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1. Intro: In this class we are going to focus on
doodling for relaxation. If you are someone who would
love to learn how to doodle simple things to help you unwind but don't
know where to start, then this class is for you. Hi, I'm Sharone
Stevens an artist and author specializing
in watercolor, illustration, and
modern calligraphy. I'm also a keen doodler
and a top teacher here on Skillshare with over 18 classes. The only things you need
to take this class are a pen or pencil and
a piece of paper. I will talk you through my favorite supplies
for doodling. But when I'm out and about, I will use whatever
I have on me, so you really don't need
anything fancy to get started. After I've taken
you through some of my favorite supplies
for doodling, I'll be giving you
some general tips for your doodling and how to get the most out of it
as a relaxing activity. We will then have a chunky
practice session where we'll focus on the basic
elements of our doodling, including practicing
simple shapes and looking at how we can add a simple dimension
and shading and also some fun elements you
can add to your doodles. This section is for absolute
beginners to drawing, so we're looking at
the very basics here. We will then dive into three different topics
for doodling patterns, potted plants, and houses. I chose these three
topics for this class instead of lots of different
subjects because I wanted to show you how you
can go away and design your own varieties of
these topics just by making simple tweaks
and then have a few easy go-to
subjects whenever you want to doodle away
from the class. Finally, I'll give
you a few ideas for how to add some color
to your doodles. Grab your pen and paper
and let's get started.
2. Supplies: Let's talk supplies. What do you need? As I mentioned in the intro, you really only
need a surface to doodle on and something
to doodle with. If you don't have everything
in this video right now, you can still easily get
started with whatever you have. This video might just give you some ideas for little extras you can invest in if you'd
like the sound of them and fall in
love with doodling. Let's start with the paper. You can just grab
any paper you have some printing paper
from the printer will be absolutely
fine for this class. I honestly will doodle on anything depending on what
is available at the time. From a post-it note to the
borders of my notebook, if there is a space on it, it's probably going to be filled with a doodle of some kind. You may find that
you want to use a sketchbook for your doodling. This will be a completely
personal preference as to which one you choose. It doesn't have to
be anything fancy. You can get really
cheap sketchbooks from your local arts and craft stores or even
from the supermarket. In this class, I am
using an A4 sketchbook, which just has plain
white cartridge paper. The weight of this paper is
150 grams per square meter, which tells you how thick it is. You'd see this on the
packaging as 150 GSM. Just to give you a comparison, this HP printing
paper is 80 GSM. This sketchbook paper
is a bit thicker. Most normal sketchbooks
will probably be anywhere between 80 and 200
GSM in weight. So you might already
have a preference on what paper you
like to work on. I also like to use mixed
media sketchbooks. This is an A5 mixed media
sketchbook by Daler-Rowney that I got from Amazon because I like having a bit of texture
and thickness to the paper. This paper is a bit
heavier at 250 GSM. I have the option of
adding a little bit of watercolor to
it if I want to. Because thicker paper
will be able to withstand a bit
of water as well, whereas the thinner
sheets would not. I also like to do doodle
in my bullet journal, and this is much thinner paper, but I love that my bullet
journal has these dots which can help give you a bit of guidance
for drawing shapes. That can be really helpful. Don't worry about brands
or having anything fancy. Start with whatever you have. Then if you want to
buy a sketchbook, just keep an eye on the
weight of the paper within it so it's suitable for what
you'll be using it with. As for pens and pencils, again, use what you have or what you
feel most comfortable with. I will often doodle
with a pencil or biro because that's the
closest thing to me. When I'm at home, I usually have my sketchbook
hanging around with some of these fine liner pens nearby because I like the flow
and thickness of them. This one is a uni-ball pen, which I'll be using
a bit in the class. It's got a really nice flow. It's got quite a
thick line to it. These micron pens come in packs. They come in different sizes. I'll be using these
two in the class. This is a size 8. The higher the number, the thicker the pen will be. This is a size 1. So this is really nice and fine. You can see the difference
between those two weights. In these packs of Micron pens, you usually get about five pens. Then sometimes you also
get a brush pen as well, which just allows you to
get a really thick line. You can use that in some of your doodles if you want
a particularly dark area. The great thing about these pens is they are also waterproof, so you can use them with watercolor as well
if you want to. If you're at home and you have
more supplies around you, there are some fun and
simple ways that you can make your doodles
a little more fancy. You may already have
some of these if you're into brush lettering
or watercolor, or if you have children,
you can just borrow something from
their craft books. So have a look and see
what you already have. I like to use a gray pen for adding shadow to
some of my doodles, which I'll show you more
of later in the class. My favorite is the Tombow
Fudenosuke gray pen. This is a nice light gray pen, and because it's a brush pen, you can vary the thickness of the stroke by just pressing
lighter or harder. This one came as part of a
pack of colored Tombow pens. There are lots of
other gray pens out there that you can use. This one is another Tombow one, and this is a dual brush pen. This side, you just
get a fine line and the other side is
a large brush pen, so you can get a thick line or if you just press
lightly a nice thin line. Again, it's a nice light gray that will be nice for your
shadows in your doodles. You can also add color
to your doodles. We'll be looking at this
a bit later in the class, where I'll show you
some options for adding color with pencils, pens, or with watercolor. You can also doodle
on colored paper. This book is a Toned
Strathmore sketchbook. I've just used my
uni-ball white gel pen for these doodles. It just has a
really nice effect. I love doodling with this pen. That's it for supplies.
Don't overthink it. Just keep it simple, especially to start with. If you find you really
enjoy your doodling, then you can invest some more
in some of these supplies. In the next video, we're
going to be going over some general tips for using
doodling for relaxation.
3. Tips: Before we get started with
some doodling exercises, I wanted to share some
quick general tips with you so that you can get the most
out of doodling as a relaxing activity. The first tip is for
perfectionists amongst you, is not to wait for the
perfect moment to doodle, like when you're
sitting at your table or your desk with
your nice pens. The beauty of doodling is
that as long as you have something to doodle with
and something to doodle on, you can do it even if it's just on a Post-it Note for a
minute or two with a pencil. Those minutes can be quite
precious in slowing you down, focusing your concentration on those pen strokes and allowing you to relax
for a few seconds. It doesn't need
to be a beautiful finished piece you create, the ultimate aim is to relax. If we can make
something that looks nice at the same time, well, then that's a bonus. Likewise, while we want to avoid waiting for the perfect
situation to doodling, we also want to avoid
striving for perfection in our results and instead
focus on the process. I'll be saying this
a lot throughout the class to remind you as well, because I think it's something
a lot of us struggle with. Our goal is not to make a perfect doodle or
a perfect shape, our goal is to relax
and have some fun. If you find you are
a perfectionist, then you may just need to remind yourself of this every so often or maybe even have a
go-to mantra in your head. If you find yourself getting frustrated when your line is not completely straight or your
circle is a bit wonky, just say to yourself that you're doodling to relax
and to have fun. I always just think that
the wonkiness makes your doodles a bit more
quirky and unique. Whereas seeking perfection
in your artwork is the enemy of relaxing and
being creative in general, because it will just make you frustrated and less
motivated to keep going. Focus on the process and how the pen strokes
have the ability to calm you regardless
of what they look like. Start with a few easy,
familiar subjects. I recommend getting
comfortable with a few easy subject as you start out with things
that you like. This will be different
for everyone depending on your
personal tastes. I find that doodling is
most fun when you don't have to think too much
about what you're doing. That's why I wanted to show you some easy topics
in this class that you can make different
variations of, which don't require any
research or much brainpower. You can just lose yourself
in the act of doodling either repeating something
over and over again, or by trying out different
styles within a similar theme, like with the houses
and potted plants that we'll be looking at a
bit later in the class. You can doodle
endless varieties of these just by making
a few simple tweaks, and I'll show you later how
to do this. Keep it simple. If you're a complete beginner
and worried about starting, just start with doodling shapes. I often fall back to these as
an easy repetitive pattern. Doodling these
shapes will give you more confidence if
you want to start doodling other things like subjects rather
than just patterns. If you are looking to
doodle a specific subject, then start by looking
for the basic shapes. I'll talk a little bit more about this as we move
through the class. But my general rule of thumb
when I approach a subject, whether it's for a simple doodle or a more complex piece of art, is to start by simplifying it. Start with the biggest
shape that is going to help you draw the rest of it. Don't jump in straight
with a detail because that can easily be
overwhelming with any drawing, just simplify it as
much as you can. If you're not used to drawing, don't expect your first
attempts to be amazing. They may be, but they
probably won't be, and that's fine and
completely natural. But I promise they will
get better with practice. The beauty of using something
like doodling, drawing, or painting for relaxation is that it helps you slow down. I talk about breathing a lot, especially in my watercolor
for relaxation class, but it's so important to
help you feel relaxed. The slower your pen strokes are, especially when you're
drawing repetitive lines, your breathing will
automatically follow. It's hard to feel
stressed and breathe fast when you're
intentionally drawing slowly. But also at the same time, you want to make sure
you are breathing and just releasing any tension
in your shoulders. I hope those tips
have been helpful and given you a few things to think about as we move
through the class. Now, let's move on
to our exercises.
4. Practice: Basic Elements: We're going to
start by practicing basic elements and shapes. Everything you draw
or doodle will be made up of basic
elements or shapes. If you knew doodling or drawing, then it's well worth practicing
these because these will be the foundation for anything you want to draw or doodle, no matter how simple or
complicated your subject is. The five most basic
elements are the dot, the line, the square,
triangle, and circle. Everything else is a
variation of one of these. Practicing these is a
great place to start. Before we even start putting
the pen to paper I want you to just think about
how you are holding your pen or pencil first. If you have a tendency
to hold your pen with a very tight grip
and press firmly, your hand will probably
start to hurt after a while, and it's not necessary. Just practicing,
loosening up a little, and relaxing your grip slightly. We want a relaxed but firm grip. Obviously, you don't want
your pen to slip around, but you don't want to
be holding your hand too rigid either. Let's start with the dot. These can be great for adding small details to our doodles, either as a pattern
or as some texture. Using whatever pen or pencil
you have just practice touching the paper very
lightly to get a tiny dot. Then just vary the
pressure and move around in a circle to get
a slightly bigger dot. I'm just rotating the pen, getting that dot even bigger. If you find the ink doesn't come out easily if you're
just pressing it to the paper like that just give it a
little swirl on the spot. Just going back to
complete basics like this, can show you how you will
automatically do things. It's a good way to connect more with what you're doing,
how you're holding your pen, and how firm you are pressing so that you can be
more intentional. Next is the line. This is where you want to
start paying attention to how you move your
arm and your wrist so that you have a
good range of movement depending on how long you
want to draw your line. If you're drawing
something really small, you might just rest your hand on the paper and just
move your wrist. But say if you wanted to draw a line across the whole page, if I was resting my
hand on the paper now, I'd get to about here, and then I can't move anymore. I'd have to stop, lift up the pen
and move my hand. I ended up with a
little arch there. Here just practice and you don't even have to put
your pen to paper now, just practice moving
your whole arm and even you can lock your elbow
and just draw from there. But if you move your whole
arm from your shoulder, you're going to get much
more range of movement. If you wanted to draw a line
across this whole page, I'm just going to
resting my hands slightly on the paper
just to give it balance. But I can easily pull
it straight across. If my hand was
locked up my wrist, I'd have much more
trouble to have to keep lifting the pen
and moving my hand. Just practice doing
these long strikes moving the whole arm. With these lines, just
practice drawing them at different lengths and repeating them especially if
you're new to drawing, just keep repeating them
over and over again. Practice them in
different directions as well, and angles. When you're doing this,
just pay attention to what feels comfortable. Obviously, I'm moving my hand in different directions
when I was coming down I've moved my
hand like that. I'm going to go diagonally, and then the other
way, somehow moving my arm all the way round so I can actually
see what I'm doing. I can do it from here but it might feel more
comfortable doing it this way. Just try and just experiment with how you're
holding your hand, what angles you're
holding your hand. With these lines, you can really focus
on slowing them down, especially if you have
a tendency to go fast. I think a lot of the
time these days we have a focus on just getting things
done and finishing them. It's really nice to be
intentional about going slower. As we do that, we can
focus on our breath, making sure we're actually
breathing and not holding our breath until we
get to the end of the line. You don't want to just hold
your breath all the way along and then breathe. You want to make
sure you're actually breathing as you're
drawing the line. If your lines are a bit wonky, do not worry, practice
will make them straighter. But the beauty of doodling is that we're not worried about
these lines being perfect. A little unevenness in a doodle just adds to its
quirkiness and cuteness. When you're drawing these lines, you can move your
paper around to make more comfortable
drawing lines. I like to usually have my
paper at a certain angle. Just have a play around and
see what works well for you. We're practicing our lines here, but this is also an exercise and getting to know what
feels comfortable when you're drawing because it can feel a bit awkward
drawing in some directions, especially if you try and keep your paper in the same play. Obviously, I'm going to try
and do this in the class. You can clearly see
what I'm doing, but feel free to move your page around as much as you need to. These lines pretty much make up everything
you are going to do even a circle is
made from a line, obviously not a straight one, but it's still a line. Keep practicing this. Whenever you get a chance keep a pencil and paper in your
kitchen and just draw some lines whilst you're
waiting for the kettle to boil or whilst
you're on the phone. Doing this over and over again, it's going to build
up your muscle memory and get your hand used to
doing movements like this. If you're a painter,
this is really going to help you too with
your brushstrokes. Next, we are going to practice
drawing some squares. If you have a look
around your room, you'll start to notice how
many things are actually made up of a square
or a rectangle, like your cupboard doors, your TV, photo frames, books. Practicing these are really
going to help your doodles. For complete beginners
with a square, your first line basically
dictates how big your square is going to
be because all the lines should be roughly
the same length. For the second line, you want it to be the same as the first. As I draw this, I am flicking my eyes
constantly between where I'm drawing this line and the end of this line to check the length. That looks about the same now. For the third line, I'm just going to
match up to this one. Again, I'll be constantly
flicking my eyes just to make sure it's
roughly the same length. Then the fourth one is easy because you
just joining it out. Now we can just practice drawing squares of
different sizes. Again, just be conscious of how much pressure you are using. If your hand is starting
to ache at all, just relax your grip
on your pen slightly. We can just stretch your
hand out if it's new to you. Next, we're going to
practice some triangles. For the triangles start
with a line at an angle, and then we're going to
just draw another line on the opposite side and
then just join these up. One way that you
can draw triangles if you struggle with them, is to draw your first line, and then look at the
distance between this bottom point and where it meets parallel
to the top one, and then just try and go
across a similar distance. Just draw a little dot, and then just join the lines up. You can do this with
the squares too, so you can just start
with a little dot. Then you don't need to
worry so much about where you're going because you
just joining them up. Again, let's just practice these triangles in
different sizes. You can make some wider, some narrower and taller. We're going to do a
nice wide one now. Don't worry about your
lines being perfect, obviously that's quite wonky, but I'm not worried. I just practice making
these different sizes. See, when you draw smaller ones, you only need a very
small range of movement, such as practice
some bigger ones to practicing lifting your
hand off the page more, moving your whole arm. It can feel quite
different when you're drawing with your hand rest on paper too when
you're lifting it up, so that you have more movement. It's just something
that you need to get used to in practice, but you will get more
comfortable with it. I'm just resting very
slightly just to give myself a little
bit of stability. I feel like when I'm drawing and I'm not
touching the paper at all, I feel a little less stable. I like to just balance it a little bit with my
little finger on the page. The last element we are going to practice in this
video is the circle. With a circle, we're just going to do one
stroke round and join it up. I recommend starting
at the top somewhere. If I'm going around like
this, starting from the top, I can always see the end point and where
my hand is going. If I started, say in the
bottom-right corner, when I go to this bit, I can't actually see there
so I'm curving round blind. Then I'd just have
to join it up. Obviously, if
you're left handed, you're going to be blocked if you start at the bottom left. You can start on the
top-left as well. To slow down and just work
on this fluid movement. I remember at school, someone said to me, "How do you draw
circles like that?" It's just because I started doodling and drawing
when I was quite young, and so it's just practice. I always used to do
things like this. Definitely some
circles I draw will be really not very even at
all and quite wonky. Again, that's a bit
wonky, a bit flat. But just keep practicing
different sizes. I think the circles will
probably be the trickiest ones, especially if you're a beginner. I'd recommend just
getting a whole page and just filling it up with
different size circles. Slowing down. As I go around, when I get past a halfway point, my eyes do flip between where
I'm at and the end point. I think a lot of this definitely
is muscle memory because your hand just gets
used to go around. We've gone through these basic
elements fairly quickly, but I want to reiterate how important these are for
any kind of drawing. It's well worth practicing them if you want to get used to the shapes and feel more confident in your
doodling and drawing. If you're a complete beginner and your circles look pretty wonky and your
squares look really wonky too, it's
completely normal. Please, don't worry, it's just practice and
it is muscle memory. To get that muscle memory, you just need to keep
drawing consistently. Every day just spend a
few minutes just drawing these shapes and your
hand will get used to it. You'll get used to that
concentration of figuring out how assessing the length of the line and the
curve that you need. But eventually you won't even really have
to think about it. You will just be
drawing them naturally. But it does take practice, especially if you're a beginner, so don't be put off. You will get the requirements.
5. Practice: Geometric Shapes: Now we've practiced
some of the basics. Let's continue with
some more shapes. You can divide your shapes into geometric shapes
and organic shapes. We're going to be
practicing them in this video and the next one. Geometric shapes are
shapes that have defined edges like squares, and they are usually man-made. Whereas organic shapes, in contrast, are more free form, they have less defined edges, and they're usually
things that you'd see in nature like clouds. We're going to start
with some rectangles, and we're going to draw these in the same way as a square. But this time, the first, and second lines are going to be the ones that
determine the size. We'll draw the first
line on the left, and then this top
line is going to be longer. It's a bit wonky. Now we have our basic shape. We want this line to be parallel to this line,
match the length. Then the last one
might be a bit longer. I'll just add a
little bit more to this one and then just join up. Now we can just keep
practicing these and trying them in
different sizes. We'll have some tall ones
and some really small ones. Again, it's useful to take a moment when we're doing
each of these shapes, to look around your
home, your room, wherever you are,
and try to spot these different shapes in
the things around you. Especially if you want to do objects and not just patterns. These rectangles, like
I mentioned before, with squares could
be doors or books or tabletops or even your
phone or your computer. As you start to look
around you more, you'll notice these basic shapes in pretty much everything. Even if what you're drawing or your painting is much
more complicated, it all starts with
the simple shapes, just to give you a guide for where you put all the details. It can be very overwhelming
to jump into a subject or painting or a drawing or even a doodle if you're
focused on the details, so just break it down and start really simply with
these basic shapes. These are going to get so
much easier with practice. If you're struggling at all, then just know that practice is really going to help
you because your eyes will just get used to
assessing these lines, the length of these lines in a different way than
what you're used to. Trust in the journey. Next, we're going
to practice drawing some four-sided shapes that have different lengths at
the top and the bottom. For this one, start at the
top with a horizontal line, then draw slants at either side and then
just join the base up. Again, even drawing these slants at the same angle
is just practice, so you can do that on its own. You fill a page of doodles, just practicing
getting these angles similar and then trying
different angles. Making it taller, this is going to really
help your triangles as well during this exercise. Basically, we want this gap
to be the same distance. Going back to this shape, let's practice this
one a little bit more. You can turn it
upside down and have the longer line at the top and have these slants going inwards, and then join the up. We'll use these later
in the projects. These shapes can be
the roof of a house, and this can be a plant pot. Just using a
different angle here, making it a bit taller, and making these
slightly less slanted. You can see there
I actually started with the diagonal line. It doesn't actually
matter where you start, just try and see
what works for you. Again, just keep practicing
these different shapes and sizes and keep remembering the goal is not to
make them perfect. I just want to give
you the foundations for doodling anything really, by helping build your confidence with these common shapes. Like I said earlier, looking for the perfection is the enemy of relaxation and
creativity because it will make you
tense and frustrated. So many of my doodles
are wonky or uneven, especially when I'm
doodling on my lap but that doesn't matter to me because
I'm enjoying the process. Next, we are going to try some
diamonds and kite shapes. Start with one line at an angle
and then draw the second. Again, this exercise is going
to come in handy for this. Then we're going to try
and make this the same. Really if we did a
dotted line to there, we want these triangles
to be roughly the same. For a kite shape, we'll do the top again, and then we're
just going to make the bottom lines a bit longer. Again, as you can see, these triangles are
bigger than nice too, so practice these
in different sizes. To make a kite doodle out there, I'll just draw a
wiggly line and add a little super-simple
kite there. Next, we're going to
practice some ovals. They're basically
squashed circles. We will be doing these a
bit more later when we add some dimension
to our plan, folks. But for now, just try and practice
getting the sides even, and practice this in the
other direction as well. The next geometric
shape that we're going to practice
is a semicircle. This is just
basically half-circle or a curve and then just
joining up with a line. But you can actually say semicircle but you can do these in different
shapes as well. You can make them taller, you can make them wider, and do them upside down as well. Keep remembering those basics of where is your arm locked? Is it locked at your wrist? Is it locked at your shoulders? Do you have a good
range of movement, especially when you're
drawing these bigger shapes and checking in on how tight you are holding
your pencil as well? These are just small ones.
I've got my hand fully rested on the paper and I'm just moving from my wrist because they're small
enough to do that. Let's draw a heart next. We're just going to
start at the deep. We're just going to
curve around and then bring it down to a bit of a straight line which ends
up parallel to this one. The first line is
basically the easiest one, the second one is where you're trying to
make it symmetrical, so you're just keeping an
eye on that first one, and then you can just join them up to [inaudible] a
little bit of a line. I'm going to do that tip bigger. Then you can just
draw some tiny hearts and then many big ones. This may take a bit
more time to practice. Don't worry if yours are
looking a bit wonky. If that edge is not
the same as that, don't even worry about
it, it's just a doodle. But if you do want
to get them or even, just keep practicing them. You can add a little
bit of a curve going inwards and then
make it come down, it's like an S-shape. Then do the same
to make it a bit pointier and a longer
one like this. The last geometric
shape we're going to practice is a star, which again is a
bit more tricky. We'll start with a
triangle at the top. This is going to
have five points. We want them as similar size, an angle to this one. We're just going
to go across about the same length
and then back in. Do this one next. Where I've landed,
these two points are just outside of here. If you find it easy, you can
just start from the top, not touching the paper. I'm just going to
move my pen down and make a dot about here. It's inline and that's just
below these two points, and then just add the last
two in, roughly right. Just trying to get these lines slightly outside of these lines. This is just before there, this is just after there. Then that's an angle. Similar angle to this, and then this one is at a
similar angle to this one. If you drew a line
through these, they're roughly in line. Let's just try one more,
so triangle at the top. Draw these out and
that's straight. That's not straight but bringing that in
just before here, bringing that out same length, bringing it in just after here, drawing that dot
just below here, and then bringing that down. This is in the
same line as this, bringing that down, and then in the
same line of this. Hopefully, that was helpful. Again, just pick one
of these shapes, just cover a whole page
in doodles of them, different sizes, adding these slightly
different shapes to them. In the next video,
we're going to move on to some organic shapes.
6. Practice: Organic Shapes: As I mentioned in
the last video, organic shapes are more free
form than geometric shapes. They have less defined edges and they're usually things
you'd see in nature. These could be petals,
leaves, coral, or snow, or even a sauce
on your ice cream. With this, we can
just have some fun making up our own shapes really. I'm just going to start with a really small organic doodle. That's almost like a kidney
bean shape so you could try. That's more like a kidney bean. With this one, you just
want to practice letting the pen flow and if you're not doodling
anything in particular, it can be really nice to just let your hand take you
wherever it wants to go. This is a really
nice one to doodle, especially if you
start from something small and then you just go around and make it bigger I've
got whole pages of these. Its just really,
really relaxing. Just try, just get
used to the shape, the feel of making these more kind of
Lisa organic shapes. If we were to try and
draw something specific, we could draw a pair which is narrower at the top
and then it gets bigger. You round it around
into a circle, and then bring it up to a
small curve at the top. I'm going in now, I'm curving it around to the top cover kind of
fruits like strawberry. It's flat at the top
coming to a soft point, having background and then meeting on this flattish point. Corals are really
nice organic shapes. A coral that you
find under the sea. You can start at the
bottom and then you can imagine this just moving with the water then joining
up the bottom. Then I mentioned
ice cream source earlier so if you were to
doodle a simple ice cream, you could just start with
an upside down triangle. I'm going to start to draw
some curves and that's kind of the ice cream and then
you'd have a curve on top. This is a bit too flat but then you can just
just go up and down meeting that point
and there you've got a bit of an ice cream with some source rectangle
for the flake and you've got a simple
doodle, ice cream. What I would probably
do with this one is just add some lines across the other way as well. Now you've got really simple
doodle of an ice cream. It's just like this
nice organic shapes. You can just practice
these flowing lines. Again, just start looking
around wherever you are to see all these different
types of organic shapes, you'll start to notice much more geometric shapes
and organic shapes. For example, from
where I'm sitting, I've got my whiteboard. I've got my pen holder, which would be a
cylindrical shape. Then I've got a cloth hanging
out of it so that's kind of in the shape of that, and then it's hanging
out of my pen pot. That's the rectangle. If it's head-on and then
I've got my pens in it, which are basically
just rectangles. You can draw those as well. I mean, you probably can't
actually tell what that is, but it's just getting used to
seeing those shapes around you because I think the first
part to learning anything, especially if you want
to draw actual subjects, is observing and
noticing things, and understanding how
you can break them down in really simple ways, because that takes the overwhelm out of approaching
any subject for you. Just keep practicing these
kind of flowy lines. I think because these
are more organic shapes, they just feel a
lot more calmer, a lot freer to doodle. Doesn't even have to be a
shape it can just be lines, just getting used
to letting the pen goes wherever it wants to. That's it for our basic shapes. In the next video, we're going
to look at how we can add some simple dimension
to our doodles.
7. Practice: Dimension: In this video, I
want to show you some very simple ways to add
dimension to your doodles. We're not going to
get technical with one or two-point perspectives. I might show you an
example later though, but these are just
very simple ways to make your doodles look
a bit more interesting. Let's start with a square. To add some dimension, you can simply draw three short diagonal lines from each of these corners
and then join them up. Now you have a simple
cube and you can see the top side and
that right side. This is what I did
with a notebook that you saw me doodle in the intro video to
make it look 3D so that you could see the
papers inside the notebook. You can practice this
with rectangles as well. It's exactly the same principle. Just draw three diagonal lines at the same angle and
then join them up. If you wanted to do
this with a triangle, you just draw the two
lines coming out. Like I said, we're not
getting technical with these. But I just want to
quickly show you, if we were doing
this properly to make them look more realistic, you'd start with the square and then you just have a point, say here, and all of these diagonal lines
would head towards that point and that's a
one-point perspective. If I drew this line, it would be coming like this. Bear in mind you want it
to hit the same height. This line would be at this
angle and then this line. You just trace it over the paper with your pen
not touching the paper, so it'll be at this angle. Again, making sure these are parallel and just
joining those lines up. That is called foreshortening. You can see that as things
go into the distance, they get farther away,
they get smaller. These sides are getting slightly smaller as they move
into the distance. But you can do these
3D objects really simple by just keeping
those lines parallel. Especially with doodles you
really don't need to worry about using this perspective
unless you really want to. You can also try
this with a letter. If we draw the letter A. Now for all of these corners, I'm just going to draw
that diagonal line at the same angle. Any corners that sit
behind the letter A, it would go into it,
I will leave out. So I do this one, skip that one, skip these two and then do this one and then
just join them up. All these lines just needs to be parallel with a line next to it, so this would be at this angle. Now you have a 3D letter. If this letter was bigger, you might be able
to see the inside of this triangle as well. That would just be like that. These lines, that
line is parallel with this line and this line is
parallel with this line. Then these bits are the sides. You can easily see
where the front is. If we were drawing a cylinder, if we were just looking at
it from the front angle, it would just be a rectangle. But as you tilt it towards you, you'll be able to see the top
and that will be an oval. With these ovals, they
become narrower at each end. They're not points,
they're just curves. If you split, this shape
would be in each quarter. We're not drawing
really round ends, we're trying to
make them narrower. This top isn't completely flat, so this can take a bit of practice and then curving
it up and back down. Then we would do for
the cylinder is draw the edges in and then this base, we don't want to go
straight across. We want it to be the same curve as this top curve,
parallel to that. That's a bit wonky. If
we did this base flat, it's just going to
look a bit weird. You may want to spend some time just practicing these ovals. Like I said, they're not
rounded at the edge. This end is smaller, we're going to go
up and then down, curve it round, and then back up again. We don't want it to be like this either we
don't want to have points, we just want it to curve. That's a very
simple introduction to adding some dimension
to your doodles. We're not going to go into
much more detail than that, we can in future classes if that's something
you'd like me to cover. But for now, we're going to
move on to some shading.
8. Practice: Shading: In this next exercise, we're going to focus on adding simple shading to
our doodles and this can just make our
doodles a little bit more fun and interesting. One very simple way
we can do this is just by varying the pressure
of our pen or pencil. If we draw a cylinder again, just front on, you see I've made that
line a bit thicker, I pressed hard and then I actually went to
over another time. This line on the right, I'm going to just press quite lightly and because this pen, the ink flows quite
well out of it, it's still a thick line, so what I'm going to do
is I'm going to just go over this left line a couple more times and you can see now that
that's thicker. It's just a very subtle
way to add a little bit of contrast to your doodles, and you can use two
different-sized pens if you want and I
tend to do this. Sometimes I'll have a darker pen for the outline and then a light pen for the actual shading or something that's inside that you don't want to be as in focus or you want it to be a bit lighter because it's
a bit more detailed. Here I've got my size
eight and size one pens. As I showed you earlier
in the supplies video, they just give you a
different way of line. You can see that
difference immediately. The three most common
ways that we can add shading to our
doodles are hatching, crosshatching, and
contour hatching. Hatching is when you
draw lines next to each other just like this and if they're closer
to each other, it's going to be
a darker shading. For example, you can see I did this hatching on the edges
of this A block which just makes it look
a bit darker and just gives a contrast between
the front and the side. This is when I might
switch to my lighter pen so that these lines
are finer than the outline to give it a
bit more contrast so if I wanted to give this I
shall go to the side. I want you to give this
cube a bit of shading. I can just do these lines and I might do them
on the top as well. Now you have a bit of shadow on the top and the right side. You can also do this
just at the edge, which I tend to do a lot. It's just lots of little
lines and for these, you can see I'm not
drawing solid lines. I am flicking the pen. Here, you can see that
they taper off slightly. I'm pressing my
pen down and then just moving it and
lifting it quite quickly. For things like leaves, if I just draw a leaf
shape, with the shading, you can do these
flicking lines from the bottom and you can make these different lengths as well and because they get closer together
towards the bottom, it makes it just
look a bit darker, so I've got this really
nice shading effect as it goes closer to the bottom. You can add some smaller
ones to this top as well. This works really
nicely for petals too. The next one is crosshatching. That's basically when you
draw those same lines, but then you go over them in the opposite
direction and this is just another way to make
your shading darker. Then I'm just going to go over
it again the opposite way. Again, the closer your lines are together than they're much closer here the darker
it's going to look. You can do some really
loose shading just to give the impression of
certain areas being darker. The final hatching technique
that I want to show you is contour hatching and that's when these lines have
a curve to them. We can do this on rounded
objects like this cylinder, so I'll just switch to my 01-micron pen
and from the edges, I'm still going to do
that flicking motion, so I'm just going
to press it down, move it away quite quickly, and then it will taper. I'm doing this in parallel to the top edge and
the bottom edge. They don't all have
to be the same line. If you look closely, they're
slightly different lens. Just going to do this all the way down and it's just going to give a nice bit of shading and it's also really
going to help give that effect of dimension. I'm going to do some short ones on the other side as well, doing these really
quickly, slightly curved. These are three really easy shading techniques
which you can practice and which we'll
be practicing more with our projects
later in the class. The final way I want to show
you for adding shading, which I don't often use, is stippling and
this is when you use dots to give that
suggestion of shading. If you had a square and you wanted this side to
be darker than this side, you would just do lots of dots, and then as you move
over this side, they would get a bit
further apart and a bit fewer then you can just go
back and go over these. If you search stippling, you'll find some really
intricate drawings just made by dots,
they're incredible. It's not a method I
particularly prefer to use, but it can be lovely
for creating texture in some subjects like lemons where you have a bit
more of a decode edge. I'm just going to go
back over this side, just keep dotting
to make it darker. It's a really lovely effect,
but it can take a while. You have a practice
of all of those. I hope you found it useful. Now let's move on to some fun elements that you
can add to your doodles.
9. Practice: Fun Elements: One of the things I
love about doodling is that we're not worried
about being realistic. We're just going with the flow, and seeing where it takes us. By using some fun doodle
elements and declarations, we can create a huge variety of the same subject by just making those little differences
in those details. In this warm-up exercise, I wanted to show you
some examples of fun elements you can
add to your doodles, whether it's a
pattern that you're doodling or an actual subject. You can keep this as
a reference page for when you're doodling in
the future especially if you get stuck and just want to remind yourself
that there are so many ways that you can add little decorations
to your doodles. The first element
is the simple line because this is what I
use most in my doodles, especially if I'm
filling in a gap. We can vary them by making them closer together
or further apart. We can make them
further apart or we can even color some in, and this simple pattern
is actually really nice on a pot for
a potted plant, which we'll be looking at later. That was a bit thick. This can take a
while with this pen, so you can use a thicker pen. I find that a lot of the
sets of these fine liners, particularly the Micron ones, they come with a brush pen, and I tend to use that if I'm sketching because it just
has a nice thick line. You can also have wavy lines. These, again, they don't
look like much on their own, but they can just make
something look really fun. These are just little
semi-circles, little arcs. You can do this the
other way round as well. As we'll see later when
we look at the houses, I like to add this
underneath the roof. It just makes it
look really cute. You can do lines of
dots or zigzags. Again, you can do
rows of zigzags. Just go a bit slower, making them parallel
to each other. Even just doodling
things like this, I find super relaxing. There's no pressure, there's no end result that
you're focused on, you're just focused on
the movement and the pen. Then we can color this middle
line in if we want to. We can combine some of these. We can do lines, and dots, and another
line underneath. We can do rows of circles or we can
do another row, but this time we
can color them in. You can also do alternating
rows of circles as well, so just color in
every other one. You can do two lines and then just fill it in
with vertical lines. You can see we've nearly
finished a whole column, and we've only used the
row basics of elements just to create these
simple patterns, so lines, and
circles, and curves. That's all we've used so far. You can do a row of
lines and circles. Again, they don't look
much on their own, but when you add
them to a pattern, they can look really nice,
which I can show you later. You can always color
those in as well, you can do parallel wavy lines. That's not very parallel. Then just vary the
width of each curve. These are good exercises, again, to just get you practicing and building up
that muscle memory. You can do little drops
with different angles, which are quite fun. You can do lines at an
angle and the other way. You can just do a
more organic line, just going up and down or having a variation on your zigzag line. This comes to a bit
more of a point. This is a bit more organic with the points a
bit more curved. Try some loops. That can be a cute decoration or make an S-shape. Going up looping around, down, looping around. Just keep. Start with a line
and then you can add some details to it. We could have little
diagonal lines for arrows. We could add little
leaf shapes to it. You can color these in. You can add a line in the
middle or you can alternate, add a line to this side, then a line to this side
or color that side in, and leave that one
and vice versa here. I can draw some more zigzags
and then add some dots in-between or we can go
back to our semicircle. Then just add another
line in the middle. You can draw a line
with some triangles, which is some very
simple bunting, which can be really cute or draw this square-shaped without the top
and then carry on, going up and down, across, and up and down. What you can do is you can carry on thinking of these
different ideas, but then also just make some
squares and fill them up. Think of ways that
you can combine these different elements to
fill up this whole square. You can start with a line, maybe add some dots
in a row, a zigzag. Another line, some loops. Maybe a thicker line here, so I'm just going to draw
two lines and then color in. Once you get the ideas
of these elements, this is just such an
easy way to doodle. If you do this just for
a couple of minutes, even while you're on the phone or waiting for the
kettle to boil, it can just give you a couple
of minutes where you can just slow down and
help you relax, especially if you've been
rushing around all day. It's such a really simple way to help you connect
with your breathing, and help your whole body
and mind just to slow down. It can have a really positive
effect on how you feel. If you want to, just carry on drawing boxes and filling them up with different patterns, it can literally just be the same pattern over
and over again. You could fill a box with wavy lines and just
make them parallel. Start in the middle with a really organic
shape and then slow down and fill the
rest of the box in. Obviously, you see that
line is completely different to that line. I'm
not worried about that. It's more just
about the movement. You can put it in the bottom. Just fill up the
rest of the page, maybe come up with
some more ideas and variations of these elements
if you want to or just draw lots of boxes and just
practice filling them up with doodles without
overthinking it or worrying about each
line being perfect. Next, we are going to be moving on to the projects
where we're going to be looking at different types of patterns that we can
doodle for relaxation, and some potted plants,
and some houses. So we're going to be using
everything we've learned so far to do lots of more doodling.
10. Pattern 1: I find that patterns
are the easiest thing to doodle when you don't want to think about how to do something. There are an endless amount of ways that you can
doodle patterns. So this is just
really the tip of the iceberg and just
an introduction for you into thinking about ways that you can
doodle patterns. So I've divided this section down into three parts for you. We've already covered
some really simple ideas, just repeating shapes, and honestly that's
what I do a lot and I definitely recommend it
for something super easy, and also whilst you're
practicing the basic shapes, it's a really good
way to practice them. So the first one
we're going to do now is filling in
shapes with patterns. So here are a
couple of examples, and this is just
a page of hearts filled with different lines and dots and a lot of those fun elements that we
practiced in the last video. I actually did this
when I was half watching TV one evening, and just made up as I went along without thinking
too much about it. Some of these are really
simple with just lines or dots or wavy lines or spirals. So they're not complicated, but when you put
them all together, they actually look really nice. Here is another one of leaves, and this was really fun thinking of different
ways to fill these. I think I got to about
halfway through and then started getting a
bit stuck for ideas, and then suddenly I just
started to get lots of ideas and actually didn't have enough space
to do them all. So in this part, in this video, we are going to be doodling
some leaves like this. So get yourself a
blank piece of paper, and I'm just going to use
my uni-ball for this. I'm not worried about having
different weights of pens. It's going to be really simple. So before we start this, if you actually want to
practice the leaf shapes first, then grab yourself
a different piece of paper and we can do that. So for a simple leaf, you can just draw a curve
and then draw another curve. If you wanted to make it a
little bit more interesting, you slap with a curve, and then curve it
round a bit so it's starting to go into
more of an S shape. You can do the same
on the opposite side. So come down first, go out, and then cut back round. So it's a slightly
different shape. You can do that
just on one side, going in and then up, and then I'm just
going to go this side. I'm just going to do
exactly like that so it's just one curve. It's just a couple of
really simple ways that you can vary your leaves. So if you want to,
before we move on to the doodling, just practice. Okay. Let's get started. So if you're
right-handed like me, I recommend starting at the top left of the page
and working down on to the right so that
your hand doesn't smudge the pen as
you're moving down. Obviously, if
you're left-handed, then start in the
opposite corner and then move down to the
left into the bottom. So just draw your
first leaf shape, and then I'm just going to draw a line through the center. You can make this slightly curved if you want or just
draw a straight line, and then for the first one, I'm going to draw some
lines ever so slightly curved with quite a
big gap in-between. Then do the same
on the other side, curving upwards this time. Now on either side
of these lines, I'm just going to
add some small dots. You can see I'm just
swirling the pen slightly on the paper to get that
ink to flow out nicely. Remember to breathe,
take a deep breath, make sure you're not
holding your breath. Then we can go on
the other side. If you're new to doodling, you might feel like you have this automatic urge
to just rush these, but the beauty of them is that they get
you to slow down, so just try and go intentionally
a little bit slower. Draw another leaf
shape now, curved. This time I'm just going to draw some lines quite close together. So when I'm doodling a
whole page like this, I usually just start really simply with some lines and dots, and then as I'm going along, I might start to get inspired with other ways I
can fill the shape, but I'm not thinking
about it too much. I'm just letting them evolve, and sometimes I won't
really know what I'm doing until it's done or
I'm halfway through. I'll adapt them as I go along. I might be drawing a
leaf and thinking, oh, actually I can
just color that in or I can add an
extra bit in here. Okay. So draw another leaf. So I'm doing all these leaves
in different directions. So I'll do this one, and then just draw my
line in the middle. So for this one, I'm just
going to add some bigger dots. Actually, on the other side, I think what I might do instead
of doing the same dots, so I'm going to draw circles, to give it a bit of contrast. The great thing about
these doodles is that you can literally doodle some of these on a post-it note or whatever you have
with you at the time. You see the way I'm making
a whole page of them, might feel like a bit
more of a finished piece. But you can do this with anything you have
and draw one leaf or two depending on
how much space you have. Let's draw another one. I'm going to do
this more vertical. This time. I draw
that central line. Then I'm going to
draw some lines, very close together
leave a bigger gap. Then do the same
on the other side. I'm going to fill these
in with small lines, vertical, but there are actually going with
the curve of the leaf. Obviously, we're
just doodling here. It doesn't really matter, but
I think it really does help train your eye to see
things differently. The more you doodle and draw. I'm going to do
another leaf here. Draw my central line. For this one, I'm going to add
some zigzags for my veins. I might add some dots inside
each of these zigzags. It's very different to when I'm painting a subject to
drawing a subject. I go in with an intention and a visual for what I want
things to look like. But here, I'm just making
it up as I go along. I'm going to have
this at a slant. I think just to
fit in this space. This one, I'm going to
draw some lines long ways. Start, parallel to this one. They're going to get slightly
more curved as we move out. I'll do this one next. You can always do the
one in the middle. Then, align either side that , to this edge. I'm going to go through the
middle with a slight curve. Fit two in here, and
then two more in here. This side is a bit bigger. I might add one more in here
because that's a bigger gap. Going to go back
up to the top now. This time instead of a
line through the middle, I'm going to make
that line with dots. Then do the veins
with dots as well. Super simple. I feel like I want a leaf
now that's a bit darker. Am going to draw
another one here. This time, maybe I'll
have some thicker veins. Draw two lines together and then color them in. I'm going to do one more. Then, I want you to carry on filling this
page by yourself. Have a look at what
you've already done, perhaps what you like. This one, I'm just going to do these little semicircle curves. Before you go, want to show
you again my other page. Before we've already
done a few of these. You could draw the line in
the middle and do the dots. It's a slight
variation of this one, where you can do it the
other way doing the dots down the center and then
doing the lines of the veins, you can vary the lines. Making some thick some thinner then I have them
closer together. We can do straight
lines like this one. You can color more areas in, or you can have these
big white circles, or do a couple of
veins and then fill the rest of the leaf
in with tiny dots. The reason I want you to
finish this page on your own is so that you can practice doodling
away from the class, away from following my
step-by-step guidance. I ultimately want to give
you the tools so that you can doddle anywhere at
any time on your own. So that you can give yourself those few minutes of
peace without having to refer back to other doodles
or rely on a reference. That starts with practice. It may feel a bit
uncomfortable at first coming up with
ideas on your own, if you're completely new
to drawing and doodling, look back at the page of elements we made earlier
to get some ideas. Alternatively, you
may be feeling really inspired and
just want to get going. I'll leave you now
to finish this page. I'm going to leave you with a speedup video of me finishing my own page to give you a
little bit more inspiration. I'll see you in the next video for another type
of pattern doodle.
11. Pattern 2: For this next pattern, we are going to
start in the center and build up with
petal like shapes. Now it's not really a flower, it's not supposed to be, but I call them petals
to make it easier. Here are some examples. I do this one all the time. It's really easy and
relaxing and it's quite therapeutic just
watching the shape grow from the center outwards. In these examples, they're all using very similar elements, but they all look a
little bit different. You can actually
see in this one, if you look closely, I messed up on one of these earlier sections so we are supposed to color
this white one in here. But I color didn't this one. I just skipped it
and carried on. It didn't matter. I just want to encourage you, don't worry about
making mistakes. If you find yourself wanting to scrap something and start again, then you just need to reconnect with why you're doing this. You're not doing it to
create something perfect. Well, I hope you're
not. You're doing it to relax and is the
process that is more important than how
it looks or if everything is in exactly
the right place. This one actually got really lop-sided when
I was about halfway through and just
looked really odd. I just kept building it up, trying to finish
off into a circle. Quite like these ones
where I've added these lines to
alternating petals. Going back to this one, I've
just used a smaller pen inside to do these curves again. This one did take quite a while. It was just really repetitive. I didn't have to think too
much about what I was doing. It was just really
calming building this up. I'm using my size eight
micron pen again. I usually just start with a
small circle in the center. Then add four petals. Then you can add four more. I'm going to start little
bit down this one and just have these a little bit bigger so they look like
they're sitting behind. Then for the next one, I'm going to come
to more of a point. Again, I'm going to
start halfway down here, curve up, bring it to a point, and then come back down and landing just about
halfway down this one, it's just going over
this center petal. Then I'll do it over
this one as well. Coming up to a point and
then coming down this one. Then this final one. These are the two
petal shapes that I normally use when I'm
just doodling this thing. Either the rounded one or the
ones that come to a point. Do another one with
a point this side. That went a bit
wrong. Never mind. Now I'm going to go back
to the curved ones. Getting a bit bigger
every time as it graze. I'm going to do some more
curved ones over these points, and now I'm going to
go back to the points. I think I'll just do one
more and I'm going to make this a bit closer
to this circle. That ends up with a
more rounded shape. You can see the oval shape
is a bit rounded now. Once I've done that, I'll
just die to start coloring in some sections or
adding some details. I might color in
the center circle. Then switch to my
smaller pen, my 01. Then for these curves, I'll just draw parallel
lines in them. Move to the next
one and carry on. I might move now to
the center petals and just draw some lines. Like the middle needs something. I might head to
these ones and do the parallel shape
inside these as well, a bit lower in there. Just do that side. If you can see, these aren't particularly even,
it doesn't matter. It's much easier
when you're facing your paper rather than
sitting back at desk. Because obviously I'm
trying to keep my head back so it doesn't get in
the way of the camera. Some of these might be a bit wonky than normal, but
it doesn't matter. I just do some lines in this one going
towards the middle. I'll probably finish it there. Just going back to my examples, you can do these in so many different
ways just by changing the patterns inside or
coloring them in or alternating which ones you
do add the details to. Let's move on to the next
video where we're going to do our final pattern doodle.
12. Pattern 3: In this 3rd example
for doodling patterns, I want to show you how you
can fill an outline with a repeated pattern which is
very repetitive and calming. Here are some examples I
have done in my sketchbook, and these are all filled
with simple leaves. I started by sketching out
the outline in pencil, and then just filled them in. These three are made
up of single leaves, and this bunny is made
up of small branches. You can see for the heart I just added in some small veins, for the whale, I
colored them in. This calm word, I just decided to
alternate them, and then I left these
ones a bit blank because they had that
detail of the branches. On the next page,
I've done some more, so this teapot is made up of
lots of tiny little flowers. The butterfly is
made up of spirals, and the snail, I just started on the inside in the center with these leaves
and just worked outwards. Then this star is just
made up of small dots. In the resources section, you will find two PDFs which I have provided
for you of outlines, so you can choose which
one you like and trace it, or doodle straight onto the sheet once you've
printed it out. I've given you a bunny, a butterfly, a
heart and a whale. In this video, I am
going to show you how I filled the whale, which I have already
traced onto my paper in light pencil using my light box and I'll erase this
pencil at the end. With these patterns, the only things we really
need to think about is making sure the outline
is recognizable. I always start with
the outline with the leaf against it or
wherever the pattern is, and then you can do
a few of the leaves running alongside the outline
just to give that shape, and then you can start filling
in towards the center. That method applies to
any of the templates I've provided or the shapes
that I've shown you. I'm just using my
Size 8-micron pen. I'm going to start over here
on the left at this edge. Start with a short line
and then the leaf. You see that part of the leaf
just runs along the edge. I'll do another one in
the opposite direction, and then I'll just keep going. Once I've done a few, I'll start filling
this in a little bit more so then we can start doodling these in
different directions. You can try this
with any pattern. I always find that leaves are
my go-to doodling pattern. They're just really
easy and simple, I don't need to think too much. I'm just going to go
along this edge now. Just keep remembering to breath and loosen
up your shoulders, make sure you're not
holding any tension there. If there's a slight
point that you want to accentuate with the patterns, you can just use that. I'll start the line there
and then bring it down, because that makes it look
more of an edge or corner. Again, with the
point of this fin, I'll do the leaf going into it. You can tell that
comes to a nice point. I'm just going to turn my page slightly so I can go back in and fill this bit in without smudging the pen
that I've already got. Usually, I just
have a quick look at the leaves around it and think of what direction
have I got there. Okay, this way, and then just keep
alternating them. Again, once we're getting
up to these points, just make sure you use the
leaves to define those edges. You can start with a point and then work your way
back along here. Just adjust the size
of the leaves to fit the shape that you want
to use it for as well. You can see here
I made that edge slightly wider just so
it could touch the edge. I think even doodling these
patterns can help you with your drawing skills because you're increasing your
spatial awareness. Just thinking how each leaf
fits in with the others. Not only is it incredibly
relaxing just repeating these, it's also quite useful. The last one. You can just leave it as that or you can move
to a smaller pen. This is my size 1. I'm just going to
add a little bit of shading at the bottom. Just [inaudible] a
little freaky lines at the base of each
of the leaves. I think I've got them all now. I'm just going to use
my putty rubber and gently remove that
pencil outline. I also just want to show you a similar method
with what I like to do with my watercolors. Here is an example of something that I did at
the beginning of 2022. It's just filling in the shapes. You can see this one
is just dots with the same color
palette with a mix of colors used in the
rest of the piece. These are very fine lines, and then these are just
overlapping leaves. It's the same
repetitive doodling. If you use watercolor, you can do a similar thing. That's the end of
our pattern section. Now we're going to move on to doodling some potted plants.
13. Potted Plants: Basic Elements: I love doodling potted plants because I love anything
to do with nature and because the
pots are really fun because you can add lots
of patterns to them. There are just endless types of potted plants that
you can doddle just by making simple variations
to some of the elements. You don't need to
use a reference. They're not realistic at all, but they do look really cute. We can break this
down quite easily into a simple shape
for the part. Add some cute patterns
and then add the plant. In this video, we're going to look at the
basic elements of doodling the potted
plants so that you can go away and
design your own. Then in the next video, we'll doodle some examples
from start to finish. Let's start with the pots. For my pens, I'm
using my Micron pens, my size 8, and my size 1. These parts can be as simple
as a square or a rectangle. They don't need to
be complicated. Like we practiced earlier
you can vary the sizes of the rectangles as well,
making them wider. You can have them
longways instead of tall. You can also add a thin
rectangle to the top as a lip for the
pot if you want to. Another shape you can use for the pot which
we've already practiced is the trapezium with two
sides that are slanted. Again, you can do
this both ways. Then if you wanted to add
that lip like we did earlier, you can just slant the edges so they're
parallel to the main pot. We can also curve these edges. Draw the top and the base. Then another curve
on the other side. Again, you can do
this upside down. You can also do a
similar one to this, but instead of, come to a point and then
draw a straight line, you can just curve
the base all around. If you go down, curve and follow it around, then add a straight top. That can be more like a basket. These are some of the basic
shapes that you can use. You can make your
parts a bit fancier. For example, if you
wanted to add some fate, you can color this in and that's again just two small rectangles. Or you can add some longer legs. Color those in, or you can add another rectangle
like a little table. Then add three legs to this, so I'm doing one in the middle, straight down, and
I'm going to do one either side and they're
going to be slightly shorter. Then you can always add some
shading to this table to make it look a bit more
distinguished to the pot. If you're doing this curved one, you could add some loops to the corner again to make it look a bit more
like a basket. I'll show you to add a
pattern inside to make it look like a wicker basket
in the next video. You can also do a bucket, which is quite a cute pot. For this, we'd do slanted edges. Then you can add a handle which is just a small rectangle. Then draw two curved
lines either side. That's a very simple bucket. You can do a bottle shape which can look
really cute as well. You can do a small
oval for the very top. Then start with a neck and then come out curve
round and go down. Then do the same
on the other side. Then just draw a line
straight across. Or another shape you could
do a simple watering can. I actually doddle this one from the watering can that
I've gotten my studio, which has a few dried flowers
in and it makes nice bars. I'm just going to
draw a slanted line on either side and this
one coming out this way, and then just align
across at the base. Then for the handle, I'm going to start
at this top point, curve around and go in with
a small gap from this line, join it up, and then just draw a parallel line
meeting at the bottom. If we wanted to make
any of this 3D, like we practiced earlier, we would just start with
an oval at the top, so becoming a little bit
narrower at either side. Then bringing that down, and just remembering
to make the base parallel to that curve. Then we could add some
soil and color this in. When we're making our pots 3D, we just need to think about
what type of plant we want to doddle because with this one now I've added the soil
and we've already got this backline I
can only really do one that just has a single
line for the plant, for the stem coming out of it. If I wanted anything
more than that, then I would need to draw
the plant before I drew this backline that the
plant sits in front of it. For example, if I wanted
to doddle a cactus, which is quite big, I would probably just do
this bottom curve first. I know how big my pot is. I'd add the cactus in, and then finish
joining up this line. Then I can add the soil
so a bit going behind it, then a bit in front. Then I can color this in. It's a little bit
simpler if we just stick to these face-on doodles but they can look really cute when you're making 3D. You can add some
spikes for the cactus. For the plants, I just want to show you
my examples again. A lot of these I have
doodled here are just variations of the basic
leaf shape on a branch. You can see they're
not complicated. We're not going into flaws here. I'm just keeping it
really simple so that I don't have
to use a reference. I don't have to think
too much because I find that if you
have to try too hard, or you have to
search for things on your phone or search for ideas it takes away that
relaxation element. It's nice to just grab a pen and paper and just start doodling. If you know the
basic leaf shape, you can just make some small variations to it and come up with
your own ideas, which is why I chose this topic. The basic leaf shape
is just two curves. Or we can use a slight S-curve. We're going round and then
we're coming up a little bit. If we do the same
on the other side, it just gives you a slightly
different leaf shape. That's the basic shape
that we're starting with. But you can make this
longer and thinner. That will give your plant
a very different look. Or you can make it
smaller and color it in. You can make it rounder. If you start at a point
and then go-round at the top and then bring it back in that's another variation. Or you can make it rounder
at the base and then come to a point so if your
stem was down here. You can also do more
of a heart-shaped. Starting at the bottom, like an upside-down
heart would go down, curve it around to the point, and then do the same
again, and draw the stem. Once you have your
leaf shape and you can also vary the details inside it, so you could add a simple vein, the center, or you could do the vein with some more
veins either side. You could just drop down to your smaller pen so
this is the one and just add some shading
from the bottom edge, maybe a little bit from the top. We've already
colored this one in, you can just do one
short flaky strike for the vein in the middle. You could leave it completely
blank or you could do a short vein
with shorter lines. You can see how just on their own they already look
pretty different. But when you get
them on a branch, you can vary them even more by having a different
number of branches, a different number of
leaves on the branch say, or changing the size of them. Let's do some examples
using this first one. Here, we could just have a
single stem coming up from the pot and keep it
really simple like that. For this one, we could
add lots more of these with each of these smallest stems
just curving upwards. Just going to add that
shading in there. This one, we can keep that quite small and
maybe do a couple of stems coming out of the pot and they look quite nice when you do them
at different lengths. One's quite a lot
taller than the other and you can
either going to add these directly
onto the main stem or you can do a
little branch off, which again is going to
make it look different. I probably wouldn't
do it like that, I'd have either one or the
other so it looks consistent. But just to give you an idea, with these rounded ones, it can look quite nice to
have a small one at the top. Then as you go down, make them slightly bigger. Then again, make them
slightly smaller and then just add your little
flaky line for the vein. Again, just going
back to my examples, you'll see I've
used this one here. There's two stems coming off
and they're overlapping. I did this one first
and then this leaf here just sits behind so I
just drew this behind. Here I did some of
those rounded leaves, but they are all the same
size and then I just decided to color some of them in
and some of them out. These are a smaller flower, I got the inspiration from my
dried flowers in my studio, which were more like weeds. They quite delicate
little stems and then just a wobbly little line that goes around and then just did them all at
different lengths. This one, this just
has five leaves just coming off to the stem
like in a star shape. You can see it's just about
varying them slightly, adding the different veins
coloring some of them in, some having quite a few leaves, and then some just having a couple, put them all together. Maybe they look a
little bit daunting, or a bit complicated, but once you break them down, there's really not much to them. This is another one that
I really like to do. It's actually very
similar to this one, but I just changed the size
and the detail slightly and will practice that
in the examples as well. But it's basically just drawing leaves next to each other, then drawing the back
leaves in afterwards. We start with the front
ones that are much easier so it would be like that. We also have a few
examples of cacti in here, which I'm going to show
you how to do as well. Just really simple one which
is just a semi-circle with a little prickly bits
using the fine liner. We've got one here with
the arms coming off, a taller one with a
little flower on top, and then another one here. But again, they're
really really simple, I'll just show you
how to do those. I'll just draw a line
so the first one, was just a semi-circle and
then these little flaky lines. I always start with
the outer edge, do so it's quite nice
to have them coming out and then just fill it
up with the little lines. Have a taller one, and then just draw off
some lines coming down and one in the middle. Then draw the flower on top
and then you can see I've made the left side slightly
taller because I'm going to draw another one round the back and then bring that in. Then again, just add these
little marks along the lines. Then for this one we're
just going to start with that tool ark and then draw one arm and another
one slightly lower down. Again, just start with the edges with these
little spikes. I usually like to drop down to my smaller pen when
I'm doing these, just so there's a
contrast between the outline but it
doesn't matter, they still look really cute. Then the final one is this ark and then we're going to do another
one on the right side, which is smaller and then
an even smaller one. Another one on the left, and then will do two
really small ones on here, then again, just add
your little spikes. Hopefully just by showing
you these few examples, you can see that they
are really easy to do, though without having to give it too much thought or using a reference because they're basically just simple
variations of each other. Once you add a different part
with different patterns, they will look even
more different. In the next video, I'm
going to take you through some examples of potted
plants from start to finish.
14. Potted Plants: Examples Part 1: In this video, we are
going to be doodling some potted plants
from start to finish. I'm going to be using my
micron size 08 and 01 again, and I'm also going to be using my gray Tombow
Fudenosuke Pen to add some shadows to the pots and perhaps to some of
the leaves as well. I drew a faint pencil line with a ruler on the page just so
I can keep my pot straight, so just in case you're
wondering a bit later on how she
keeping them in line, that's how because I do have a tendency to go up
or down the page. I'm going to start
with my thicker size 08 for the outline of the pots. We start with just a simple one, do slanted line,
wider at the top, and another one, so this
is just a tool pot. Then we'll just do two large leaves coming
out of this one. I always like to do
my stems on a curve, even if they're going
up fairly straight, you want to curve them
a little bit just so they look a little bit more
natural instead of rigid. Here, I'm just going
to do a big leaf. Then I'm going to do another stem quite
close to this one, going off in the other direction and having it a bit shorter. I'm just going to
bring that line all the way up to the top. Then with some curves
quite close together, I'll just fill in the leaves. I'm going to keep this
pot quite plain as it's our first one and I'm just
dropping down to my size 01, just to add some shadow into
this left side of the pot, so this is just going
to be the hatching to these short flicky lines that we practiced earlier
coming out of the edge. This is just going to give it a little suggestion
of dimension. Then if you have a
gray pen like this, you can just give
it a few seconds for that to dry and then run
the gray pen down the edge, and that's just going to give
it an extra little bit of shadow, like that. You can also run the gray pen along one side of the leaves
to give it a bit of shadow. Be quite nice. I run it along the left there and I'm just
going to run it along this left side
of this one as well. As we made that
one quite simple, we can add some more
detail to the next one. I find that when you're
doing them in a little row, perhaps your doodling a row
of potted plants on a shelf. It's quite nice to
vary the details, I have some plain and then
perhaps the next one, more detailed, perhaps chunkier, and then the next one, like a slim vase, so varying the heights
and varying the details. This one, I'm going
to do a basket shape, so I'm curving it around. Then I'll give it a flat top with some loops
on either corner. For the plant, I am going to do some of those longer
leaves that we practiced, so I'll draw a curved stem, some long leaves coming off. Then a small line
and another leaf, these leaves curve around
towards the top as well. They can overlap, so if they do just run your pen over where you think it
would go and bring it down, so you can meet up again. I'll draw another short
one coming out this way. Then this one is going
to go underneath. Again, I'm just
moving my pen across the top and filling in, so it sits behind those leaves. I'm just switching
to my size 01 now, so for these leaves
that sit behind, we can just do some
hatching inside of them just to give the
illusion of a bit of shadow, I might do this to
this top one as well. This hatching is
getting a bit wider, it's not so dark, and that just distinguishes
this one from the rest, but makes it so that
it's still blended in with the rest of the
leaves on that branch. Going back to my 08, I'm just going to do this
wicker-type pattern on here. So what I'm going to do is just draw a small curve
in the corner, then starting in
about the middle, I'm going to do another
curve going up to the top. I'm just going to keep doing
that all the way along, starting from the middle
of the curve before, and going up to the top. Then I'll do another row, and then just
meeting at the top. I'm not worried about where
it hits the row above. That's that basket done, I might just add a small
flicky line and T to these leaves for
a bit of a vein. Then I'm going to give
this pen a minute or two and then run that gray
shadow down the left side. Next, let's do a small
part on a table, so I'm going to start by
coming straight down and then curving around the
corner, going across. This is quite a small pot, and then I'm going to draw a rectangle underneath
it for the table, and then I'm just going to
draw two legs for this one. I might color that table in. I'm just going to
add some hatching as well to these legs just to give it a bit of
contrast to the pot, so the pot stands out. Then for this one,
I am going to draw the stem and just have these small rounded
petals and color them in. Let's do a short one. Off to the left side as well
and then one in the middle, height-wise on the right. Then with the small pen, I'm just going to add
these flaky lines for the shading
on the left side. I'm going to go back
and actually do that to the wicker basket as well
on the left side of that. I've added a bit of height here. Now I'm going to
go back down low. I'm going to start
with a little base, a thin rectangle for
a base of this pot. I'll bring it out a little
bit on either side, then do two curves
on either side. This is quite a wide park. For this one, I'm going to do the clumps of
leaves together. It's more of a succulent. Just start in the middle. You can see I'm using that
S-type curve for these. I do another one next to it. I keep going until I
get to the bottom. Then I'm going to fill in these gaps with more
that sit behind. Then with this part, I'm going to do some patterns, so I'll start with
a couple of lines. Then I'm going to do a
zigzag through the center. Then just do some smaller
triangles within each one. I'll also add a line
of dots underneath. I'm just making this
up as I go along. I think I'm going to color
this base in as well. Switching to my 01, I'm going to draw
some fine lines. These are curved upwards
along each of these leaves. I'm going to just go to
this left side and add that shading with this 01
pen, so I've got it. Then I'm going to my gray pen. I'm going back to this one now, just adding in that
shadow on the left side. Same with this part, I'm going to add a little shadow underneath the table as well, and down this left
side of this pot. Also with these leaves, you can run it down one side to give it
a nice bit of shadow, which makes it look like
the leaves are bent. They arch in the center, which is quite nice. Let's do a simple rectangle now. I'm going to add a
small lip to this. It's actually quite a
thick lips. That's fine. Then for this one, I'm going to do some chunky
heart-shaped leaves. Then just has some flicking
lines for the veins. We can add a pattern
to this pot. I'm going to have a
thick line and across. Then perhaps just a single line. Maybe I'll do a row of
dots a bit further down. I actually surround
that bylines as well. I might do another thicker line to balance out at the bottom. I just add another row
of dots on here as well. Then just adding shading. I'm also going to add in
to this lip at the bottom, and add some shading
coming out at the top of the leaves as well
and at the base. Let's do a cactus next. I'm just going to
have a pot with these quite low-slanted lines. I might add a lip to
this one as well. Just remember to
keep these edges slanted at the lip as well. Then for this one, I'm going to do two lines and then just fill
it in with smaller lines. Then for the cactus, I'll
start in the middle with a semicircle and have a
smaller one on the left. There's two small
ones coming off. This one is going to be
a little bit bigger, and then smaller one on this side with one
small one there. Swapping to my size 01 again, I'm going to start on the outside with
these little spikes. I like dropping down to my
one here because it gives a nice contrast to the outline and just makes these spikes just look
a bit more delicate. I'm just going to add
in that shadow as well. Then with the gray pen, I'll go back to this
one that we did before, add in a shadow down the left. Wasn't going to add some
shadow underneath this lip, then down the left side
of these plants as well. I like using this pen
for this because you can just vary the pressure and make it thicker as you go along. Start quite thin and then
press down to make it thicker. I'll draw on the
left side of all of these parts of the
cactus as well, and on the left of the pot, and again underneath this lip. For the final one, that's just do a small bottle. Starting with the
small rectangle or oval and then draw the
neck and then curve out. Do the same on the other side. Then in here, I'm just going to do
some simple tweaks. It's a bit different. We haven't actually practiced these ones. It's just a wiggly line. Then you can just draw some more wiggly lines
coming off of it. Actually just doodled these from some twigs we have
in our lounge. It's worth just
having a look around your home for
inspiration as well. I'm sure there'll be
more than you expect. I'm just doing these
slightly different lengths. Just a short one on the
right side as well. Going back to my one, I'm just going to do the shadow. For this bottle, I'm just going to add that gray in again and just
underneath that lip. In the next video,
I'll just doodle another row of potted plants that you can do along
with me if you want to, if you're enjoying this and
wants more inspiration. Otherwise, you can
skip ahead and move to the house doodles.
15. Potted Plants: Examples Part 2: For this one, I am going
to start with the base, fairly long line and
then I'm going to cover up so that the top
is a bit thinner, flat top and then
curve back down again. For this, I'm going to make the stems of the
leaves a bit thicker. I'm going to draw two lines, and then color them in and then draw quite a
big leaf on this one. I'm just going to do a few more. Quite nice to have
a few just going off in different directions. I'm going to do one that's
going to come behind this. I'm just running the pen
across the paper so I know where to go and
bringing it back down. I'm going to do just one over this side just
to balance out. I'm going to draw out the
veins in each of these. I'm going to switch to my lighter pen and I'm going to just
draw lines downwards. I'm going to start
in the middle with a straight line and as I move
to the left and the right, I want these to curve around
so then I'll go to the left. I'll go in the middle, so
I've got a midway point. Starting to become straighter. Fill these gaps in. With the gray pen
I'm just going to run down the left side. If you don't have a gray pen, you can just use a
pencil and just add some shading or you
can just leave it off. But I quite like the
look of if I have my pen around from my
studio or at home, I might grab my gray pen. I didn't always have it
with me when I'm doodling. I certainly don't carry it in my bag when I'm out and about, but I do like the look it adds to my plant pots
when I do use it. For the next one,
let's do a bucket. For this, I am going to
draw two slanted edges. I'm going to make
this fairly wide. Then just draw a line
at the top and bottom. I'm going to do
two semi-circles, which is where the
handle is going to meet and then just
run a line behind it. Now, draw a rectangle
for the handle. Then I'm going to
have this curve going inside that semicircle. With this one, I'm going to
have some leaves coming down, trailing down either side. I'm starting roughly
in the middle, just drawing a curved line and another one on
this side and then maybe one come up in the
middle a bit higher. I'm just going to draw some
small leaves coming off of them with these small
branches and some can have two leaves
coming off of them. This is turning into quite
a busy little plant, lots of leaves. Using my 01, I'm just going to add that
shading into the side. I'm just going to
add some flaky lines for short vein within
each of these leaves. Next, let's do another cactus. For this one, we're going to do a wider
part with slanted edges. Then I'm going to add
two cacti to this one, so a small one and a larger one. Then within each of these, I'm going to start
in the middle of the top and just draw
some lines down. About four lines in each. Using my smaller pen now, I'm just going to
add these spikes along each of the lines. Then I'm going to
add some stripes to this pot to make it a
bit more interesting. We've kept our pots
fairly simple so far, so you can add as many details and patterns to them
as you want to. Add that shading in as well. Then with my gray pen, I'm going to just press very
lightly and just run down the left side of each
of these sections. It's just going to
help that cactus look a little bit more dimensional, and then down the left
side of the pot as well. Going back to my eight, I am going to draw a
curved pop with some feet. I'll start by going down, and it's going to
curve around the base, just at the bottom
corners with a flat top. I'm going to color these
feet in so they stand out. For this one, I want
to add some height to my row of potted plants, so I am going to draw quite a tall stem here with
a rounded leaf on top. Add a couple more
and as I go down, I'm going to get bigger. Then I'm going to
get smaller again. I'm going to do one shorter
one coming off to the left. I might just add one more
here just to balance it out. For these, I'm just going
to add that flicky line. For this part, I'm going
to add some dots to it, I think all over it. I'm just swelling my pen so
they're really big dots. Then add my shading to
that left side as usual. I'm going to do
another basket now. This one's going to be a
square basket, I think. We haven't done square pot. I'm going to add some
loops, so quite a big loop. This one's going to
flop down to that side. I'm going to do some thick
stripes on this basket. Actually I might
alternate them between a thick stripe and
just a normal line. What plants should
we do in this one? We've got a tall one, so I probably want it
to come up back here. We haven't got any of those ones that we've colored
in on this way, so perhaps we can
do one of those. I might do a nice dainty one. I'm going to curve around. I'll draw the stems first. Then I'm just going
to do some small round leaves for this one. Just add my shading in
with my smaller pen. Then for the last one let's
do a small pot on a table, so we draw the table first, that rectangle, and
then our slanted pot. This one a bit
wonky. Never mind. Then I'll add three legs, so one straight down, the middle, and one on
either side at an angle. Then for this one,
I'm going to do some bigger leaves
than this one. Not too big, maybe
about that size. It's quite a nice size. They are going back to
the basic leaf shape that we practiced. It's quite nice to do these
in different directions. Not necessarily being completely uniform and being symmetrical. It's nice to vary
them up a little bit. For example, I'm
going that way here. I might just drop down a little bit and
then come down here. For this part, I'm
going to add some, I might do a bit
of a criss-cross. I think I'll keep that table
and legs quite plain because the pot is quite patterned now. I'm just going to go back into some of these earlier plants, whilst that dries with my
gray pen to add the shadow. I might add a little
bit of shadow to some of these bigger leaves. Add some shadow to
these ones as well. Then just a little
bit under the table, maybe the top as well and then this left side
and down this bucket, I have got that one earlier. That are our potted
plants finished. I really hope you've
enjoyed this and it's given you some inspiration for how
you can doodle your own. Remember, it's just a case of choosing a shape
for your pot. Choosing the leaves
and the patterns. I didn't decide on
these in advance. I just made them up
as I went along, and it's also about just
remember there's no pressure, don't worry about
getting it wrong. There's no wrong.
It doesn't matter. These are just fun doodles. Of course, if you're
planning to put them in a bullet journal or you want
to do them on a bookmark, you can just map
them out in pencil first or just practice on
a scrap piece of paper. But generally, when you're
just doodling them, just play around and
have fun with it. Next, we're going to move
on to doodling houses.
16. Houses: Basic Elements: Houses are another
favorite topic of mine to doodle that I
wanted to share with you. Because I love how you can come up with so many
different designs just using very similar elements and basic geometric shapes. They're really easy
to doodle but they do end up looking
really cute as well. For a simple house, all we really need is a square, and then a triangle
for the roof. You can also do the
roof with slants on either side which is how I like to do
quite a lot of mine. Then just add that square
or rectangle underneath. Then you can also add another smaller rectangle
for the chimney part. For the doors, again is just another simple rectangle
and a dot for the handle. But you can add another
smaller rectangle. You can make the
door into an arch. Then you can add
another bigger arch and add some little lines, it's like a brick arch
which can look quite cute, and just add that
door handle again. You can draw out a
wider rectangle and then draw a line
dividing it down the middle for a double door. Again, you can do this
with the arch as well. That's two door handles. You can add a window
into the door. Just do a small semicircle. For the windows,
they're basically a square with two lines
crossing over in the middle. Then you can always add
a small rectangle at the base for the window
sill which you can color in or you can just do a
small square for the window. You can also do arches, just like we did with
doors, and then cross over, or you can do cute little
circles with the cross inside. These don't look
much on their own. You can do a semicircle. But once you add them all in
and then add some details, they look really cute. Again, with the window,
you can add a sill at the top and the bottom using
these rectangular shapes. You can always add
some curtains as well with a bit of
a curve and down. Another type of
roof you can use is just two diagonal lines and then just thicken it up with a
couple of more parallel lines. Then add your base. You can make your
roofs a bit fancier. Start with the top
outline and then on here, I'm going to go about
two-thirds the way across and then just
go up and down. Then I'm going to run
another line underneath this, go up again. Just add the base of the house. You can also do some
cute thatched roofs, so making it slightly
more curved. I'm going to curve
these corners, go up at a slight angle,
curve the corner, go across and come down,
curve that corner, and then just do a
couple of arches here. Then in here, you can
add some cute windows. Once you've added
in some details, that can look like a
really cute thatched roof. Here you'll see some
of these street scenes I've doodled in my sketchbook. These ones at the top
they're really basic, they're literally
just using squares or rectangles for the
windows and the doors, and they all join together. As I move down, I added
in a little more detail, adding in a bit of
shading or some hatching or even some curves just to
give the roof some detail. You can tell, I'm not
worried about proportions. I'm not thinking about whether the windows are
the right size or whether they're the same
size as the other houses. It really doesn't matter
to me when I'm doodling, I'm just trying to
doodle something cute. Again, as we move
even further down, you can see I've
started to add in even more details like
these windows sills, coloring in more areas, adding some cute little lines, or some curved elements,
adding in a bit more shading. Then I've started to use my
gray pen as well just to add some shading underneath
the rooftop. Then here, I've just started adding some further
details in, still. But these details,
they're not complicated. They're basically like
the elements that we practiced in the
practice session. For example, these semi-circles, we practiced those, and then there's some
brick work here. The brick work is really
cute to add; it's basically, you just start with the
lines and then on one line, you will just add in
some vertical lines. On the one below, you just
add them in the middle. Again, go back. So you're alternating
where they are. They're really simple brickwork. You can refer back
to your page of fun elements that we
made earlier to get some ideas for what
you can add into these roofs and even just doodle a whole page
of them on their own. Here you can see I've got
some simple horizontal lines, or vertical lines, or those rows of semi-circles that
we've already practiced. There's some tiles
and some zigzags. Then I've also just played
around with the chimneys. You can add some lines into those or you
can color them in. You can add that small
rectangle on top. It's quite fun just having
a play around coming up with different ideas for
what you can add into these. In the next video, we
are going to doodle a street scene from start
to finish together.
17. Houses: Example Street Scene: In this video, we are
going to be doodling a small street scene of houses. As we practiced earlier, it starts from the
very simple shape of a square or rectangle. I'm going to start
with a rectangle. Actually, as this
is a street scene, you might want to draw a line first so you know where
all the houses are going. I've got a very light
pencil line here, but I'm going to
draw this in pen. With this house, I want to have the roof
coming out a little bit at the side then coming in at
an angle with a flat top. I'm going to draw a small
rectangle for the chimney. It's coming in to the
roof a little bit, but that's okay because
I'm going to color it in. For these windows, I'm going to start with a
thin rectangle for the sill. I'm going to do the
same on either side, then have the windows as an arch with a cross
in the middle. For the door, I'm going to do a mini roof over the
top of it like a porch, and then draw that down
with a door handle. We've got our basic shape now, so we can look at how we can
add some more details to it. I might color in
these window sills. I'm going to switch
to my 01 pen. It's going to add a thin
outline to these windows, and then I'm going to add
some lines to this roof. Remember what we
practiced earlier? Moving your whole
arm with these lines if they are getting longer. Add some lines to
this roof as well. What you can do is
add some lines as the impression of bricks
around this house, which is quite cute. I might actually turn
this roof into tiles. The way we practiced
the bricks earlier, draw some horizontal lines and then alternate
them as you go down. I'm placing them in the
middle of the ones above. Keep alternating
them as you go down. For the next house, I'm
going to make it slightly taller, very close together. I'm going to do a
fairly tall rectangle, add in the roof with
those two sloping sides. For the chimney part, I'm
going to have it coming off the top with another small
rectangle on the top. I'm going to have maybe
three floors in this one. I'm going to draw squares for the windows with
crosses in the middle. I'm going to do
an arched door on this one with a handle, and maybe another
line around it. Think I might add a row of semi-circles
underneath the roof of this one to make it look a bit more fun and
color those in. I'm going to add some shading to the back of this
house with my 01. I'm hatching. I'm doing diagonal lines [NOISE]. With my gray pen, I'm going to draw a line underneath this roof and
under these window sills. Maybe under there.
With the tiles, you can also run
a thin gray line underneath each of these lines. Here I'll do that underneath. I'm going to do a triangle
for the next roof, and I'm going to have it
a fair bit lower down. I'm going to do the
triangle first, and then add in the sides. I'm going to add in a chimney
and then color it in. I'll give the roof a
nice little pattern. I'm going to do some circular
windows on this one, maybe with one line
down the middle. I'll do another one here
and then we can have the door off-center
to the right. I'll have a square door, maybe a double door. It's an odd-looking house, which is quite cute. I'm going to round up my
01 around these circles. I'm going to draw some lines
across this house as well. I always let these houses evolve as I'm doodling
and think that might look better with an extra bit of shading or
that looks a bit plane, I can add an extra decoration. That's probably looking a bit too fussy now, but that's fine. Moving on to the next house, I'm going to do a rectangle, mid-height between
these two probably. Let's see, make it a bit wider. I'm going to do the windows with this ledge above and below. I'll do another one of these. [inaudible] color these and I might just add some lines. Then I'm going to do
another double door, but this one is going to be an arch. Wow, that's
quite a big one. I'm just going to draw
a line down the middle. Maybe I'll do a
window either side. Then for the roof,
I'm just going to do some lines down here. I might add a chimney in and color that in
just a bit of contrast. I might also draw an extra line around
here and color it in. Like it needs a bit more. Why don't we try one
of those fancy roofs that we practiced earlier? This is a different
variation of that, so I'm just going to start
with a small, quite thin, rectangular shape but from the bottom, I'm
going to continue, and then I'm going to go up into a triangle and then come across. I'm going to use this top
line just to follow it around and then meet up. Then just below the
top of this point, I'm going to bring that
across and then bring it down an angle and the same
on the other side. I'm going to bring this down. We can put a little
window in here. I'm going to do
an arched window. I might add some lines to
this. You can color it in. I'm going to add a line
under here as well. Maybe that's the attic up there. We can draw some windows in now. I'm going to do three across and then maybe a nice big door
with a big ledge at the top and a
window either side. That's not in line.
It's not particularly straight, don't worry. I'm going to do
some semi-circles for the tiles on the roof. I'll do the first line and then I'm going to
start in the middle. Go to the middle
of the next one. This is quite a
fancy-looking house and the same on the other side. Middle to middle, I'm going to add
in some, I think, ledges to the base
of these windows. I might just add in
some little lines to suggest the brickwork as well. Add some lines on
this ledge above the roof so it matches this one. I maybe add in a
chimney part as well. Let's do one more. I'm going to have this slightly taller. I'm going to have
some semicircles underneath which look quite cute with some horizontal
lines going across the roof. Then I think I might add
some wide windows into this one and split
that down into four. I'm going to draw the door on the left with
another window here. Using my finer pen, I'm going to add shading to
the whole of this house. [NOISE] With your finer pen you can even do smaller squares within
each of these windows. I'll add a little chimney part. I hope you've enjoyed
doodling these houses. I will leave the rest of the page for you to doodle
some more of your own, so here are some more ideas, what I showed you
in the last video. Again, you can use more
of these thatched roofs, which we started to practice before and
it's just about adding these fine lines to give that texture and
suggestion of the roof. You can change the detail
on the roof so here we've got some nice little roofs
which look really cute. I always like doing
the brickwork. You can add some
zigzags like here or you can just do this kind of triangular
shape for the roof. In the next video, I'm
going to show you how you can add some color
to your doodles.
18. Adding Colour: In this video, I am
going to show you a few options for adding
color to your doodles. This is just going to
be a quick overview as a bonus video. We won't be going into these in too much detail, but hopefully, it just may help
inspire you with more ideas for what you
can add to your doodles. For this, we can use colored
pencils, colored pens, or watercolor, but there are so many options out
there these days. I'll show you some of what I have and
what I like to use, but these examples are
by no means exhaustive. Firstly, before we
start looking at the type of pen or
pencil or paint, I recommend choosing
colors that are similar or colors that sit next to each
other on the color wheel. Especially if you want to
go for a relaxing feel. For example, using
different types of greens or greens and blues, or different shades of
pinks and purples together, they'll be more
relaxing to look at because there
wouldn't be so much competition for your eyes. For example, if you
were using a lot of bright reds and
yellows and blues, there'd be a lot
going on and lots of contrasts which wouldn't
be as relaxing. That's just something to
bear in mind if you want to doodle with some
relaxing color palettes. The other thing with adding
color is that you need to think a little more about what type of paper you're using. With the coloring pencils,
it doesn't really matter, but when you start to use water-based mediums like
water markers or watercolor, you need to make sure that your paper is going
to be thick enough to absorb the water. Also with some pens, they may also show
through your paper or they may be quite delicate like the Tombow brush pens, so smoother paper is
better otherwise you can damage the tips of your
brushes of those pens. It's always worth testing out your chosen coloring tool on the paper that you have to check it works before
you get started. Let's start with
coloring pencils, which are one of the
simplest options for adding some color
to your doodles. These don't need to
be anything fancy. You may already
have them at home, especially if you have children, maybe you can read
their craft box. I actually borrowed some of
these from my little one. Here are a few examples of the potted plants
colored in with these. Going back to the color palette, you can see with the leaves, I've used two different greens
for all of these plants. A lighter lime green and
a cooler green here, and for the cactus and
for this more bushy, leafy plant, I've mixed them up. I alternated the green
[inaudible] of these sections to give a little bit of
interest and potential shading, and then just alternated
these leaves as well. For the pots, I use
a mix of pinks and browns to keep the overall
feel quite calming. They're not bright, bold colors, and it's quite nice to color these doodles in just
simply with pencils. You don't need to
think very much. It's almost like one
of those relaxing adult coloring
books where you're just filling in the sections. With these pencils, you may have a tendency to automatically
press really hard, which can make your hand
start to ache quite quickly. But another way it can be to
just color it in lightly. Just going round in circles. Only pressing lightly
and then you can just keep going over it
to build up the color. It's a much more relaxing
way to add color than just pressing really hard and
burnishing the paper. You can just keep going over that and building up the
color that way instead. With these leaves, you can just color in the whole
shape with a flat color. I just want to show
you a few examples of different ways that
you can color these in. That's a really simple, just flat color, or you can build up the
color in certain areas. For this one, I'm
going to make it darker at this bottom
point and then have it much lighter at the top. It's like what we did with
the shading with the pen. Now I'm going to leave
this top section alone and just keep going over this bottom area
to make it darker. Pressing a little bit harder, and then blending it out. You can see it's got a bit of a nicer effect than this one, just having that
gradual transition from darker to lighter. You can also blend two different greens
together for the leaves. I'm just going to start with
the lighter one at the top. I'm going to color around about two-thirds of the way down, and then with the dark one, I'll just start at the bottom. Then I'm just going to
overlap that lighter green to blend it in. Then as I go farther off, I'm getting lighter, so the color blends in
a bit more gradually. Then just heading back
down to make that darker. We get a nice transition
between the two. You can always go back
with a lighter one just to help blend in
a little bit more. Just a couple of ideas for instead
of just having this flat section colored in, you can just blend it out nicely either with a single color
or using a couple of colors. I also have these Prisma
coloring pencils, which are lovely,
vibrant colors. They're more expensive than your standard pack
of coloring pencils, but they do have a
lovely rich color. It depends how serious
you want to get with your coloring or how much of an investment
you want to make. These ones are waxed base, so their lead is pretty soft. You have to be quite careful
as they do break easily. Again, I'll just show you an example of using a
couple of different greens. This is true green
and grass green. With this, I'll just start with a lighter color at the top. You can already see how
vibrant that color is. I'm not pressing harder too. I'm going to go in with a
darker green at the base. These blend together
really nicely. With these Prisma
coloring pencils, you can buy a colorless
blending pencil as well and you can
just go over it. This just blends all
the color together and gets rid of those white
patches of paper. You can see how nicely
that's blended in together and how
vibrant that color is. It's just another
option for you of some coloring pencils
that you can use. Next, let's look at using
pens to add some color. I've got a few of these
colored fine liners which have this very fine tip and
these can be nice for adding some color
to the outline of your doodles or filling in the pattern with
lines like this one. For this pattern, this is similar to the
one we did earlier. Again, I start this with a black pen for
the main outline, and then I used these
two greens here. Some of these sections just
have the darker green in, some of them just the light one, and then some of them
have a combination of the two with alternating lines. Here's another example of the
whale that we did earlier, and for this time I just use two different blues
for this one. With this one rather than switch pens every time I
draw a single leaf, I will do a few in one
color and then switch. Finally with these pens, here are a few examples of those potted plants just using
the pens for the outline. I use all five of
these pens for these, I use the two blues
for the pots, the two greens for the plants, and then also the gray
for one of the pots. You can also use watercolor
markers for adding color to your doodles and here
are a few examples. I like these watercolor
markers by Winsor and Newton. They give you
lovely rich colors. They also do these pro markers, which are not such a fan of because these are the
really smelly ones. I don't like to use these. If you search for these, just be careful which ones you go for. The ones I'm using are just
called watercolor markers. The nice thing about these
is that you can just use them with an aqua brush, which you just fill with water, and then it's got a brush on
the end so you don't need to take an extra brush or a
pot of water around with you, of course, your paints. All you need is a couple
of pens and your aqua pen. They're great if you're
traveling or around and about and don't want to take
too many supplies with you. With these you're best
using watercolor paper, you would just add
the pen to the page, and then run over it with the brush and it will
all mix in nicely. For these, I would recommend good quality watercolor
paper as well. When I tested this out on lower quality paper that
was a lighter weight, you could see the
marks or the pen, even though after I've blended
it out with the brush. With this pen, you
don't actually need to squeeze the
water around of it. It will just come
out automatically, but you can see that this nib has got a bit
of green on it now, so all you would do then is just squeeze it onto
your paper towel, and then the color would just come out and that
would clean the brush. If I was going to color in these leaves
with these markers, I would just add a little bit to the base and then just use
the brush to blend it out. You don't need to add too much. It goes quite far. Then for the vars,
this is turquoise. I Just add a little bit
down the left side. Just clean my brush quickly, and then blend this in and
I'm just going to pull it over to the
other side so it's lighter on that right side. The great thing
about these pens as well as that you can
actually mix them. This is this green on its own, which is the hookers
green just like here, here I've added a
little bit of red, which has made it
a bit more muted, and then here I added a
little bit that turquoise, which made it a cooler green. Let me just show you. I'm just going to add a
little bit of the red, and then mix it together. You can see that green has
already become a little bit more muted than this
version up here, so it's quite easy to mix
them on the paper as well. The other thing to think
about is just testing your black fine liner pens with any water-based pens
or paint before you start using them just to check that they are
actually waterproof. This is a test I did with
this uni-ball fine liner pen. I added water immediately
after I put the pen down and it ran as you can see and I just left it again for 20 seconds
and then it didn't, so it may be that your pen just needs a few seconds to dry. You just need to be
conscious of that before adding the paint or the water. You can also use watercolor to color in your
doodles of course, or you can even skip the pen
part and just paint them simply with just a watercolor
and no one outline. I love painting
simply like this. You can see here, these are just a few examples of watercolor potted plant
doodles from my book. It's pretty much
the same process. You're just doing the
base, adding the details, and then adding really
simple potted plants, but just with watercolor. I hope that quick overview
into some options for coloring in has been
helpful and given you some inspiration or
some things to think about. Keep watching for the final
video where we're just going to have a bit of
a summary of the class.
19. Conclusion: Congratulations for
completing this class. I truly hope you
have enjoyed it. I just wanted to share with you a quick recap and a
couple of things that I would encourage you to
remember when you are doodling. The first one is
practice makes progress. If you're enjoying the
doodling but maybe a little frustrated about your lines or your shapes, just
keep practicing. A few minutes every
day will help improve your muscle memory, but also keep coming back to the reason why you
are doodling and to remember to relax and enjoy the process regardless
of the end result. Keep your reference pages handy. Throughout the class, we made a few pages that you can
use like a reference. Whilst you're
starting out, it may just take some time
to get used to thinking in a new way that helps you come up
with different ideas. Refer back to these to help you if you're
feeling a bit stuck. Finally, start to
look around you more. If you enjoy
doodling the houses, keep your eyes open
when you're next out on a walk and look at different styles of windows or doors that could help you
inspire your doodling, or pay more attention
to patterns and shapes in the things
around your home. There is inspiration
all around us to support us with
our creativity. We just need to learn to open
our eyes to see more of it. I would love to see some of
your doodles from this class, so please do share
them with me by uploading them to the project
section here on Skillshare. Let me know which patterns or
subjects you most enjoyed. Please also do
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watercolor to relax as well, then you might like
to check out my book, "Watercolor for the Soul." There's a link for
it in my profile where you can read
more about it. Until next time, happy doodling.