. Now, that was rubbing it in. This is just touching my pen to the paper. See the different size effects of just a dot. I'm drawing in many baby carbonated bubbles, a medium shape. Practice 100 of those and you'll never miss the ends like I occasionally do. How about ovals and egg shape. Larger circles. You've already got five different kinds of doodles and all you did was a circle shape. What about concentric circles? What if your circle was off center? What about taking your circle and putting tiny ones on one side or dots and larger. Just filling in your shape with random circles. Take your circle and go inside and go inside. You could depending on how thin your nib is, you could make even more of those. What about circle with just a tip. Adding a touch point where it's more like a point at the tip. Doing ovals instead of circles. If you do them along the side, it looks like they continue on the side of your shape. Don't forget that oval shape around and around. Those are really popular doodles. What about just an eye shape? Almost looks like a beach ball with stripes. I'm going to leave space for more creative ideas and just work on curves. Curves look like a C. I call it an arc. They can be steep, or smooth. Barely curved. They can go one above the other. You've probably seen this, many times. Making a rainbow effect. What if your curve just doesn't touch at the bottom. What if your curve interlocks. You recognize that logo? Maybe if I drew it a little better. What if your C was really elongated and and narrow. What if your went back on itself and back on itself? Okay. Look at all those curves. What if we added a curve in a curve? How many different ways can you doodle with just a curve? Very making a variation off of here. What if we did our circle and came up and around and did another circle inside. And that makes me think of this. Just a spiral like we did with the box. Except now it's with a curve shape. What if we add our circle and come around and spiral inside. Maybe that's a fancy G. Okay. What about that shape when we went back on ourselves. But we close the loop. That could be a C. Reminds me of my neck pillow I take on trips. Well, if that looks like a C, let's just make it a C. Let's come around and go in on itself. Minus the point or leave the point. Practice that shape. Maybe do some fillers of smaller circles inside or dots is a creative way too doodle. How about this curve? It does close, but it loops again. Okay. 5. Filler Ideas: Open up our page. This side, I want to work with ideas for filler. Now, filler is using our shape, but putting something inside that shape. Maybe tiny little curves. What if we take our shape? And we do our long line, short lines. Just doodling. Keeping some equal distance. Sometimes you do it and they're not the same distance. What a, about a filler of the semi-circles all the way around. There could be a filler. You could stop there, or you could continue and fill that whole space in until you have all kinds of little lumps in there. Those could get colored in with black or other colors. Another filler could be using this space. More circles, big circles and dots. Now I kinda have a sprinkled doughnut. What if your square needs a filler? Why don't we try our plaid look two lines that are very close together. With another line very close together. You can have a big bold line. That's a filler idea. What if we just had an irregular shape? And we followed that shape and just made lines. There's a curve, do the opposite curve with a point on the end and a single line through the center. A gentle curve. Here's one curve at the top with a little angle tip to it. But you do many lines. You've got two different fills right there. Remember my two gentle waves. What if we fill this end? And we did some really quick straight lines. Putting your pen at the line and then quickly, swiftly lifting up at the very end. You do enough of those. You've got some shading going on. Could try that on the other end. Put your pen at the edge of the line and quickly left off. And you get that scratchy look. We add an extra square here. Fill it in a different shading you can do with your pens. You don't even need special pencils to do that. Extra thick lines. That's how doodling is. Adding elements, adding elements. 6. Combining the Ideas = Drawing: I'm going to take what we've practiced with doodles and come up with some botanical ideas. One idea I, I tend to do, it's a circle. And then I miss my mark. And I come in and I just added that little line. Had kinda looks like a crease, maybe a plum. I don't know if it's just the beginning, it's just an idea. What if you started at the top and you're doing your circle and it goes in a bit of a heart-shaped, don't you think you could be more mindful of that and make it more perfectly matched at the top. And then I don't know what young girl isn't good at working out her heart's those M rounded m's on the top and a V on the bottom. Getting both sides to be equal was always tricky for me, but that's pretty darn close. I love this shape, this gentle C curve with a bit of a tip. Tip on the bottom. I've got a leaf shape. One of the other favorite shapes I've done over and over and over again. Just up and back down. Do those hundreds of times, you'll get really good at that leaf shape. If we do a gentle curve, a gentle curve. And we make an oval at the top. A gentle curve. And we make that oval with a tip at the end. A gentle curve with the tip. And another gentle curve with the tip. And another, you have a stem. What if we take that gentle curve and start back here and make that tip? Now it's like we have the vein of the leaf. You want that vein to go all the way through your leaf. You want a curvy, curvy top to your leaf. Now about this one. Curvy. But it does go all the way through. This is a thick pen, so it really filled in. So let me make that a little bigger. Followed and L1 here and one here. There you go. What if it doesn't go to the end? We'll do a gentle curve and maybe something rounder. And it just arcs a little bit. What if it is pointy at the tip? But your vein go off in different directions. They are not equal. Let's do that again. One here and one here. What if our leaf doesn't even have a line that continues? It just has a break in the metal. That's another doodling idea. What about making more of those teardrops shapes? Can you do it without stopping? What's nice about leaves is they don't have to be perfectly identical. This is hand-drawn. You're doing something creative. Remember we're doodling. That became a flower. That's pretty fun. What if It's a bud? What if we take this leaf and we come out a little bit farther? Well now you have a flower. We do it again. On both sides. Of thirds. Just dots down the center and not a vein. Remember that heart shape? If we did it upside down, put our stem that way. What if we made it very gentle, little more elongated? And we don't close that in. The fleet, just go kinda geometric. Do a semicircle here. Are upside down triangle, semicircle at some flower petals to some dots. And what if we put a half a line down the petal? If we hashed line through this part. All variations on curves, variation on circles, variation on lines. And this curvy V-shape as really helpful in making those leave patterns. 7. Idea Book and Bonus Practice: So for my idea book, I have a piece of card stock, 8.5 by 11. I have our four folded sheets, and I'm going to insert one inside the other. And I'm going to take my card stock, and I'm going to fold it insert my pages, and we can sew this through the sewing machine. But first, I want to show you I have something you can print out. My idea book can go right on your cover or write your own or trace your own if you have a light box to make that easier for you. I'm going to cut mine out and glue it on the front and take my sewing machine, or if you have needle and thread, you should be able to pierce through here and sew your idea book up. I'll meet you right back after I've cut out my idea book Before I saw my book together, I've cut out my idea book, but I wanted to do something decorative on the spine. On my fold, I decided I wanted to wash the tape down the center. Give it a little bit of reinforcement. Going to make it longer and then tuck it around the corners. I'm just going to eyeball this I think that's right there in the middle. I'm hoping that's right there in the middle. I'm going to fold this in. I hope I was a little off. But that also means I can choose which side I want to be my front. My skinny side or my wide side. My idea book would fit here Okay. I think I'm going to go with big. Okay. I've got a little bit of glue stick. I'm going to stick that on the front of my book. I like having some paper to glue stick over. So I don't make a mess on my table. And make sure I get my corners real nice. And Okay. I think I'm going to center it. I was going to overlap it on on my washi tape, but decided not to to move out any of those air bubbles I have, maybe get my washi tape down a little better. Okay. I'm going to sew my book, yes, you can sew paper with a sewing machine, and just use a heavy duty needle and you shod be fine. I hope this idea book brings you many ideas. Collect your thoughts, have fun with it. Draw your ideas on the cover, add more elements as you continue, enjoying your idea book. I have a project for you. A scribble doodle. Do you remember doing this as a kid? Take your pen and just make some wild crazy Okay. 8. Wrap Up: I hope you found that spark of creativity. Thank you for joining me. I can't wait to see how many noodles you've collected. Did you decorate your idea book? I had so much fun. I made a second. Did you make your Doodle page, your doodle? This. I had so much fun creating and thinking. I'm ready to fill my book and I hope you are too. Have a great day. And in keep on doodling, please take a picture of your work added to the project section so we can all enjoy your work. Thank you for participating. I appreciate your time. Have a great day.