Learn to Draw Flowers - The Art of One-Line Floral Doodling

1. Introduction: There are some subjects in art which just seem incredibly challenging. Often they're natural things which have got so much variation, odd perspective, and minute details which seem really important, and we must capture them to get the perfect sketch. Well, today we're going to take that all and turn it on its head. What we're going to do is use continuous line drawing to create fascinating, simple, interesting, and quick sketches of flowers. Flowers, of course, which are both complicated and sometimes overdone and too easy to make cliched. But today, by the end, you'll be confidently scribbling away, filling up sketchbooks, making postcards, making even little gift cards, gift tags, bookmarks, that kind of thing. Little presents for yourself or even for a loved one. My name is Toby, and continuous line sketching is the thing I love, the thing which inspires me in all of my art. Whether I'm creating my classical urban sketches or doing my fun doodles, I love using continuous lines. I'm going to explain in this class exactly why I think continuous lines are a wonderful form of art. Not just for fun, but also for enhancing skills and creating simplicity and being able to approach different subjects. At the end, we'll show that it isn't just flowers that we can apply these techniques to you. In fact, we'll sketch a range of other things still breaking it down and looking at how easy it can be. The aim today is that you have fun, that you just get out your pen, your paper, do some scribbles, do some doodles, but along the way gain some confidence. A little bit of skill, and some ideas which perhaps can influence your style in the future. With that, let's just get sketching. 2. Supplies: The first thing that we need to think about are the supplies we're going to use. What I really want to stress here is keep it simple. Any pen, any paper will do. I'll show you now a few ideas, a few options. And I'll show you what I'll be using today, which literally includes scraps of paper. So anything will work today. These are some options for things you might want to use in the class. I say they are options really you could make do with any pen, any paper. But I'll show you what I'm going to be using. I'd also love to see you get creative and use things that I haven't thought of or use your favorite different pens, materials, paper or something really out there. What I'm going to be using is my sketch book. This is by White of Brighton. It's got wood color paper inside. And you can see I use it for lots of different types of sketching, as well as painting and everything in between. So I've got all thoughts filling out my sketchbook here, including things you might have seen elsewhere around Skilsha. What we're going to be doing is filling a couple of pages of this with things like this little flower doodles. But that's not all we're going to be doing. So I'm going to show you how you can use these same flower doodles on scraps of paper. So these are bits of paper. I've cut off other paintings, and these can make really lovely little notes to go in presents, or little gift tags probably to put on the outside of your presents, maybe at Christmas or a birthdays and things like that. Or they could make postcards. And for that I've got some lovely postcards here. And you can see, I've been doodling away already in some of these, but again, we've got space. I could make some more postcards using these floral designs. These one line floral designs. All sorts of ideas for different paper you could use. But the possibilities I'm sure are endless in terms of pens. I'm going to be using my favorite pen, this is a fountain pen by platinum, and I'm going to be using my favorite ink, which is carbon ink, also by platinum. This is water proof that works well when I'm using my watercolors. But we're not today, again, you could use any ink. There's other examples of different fountain pens, you could use rollerball pens. So this is a rollable pen. I've actually got some gray ink inside of it, then you could use things like this. This is an ink pen or a fine liner. There's other fine liners like this one by Unipen. These are all different sizes. The size isn't super important either. A fun option, which you could try is using something completely different. This is a Posca pen, rather than having ink in. It's got a crytic painting. Why not use colorful markers to create these little doodles? There's some ideas from me, but do bring out your own ideas as well. Let's see the creativity that we can all get together with today in this class. 3. Project: As you know, there is always a project and today's project is really easy, really fun, and also really open. I'm going to be showing you loads of different ways where we can use these same simple techniques to create amazing little doodles of flowers in my style. In your own style, in your own way. If you want to make a postcard, if you want to make a gift, if you want to do something I haven't thought of, that would be brilliant. If you want to gain confidence by copying my ideas, that is also absolutely amazing. All I ask, because you just get stuck in that. You don't worry if it doesn't look perfect, just have a look at mine. They're not perfect, but I enjoyed myself and that is the main project. Enjoy yourself creating some floral little doodles. Share them, put them up in the class projects and resources gallery. And I'll come back, give you a little compliment and some encouragement. And we'll all together be creating, having fun and inspiring each other. 4. Why just one line?: Now, all of my, my sketches are going to be continuous lines. That is because I absolutely love doing continuous line sketches. That doesn't mean you have to do continuous lines. But if you like the idea, and I'm going to persuade you in the next couple of minutes, well, I'm going to try and persuade you that it's a great idea to get involved with continuous line sketch. If it does sound like something you want to try, then this is a fantastic opportunity to explore that. If it's not something which feels like the best move for you, then don't worry, it doesn't have to be a continuous line. All I ask is you make some lovely, simple flowery doodles. With that in mind though, let's have a look at how and why I'm using continuous lines today to create my flowery doodle sketches. One of the fundamental things we're going to be doing today is breaking out a little bit and using continuous lines to create our doodles, to create our sketches. And this is one of my favorite techniques. And of course, with that comes a favorite question, which is why use continuous lines? Well, I think there are several really good reasons, and I'm just going to explain to you now the benefits that I think come with continuous lines. Firstly, I find the art. They produce just a heap of fun. Even something as simple as an apple can become interesting just because it's all put together in one line. Something as simple as that is enjoyable to do because we're doing it differently, because we have engaged our brain in a different way. For me, that little extra focus needed to create that continuous line is what makes it really fun. It also excuses us from a lot of pressures if we're trying to draw this apple. Or let's do something more challenging. Let's do a, perhaps a glass of whiskey. If we are trying to draw this and get all the exact reflections, you can imagine the reflections going up the sides. You get the little bubble of reflection at the bottom. Often inside, you've got all this ice reflected in all sorts of awkward ways. And if I was trying to draw that and make it real, make it realistic, and not use a continuous line. I would see every mistake. I would see every error I made. But instead, I can forgive myself all of these things because I couldn't have done it baddo because I was doing a continuous line. And it doesn't matter if I make mistakes. The same happens in street scenes. If I'm drawing a complicated street with lots of perspective and it goes a bit wonky, things don't quite work out perfectly well actually. That continuous line, feel those loose lines. Let me get away with that. Not just in my own brain, but also I think on the paper, it actually looks more interesting despite inaccuracies and mistakes in the perspective or the proportions. So we've got fun, we've got forgiveness as our next sort of theme of why to use things. The next is that it makes us simplify. We cannot possibly draw a house and draw every brick without it becoming a total mess. If we try and do it in a continuous line instead, we can draw a few. Maybe we can draw the big shapes. We can draw the windows. And before you know it, yes, you have a slightly abstract feeling house. But you have a house and it's fun and it's come to life. That's because we have simplified the simplification, makes it a bit faster, and it makes it more easy for us to translate this onto the page. I think for flowers, these ideas are all perfect. Because flowers are incredibly complicated. Their petals will bend over in all awkward way. You might have a daffodil in it's nice, classic pose, facing out to the side, that's great. But then it might come and face you, and then you're left trying to get something different. But one of these petals might have fallen slightly to the side. If you're stuck trying to create that perfect daffodil every time, well, you're going to be there for hours. And that might be what you want to do, it might be that your preferred style is very slow and considered. For me it's about simplifying, forgiving myself, having fun, and just enjoying myself to make these complex things, whether it's urban scenes, whether it's sketching my guilty pleasure in the evening or whether it's something as fun and challenging as flowers. I love using continuous lines, and that's what I'm going to be focusing on in the class today. 5. How to simplify!: It's all well and good, me going, This is really easy. But of course it does help to have a little bit of background, the ideas that we're seeking to achieve. What I want to do right now is show you the key steps, the key things that we're thinking about when we're making our little flowery doodles, little floral sketches. Because when we do set out to do a quick loose and fun sketch, having a couple of fundamentals in our head can really just generate that feeling of success and create a more consistent result on our page as well. Now we can move from Y continuous lines to scooch my page over. How are we going to apply continuous lines to flowers? This is the second theory lesson, for want of a better word, where we're going to just examine what features there are of flowers and how we can quickly capture them on our page. Let's just take any old flower. Let's take something as simple as perhaps a hibiscus. Now, hibiscus flower is one which has got basically a center. We got a nice circle, and then some nice symmetrical peppals, which come out something like this. You can see we could simplify even down to geometric shapes. A circle, square shapes. Now most seem to have five petals. I don't know if that's a requirement of a Hibiscus or not, but if we did five or six for me, it wouldn't matter. We then have these other little leaves of poking out from behind which are forming different shapes. What we're trying to get in our head is what is making this, this flower. Hopefully, just by talking it through, I've given you the three things which make this for me, this flower, the center, which is a circle. These petal shapes and these leaf shapes. We could take something else, very common, maybe a daisy. What makes a daisy? A daisy? Well, we have the center, again, it's a little circle. We can start imagining the texture of it though dibbles and dabbles of seeds in the middle. Then the petals. This time there's loads of them and they're more like this linear shape. We can start thinking about those shapes. What else? Perhaps this time we also want to extend the stem. Think about what that looks like. Nothing special. I don't think in a daisy. Then the leaves again. Sure they're particularly special, but they've got a certain shape to them. Now we've got these three or four different things that we're trying to capture to create our flowers. And that's what we're trying to do, is we sketch quickly as we do our continuous lines. We're just trying to get the key elements, the key ideas that suggest our flower. We're not drawing every inch of the flower. We're not making our flower perfect. Instead, our tulip, for example, could be as simple as this flowing line with this flowing shape on top. Look, that's our tulip, because what have we done? We've captured the overall shape of that flower. We've captured the idea of these flowing leaves and the straight stem. It's not obviously 100% every time a tulip, but it is a fun doodled version of a tulip. And it's something which could be put on a card or could be even put on a poster or something. Just bringing a little bit of art to a very often overdone or cliched subject. Just to recap, when we're using our continuous lines, what we're needing to think about is how we are capturing the key elements. Is it the center, the petals, the leaves, the stem? Three or four things in your head. Then all we do is we link them up really simply. We're going to be doing layers of that in the next few lessons as we think about filling our sketch book, making our postcards and all those other ideas to create our doodle project with our lovely little flowers. 6. Our first doodles: The first thing we're going to do is fill up a sketchbook page with different flowers. This is going to be split into two lessons so that they're nice and short. If you want to sketch along, you can if you want to have a watch and then find your own flowers to sketch. You also can all the references I'm using are in the class resources and I'm also going to pop them up. So we're up on one side of the screen as well. As we sketch along, join in, Have fun, those continuous lines if you want. If you think that there's something you'd like to experiment with, otherwise do it in your style, your way with your materials and your ideas. Let's just dive in, I'm going to have some fun filling up a page in my sketchbook first and exploring different flowers and different shapes with continuous lines. I would love you just to join in. Pick my flowers. Pick your own flowers. Go to your garden, find things there. All we're going to do is just fill up a page whilst considering what we're doing the first one, let's take something very classic. We've got a poppy. The poppy has a straight stem. I'm going to bring my line straight up. We can give it the funny, I think it's called spiky leaves, hasn't it? These little spiky leaves. And all we're doing is connecting them, getting that idea. And then we can bring it up and what's the poppy really all about those really big petals? Let's get that big outline first. And all we're doing is we're finding what's the bit which reminds us most of the poppy inside. It's got some slightly smaller, overlapping petals, and in the middle it's actually got a really dark center. So we can even use our continuous line to hatch, just to create that little hatched interior. If we want, we can go over some lines again, come back down, then end a little swirl, and we can even pop our initial sin. Or if you wanted, you could write poppy, I'm going to pop poppy just here. Great to have a little reminder of what we were trying to achieve because with a loose abstract style like there, sometimes it's not going to look perfect, is it? It's fun to be able to look back and think, ah, that's what I was going for. Now let's do something completely contrasting to that. Let's do some bluebells. What bluebells do? Well, got these stringy little leaves, almost grass like coming up there, and then they just droop over. That's the shape I want with my line. Then they have the bell shape with this wide outer, we can just bring them down. The Constantine is probably the wrong word, but they chain along like that, don't they? They're often in clusters. Let's get another one in the background that can be a bit fainter because even though this is just a doodle, we can still practice ideas of getting depth in our image. And we could pop another one, maybe in the foreground here, just bending over and giving us its little bell shaped blue bells. Again, be abstract but loose fun. That's all we're after. That idea of a little field full of bluebells, got a little bit of depth. We've got the idea of the shapes, the key elements. There we go, Two flowers done already. Let's move on to something else. What about forget me? Not forget me, not we. Just tiny little leaves, they're all tangled. Then the flowers themselves are these small, delicate petals, lots of them. Or they tend to be. At least in the pictures and things that I see, all which we do. Again, we're getting that idea, aren't we? It doesn't have to be a perfect representation. Some of them will have stems which makes sense. And won't have stems which make sense. Some of them can be folded over so we can get this idea of this one's facing away from us, instead of all of them facing us. We just change the perspective of our lines. Get a little bit more chaos down here. There we go again. Next to no time we've got another little flowers. This is it. Forget me not. Let's just add one more skinny flower in the side. Let's do something again, very contrasting. What about lavender? Lavenders. It's not always, I guess, Fs of flower, is it? But it's got these little groups of flowers that doesn't it. All circles, which come on top of these spiky leaves, we just gradually change from circles to spikes. Then we can go up the other side and we're just keeping these ideas consistent. Again, these little simple continuous line doodles just letting me break away. Have a bit of fun. We can cross over as well. So let's cross over and have a little bit of lavender slightly poking out the side. They tend to be fairly orderly. They, they're not just higgledy piggle's, not like grass which is flowing this way and that way. They do tend to have some order being quite straight regimented but also naturalistic. Not just a boring row of lavender. There we go, that's our first little row of flowers. In the next row of flowers, we'll just introduce some other ideas and join me in the next lesson, next part, and we'll do four more flowers under here before moving on to exploring other concepts as well. 7. Filling up a page: This lesson is just a continuation of the last one. We're going to fill the bottom half of our sketch foot page. Have a bit of fun and see what happens. Now let's do some other wild flowers to start with. One I love harvesting is wild garlic. And this one I know quite well. It's got this single big leaf, big green leaf. That's how, well, apart from the smell, that's how you can find it. In woodlands near me then is this rather delightful collection of white petals, really little dots, all just collected together. And it's got a really lovely smell, amazing to pop on top of your salad. If you are foraging both, make sure you know you're looking for, you don't accidentally get something. This isn't a foraging channel, this is definitely a skeptic channel. But make sure you're doing it responsibly. There we go. That's my wild garlic already really quick. Such a simple idea to create these doodles and so much fun to be able to fill up a page with them. Let's do another one which is fun and edible. And this is Camma Mile has these little scraggly leaves, so we can just create those little scraggly leaves coming up. A few here, a few there. Then the flowers themselves are quite delicate. Again, pokey leaves, again, there tends to be a few of them. Let's just get these little pokey leave. Pokey petals. Pokey petals and pokey leaves, I suppose, isn't it? That's what we're saying again. In no time we can produce these pretty fun, pretty lively little suggestions of mail. And I'm going to continue my tradition of labeling them. What should we move on to next? Well, let's do something rather classic. A little bit of honeysuckle. Honeysuckle now has these amazing leaves. This is again where we just get to revel simplicity of a continuous line. By just using our continuous lines, we can build up a complex suggestion without any real effort. The leaves tend to be quite simple, so we'll just do simple leaf, maybe even just a little bit of some of these petals. A little bit more complexity going on up here again, finish it off and pop honeysuckle in the side. Now the last one I want to do, let's make it even more complicated. This one. Do something like a Dalio Dahlia. What do we think of here? Well, this has got these really lovely overlapping leaves, petal overlapping petals. They've got this really tight, concentric pattern. Again, this could be a lot of different flowers, couldn't it? But what we're doing is we're just taking our idea of this flower today. Or at least what I'm doing is I'm doing my idea of this flower today, just capturing it as best I can with the limitations which are purposefully imposed by continuous lines. You can see by just building up these lovely loose cylindrical, tear droppy type shapes, we can build up this concentric idea of a classic flower and quickly build up the idea of what's going on without having spent hours, without having to be too neat, without even really needing to copy a reference or anything. We just we've got the idea in our head and then we can just build it out with simple lines. So there you go. This is my idea to start with for really simple pages you can just fill with flowers. Next, we're going to build on this and start exploring other compositions. And that's where our other bits of paper will be coming in. 8. Change our composition: The amazing thing about simple doodling, having fun, and creating this unique art is that it doesn't have to stay in your sketch book. This is where we can get playful. This is where I'd love to see, for example, your ideas and your inspirations. I've got some scraps of paper. I've got some postcards. Let's look at how changing the composition, not necessarily sketching a specific flow, but using these ideas that we've worked on, Using them with continuous lines, interesting arrangements can create a gift tag. It can create a postcard. It can create something you'd love to send, perhaps at Christmas or Mother's Day to a loved one. With that, let's just see what we can do to adapt our ideas and make them something else. Perhaps even more so if you're anything like me, you'll have all these sort of scraps of paper that you don't want to throw away, but you just don't know what to do with. And they're all different sizes and they're just awkward, aren't they? Well, they're awkward until you get into the habit of doodling and creating little handmade gifts and just having fun with your art. So let's take one of the most awkward ones and let's explore a couple of compositions that we can put together with our flowers. And we can do one like this, one like this. These will make amazing little gift tags or presents, or perhaps a bookmark, that thing. It uses all these same ideas here. What we could do, for example, is take our ideas, not necessarily thinking about specific flowers this time. Although we might have specific flowers in mind, we can just build in this continuous line. Let's just get just a classic flower first, just any old little circles built in. And then maybe we will do something we think of a bit more. Maybe we'll do like a rose. And that's going to be series of concentric circles. We're sketching much smaller here. We're simplifying our ideas even more, but with that comes natural beauty. Natural beauty of these simple shapes. Now let's do something which could be a poppy perhaps, or maybe it's a pansy. They've got similar, these big leaves, I keep saying leaves, I mean petals, of course. The thing about a pansy is it has more of like a dark center with this secondary layer of dark coming out. Maybe that is enough to turn that into a pansy. I really enjoyed doing the pseudo Dalia in the last one, so I'm going to do really loose version of that here. Real squiggly little petals, just concentric circles building in making it complex without actually making it complex. Then last, let's finish off with something nice and simple. Again, we can make it a little bit symmetrical compared to this side where we end with something which is just a classic little flower. Perhaps this one is daisy. And then you can sign it or put your initials look a lovely little gift tag or present. What can we do here? Well, we can take a similar idea, but now what we'll do, we'll start at the top and we will pop in a little center. And then we can build in some petals in random shape, then come down and there's maybe a leaf and then something a bit like our Forget me Nots. Perhaps this doesn't make sense, does it? Having all different flowers all linking together. But does it have to make sense? No, we're just creating a little bit of art. We're using those ideas. Perhaps we even want to create some bluebell like shapes drooping down off this multi genetic plant. Let's call it a conglomeration of our plant ideas. Little fun leaves can come in here and then we get all the way to the bottom. Let's give it some big leaves to fill up that space. Again, a little signature. And look by using the same doodly ideas. We've now turned a little scraps of paper into actually rather fun things that we might keep give away, turn into bookmarks. You know, you can just imagine having a bit of fun handing these out. Next, let's explore even more composition. So we're going to explore the ideas of some postcard ideas. These are actually things which I have used quite a lot. Quite recently, we've been sending out wedding invites. I'll show you what I was doing for my wedding invites as a very practical demonstration. 9. Postcard creations: Now the magic of this is you can have endless fun. We've adapted in a lot of different ways. In our first little composition type of lesson, let's just keep playing. We'll now explore some postcards and see how we can adapt our composition to be a little bit more full, a little bit more like a complete work of art, whilst still obviously remaining a simple, lovely doodle. So what I've got now are some postcards. These are six in size and you could see you could do similar, really loose ideas on them and you could send these off or use them as wedding invites, as I said before. So let's look at how we sort of think about our composition when including something a bit bigger or perhaps a bit more well composed. Nice example is if we turn this portrait, we could start imagining a bunch of flowers, couldn't we? So instead of random abstract flowers linked together, just find a nice photo of a bouquet. Get a bouquet in front of you. Let's put this particular bouquet into some vase. Let's start with that. That's a really easy place to start because it's so certain we've got a little ellipse of water. There we go. Now we've got our starting point from when all of our lovely flowers can emerge. And now we can just start going around and capturing different ideas of flowers. Flowers, perhaps this is a rose and then the side, another just nonspecific pansy type flower, I suppose. Then we've got these bell like flowers linking together, going up. Then off to the other side, we can do similar things, or we can get little leaves coming out. This is just using all these ideas that we've been playing with. Or you could, of course, get a reference and you could do this very specifically and represent what's in front of you. But just remember, keep it nice and simple So we'll get these repeating ideas. Other rose or carnation coming in here. We don't want it too busy. Make it feel full but not overwhelming. We keep moving around, leaving a bit of space here and there. Get more of these. I said bell like initially, didn't it? They're not quite bell like, they're more like overlapping flowers that I've drawn. We can have just bits of foliage coming up and about a couple more big flowers. Before you know it, you'll have filled up your page. Let's get a few more of these little ideas coming around then. Just like that I could say that we are done with this one at I always say that there's always something I want to do this time, be getting the stems in now because this is more considered. What I could suggest actually is maybe we're not done. So we could be done, or what we can do is we can go right, there's a lot going on. Let's just bring forward these key lines. So we can now use our pen or use a boulder pen. And we can just bring those slightly bolder lines forward. We can give the top of the water an actual top, for example, we can do little bits of hatching. We don't want to do too much. We don't want to turn this delightfully loose and light fun sketch into something excessively challenging or busy. It's fun as it is, but we can perhaps enhance it and make it actually feel simpler by just making some of the key outlines, by outlining these flowers, for example. Suddenly they become key, they become obvious, and they're no longer as lost in the background. Just a few of these key shapes, not all of them, not every bit. But do you see how we're taking those same ideas we were using before, these lovely loose, very quick ideas, and we're just turning it into something a tiny bit more. Not a huge amount more, but a tiny bit more. Still relaxed, still forgiving, still fun, still based on a continuous line, but also a little bit more considered more of a complete depiction, for want of a better word scene. Not really a scene as it, but of our still life. There you go. Just like that. We again can basically say there is our fun postcard complete. I'd be very happy to send that out as a lovely handmade little gift. And indeed, that is the thing that my unfortunate friends and family receive all the time. 10. Other subjects (NOT flowers): Now what I don't want you to do is think, ah, this is great fun, but I don't want to just sketch flowers forever. Never fear this lesson is where we're going to adapt even more. We can draw anything using this fun, loose, easy, and free technique. If you are border flowers or even if you're not border flowers, why don't you try sketching things around the house. Pap's breakfast, which is coming up soon, is a source of inspiration. Perhaps a row of cocktails or some fruit. Anything is possible, and it all looks fantastic When you simplify and use those continuous lines. We've got loads and loads of different flowers now we've explored different ideas, filled up a sketch book. But I wanted to say, perhaps by this point you're thinking, all right, that was fun. I'm now bored of flowers. Well, never fear these same ideas are really applicable to everything. At the beginning, we did some things with fruit for example. Equally, you could use the same continuous line doodling ideas to really simply create a lovely bunch of fruit. Here's an apple. It's an apple because it's smoothing round. It's got that stalk, a banana. We know it's a banana. Because a banana, it's got such a classic shape. Then behind it, maybe it is an orange. We know it's an orange because it's round but less smooth. And we can even give it a little dimples. And it still has that little central bit, doesn't it? Then the background, we have another apple banana just like that. We've created another really fun, loose lively little sketch. We can use little bits of hatching to enhance certain areas if we wanted, or we can leave it as it is as a really simple little gift haag idea. I've already alluded that one of my favorite things to do is sketching cocktails and things like that. I do think it's a really fun subject because they look so pretty. Even if I don't very often drink, they're still a part of culture, aren't they? One thing we could do is use that. We pop ourselves a little, maybe this is a martini glass. There's our olives. So we've got a little olives going up and a little stick going through them. There's the martini, of course, next maybe there's a little lime or something. So let's give our lime, those little almost petal like shapes in the middle, isn't it? The segments of the lime. Maybe we've got a little bottle of alcohol here as well. There we get coming down. What makes a bottle of alcohol bottle? Well, tends to have a nice bold label on it, doesn't it? Along the way. Let's get something else. Another little drink. So this one can be, I don't know, maybe it's a bellini or mimosa in a little champagne glass. And with that we get a little bubbles. Do we, then what do we want to finish this off? Or maybe let's just have a classy bunch of grapes or something like that. Again, look simple ideas. Very simple to pull together from your imagination or from really simple reference to. And don't stop. You can draw, so we can have a little row of continuous line people just saying hello. We can have them have a dog with them. Maybe little dog just coming along for the walk. There's another person and another person and give them a bit of a surrounding so that they fill up the page. There we go. Maybe now there's some lights over the top of them. Really simple, silly little doodles. But so easy just to get lost in and explore in and just keep playing with last little one that I'll do because it's my last scrap of paper in front of me. Maybe a little breakfast scene from Toby's house. Here's my all important mug and then my calf tier poking out with my French press coming down there inside. We know we've got some dark coffee, so I'll scratch that in. Then off to the side, almost lost because it's so much less important. There's my little bowl of cereal with a spoon sticking out of it. And there we go, another fun little scene. And maybe what we could do is have the line we can rejoin, get it to go off the edge of the page. It joins everything together. If we want, we could have a little bits of hot air coming out the top as well. Just filling up the scene. Having bit of fun. And we can even go back. Just because it's a continuous line doesn't mean we can't go back. And let's add in the sort of press part of our French press. And there we go another silly little scene all done with the same simple techniques. So hopefully that's given you some ideas and inspiration. Not just the plants, not just the flowers, but also all sorts of other things which you could just get lost in, explore, have fun with using these kind of continuous line doodling techniques. 11. Next steps: And thank you everyone. Well done for getting all the way through this fun little doodle class where we've explored challenging techniques. In some ways not actually physically or technically challenging, but they can be mentally challenging to let loose and just let ourselves go and sketch with the flow. Do post your project. If you've done a tiny little doodle, if you've done 20 doodles, take a photo. Show people your creativity. Show people what went right and what went wrong. And I'd love to come back and let you know my thoughts to give you a little bit of encouragement with that. If you want to take the next step in doodle sketching, I've got a couple of classes, one on landscapes and one on people, which might give you a bit of fun. And if you enjoy continuous lines, I've got a whole class in depth about urban sketching using one line drawing. I'll see you in the next class. I might even see you outside of skillshare at Toby's sketch lease. Thank you again for joining me.