Doodling People: Build Confidence and Drawing Skills through Sketching

1. Introduction: If you're anything like me, you love to draw and sketch, but you don't always have the time or the mental energy to get that grandiosene down into your sketch book. Instead, we end up doodling, But then perhaps we worry, what's the point? Are we developing our art and are we actually creating anything worthwhile by doodling? Well, today we're going to throw all those worries out the window, and we're going to show you that. Yes, we can doodle, We can doodle and learn, and our doodles will build up into an amazing piece of art. My name is Toby. I'm known as Toby Sketch Lease, and you can find me on in Scram Youtube and of course here on Skillshare, I'm a loose ink and watercolor sketcher, Specialize in expressive sketches in simplifying the world around us and translating it into the page in a way which not just gets the scene not just represents what I see, but also gets some of me and my personality onto the page as well. In today's class, we're going to be simplifying to the max with some really fun, really easy doodle sketches. The whole class is very accessible. You only need a pen or a pencil and a sheet of paper. And you'll be able to join in and get absolutely heaps out of it. What are we going to get out of this class? Well, firstly, we're going to get a heap of confidence. We're going to draw so many people and animals. We're going to make it so easy and then build it up until these people are actually having jobs carrying around cocktail trays and just creating really fun little scenes. Beyond the confidence, You're going to learn some really key artistic ideas. The way of seeing the world in a simple, shape based fashion. The idea of creating a three D element to our scene through bold lines and hatching. Lastly, of course, we'll be creating an amazing work of art. You will be amazed as you build up your simple doodles that you transform your scary white piece of paper into something really fun that actually really does look like a work of art. And in doing these three different learning points, we'll have got rid of all those doubts. When we said, is it pointless? Are we learning anything? Are we just wasting our time? Well, I really hope that by the time you get to the end of this class, you go, no, this was not pointless. I had fun, I made amazing art, and I learnt something. So if that sounds like what you want to do today, let's just dive in and start our doodling. 2. The Project Explained: Today's project is going to be to fill a page or a couple of sketchic pages with doodles. I'm going to show you in the supplies lesson just how to set up your page with a couple of simple lines to enable you to make the most of today's class. Then from there, we're just going to have fun. We're going to be building up different ways of doodling people, getting their jobs accessories in looking at how to build cloves into very simple doodles. We'll be looking at animals scenery. At the very end, we're going to be doing a doodle self portrait to finish off your project. When you have completed your page or pages of drawings, what I would absolutely love you to do is take a photo of it, just a quick snap, and share it into the class project gallery. You can find that by clicking on the Projects and Resources tab. And it just takes a couple of minutes. And I promise to come back to every project and write a little bit of feedback and give you some encouragement. Because I'm sure that with this very easy, relaxing class, you will produce some really fun, awesome pages filled with doodles. And along the way, you'll also learn a lot. I certainly learn a lot doing this kind of thing, so I'm excited to see what you guys do as well. 3. Supplies: There's only two things that we need for this class. And I'm going to show you exactly what I'm using and a few alternatives. But really it comes down to having a pen or a pencil and some paper. I'm also going to show you how to set out your paper so that you can get them most out of this class and fill it up and follow along with the different lessons that we're going to go through. Now I love simplicity and this little doodling class is all about simplicity. The thing you can do any time of day with just minimal things. All you're going to need is a piece of paper. I'm using an four or a letter sized piece of paper. You could use a sketchbook or anything else. Really, it doesn't have to be special paper. I'm using my normal watercolor paper because that's what I love drawing on. The other thing you'll need is a drawing implement. I'll be using a fountain pen here. There's lots of different fountain pens you could use. You could use a ballpoint pen, you can use a pencil. There's all sorts of other fun things you can use like Fed pens. It really doesn't matter. All you need is some drawing implement that is literally it. Now the last thing that we need to do just to prepare for our class, we've got all our supplies and things, is just draw some little lines across. And I'm going to try and divide my page into a six rows. You could use a ruler. Or if you're like me and you don't actually have a ruler, you could use something as simple as a piece of card. I'm just going to draw across here really gently with my pencil. You could do this with your pen. With a pencil, a six rows approximately evenly spread and approximately horizontal. This just helps to keep everything looking neat. In a little doodle, it can be really fun to fill a page, but actually have those doodles fill it in a surprisingly neat way. You'll see just by doing this, you'll be able to position all of our little people and little bits of scenery all along nice lines. The ending effect is something quite remarkable, actually, surprisingly artistic for a class, which is a really just about doodling. There you go. We've got 123456 if we want, we've got a little bonus bit at the bottom we can use just like that. I'll get my pen back and we are ready to jump in. Now, the first lesson is actually not going to use this piece of paper because I'm going to just show you on another piece of paper some really simple principles that we'll be working with. The rest of the class is going to be our project. The rest of the class is going to be filling this piece of paper with doodles to create an amazing sort of doodle sheet artwork that just builds itself and looks really fun. Really quirky. 4. Seeing the World in Shapes: This lesson is the only lesson where I'm not going to be drawing on my own project. This lesson is really just a tiny bit of background. I often talk about shapes and how we can use shapes to interpret reality onto our page. In our doodling today, it's the different we need to be thinking about shapes in the same way, but simplifying it even more. That's what I'm going to try and explain to you in this little lesson. This first lesson is about what the principles are that we're working with when we're doing our doodle sketches, especially with all the doodles focusing on people. Now you'll often hear me talking about shapes. Shapes are a way of looking at the world. Instead of drawing a house, what you might do is you might identify the big shapes, a square and a rectangle. Then you look for the little shapes. You've got a rectangle with lots of little rectangles inside it. By doing this, suddenly instead of trying to draw a whole house, you build up a representation of the house, which is actually true to life. Here we can have a little garage and again, all we're doing is we're focusing on are the shapes. Similarly, a car doesn't have to be hard. It can be a rectangle with some little circles in it, underneath another rectangle, a parallelogram, another little rectangle on top, just like that. By focusing really clearly on the shapes that you see, this is really important. It's the shapes that you see in the scene. You build up a representation of what you see. You can do it with people, you might find people and just go what people are. Basically, often a circle, a triangle with a little bit of texture, and then another triangle upside down. But you might then observe that other people have a slightly different shape. They might be shorter, they might be wider, they might be running, Their legs aren't forming that triangle. They're forming a different shape. You might even do the same with dogs and animals and find you are basically a circle and a circle then like a long oblong or something along those lines. Just by observing what shapes are there, we end up with what's definitely a house. What's, what's definite people, what's probably a dog or it could be a fox or something like that, couldn't it? But we are observing shapes that we see. Now, today is a little bit different because we're not observing, we're imagining, Instead of saying what shapes are there, well, we'll start with that. We'll start with what shapes are there, but then we'll be able to break out. We'll say what's the simplest shapes that there could be and still work. Instead of always having to be a circle, a triangle, or oblong and a triangle, we might find that we can change the order around. And we're still going to end up doodling successfully, creating really interesting people. This is what our entire set of doodling is going to be focused on. But it's shapes, it's not just observing shapes. This time we're going to be imagining and we're going to be breaking out. This will become very obvious, what I mean, but I just wanted to give you that background so that you can understand that this set of skills we're learning through doodling is useful for more than just doodling, but also it needs a little bit of extra creativity and a bit of extra simplifying. We're not finding every shape, we're seeing how few shapes we can use. 5. Starting Simple: Finally I say, finally it's only been a few minutes. But we're onto our project. Our project is this whole class. And this first part of the project is going to be getting over that white page Fear with some really simple doodles. These are going to be the simplest ways to use shapes to create people Just like that, we are ready to go. This page is looking a little bit scary, isn't it? So we better dive in and get rid of some of that white paper and see what happens. And you will be amazed by filling this page up. Just how good it looks in the end or even halfway through, or even just after this first lesson. I hope you'll be amazed with how easy you find this process. The first thing we're going to be doing, we talked about it in the last lesson, but we're going to be shapes. And this is where I said, I promise you'll understand what I mean by looking at what shapes there could be and still successfully building up a person. I'm going to start with what we talked about. We've got a circle, a little triangle. We can add a little wobble to it if we want. Then we could do a triangle, we could do a couple of triangles. We've got these legs, and we could pop the arms. In Simple, we've got a person, we can play with that idea a little bit. Let's make a slightly taller person, let's slightly change our triangle. See what happens if we slightly change our triangle. And we can move the arms around and give them just pose. And we'll be doing poses and loads of things like that later, but no reason you can't start with it. What if it's not a circle on top? If we've got a rectangle followed by an upside down triangle, just flipping our ideas around. Well, it still works. This is still the person, right? We're still doodling what's basically a person. We can play with our idea. Let's just make it a square and a rectangle. Again, we've got our person give them another new arm position. Just keep going with this idea. Let's do circle, circle. We'll find our way of doing things. We'll find the shapes which we think are most realistic, most enjoyable. We'll find certain shapes evoke certain ideas about the person. Maybe something about their weight, something about their age, something about their style. We can do tiny circles and big bodies that evokes something about the person as well, doesn't it? We can start to imagine what happens if we do complicated shapes for the head. Now is that at that, does it matter? Is it still a person leaving something to the imagination? Again, hats and hair accessories are things we're going to be definitely covering later. You can make people really tall, so we can do long shapes and see what happens with that. Again, just give some funky arm positions and let's just do a couple more. This time we can break out of the simple shapes and we can start imagining just a little bit more texture going on. And maybe the arms appear out of some sleeves or something like that. Maybe we just pop our shapes around to the side. Now we've got a tall person facing to the side. What happens with that? Let's do a couple more just like that. We practice pointing these shapes instead of everyone coming towards us. We pointing these shapes bit to the side. Now, aren't we? You can just start to see how you could really easily start building up this whole page. And we're going to be going through loads more ideas, loads and loads more ideas of ways that we can build up this page, create even more drama, poses excitement. But to start with, just create 1015 shapes shape. People don't keep the shapes the same every time, change the shapes and see what happens. 6. Unfinished and Expressive: In this lesson, we're going to be contrasting that last lesson, those finished old simple shapes, against more expressive unfinished shapes. Just see, have a little reflection on which you prefer or somewhere in the middle of these two ideas. What you want to do with the rest of your project onwards and upwards. And we're going to stick with shapes now, but what we're going to do are unfinished shapes. This is just a slightly different style which will let you start to express yourself a little bit more. We'll show you that we can make mistakes and actually it still works. We don't need to fully explain what's going on. We don't need to be certain with our lines. Please do try this and see what happens if this style suits you better than this neat style. We'll be playing with a couple of other things later as well to consider incorporating into your sketching. What do I mean by unfinished shapes? We look, all of these shapes, we've joined up, They're neat, they're complete. But what happens if we just, we imagine half the shape. We can then get our people. We're basically doing circle, circle, aren't we? But we're not finishing that whole idea off. We can suddenly start doing a lot of the same things as before, but we're just suggesting these people are existing. Again, it's still like a triangle here. We can do our triangle coming down, we can do little suggestion of a triangle here as well. These posers, just like before, can have arms doing some fun things. Maybe this person, we can suggest they're dancing. What is this adding? Maybe a sense of mystery. So some of these feel a bit mysterious, don't they? Maybe there's a sense of drama or a sense of movement, a sense that they're in the distance there, in a sense, not doing anything. But in a sense, we're also adding a lot through. Just not adding a lot in a vicious, vicious twist of difficult logic. But hopefully again, it's just a fun experiment where you can go, well, if I'm doodling along, if I'm creating my fantastic sheet of paper, how else can I start imagining people? I can do these shapes, but do I have to make it that strict? Can I loosen it right the way up and still get the scent of the person? You can even start to get an imagination that there are people next to people. Here's a probably just from that shape, probably a lady holding the hand of a small child. Again, all unfinished shapes but hopefully all feeling together also. Let's do one which is invoking some movement. Let's get a chappie with a little baseball cap and then give him some of a body. Then just to get that feeling of movement, let's get him on skateboard again, Hopefully we get this idea just through his legs, not being finished that they are moving. Here we go. Unfinished shapes. Again, for me, these are all looking like people. You have to imagine a little bit more. But because you can imagine a little bit more, perhaps you see more than these people which are definitely shapes, they're definitely cartoony. People have to go do another ten or 15 unfinished shapes. Now hopefully this page is looking a whole lot more interesting and a whole lot less scary. 7. Adding Poses: We've got our simple shapes, we've got two ways of doing it. What we can do now is start moving the arms around, moving the legs around, moving the body around. Just see what happens. Can we create life and energy with different poses? Now, this is one thing I promised not long ago. This is where we're going to play with poses. How can we invoke movement at maybe stillness in different actions or poses that our fund little characters are making. Let's start with just a nice and still person. We do our shapes this time. We can finish the shapes off or we can leave our shapes unfinished. It's fine. But look, if we put those legs together, maybe we give him a little time. We'll be covering accessories and clothing very soon, but for now you can start playing with these ideas. What happens? Because he's a complete, he's all in a line. He feels very still. We can narrow him even more. So let's do the same man. But we can give him a little line suggesting his hands are in his pockets. Now for me and feel free to disagree for me, he feels a little more anxious. It's an anxious pose. What about someone with a bit more life and character in them or just less anxious? Well, let's just give this person a fun hat. We can just get their arms pushing out. Maybe one leg on the ground and one leg just a little bit off. Now, are they reaching for something? They ballerina, perhaps a ballerina is a good one to do next, so we can give them a big shape for that suggestion of a skirt. Maybe this isn't a ballerina skirt, but it's certainly someone wearing a big skirt, isn't it? Give them a head and then get those arms really above and then point their legs in like a ballerina. I think it's on point, isn't it? Forgive me for my poor knowledge of ballerina terms. Dancing poses is a great place to start because you can just start imagining where else could our arms and legs be going. We could have them dancing forward. You get the idea of someone prancing along. Maybe we switch now to some grumpy men. If we're trying to just be stereotypical, we'll get a big box man that's already suggesting something about the pose, isn't it? And then even just by popping hands on hips, we're halfway towards creating our more officious, more grumpy person. We could change this very slightly if we have a man. Let's just change that little shape as well, so we're keeping something interesting. Now if we bring the hand across, maybe they're checking the time instead, maybe that's what they're doing. Or if we have a really big chunky person, their arms could be up little bulge for the bicep and now we know what we're doing. Right, we are probably checking ourselves out in the mirror or flexing in the gym. Again, really simple ideas which are very easy to do. You can just start imagining, we don't need references, we don't. We very much skill at all. We can just be a bit bit confident and start thinking about shapes and simple positions. Let's go even more outside the box. Let's pop our head here. Where can we go with this? Well, let's do a little person standing on their hands, so the hand is going to be underneath one hand up here, what's the word? Good. Very competent handstander. Maybe a slightly less competent handstander, but still very impressive would have two hands, wouldn't they, on the floor? Certainly, I would have two hands on both of my feet on the floor. But let's put the legs slightly to the side, give them a bit more balance issue. Now, I'm going to keep going with my poses as we go along. So I'm going to finish somewhere about here because there's so much we can play with here. We talked about pointing people away. Why don't we get them really stooping over. We can get this feel that this person's really stooped and maybe holding something down there. We can add accessories soon. That is going to be one of our little lessons that you might have spotted in the distance. Looking away and stooping. Well, that just means we lose a lot of the head, doesn't it? We might sense that we see the underside of their coat or jacket. And we're not going to actually see their arms maybe just a little bit here. What else can we do? We can get, of course we can get someone jumping. Maybe we'll just get their head a little bit higher, the body squat and the legs just got to imagine it, so we can get the legs like this. And maybe just give these little doodle lines to show the space. We haven't just got them the wrong height, that's actually where they are. A little bit of arm action, maybe also with little doodle lines to show the movement as well. A little bit more fun, what else can we do? Let's do like a stop pose. If we get a nice simple person going on here, perhaps they're going to be saying, look, stop. And here's a really simple accessory, we can add already a lollipop. We've got our lollipop lady stopping the traffic in the road. There we go. Loads of ideas for simple poses. We just change the hand arm leg position, flip them up, got them bending over. And now we can start using all of these ideas as well and more as we move on with the rest of our lessons. Have a go, you can do here as many as you want. Really, we just need a tiny bit of space for my layout for practicing the next lesson. Because the next lesson we're actually going to be able to come back and edit a few of our people here as well. 8. Make them 3D: The next thing that we're going to work on is adding a bit of three D shape to our two D doodles. We've got a little bit of this row of our page left in that I'm going to show you how to use bold lines and hatching. Then we're going to take that back and edit some of our previous doodles to just make them feel more real here. We're just going to start creating shape in our people. These are very simple and they're already shapes. When I say shape this time I'm talking about three D shape, which is going to come from bald lines, hatching bold lines, and hatching, two simple ways to suggest shadow and start creating some texture. Let's just start with really simple people. Here we can do our simple people all in one boldness of line and give them a nice grumpy pose again. Or maybe it's not grumpy, it's just waiting. What can we do to start suggesting a light and shadow? Well, one thing we can do is make some of the lines bolder. Notice how just by doing the boldness here, it looks like the light is coming down. We can keep that through the whole of this person. The left side of everything is bolder, the left arm is bolder. We can double that down with some gentle hatching. Now we've got this figure which isn't just two D, it's really three D. In a very simple way, it's very easy to just imagine and doodle away like that. Let's get someone now who's all wrapped up warm. They're simple shapes. Again, remember just imagining a big coat. This is where we're back to not what shapes there are, but what's the simplest shape that we could possibly imagine here? To get them all wrapped up warm, we feel like a lot of them is going to be covered in shadow. There we go. Just another simple way. Again, using that bold line, we can also suggest like more than just shadow. Perhaps we want a nice dress here, we've got a little bottom to the dress. We can make the bold lines just a little less bold so they don't take over the image quite as much with our frilly dress. And maybe it's got a little frilly pattern halfway up as well. Let's get some nice moving arms here as well. Maybe they're just about to start their dance. Let's keep going with these ideas. We can get a little portly chap again. They can have a frayed edge to the bottom here. We could start imagining, this is some traditional dress. I don't want to go too far into stereotypes about traditional dress and risk being unfair to any ethnicity or culture, or anything like that. But there are, I'm sure, lots of cultures that you are very familiar with where you can start imagining perhaps how to make a particular style of traditional dress and make it fair and make it realistic. I'm going to just suggest not specific ones, but just interesting types of dress here. Perhaps this could be even something as simple as a priest wearing a big robe. That's a traditional dress which is common in, obviously in England in the UK. What we can do, we can use a bit of hatching to just pull apart the different layers. This could be a priest, depending on the context of your doodling, maybe this is actually even like an angel or something. If we proper little doodle line on the top just like. So let's do just a couple more. Let's get suited. And booted man, this time we can do really bold line for the tie. Maybe he's got some trousers on so they can actually be black with his little legs coming at the bottom. And a bit of hatching. Again, that hatching, do you see how it just splits one side from the other? Last but not least, just to get the symmetry on our page, let's do another man here. And they can be bending forwards, maybe because they're bending forward, we're going to get different shadows. And we're going to get shadows towards the back of the nice bold line. Again, there you go. These are my specific examples. Really simple, what we can now do. What I'd suggest you do if you feel the fun in doing this is just go back and do some really simple touches in. Maybe some of these dresses can have horizontal or vertical lines on, maybe some can have more interesting patterns and just see what happens. You're not going to do anything. As long as you're gentle, you're never going to ruin this little fun page of sketches. And these simple extra bits of bold line just provide some extra shape and interest going on. Your grumpy man can become a bit more grumpy if he's a bolder, he just starts feeling a bit bigger. Same here, for that weight. If this man is really bold, it just gives him a more intense feel. Maybe these guys can just hatch under the ground. Maybe that's another way to do it. Here we hatch under the ground. This lady, we can blot in the lollipop, make it really obvious, give her a bit more of a shadow. This chappie, he's already got a lot of movement. I'm going to just give that a real light hatch here are crouching over people. We want to get that feeling of the crouching where the shadow is now going to be down here because they're blocking out the light. Whereas on the top, like over here this time on the top we're getting all that light. We can just apply some very simple hatching, very simple bold lines to just start picking out more three D shape into our fun doodled selection of people. 9. Clothes, Hats and Dresses: Now we're going to have some fun experimenting with clothing. So I'm going to be playing with hats, with big coats, with ties, but the possibilities are endless. You could try all sorts cocktail dresses, adding funky hairstyles, whatever you want. Just remember to keep it really simple and think, what is the easiest shape which gets this idea down onwards and upwards. And now we can start playing with cloth. What about clothes? Maybe that should be the title of the lesson. What about clothes? Clothes we've already been doing a little bit of, but we're going to think more specifically about it. Just play with a few ideas to try and get some fun clothes. What are the best clothes to add? Silly question, isn't it? But what are the best clothes to add to our doodles? The best ways of making interesting clothes? Well, one really good thing to do is a hat. Because a hat really adds a huge amount of character. I would suggest playing with simple hats and things like that. The other thing is to start changing the shapes of your people to imagine different kind of clothes. Here we can change to basically a pentagon, then just a little hatch in the middle that's showing that there's an opening. Now the arms and legs can come out of the edges of the pentagonal sides. We can do other things. We can suggest big dresses by creating these big looping shapes. That's something we've already done, but let's just look at what we're actually doing this time. We are just accentuating the curves going on. The head can be attached or it can be unattached to the clothes. Not something I've mentioned before, but you might notice looking around, we have unattached heads. We have attached heads. Just again, different ways of making it feel like things are fitting in different ways. Having done more interesting cloves, you might start thinking that actually you want to doodle some patterns onto those cloves, as well as focusing on tiny bits of hatching and bold lines. Other things which are really fun to do, and we've definitely done a few times already, adding things like ties are a really great addition, I think to these sketches, they're very recognizable. We can add sleeves, we can have not quite attached to the body. Now this person is bending over and their tie is ragged and in front of them, does the clothing have to stay attached? Is a question? Or does letting it drift off a little bit, does that add something else? Often what makes clothes interesting is that they are big and they change the shape drastically. Getting someone in a puffy, puffy jacket is a really fun and recognizable thing. That puffy jacket can just have basically a circle, but we can give it that real puff, if you like, by adding a lot of texture and then shortening where the legs are coming out of. And maybe even just having little dots or little tiny lines for the hands. Again, this jacket is probably going to have big, bold outline and lots of hatching and shadow formed by all of these ruffles and rolls which are going on. What else can we do? Well, let's start thinking about ways to make ideas about traditional dress. Again, often you can imagine the hieroglyphics and things where things are really simplified into triangles and simple shapes like that. We can start just imagining. I'm not trying to be specific about any traditional dress, I'm just trying to give you ideas that you can use for things you are familiar with. You can start imagining just creating these funny or characteristic hoods. A little bit of hatching keeps it all having a nice, sensible bit of shape. You can start getting, again, fun hats with extra accessories. I'm going to go out and say, this one, that's supposed to be a court cat from the outback from Australia. I think that's an okay one for me to pretend. I can draw again like tall hats and combine that with like long, freely clothing perhaps. And you start to get a different idea about what's going on in this person. For this person, you can add little belts as well. Then clothes can also be really simple, just getting these little triangles to show that there is a layer to the clothes. That there's something else going on beyond just the very simple shapes, just triangles. It's just a bit like applying a tie. Isn't it? The same for just applying a little thrill to the clothes, or even suggesting a belt going across the middle. We've not really touched on trousers, but trousers are perfectly acceptable to add as well. Let's bring in a person here. They're pointing away from us, and we can just give them another shape. Again, I like to basically turn all trousers into shorts just because it keeps those feet ideas consistent, but you don't have to. All we're doing here is we are just getting our simple shape, simple bit of clothing. And extending the shape down, giving it some trouser legs. And there you go. Very similar to what we've done with the skirts. We're just dividing the trouser legs up. I'm sure that you'll be able to think of some more creative and interesting ways to represent things in your life around you. Which is much more interesting than what I've done. But there are building blocks, the ideas that hopefully will get your creative juices flowing. To think up some even better ideas than what I've created. 10. Accessories and Bags: Having done our clothes, let's add some accessories. Simple ideas bags and trolley bags, having a walking stick. Again, the possibilities are endless, and we'll be building on this in the next lesson as well. Now, no people are complete without accessories, are they? Let's start thinking about accessories. This is where we're really going to be building and starting to have a lot of fun and we can start imagining what we might be doing next. We're going to be doing jobs, we're going to be looking at scenery and things like that. Let's start again with a nice and simple idea to get the confidence up. Let's start with a posh person. So we've got a little coat with buttons on that for me feels well to do, make them quite big. That adds to the confidence for me, Give them an arm here and then there's a little bag, simple as that. Now our person is carrying a bag. That little bit of hatching separates out the bag from the person. Why not give them a trolley suitcase as well? A simple bit of hatching, again, just separates them out. Maybe I just want a bodlinere, bald line here to provide that ongoing shape that we've been talking about. What about if we have a sort of man carrying too much and trying to do too much? Well, maybe this time again, we'll go with a tied up gentleman. I say that as in a man with a tie. I realize my double entendre there, and we will give him a couple of big bags to hold. Now he's trying to carry all the shopping out of the car or something like that, And we can even just stack up these bags behind him, separate them out with different layers of hatching. He's got his tie on so he can have a pair of trousers and his little legs coming out the bottom. There we are. We're starting to build up quite simple ideas for accessories. What about something which is topical going on at the moment as I film? This is the rugby Well, Cup, let's get a big guy. He's taller. He's got that rectangular head coming down below. He's got this chunky body. Then we'll just give him a rugby ball and his arm can just be coming around that ball again. If we just use judicious bold lines, we'll get that shape out. This arm could be coming to the side, Of course, he'll have big legs. So we'll give them some big legs, but they'll end in the same point like everyone else. Simple bit of hatching and we'll pull that ball apart hopefully from the rest of what's going on. What else could be fun to do? There's loads and load of stuff which could be fun to, of course. Let's do some cocktails Now we'll have a waitress perhaps. Again, let's think about a cocktail dress. What's like a really simple way of suggesting that for me, for better or worse, it's become this, our glass shape. It could be anything, couldn't it could be all sorts things going on there. Then all we're going to do is have her one hand on the hip and one hand coming out. And we'll have a little simple set of maybe a cocktail and a point. We've got clearly two very different people have ordered a drink. What can we do with her dress to give her that extra bit of shape? Pit of hatching and maybe just some little pattern across the top, something which makes it a bit more interesting. We've had a few old and crouching and stooping people, something which can be really effective to add in would be a very simple touch of like a walking stick here. We can just position the walking stick, position the legs and then put the arms around it. That simple hatching bit of bold line maybe even make this have a little interesting affect to it. If we wanted to do something slightly more complicated but still very simple, let's get our stooping person and they can have like a zimmer frame or walking frame. Again, very simple to do. Just get those simplest idea of what it can be. Basically a zimoframe or walking frames just got four legs, hasn't it? The simplest possible terms. That's all that we're after with these little doodle people. Now there's bound to be some more stuff we can do. What about someone? They're going to be wearing a nice hat and they're going to be out on a track. They're going to have a rucksack. And a rucksack very often has two parts, doesn't it? Has that top and bottom part, and then their legs. We've not done any walking people yet, so let's just have their legs in a active pose. Arms coming down, one arm in front. Now we've got a very simple Trekker out doing some walking. Now I know this isn't many accessories, but you can imagine the really simple shapes that we're starting to create. And I promise you that in the next little row we'll be adding way more accessories, clothes and ideas. That will give you even more ideas to play with, but more importantly, also bring your ideas. So don't just feel you need to copy what I'm doing, have some fun and show me in your project what you can do to create your sort of fun and lively scene. 11. Jobs and Uniforms: Now our people have shape clothes accessories. Maybe we can build that into a theme so each of our people can be in a themed job. For example, let's play with that idea. I've got a few ideas coming up for you, but think outside the box. See what else you would like to add. Just go for it. Just do it. So I promised you more accessories, more going on, more fun. It's time to deliver. This section is going to be called. They might have a job. Now we can start putting ideas together in this section. They might have a job. We can start imagining typical jobs with uniforms or situations that they might be in. We've already done that idea here, haven't we, with our cocktail waitress. But let's start with something fun. This is where we are going to be building up just the building up the use of accessories to create a theme around a person and around our doodles. Now first let's do a really simple kind of idea. I'm going to do a little construction worker, the simplest way of doing this is going to be to create an unfinished wall and just have a person next to it so they don't have to be special. We don't have to immediately make them anything clever because they're a construction worker. We could play to this stereotype that they're probably quite a big guy. So we can give them hard lines and things like that, but we don't have to Then let's just give them something which really helps the scene along here. Hopefully this is my version, my doodle version of a cement mixer. We just give it three legs. We'll give it a little bit of hatching to provide that shape. Now hopefully, very simple idea of a little man or a big man. Either way works, just doing some building with his cement mixer. What about another fun scene? Let's do this time. Someone wearing a hard hat idea. This time they'll be bending forward because they are paying a lot of attention to a fire. Let's give them a hose and hopefully you see where this is going. We're going to be doing a little firefighter. We'll just give them arms which just clamping onto that hose, give them a galit. Legs are helping the idea of a big coat. We can give this fire hose a little bit of hatching. The simple, let's just say, oh look, there's some water coming out. We can start suggesting a fire. Really simple shapes, all these diamond shapes. Then it's got an internal diamond shape to it as well, doesn't it? We can give it a bit. Debris at the bottom. Little bit of hatching just again show you've got that yellow and you've got that orange and now we've got a brick layer and of course, a firefighter. Now, what comes next? Well, let's try something else very different. This time we'll have someone driving a bus. We can have just a simple shape of a person because the way we're going to get them driving a bus is by having a big steering wheel in front of them. We need that steering wheel, but then you can't really see much more of them. We'll have front of our bus, we'll have the little wheel of the bus here, the little, what's it called, the number plate coming down, going above them. We'll just get this double line. Because the double line suggests the glass and it suggests the outer edge of the bus. Top of the bus normally has like a little place which says where it's going, at least in the UK. Then we'll get the key bits which are always things like the lights in the wing mirrors. And there you go. Give the man a little bit of hatching. We can even hatch down the window just to show he's behind something. Hopefully, now we have a man who is in his bus driving his bus. Hopefully you agree, what else can we do? What other little bit of fun could we have? Let's try someone walking a dog. We can start moving towards getting examples of dogs and seeing how easy those dogs can be as well. This, we can start actually building in other ideas which you haven't touched on. What about hair is just treat it as just a big hat. Here we can have a lady who's going to be wearing a little dress just going for a walk. So we'll get her legs in motion. She's got a lean that way. Then we need just an arm which is holding onto something. A dog, we already touched on it in very first lesson. Dog could be something as simple as very simple shapes. Other animals we can start imagining as well. Let's give her a bit of hatching. Do you see how that simple bit of hatching suddenly gives her? That simple bit of hatching pulls the hair away from the face. It's well worth just doing those touches of hatching touches. A bald line, which I also should have done in this bus. Really just again, to give it that extra little bit of fort and shape, make it just that tiny bit more interesting. Let's do something else. I said something else animal related. Again, a funny hat is always necessary. Let's get a man. Maybe he's on safari, maybe he's just a safari guide. Maybe we can have a couple. We'll have firstly one man, he's got his arm by his side holding something, something a bit, hopefully a little bit like binoculars. I just tried to create really simple shapes which suggest binoculars. Then alongside him can be someone else in a similar dress, but let's give them a slightly different hat and let's have them slightly different shape. We still want feel of someone out on Sophia. I don't know why this shape has given me that idea. This time they can be looking through the binoculars. Hopefully it becomes more obvious what this pair of chaps are doing. What are they looking at? Well, of course they're going to be looking at a lion and the lion is going to be very close to them. Lion, what is it again? Simple shapes. All we need to do is break down what we imagine the simplest shapes could be for a lion. We've got this little brow, we've got this shape going back for their body. Simple legs. And they've got this little fluff on the end of their tail, haven't they? If we just do some nice hatching, simple bald lines, we'll pick apart all of these layers and hopefully you'll agree, have two men looking at a lion on safari. He's probably about to eat them because he is rather worryingly close. I think today what else can we do? Well, we could have perhaps a little jester, couldn't we? We've done these dancing poses before. Let's get the idea of this Chappie who's dancing. All quirky. What does the jester wear? In my limited knowledge, they got a top one, like haven't they Silla? We can just build up that shape in our imagination. And then they're going to be like dancing, doing all quirky things. Silly little head with a rattly bell filled a he hat on. Again, really very simple, silly ideas which just help us build up a scene. Let's do at least one more, stretching my imagination. Let's do some bartenders, which are going to go with our lovely cocktail waitress up there. You can imagine what's going through my head at the moment, can't you? I'm going to do, you're going to start actually with the bar to get that context in. Because I think something like this scene, actually the context will tell the whole story if we get these bar seats in. What's going to be really helpful is just getting the bottom of the bar in as well. Then if we just get some people just stood behind and because they're in the distance, maybe this is an idea where we can just use incomplete people. We can have one there, one over here, little pipe glass in their hand. Then all we need is a suggestion of a tap. Maybe with a little sign on that tap. That's what they have in public. Have that little sign, this idea of these really simple shapes. Hopefully the whole story. If we wanted to, we could then build up a wall behind which has simple shapes on where we've got the bottles and then all the glasses going on as well. Really simple way of building up a very simple scene, which hopefully tells a lot of the story. Now let's do another silly one for our last, last little block here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to try and get the idea of a Go cart for me. Go cart is going to have a pointy nose curving up to the top and then have a little steering wheel, which you can just see over the edge. Going along, it ends abruptly, doesn't it? And we'll have wheels, and wheels. We can even give it a little exhaust and some smoke coming out. Then we can build our person in. We got the hand going onto the wheel, got the body really simple as that. Then they're going to be wearing big helmets. We can just put their head in, put it in a helmet. We're building up in reverse around the idea of our scene. There we go. So we've got now various jobs possibly breaking down with the example at the bottom with our Go cart. But maybe that's a race card, maybe that's an F one car instead of a Go cart. With doodling, it doesn't really matter if it's got a specific purpose. This is about building up our confidence, being able to stretch our imagination, basically having a heap of fun, just creating things which on their own are very small, very simple. But look at this page. I said at the beginning it was a scary white page. But is it still so scary? Now it looks like a heap of fun. And it really feels like I could just keep going. And we will keep going, of course, to fill up the rest of our page. 12. Scenery - Rural and Urban: In that last lesson, we started touching on ideas for scenery which our people could exist within. Here's a few more ideas of just different scenery. I'm going to split into rural things and things from the urban area, but you could again, do endless possibilities. Do just have fun. Take things around you from your reality and see what you can do to turn them into a doodle sketch. We started in some of these ideas and building in idle scenes, I thought a good idea would actually be have a go at different bits of scenery. Just a few random splodges from my life. Then you can do the same from your life, from ideas around you. Here we're doing, What about scenery? Scenery is all about simple shapes. We don't want the scenery if we're doing people to overtake the people. A tree can be a triangle. A tree has a triangle and a little foot, doesn't it, which is just a rectangle. Tree could also be a circle, or you could break it down and to make it these three or four circles, again joining on to what is basically a rectangle, then you can start to imagine other things. Maybe you've got a cactus, just some little pointy stems. Maybe you've got a bush. This just doesn't have a little leg. Then we start remembering that with a bit of bold line just creates that extra bit of shape. What else creates shape that hatch? The hatching to show where the shadow is. Here we've got a bit more complex shape, but the same ideas. We can also start getting that texture, little dots and little pokey lines coming off in our bush. Let's get that same shadow, but let's start relating it to part of a scene. Maybe we got some camping, we just get simple ideas, these little triangles coming forward. Again, a little bit of hatching just shows what's going on here. Little bold line gets the idea of shadow. You might also notice that bold line covers up a little mistake. It didn't quite feel right, but now to me, at least, it feels okay. Since we've got our camping ground in here, why don't we have our little campers now we can really start imagining how to use these people that we've been building. Our man up here who's off on a hike. Well, maybe this is our man who's just got to his campground. We've got our very simple person built into our scene. Maybe what he can see in the distance is another tree. He's got a little husk of a tree this time. And this time we don't actually need necessarily to think in shapes here. Thinking in shapes, we are thinking in the lines of the tree. Maybe what he's off to in the distance is his hills. What are they? Big pokey things. It's just like a giant fire. Do you see how these same shapes in a different context and with a slightly different emphasis are actually very different things. But the shapes are almost identical to what we did to create quite a fun little fire over here. Whilst we're on rural kind of scenes, what might be quite useful is simple things like benches. And what are benches? They are normally just these set of horizontal lines joined up with legs. Do you see how that and that pop a person next to it, and that gives it some scale. And then I can even have another one. But here we've got our person. We'll draw a person first. We'll give their legs a little bend, and now we can draw that bench under them, behind them. Just like that. We actually have a bench with a person. We have a person on a bench as well. Really simple ideas in the background. We can do our same tree ideas coming forward, can't we? There we go. Now this is the next thing I want to do. Something very much from my life in East Anglia, around Cambridgeshire, we have a lot of wind, a lot of flat ground. We have a lot of things like wind turbines. These are really easy as well. You just need to think of them as shapes. There are a lollipop and then they've little turbines which are just petal shape things coming off the side. You might notice I got them a little bit, one key there, but with our bold lines and our hatching, hopefully I'll just give it a fourth one instead. It should only have three, but this one's got four now it's a wonky windmill. Onekey turbine. That's fine. We can give some lines to suggest a bit of movement. There we go, and all these doodles. Actually, I don't feel like I've made a mistake until I got here and this one went one key and I didn't get the right number of turbine in or I didn't get the right spacing. But actually it's okay. That's what doodling and having this fun is about. Now let's move away from rural, this is a nice range of rural scenery. Let's just try a couple of less rural things, cars, buildings, and traffic lights. These things are all useful to be able to add in as well. Let's start with a traffic light that is similar to a turbine. It's just a pole with a little shape on top, the little shapes behind it. If we want, we could have people just to show the scale, again, just really simple people using the same ideas that we've been using all over. Perhaps waiting at our traffic light or a couple of vehicles. Let's have first a nice lorry. We've got a window at the front, little cube for the rest of it connected to a long rectangle. You can really easily imagine how these ideas just continue to build up. You could do little suggestions of the branding they have on the side. Get those bold lines in and then get the hatching. Look, we've already got a driver in there, haven't we, as well, just from our previous ideas that we used with our bus. Get a little bit more hatching in there, little bit more boldness in a couple of places to really get the idea of this being a big object behind it. We can have a car, car, just a set of shapes, just like before. I'm not using references, this is all just imagining what is the simplest shape, you might look at it. Go, I can tell you're not using references, but that's all right. It's supposed to look cute, it's supposed to look like a doodle. Give it a little antenna if we want at a car. We've got a truck. Let's do a current from the front as well. So we can do just a simple rectangle with squares. They are the head lights underneath. It's got another tiny rectangle and two little squares for the tires above. We get these different shapes. I don't know what to describe them. There's parallelograms, trapezoids, which come forward. You get, you get the windscreen of these little shapes are really key to really understanding the scene. Off to the side, we'll get the little shapes which are of course the wing mirrors we can pop in antenna on if we want. Another key. She little shape is having a number plate in the front. There just shows you that this is a car there. Obviously I can't do everything, but there are loads of little ideas. Hopefully, a big breadth of different kind of scenery which can give you ideas for how you can start building scenes around people or people into scenes and just having fun with your doodling beyond simple, lonely people. 13. Animal Doodles: In all of this, we've done a couple of funky animals, haven't we? There's been a lion, there's been a dog. We're going to work on that a little bit more. Animals are difficult, We don't know them quite as well as humans, but we think we know them. And that can lead to us overdrawing and under simplifying. I'm going to show you here that I'm going to make a couple of mistakes and it's okay. I'm also going to show you that for me, the most effective animals that I achieve in my project are the absolute simplest ones for you. Let's see what happens, but experiment with ideas with simple shapes. Create some little animals on your page. Now we've got people, jobs, clothes, we've even got scenery, but something else really fun, which can often fit in with all these ideas are animals. Let's do a little bit called Don't Forget Animals, and how could we forget animals? They're not always often a very big part of our lives and they're very cute. They're very fun to doodle and sketch and pop into our scenes with animals. Birds are a really great place to start because we can immediately start seeing the same ideas. Remember, we're not overdrawing and it would be really tempting. We're uncertain to actually start over doing things with a bird. You can do it as simply as a little ball with a little wing. That's it. All we now do is we build in the eyes. We build in the little feet. And we can do some hatching if we want, just for that little bit of shape. Suddenly this bird can turn towards us. Now we have the ball facing us. A little bit of wing behind legs, maybe the beaks pointing up. And we can see both the eyes simple. We can turn this into a thematic bird for Christmas. We suddenly turn our bird into perhaps a simple robin. A little bit of a doodle at the end for a fan tail. And then just give him a nice red, rosy belly. Of course, I'm not using color today, but you can imagine the idea where you just fill this area with a little bit of red orange and you have a cute bird, Acute Robin. We can do other things. Let's imagine an ostrich. Obviously, it's not going to be to scale with our other birds, but what's an ostrich got? A big wing. It's got that same circular body. Then he's got his big head poking up. Suddenly, same idea, different result, But still, I think for me quite an effective little doodle to start filling our scene with. I've gone wrong there, I've made that line too bold. But if I just go around and I make a few little bits bold, hopefully that won't be too noticeable in this whole page of what's going on. A little mistake like that really is not an issue. Let's keep the idea of big animals going for a second. What about something like a bear? Here, we could have them coming towards us. We can imagine their heads like this shield shape, pokey ears coming off. Then just this mass of fur coming around the outside. Again, really simple shape. And then bring down their legs. Now we've got these big legs coming out the side of our simple shapes. Hopefully again, we've got a simple bear coming towards us. You can do your eyes if we want, we can leave them off. Just like we have with the humans. It's really up to you to start exploring, playing, and seeing what can happen on big animals. Let's do something fun. Let's add a elephant to our mix. Again, I'm trying to pick animals which are obvious in their shapes. Things we think we know really well. Sometimes that's actually the most helpful because it means that we can easily just still them down. We can imagine what they used to look like in our children's books. And we can use simple bits of hatching, simple bits of bold line to get the shape that we want out of our really simple and fun little animals. Looking back, there's always room to go back to your doodles. I just want to make it more clear. This little birdie, what he's doing, pointing his head straight up and maybe a bit more ink just distract from this chappie, chunky neck, You could imagine. What else could I do? I could give them a little frill or something going down, couldn't I? If I really wanted to work on ways to distract from what is a little bit of a mistake on my page. Now let's move on to the scary stuff. The problem is, stuff we know really well, is we try to over draw it. I'm talking about scary things like dogs. Dogs. We've done a couple really simple. If you want to make it as simple as we've been doing, then you can just keep the dogs as simple shapes. Maybe a triangle with a head shape, little triangles. You know what? That's a dog thematically, you might be able to hear my dog in the background having a little scratch as well. We can start changing up the shape of the dog. The key though is not to overthink it. We know for example a sausage dog is really small, we just keep it simple and just shorten the legs hopefully like so we can just get the idea of our sausage dog but without overdoing it, without overdrawing. When we, that is when we will start to lose it. We will start to lose this lovely loose aesthetic. I'm saying this a lot for the animals because this is where it typically is a bit more challenging. You could take it even more, strip it back again. We talked somewhere up here, we talked about those images you get from ancient Egypt. The ideas which come from my head when I think of those are things like how they would do horses, which would be really simple shapes. Like suddenly this really simple shape hopefully evokes the idea of a horse. Once you've got your simple shapes, you can start moving them around. So we could have our dog coming towards us, there's our dog's head. We've just imagined this little bit as a square, this bit as a bigger square. Then we got legs coming down and a little body. If we want a tail, we can then move them slightly to the side. Again, we're just using the same simple shapes. And rotating their body round so that we get different number of legs visible and we get the tail coming out at different angles. Just have a play with these ideas. Just look at what's more effective. What's been the most effective for you here. Is it the really simple shapes? Or is it where I've gone a bit complicated. Relatively complicated here. Very simple. Over here. For me it's these very simple shapes are producing the most effective animals. For me, if that's what's working the best, that's what we should stick with. 14. Make a Self Portrait: Last, and definitely not least. What about you? So, this is our mini self portrait. I've left just a touch of my page so I can do me. I'm going to draw my hoodie. I'm going to have a paint brush in my hand. I'm going to have my dog, who is currently sat right underneath the camera. And I'm going to just sketch what is making me, me today, in a very simple doodle. So have fun. And I would love to see your doodle self portrait. What makes you today? What makes you in life? What are the important things that you think you should add to a tiny self portrait to finish off your amazing project? And last but not least, and definitely not least, possibly most scary, is what about you now to finish off your page or your pages, your project? What I would love you to do is a miniature self portrait. So what about you? A little doodle version of yourself? Of course. I'm going to embarrass myself by doodling myself. What we're going to do is we're going to take these ideas and we're going to just work out what around us, what is making us today for me. Let's start with me. I'm going to put my little head here. I'm wearing a hoodie. I'll put my hoodie on, which is a big jumper, isn't it? We'll give it the hoodie pocket at the front. That's a bit of context. My little legs. There we go. Now I've got one, just I'll put one hand out the way on my side and the other I'll be holding my paint brush. Of course, I'm drawing at the moment, but I very often paint as well. And I think a paintbrush held like that, it's just got just enough arrogance, that creative thoughtful pose to make me feel, feel silly about myself in the background. Let's pop painting. I've got about five or six paintings on the wall, lots of them of buildings and things. There's a little building in the background, always at my feet whenever I'm trying to do my work is my dog. We've got these simple shapes and this is the one I like the most. But she sat down. So I'm going to take those ideas. I'm going to convert it into a sitting post. Now, Betty sat there whining, scratching, making noises as I'm trying to film over in the corner. I've got my desk. It's quite a long desk, actually. My desk on one side, I've got my computer. I do all my editing and things. We'll pop that on there. I just do a little bit of hatching to send that into the distance of I've got my little filming set up. Let's see if I can get that idea. We just get a little camera poking down. Most importantly, somewhere on this will be a little cup of coffee. There's my little cup of coffee to keep me going. What else have I got in my room to finish off our page? Well, I have just these giant stacked shelves full of books, sketch books, all these things. Then underneath, I've got paints and boxes and things like that. Then I can de all the paints in this scale, I'm going to do boxes and boxes and maybe some little jars which suggest those paints. There you go. That is the finish to my scene that is me today, my hoodie, my dog, my paintings, my little bit of work, and my bore it. Now you've basically had a pour of my room. This is my doodle page. So we've worked all the way through shapes, unfinished shapes, poses, baldlines and hatching, clovering, accessories, jobs, scenery. We've done so much. I would love you to have joined in. Have some fun, play with these ideas and share it when you have finished as well. 15. Christmas Doodles Part One: In this bonus lesson, what we're going to do is take our doodle people and we're going to turn it into a Christmas theme. I'm going to add this lesson just in time for Christmas so that if you are looking for something to do something extra to play with, we're going to be able to use our same doodling, using our shapes, to fill up a page with Christmas and animals and more. Let's start by actually starting with the more, because what's a great thing to sketch at Christmas Snow, what comes with snow is of course a snowman. Now, snowman are great because we already know that they are shaped. We know the simplest snowman is just going to be two little circles and maybe three very little circles, a triangle. And then we can give them some little sticks for arms. Now one thing we often fall into the trap of with snow is thinking snow, it must be white. But actually snow has got lots of shadows, lots of blues, often lots of yellows and browns in it as well. There you go, Simple Snowman. We can then create slightly different snowman. We can give them multiple parts to their body. We can give them a little bit of attitude with their arms. We could even personify the make them come to life a little bit. There's his same little buttons and nose. What about a hat? There's another quirky little snowman. Again, simple hatching, a little bit of a bold edge on one side. And let's just continue our little run of snow coming along here. Why not do one? Let's do one more. This one can be a melty snowman's, going to fall over slight inside, perhaps looking a bit sad because it's almost the end of the snow. But there you go, a little bit of character, a little bit of fun. His arms are going to droop down. This is just playing with those same ideas that we had earlier with getting in the movement of people. This time we're getting in the pose of melting and wobbling. Instead of having the smooth circles. I've gone for rickety circles just like that. Hopefully we get the idea of a perilous snowman. Someone or snowman on the edge, on the edge of falling over. Now let's continue on and let's do some Christmas trees. These can be outdoor Christmas trees. Really simple way of doing that is just get these little balls around the outside of what is effectively just a triangle, isn't it? All we need is a little triangle. We come back to the trunk and we could do another one. We can make this a little more abstract. There's no reason why our doodles have to be clear shapes. We could do something like this, just a little swirl going up and down on that. We can also pop our ball balls and then continue it along within this. No harm in doing it. A little bit of hatching, No harm in having some bold lines in adding some more circles. Maybe even we do tiny little person on top that can now be a nice angel just decorating the top of our tree. Well, we could do buble here, we could do a simple star or something like that. Now let's stack up some presents along here. Presents are lovely, presents are squares, They can be rectangles. But finding that little bow can often explain very quickly exactly what it is that we're drawing. Here's another present. Let's have a circular present. This time we'll just pop the bow on the side and have it ribbons coming around. Still outside. For some reason, some's left these presents outside. Let's continue our snow coming along there as well. Now let's go down a line. Let's go to the man himself. Santa. Of course, Santa is just going to be one of our people wearing a funny outfit. We've got our different shapes in. The simplest is just going to be a series of squares, triangles, squares, rectangles, more squares. We can just build up a funky little santa just like poppy is not belly, but his little roll of fluff coming down there, he's got this wool, has a knee in the front in a lot of images of him. And then he can be stood here perhaps this is a Santa enjoying his glass of Sherry that at least in our family. We leave Santa a glass of Sherry. I don't know if I've just owned up to something incredibly odd or not. Do let me know if that's something other families to. It's a little tradition along with leaving a carrot for the reindeer and things like that. We can do a couple of different Santas. Santa can have lots of different feelings. They could have big hats. Small hats. They can have big heads joined up heads. Small heads. He could be really simple, with just a big circle body. Maybe he's got buttons and here's his beard coming around there and little legs, again, just poking out really silly Santa perhaps. This is a Santa imposter. A little bit of hatching always. For whatever reason. This hatching for me always just makes these things suddenly come to life a bit. Let's get his arm a little bit better. There we go. Maybe we'll do one more Santa. Why don't we do one more little Santa? Let's get this. So picking something up, even that's another pose, isn't it? So he's going to have his hat, and his hat will bend over because he's bent over himself and he's a big chap. So we'll give him a nice big body, a bit of a belly coming forward. The fluff on that as well that I called it. Then now he's got his arms coming forward. Perhaps he's picking up one of our presents, or maybe he's putting it down. It's hard to tell, isn't it? With a static image? Maybe he's putting down, maybe he's putting down a present under a Christmas tree. Here's our little Christmas tree, just like our other tree. And then we're starting to build up these ideas of scenes. This Christmas tree is an indoor tree, pop it in a pot. And then tiny bit of hatching. If we want to give it a bit more context, we can maybe pop a little set of toys around it. Here's a bear just at the side. Little bar. Again, that wasn't very tidy. I can net in them up with some bold lines. Maybe we've also got a train set or something. Here's a tiny little doodle shapes. Again, it's just simple shapes going for little triangles and squares, little triangles and squares all just building up circles underneath. There's our train. Our train could have little lines coming up the top. A little bit of toy steam, I guess going to neaten up our tree a little bit. Give it a poled line can lengthen Santa's legs because the tree is a bit lower. There we go. We got this scene emerging, haven't we? Funky Santa based scene. I forgot this Santa beard. Here we go. Now he's got a beard as well. There's popping a little gift down under the tree perhaps. Now Santa comes with some reindeer doesn't let's work out how to do our reindeer. In fact, our inde can come with a little sleigh I'm going to do is a embellishment. And it's just an embellished box, that's all we're doing. A little embellished box, There's our box, that's our sleigh. We can give it these inner frames, a couple of lines coming down underneath. We've got the sleigh runners, and there you go, That's all you need. This is just simple, silly little doodling. A little bit of hatching down here and then pops and presents in, maybe not just presents, we could also have someone helping Santa to drive it there. Perhaps a little chappy here, just helping to drive. And I guess it's going to have a steering wheel. This one. There we go, A couple more presents in little things stacked up behind maybe a little tube as well coming up behind. Just all different kinds of things you might imagine as a child as being present. That along we need the snow back underneath as well, don't we? Little line coming. Then we just find our little reindeer shapes. We did animals, didn't we? In one of the last lessons, we can remember that basically they can just be something as simple as a rectangle and a rectangle. Then with that, we can just give it the context. The little horns, nice nose and legs. That is a rectangle. And a rectangle for me, looks all right. Looks a bit like a reindeer enough like a reindeer that in the context of our dude works, We can then just add another. Maybe this one can have his head turned to face us. We just do a rectangle here for the body, a square. And then we change the angles of these antlers. Now we've got our funny little reindeer pointing towards us. Always good fun just creating these funny, silly little scenes. There we go, I'm going to do a bit more boldening of my lines, emboldening a few bits, just to add a bit more clarity to what's going on. Before you know it, we've got a fun little row of scenery going on here, and if that's not enough, check out the next lesson where we'll be doing even more Christmas doodling of people. 16. Christmas Doodles Part Two: Now we could embellish this even more, couldn't we? We could create full scenes. So why don't we do down in this corner, a house with a chimney, the roof. Really simple shapes down here, we can put in a nice door in the middle. There we go, Little window, another little window. Let's pop a window down here as well. My house is looking a little bit wonky, isn't it? But that's okay. This is a little doodle. These unplanned explorations of wherever your brain wants to go, don't always end up going somewhere sensible. It's fine if it just doesn't fully become this incredibly neat object. But as we build it up with the hatching, with the bold lines, for me notice how that's just coming together gradually. Little by little, it actually does start to make sense as a house. Now on top, let's a little Santa on top of. Again, we've got Santa stood there. He can have a present in his hand. Maybe just down here, we can pop one of our little trees. Let's do a swirly tree. We can even do a couple of the swirly trees are so easy to do, just swirly trees do. We don't really need anything else in our scene, do we? Just a little bit more hatching. If we're going to do simple doodles, we can do tiles, simple bricks. These things just add to the fun of the scene. What else can we do to just bring a little bit more fun? A couple of angels. I think maybe they can be up here because I know it's very mixing secular and non secular here. But we can have our angels flying as part of our Santa scene. Here we get little wings, so all we're doing triangle, some simple wings, little halo because that's just part of our normal imagery for, for an angel. Then they're bending forward so the shadow is going to be underneath here, underneath their belly. If that's indeed what angels do you have? There we go. What else can we do just to fill up the space here? Well, let's move away from people and animals and let's just do some other Christmas related things. Firstly, we could do little baubles. We could just do simple baubles. These could be hanging off a rope, so they could almost be little lights. A really nice way of decorating the edge of a Christmas card, or if you scale these up a bit, you can actually make an entire Christmas card just out of simple decorations like this. You could splash on a little bit of color and make it feel fun. Other things which tend to hang around at Christmas, little stockings. You could build a stocking into a fireplace scene. Perhaps we can even just pop ourselves a hanging area. Maybe this is the top of a fireplace, maybe it's not. There we go. We can get our stockings in. We can decorate these a bit, like we decorated the different clothes and things. We can decorate these, maybe one has stripes and the other has little dots. Again, just make sure we remember our little bald lines, our little fine lines. A little bit of hatching. Even where we've got these stripes, we can still hatch if we make the hatching feel different. What else? We could do a theme of having an Advent candle. You could just create these simple doodles. They're just simple shapes building up to say something about your scene. These could go on the banister, they could go around the tree. Lots of things you could do with the Simple Doodles around Christmas time. Let's do a couple of other foodie bits. For example, why not do a Christmas pudding? That's a really wonderful, classic images in it as well. All these things just make brilliant little doodle sketches. There's a candle on top because why not A little bit of holly, holly ivy. There's another good little Christmas doodle. There's little holly leaves, ivy. You can pop those around the edges of cards. Got our Christmas pudding. That's got little currents. Can pop it on a plate if you want. We just need to get those overlapping circles. And again, make it bold. Give it a little bit of hatching in places. Last but not least, the challenge for this whole class was to, of course, create a self portrait. Why don't we do a self portrait? What we hope to be doing a Christmas for me, I've asked lots of people, whenever someone said, what do you want for Christmas? Well, I've gone and said, what I'd like is some watercolor pencils in your favorite colors. I'm hoping that when I get to Christmas I'm going to be surrounded by watercolor pencils doing some silly sketches. Let's draw a little house on here. I'm going to be drawing a little house that can already be hung up on my wall because I hope that I've got roaming around being slightly mad and free self. Betty is of course not my girlfriend or wife. Betty is my dog. Then I also hope that I've got my family around and that we're having a nice time together. I'm sure the food will be good. My mom always loved to wear a hat, so there's my mandate. A couple of hats. We also have reindeer ears. I thi wearing her reindeers. For me, this is a little picture of fun my nuclear family may, with some sketching things. There you go. A little self portrait of what I hope to happen at Christmas. I hope that was fun for you. You could of course, add some little colors if you want. I've got these Posca pens, which can be really fun. We could just go around very quickly adding dots of gold in different places. Maybe in things like our baubles, we can make a little bit more of the gold. Same on some of these in our candles, but I love for being simple as well. Don't overdo things, just have a bit of a play and enjoy yourself. Most importantly, this is a little Christmas lesson I'm adding on for Christmas this year. I do hope that everyone watching has a pleasant Christmas. I know it can be a tough time of year as well as a really fun and happy time of year. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Do try and stay creative if that's something important to you, I know it's important to me. Use it as a time of inspiration, having a bit of fun, and hopefully getting to try some new little sketching tools, and sketching tips if that's what you want for Christmas. 17. Sharing Your Project!: Well done. Thank you for following me through for another class. I had a blasting this. It's a bit different to my normal sketching style, but it's all the same ideas of simplifying, seeing the world in a different way and getting my own ideas and creativity on the page. I hope that you feel the same way. I hope that you've enjoyed yourself and are proud of whatever you've produced, be it five people or 100 animals getting onto Noah's Ark. I'm sure that there is something to love in your project. Share your project with me. Click the Project and Resources tab and Create Project. Just a simple photo. If you've got the time, write your thoughts about what went well and what was challenging what you learned. You can also review my class if you enjoy. It means the world. It's a huge complement. And it really helps me know that what I'm producing is useful and interesting for the skillshare community out there. If you'd like to follow me on skillshare, that'd be amazing. I have I think, nearly 25 different classes here now on a range of different subjects, from urban sketching to continuous lines, to ways to just loosen up and have fun. I'd love to see you join in and have fun with me in those other classes. You can also find me, my name is Toby Hazel or Toby Sketchloose on Instagram and Youtube where I have loads of other tutorials and on my website, Sketch Loose.com.uk where I host some comprehensive courses. Most importantly though, keep creating, have fun, and enjoy your sketching.