Mindful Drawing Date: Practice Stress Relief & Self-Care with Zendoodles

1. Class Trailer: Life can be a roller coaster, and especially in challenging times, it's important to have simple tools to bring a bit of calm, clarity, and joy back into your day. Hi, I'm ta, and I'd love to invite you to join me on a 14 day art retreat, a gentle, creative journey designed to help you slow down, relax, and care for your well being, all from the comfort of your home. Together, we'll spend a few mindful minutes each day, creating a simple yet beautiful zendoodle. Along the way, we'll gently shift your mindset toward clarity, calmness, and positive thinking. You don't need any prior experience to follow along. Just some basic drawing tools and maybe a cup of tea. Whether you prefer traditional or digital drawing, this class is designed for all of you. I'll guide you through 14 relaxing zen dooodle exercises, alternating between paper and procreate. You'll not only build a creative habit, but my daily prompts will also help you rediscover the lightness, hope, and self kindness inside you. So if you're ready for a mindful drawing date, grab your iPad or your favorite pens and paper. I'll bring the rest, including a whole bunch of helpful resources. And then I'll see you in class. 2. Class Project: We all know that we understand things better when we actually put them into practice. Since this is a totally hands on class, your class project will come together easily. All you need to do is upload at least one photo of one of your s and doodles or export your artwork from Procreate. Just head over to the Projects and Resources tab and click the Submit Project button. There, you can upload a cover image, give your project a title, and share your experience with us. How did it feel to draw? Did you try different tools or materials? Which one did you like best? Just a quick heads up. The cover image must be in landscape format. If your Zendodle is in portrait, it might get cropped. No worries. Just upload it again using the upload more content option, so we can see the full version. If you're following along daily, you can also update your project daily. Not only will you inspire others, but you'll also build a creative habit that's truly worth celebrating. I get notified every time a project is updated, and I always look forward to seeing your creations. Here's two colorful and inspiring Project Gallery. Now let's move on to the next lesson where we'll talk about the materials you can use to follow along. I will see you there. 3. Materials: Let's talk quickly about the materials you need for this class, and the great news is you can follow along with whatever you already have on hand, whether you're drawing traditionally or digitally. This is a very flexible class, and I'll be switching back and forth between two methods, one on paper with alcohol markers, and one in Procreate on the iPad. So no worries, you'll be covered either way. Let's start with a digital artists. If you're drawing in procreate, you'll need an iPad, an Apple pencil. Of course, the Procreate app, and the digital goodies I made for you. Just head over to the Projects and Resources tab, and there you find appropriate version of the coloring book plus a custom brush set and color palette in this zip file. Just open this class on your iPad and tap to download each item. Everything will end up in your files app under downloads. When you tap the brush set or color palette, they'll automatically be imported into Procreate. There, you'll find them in your brush library and of course, the palettes library. In your appropriate coloring book folder, you'll see all 14 designs as individual PNG files. Make sure to always open them from your files app. Just tap the file, hit the share icon, and choose Procreate. That way, the transparent background stays intact, which is crucial for working with multiple layers. Once the file is in prorocreate, it'll show up in your gallery and you can move it into a stack to keep everything nice and tidy. If you are a traditional artist, that's totally fine too. All you need is a printout of the coloring book, which you'll also find in the projects and resources tab. If your printer can handle it, a slightly thicker paper is nice. I printed mine on color copy paper with 100 grams per square meters. But standard printer paper works as well. I just printed it out and cut the pages in half with a paper cutter, since there are two designs on one page. Because I'm left handed, I prefer not to bind the pages. I just clip them together and take out one page at a time. Just a little lefty tip here. If you're using markers, I recommend putting something underneath your page to protect your desk. Ohuhu markers usually come with a plastic sheet. That works great. But any spare paper or even old newspaper will do too. As for drawing tools, use whatever you like. I'm currently loving the alcohol markers from Ohohu They're affordable, long lasting, and come in gorgeous colors. I also use the O hohuFneliners to make sure the black outlines don't smudge when coloring over them. But of course, you don't have to use those. Colored pencils, gel pens, felt tip pens, even crayons, it all works. Seriously, you don't need any fancy supplies for this mindful drawing date. Besides something for coloring, I'd recommend a black fine liner, maybe in a few different sizes if you have them. A pencil and a blending stump or just a good old tissue for smudging. At the end of this class, I will show you how to create your own zen doodle templates and to follow along with that, you might also want to grab an eraser and a ruler. Take a moment to look through your materials, gather what you've got, and print out the coloring pages if you're working on paper. Then I'll see you in the next lesson where I'll explain how the class works. No 4. How the Class Works: Hi, and welcome to this creative and calming class. Before we dive into the first project, let me quickly walk you through how everything works. You'll be working on 14 different zendoodle projects in this class, one for each day. Zendoodles can really do magic. They're simple repetitive patterns that you draw mindfully. One line at a time. No fancy skills or tools needed, and no pressure. While your hand is doodling, your mind gets to slow down and reset. It's a gentle way to shift your mindset and reconnect with yourself. And by making this a creative habit, you're giving yourself a daily moment to breathe. Be present and feel a little lighter. Here's how the class is structured. Each project begins with a short mindfulness moment, including a breathing exercise and a gentle thought or question of the day. It's a way to slow down, clear your mind, and get into the creative headspace. I'll also list the materials I've used in this project, but feel free to use whatever you have on hand. And then we'll draw together. I'll guide you step by step, though you're always welcome to add your own ideas as they come up. All drawing steps are included in the videos, so you can either watch first, which is surprisingly relaxing or follow along right away. And if my pace feels too slow, feel free to speed up the video. And of course, if you're drawing along and need a little more time, just hit that pause button. No stress, no rush. That's the only rule. Ready? Then let's get started. 5. Project 1: Flowers in a Grid: Before we begin, let's take a moment to arrive. Inhale. Hold and exhale. Today is a good day to start being kind to yourself. Be kind to yourself. You don't need to be perfect. This en doodle doesn't have to be perfect, either. Just treat yourself the way you would treat your best friend. Okay, so let's start with our first zen doodle and I've printed out the first one, which is called flowers in a grid. You can print out your version as well, or you can, of course, draw and procreate as you wish. I've got my markers and liners ready as well. But again, you can use whatever feels good. There are no rules, there's no right or wrong. Just have fun and relax. I'm going to start with my Oho ho fine liner five, 0.5. And I'm going to start filling each box with petals. And I kind of want them to look like a loop here in the center and to smaller one to the left and to the right to kind of fill the box just like this. And we go all around and draw the same pattern in each box. And we make sure we go as closely as we can towards the black lines, and later on, we finish all the empty spaces with black as well. And everywhere where these dots are or half circles or quarter circles, this is the center of our flower. And in our next step, we want to fill all these white corners here. We want to fill them with black. And for that, I'm using a little bit of a bigger fine liner. It's the fine liner 1.0. And I'm going to just fill in all the corners. And remember, just enjoy the process. Enjoy every little line you draw. We create something together. It looks wonderful with all these colors and lines, and it just calms our nervous system down and gives us a wonderful stress relief. And here we go. It looks gorgeous already, and now it's time to finally take a bath in color. So I start with yellow s. I have three different ones here, and I want the center of the petal. I want that to be the lightest and going towards the darkest. So let's start with my marker here, so the lightest yellow and just color the center area of this flower. Again, that works wonderfully with colored pencils as well. And if you don't have so many different different shades, that's totally fine. You just layer them. That's a perfect way. Or you go with completely different colors and mix them within the petals. That's also absolutely okay. And I think that's all we need with this e. I'm going to move on to the next one, which is yellow too. And I'm going to draw the areas to the left and to the right of our first petal. And again, if you cross the line and draw where you don't want to draw, don't be upset. It's okay. It's not about perfection. The process is our goal. That's what keeps us in the present. That's what keeps us grounded and what helps us to, you know, overcome stressful situations. The second yellow U is also finished. And now I'm going with the darkest one, yellow red one or dark yellow. This is how it's called from O ho ho. And now I'm going to draw the outside of our petals in this darkest one. Okay. And that's it for our yellow flower. Let's go on with the next one. I want this, this, this and this, I think, in my pinkish use here. And move on to the next one. And don't last pink you. Wonderful. And now our last color set, which is the purple one. And onto the next darker shade. And the darkest one. Okay, now I want to embellish the centers of our flowers. Of course, you do. If you want to be finished like that, that's totally fine. Please don't feel like you need to do whatever I am doing. Just go with your own gut with what your hand tells you. I just want to embellish the centers here, and I have the 0.3, the thinnest fine liner here. I just want to draw circles. This way, we can also kind of, you know, cover where we messed up and drew over the line. And lastly, I got my jelly roll ten, and I guess I want to add some sort of maybe maybe water little water droplets here. I think we need something more here. So I guess I'm going to fill it with simple thoughts as well. Just a few And I think we're done. Look how pretty. It's beautiful because you made it, because you took some time in your busy day to treat yourself with a nice coloring session. Thanks for drawing with me today. I see you in our next project tomorrow. Oh 6. Project 2: Circles: Welcome back to Project two. Let's start with our breathing. Just set ourselves up for drawing. Breathe in. Hold and breathe out. Our thought of the day is, what are three things you're grateful for right now? Could be big things, could be small ones. Three things you're really grateful for. Today, we're going to doodle simple circles and enjoy the calmness of repetition. I will be working in Procreate, but feel free to work on paper if you prefer. Just as a quick reminder how it works if you're using Procreate. I am here in my files app where I stored the class resources. I will open the end Doodles for Procreate file and then find page number two. I tap that and you see the canvas turns black. That's because there's a transparent background. I'm going to tap just once to get all my menus back and here we already see the design. Now I want to tap this rectangle with the arrow in there and say procreate. That means it will export the file into Procreate. I know it sounds a little bit complicated, but unfortunately, that's the only way we can open the PNGs with a transparent background, and that's exactly what we need. Let's open Procreate and here we see the files being imported. Let me quickly move that in the right ZenddleGallery, and here we have the file to open. All right. I'm going to grab my Apple pencil and we can start with our zendoodling. First of all, I have my zendoodle color palette ready and I also have my zendoodle brush set ready, and I want to start with the nice liner fine. This one works like a real fine liner. And the streamline is not very high as I want it to look like a real fine liner on paper. I just need to compensate that the canvas of an iPad screen can be a bit slippery. That's why we still have some streamline applied, but not too much. Okay, here you can see I have already some sizes saved. You can do that by just tapping there, tapping the slider again, and then tap the plus. This will memorize the brush size. These mimic the 0.3 fine liner, the next one, 0.5 and 0.7. But you can totally play around and use the thickness you prefer for your strokes. Instead one, we're going to pick the black U and of course, in Procreate, we need to add a new layer and we can drag it underneath layer one. We just leave this layer empty for now, then we don't have to drag around so many layers. We just tap the plus once more to have another empty layer right below our original design. I make sure I am on layer number three right now and will start to draw. In our first step, we want to round out all the corners. Of course, the good thing of Procreate is that we can resize and rotate the canvas, which makes it easier sometimes. But if you work on the printed design, it's totally fine to always rotate your coloring page the way you need it. And while you're drawing, always make sure to check in with your body. We tend to draw in super tense body postures, and then we end up being sore and unrelaxed that's absolutely not what we want with this exercise. So while we're doing these repetitive steps, we make sure we check in with our body every now and then to see if our shoulders are relaxed, if our face is relaxed, sometimes we tend to do weird things with our tongues or with our mouth. So just make sure check in and relax these body parts. And here we go. All right. I think we rounded out all the corners. In our next step, what we're going to do is we're going to go a size down with our fine liner. I'm now at 4%, and we want to give some sections just a tiny circle pattern, something like this. Just follow. Although I think this might be too small. Let's go back to size. What was it? 7%. So let's start and just draw circles, following the shape of the shape we've picked. And just pick random, random ones, make sure you spread them evenly. You just draw circles and circles or ovals or ovals. All right. In our next step, we want to color the white sections. I think I want to go with purple pinkish tones and yellow green and yellow, I guess. For that, I'm going to pick my brush marker, and I want to make sure I'm on layer underneath the linework layer. And let's start with this beautiful bright purple shade here. I for sure want to start Whoops. The brush size is too big, let's go down. When you draw with these markers here with the marker brush, make sure you do not lift up your pencil as this makes a weird overlapping. We just want to draw in one go. I've just decided to go with six e only, that means we can give them three to four sections. Okay. And a nighter you maybe I'm gonna go with this pinkish here. Let's move on to the yellow green. Let's see how this looks. Maybe I need I want to start with the darker one. Let's see. And maybe the lightest one, the fourth top line. And let's move on to yellow. I think I want to start with the dark orangy one. And the last one's gonna be the very light yellow you In our next step, we want to give each colored section, of course, a little bit of a shade in Procreate, we can do that really nifty by adding another layer and turning the blend mode to linear burn by tapping this N here and then move it to linear burn. Now we only need to pick this beige color here. And draw over where we want to have our shade again and this will create a very colorful saturated shade. And if it's too harsh, we just play with the opacity and turn that down a little bit. This is how I like it. 40, 45%. When you use markers, you just go over with the marker once more in the same color you've picked for your section. And of course, in our next step, where there's shadow, there also have to be a highlight. So I'm going to add a new layer and I'm going to switch to white. Now I want to pick my gel liner here. As you can see, this is not set to 100% opacity because I always think the real jelly roll keeps it's not really opaque. I want to have this little bit of translucency. If you think it should be really bright white, then you go ahead and just play with this opacity slider over there. And since we have quite a lot of, like, really black spots, I want to add another layer at the very top and just fill those with dots. Oh And here we go. We are finished. I hope you've enjoyed this moment of calm and peaceful drawing. Remember to think about things you're being grateful for as it will shift your mindset to the positive. I am certainly grateful that you were drawing here with me today and we'll see each other tomorrow in our next project. 7. Project 3: Wavy Grid: Et's take our moment to settle in. Let's breathe in together. Hold. And out. Your thoughts are just background noise, not facts. They come and go like clouds in the sky. The thoughts are just voices leftover from our past. Welcome back. Today's en Doodle project is all about letting go of perfection. Just focus on lines, shapes and beautiful colors. Today, I'm using the printed coloring book version again, but feel free to go with Procreate if you prefer. We're working on page number four, the wavy grid. I've also prepared a range of purple, pink and red alcohol markers, as well as a black fine liner, 0.5 this time, and my jelly roll pen. I've also prepared some gray. One is going to be for the shading later, and I guess one looks very nice within those colors. So before we start our bath in color, we will take our fine liner and the first exercise that will help us slow down is to round out all the corners on our grid, which means we don't want to have any pointy, but only rounded shapes. These are much more gentle for our eyes, and the whole process helps us to get calm. Relieve our stress and enjoy this very mindful process. So take your time and just round out all the corners of those little areas here in our grid. And step one is done. Now all the corners are round and it's time to take our bath in color. I've picked eight different colors. And since we have a eight by eight grid, we can color eight sections with one marker. And we want to make sure we spread them evenly. Take your time and enjoy the colors that start to pop on your canvas. And we move on to the next cover. And lastly, we've got to use our gray shade. Beautiful. And in our next step, we want to go ahead and add a little bit of highlights and shadows. And this is what I use my red gray marker for. We're just going to go around, decide for a light source, which in my case comes from here. So on the opposite side, we just draw a tiny little bit of a gray shade like this. And in our last step, we're going to use our jelly roll to draw some highlights. And I'm just going to draw a tiny little drop like this and a few short lines down along the shade. Just easy peasy, whatever you think should be there. We remember it's not about perfection. It's about the process, the drawing process to gain some stress relief, enjoy the colors, create something pretty, which brings us joy. After these 14 projects, you don't have to be finished at all. You could print out your coloring book once more and just start over again with completely different patterns or colors or whatever else you think of. You could even create your owns and doodles, which I will show you at the end of this class, I will show you two methods of creating your owns and doodles on paper or Improcreate. And we're done. So let's take a moment and look at our work. And it's super pretty. We made the time for ourselves today, and that's something we can be really proud of. I hope you enjoyed this bath in color as much as I did. Thanks for drawing with me today. I'll see you in our next project tomorrow. 8. Project 4: Leafy Lines: Hi, and welcome back to Project Number five. Let's start today with our deep breath. Inhale hold and exhale. Today's thought is, can you change it? Change it. Is it out of your control? Let it go. Let's keep that in mind while we draw. Some things we can change, and then we should. Other things are just out of our hands, and it's okay to let them go. Today, we're creating leafy lines. Simple flowing leaves arranged along diagonal lines. I'm working Improcreate again, but as always, you can pick whatever medium feels most natural and fun for you. This is an easy and relaxing pattern that invites you to just go with the flow. There's no wrong way to do this. Enjoy the movement and let your hand guide you. You can see I've opened the page number four, already Improcreate, following the steps I showed you in our second project. And as always, we are going to add a layer, put that underneath the lines layer and add another one on top. This is now layer number three, and this is where we will do our linework. I'm going to start with black and our nice line are fine. I think I'm going to stay in this middle 7% size. What we're going to do is we are going to draw drop shapes, something like this, and we just stack them on top of each other. Just like this. And maybe just one more here. And then on the other side of this axis, we draw them leaning to the other side. And one more in here. Maybe a tiny one there. All right, one axis is done, and now I'm going to leave two lines empty and go to go here in these two lines where it repeats the same pattern. Remember, you can always rotate your paper or canvas that feels more natural to you and helps you draw flowing nice lines. All right. And then I keep these two lines empty and do the same here. We're going to fill these gaps later on. All right, these are facing in this direction, and now we can rotate our canvas and put it upside down. And now we're going to do the same in this direction. Great. And now we can fill all the gaps with black. But I think I want to increase the brush size a little bit. Let's see if that's working. Yes, looks good. And now we fill just all those white edges, triangle kind of shapes. We fill that with o. And from time to time, we check in with our body. Are we are we tensed in some areas? Do we grind our teeth? Do we bite our tongue? Just make sure we relax our shoulders, our hands and arms, and overall, enjoy the process. And here we go. Now we can continue with the coloring. I want to go ahead and draw all the leaves growing in this direction, draw in red shades and all the leaves that are growing in the other direction in green shades. I'm going to pick my darkest red and the brush marker. So I'm going to add a layer underneath. We can use this one layer two, and I'm going to start here in the center with my darkest red. I'm going to leave three leaves empty and draw another one and the same here. Let's say we start here Now we move on to the next red, the medium red shade here, and draw the ones on top and beneath the dark ones. Awesome. And then we can move on to a lighter version. And I guess I'm going to go with this light pink you here. Or this one. Let's check what looks better. Let's see. I guess this is good. And we draw the in betweens in that lighter shade. All right, so that's the red part. And now I'm going to move on to our green part. I think I'm going to go with this dark green here, one, two, three, third, third column. And we're going to do the same basically. Leave three empty. Great. And now we can move on to the next screen. I think I'm going to go with this version here, the fourth in the bottom row. And then we just need our last green shade. I think I'm going to go with this medium yellow green here. Alright, so pretty. It looks so pretty. I just want to fill in this one black spot that's missing on this other layer here. Yes. And now in our next step, what we could do is we could add a little bit of shade here closest to the stem where the leaves grow out of. But in this case, I want to try something else. I'm going to go with the medium brush size of 7%, then I'm just going to draw something like a little swirl in here. All right. And in our last step, of course, we need some highlights. I want to add some highlights, so let's go to white. Pick the gel liner and add a layer on top. And then we just draw too tiny dots here onto our leaves. And we're finished. Great job. I hope you enjoyed this beautiful blooming zen doodle, and I hope you take that good energy with you now. Thank you for drawing with me today, and we'll see each other in our next project tomorrow. 9. Project 5: Loops: Hi, and welcome to Project Number five. Let's first take our moment to arrive. Let's inhale. Hold. And exhale. What makes you happy? Name three big things, small things, whatever comes to mind. What makes you happy, and what brings you joy? Remember, this moment is for you. Today's project is called Loops, and it's just as relaxing as it sounds. I will be working with a printed coloring book version again. I've printed out page number six, oops. I'll be using my O huhu alcol markers again, and I've picked three different blue shades and three different green shades. And, of course, another gray because I want to add some highlights and shadows again. For the highlights, I already have my jelly roll again and two fine liners. I have 0.5 and 0.7 here. This is what I will be working with. Of course, feel free to work in Procreate or use any tools you have available. All right, then let's get started. I'll take my 0.5 fine liner. In this one, we will find a few sections where we draw loops. Let me show you what I mean. I think I want to start with this top corner. And by loops, I mean, we just start in this corner and draw something like a petal like shape. And more, we just basically fill the whole box here with those petals. And those corners here, we want to fill them. We can do that in the end as well with a thicker fine liner, but I just wanted to show you right now. This is how I want this to look like, and now we will identify more sections where we draw those petal like loops. And remember, just take your time, enjoy the line. Don't rush and don't be too perfect. I think that's enough. And in our next step, I want to embellish these petals a little bit by just drawing a nice and tiny line down here, just like this in the center of each petal. And in our next step, we want to round out all the corners. This is an exercise you know already, so take your time and enjoy the process rounding out all the corners. Make sure your body posture is not too tense. Check in with your shoulders or with your face. Are there any muscles super tense? Then just think of relaxing these muscles. I And in our next step, we're going to color the white sections in here. So I'm going to pick one after another and just fill a few of those sections here with these colors. All right. And in our last step, we want to put a little bit of shadow here again. Let's pick our gray and draw some nice rounded edges here. And where there's shadow, we also need highlights. So let's pick our jelly roll, our white gel liner, and add some highlights as well. And this is it for today's exercise. I think we're finished. Well done today, making some room for yourself. Thanks for drawing with me today. I see you in our next project tomorrow. So 10. Project 6: Circles in Squares: Come back to project number six. Let's again breathe together to get into the right mindset. Breathe in. Hold, and breathe out all the stress. Today's thought is, you are not your thoughts. Your thoughts are just echoes from your past. Even though you might hear them in your own voice, those thoughts aren't facts. They're often just echoes of something someone else said a long time ago. Today, we're creating a calm pattern of circles inside squares. I've already opened my coloring page, circles in squares. It's page number six in Procreate, and as always, we are going to start by adding a new layer and dragging it underneath. Then we got to add another layer on top on this layer number three, we start our drawings. I am on my nice liner fine and I want to go to the size, let's say, 7%, which is a nice liner 0.5. Then in our first step, we're going to draw petals in these empty corners here like this. Of course, you can go with anything else pattern you can think of. This is what I want to do today. I'm going to draw three petals in each section here. And I do that in each of the nine boxes. And remember, this is not about being perfect. It's about slowing down, getting into the flow, and letting your thoughts drift by like clouds. All right. These are all the pedals done. In our next step, you can switch over to a bigger black marker. I'm just going to increase the brush size to, let's say, 17%, and then we're going to fill in all those gaps here, those white gaps. But also here those lines next to the box. You want to fill them in with black. And as always, check in from time to time with your body. Are there any super tense, um, body parts? Is everything relaxed? And that's done now and we are finally ready for our color work. So let's go to the layer below the linework layer. And for this and doodle, I want to draw in two yellow tones, two pink tones, and two yellow greenish tones. So let's switch over and pick our orange. Let's start with orange here. You can choose an orange from your felt markers, and we also are going to change our brush. We go and draw with our brush marker now. And then I want to start drawing the circle in the center with this orange hue. And in this row, I want to color in the outer ring of the circle here. And in this one, I guess I want to go and color in the circle again. All right. And then I'm going to switch over to my yellow And in this one, I'm going to color in the outer ring. I'm always pairing a dark U and a lighter And in this one, I'm going to color in the circle in the center. And here is again the outer ring. All right. So, let's switch over to the next color. I think I want to go with this pink here. All right. And then I'm going to switch over to a lighter, which could be maybe this one here. And now I'm going to move over to my yellowish green. I'm going to pick this here. And here, let's say we're going to go with a circle again. Okay. And the lighter yellow green? In our next step, we want to add some shading again. You know, I love shading. I'm going to add another layer on top and I turn the blend mode to linear burn, then I'm switch over to this beige color as this creates such a nice vibrant shade. If you draw with markers, you just pick a darker hue or you go over some areas once more with the same ue. That's totally fine. And again, it doesn't have to be perfect. It's just something to help us calming down and relax. If you think the shade is too dark, of course, you can play with the opacity of this layer. But I actually think it's okay. Of course, where there's shadow, there also needs to be light. Let's add another layer on top and switch over to white and pick your gliner brush, and then we are going to add some sparkles here, like so. And since this black border looks a little bit plain, I want to add some embellishment there too by just adding dots. Oops, but then we need to switch over to another layer on top of our light work, of course. So I'm gonna I'm going to draw a big circle in each kind of intersection. And I think I want to draw a big one in the center here as well. Like in the middle between the other two dots. And then in between, I think I want to draw just a few tiny ones. Maybe these are too tiny. Just three smaller dots. Oh, we forgot the center ones here. So let's draw big ones here as well. And then, again, three small dots in between. Alright. And now we do the same in this direction. Beautiful. And we could keep it as it is. But I think I'm not so happy with those right rings. So I'm going to add another layer. You could technically also go back to your linework layer and I'm going to switch back to black and pick my nice liner and take the size, I guess, 7% again. And then I'm just going to draw lines all around the circles in the center. That gives the final kick. You could space them out as wide as you want, keep them closely together. That's totally up to you. And here we go. That's it. Our zen Doodle is done. Now take a moment to look at what you've created. No matter what your thoughts told you along the way, you showed up, you created, and that's what counts. And remember, not every thought is worth believing. I hope you've enjoyed this drawing date. Thank you for being here with me today, and I'll see you in our next project tomorrow. 11. Project 7: Diagonal Grid: Hi, and welcome to Project Number seven. As always, let's start with a deep breath. Hold. And out. The thought of the day is you deserve to be happy. That's not just a nice sentence to hear. It's the truth. And maybe just maybe this little drawing time is a small way to remind yourself of that. Today, we're working on the diagonal grid design. I'm working on the printed coloring book version again. Feel free to grab your favorite pens or markers or follow along on your iPad. Today, I've picked a slightly thicker fine liner, the 0.7 my jelly roll again and ten different markers in rainbow colors. I want to start here with the first color and then move all the way over, giving each column a different So that means we're going to start with coloring. And later on, we will embellish each section, turning them into flowers. You'll see it's going to be great fun. So let's start with our first And again, you just go with your own taste, whatever colors you like. What I want to do is I want to start in the center and draw over the center more often to make sure the center is slightly darker than the rest. I'm going to repeat that with each section. Start in the center, draw over the center several times until it's dark enough for my taste, and then I move on to the next section. And then I move my way over with each of the markers I've picked. And as always, in between, check in with your body. Are you tensed somewhere? Are you in a weird posture? Just make sure you tell your body to relax. That you don't end up with any pain somewhere just after a wonderful drawing session. And don't worry if you go over the line at some places. That's no problem. This is going to be covered in our next step. And the last half is going to have the same color as we started with. And our first step is done. As soon as it's dry, we're going to move on to our fine liner. And in our next step, we want to start in the center and just draw whatever shaped petals like this. And then the corners will be filled with black. That's why we're using a little bit of a thicker fine liner. Just like that. If you want, you can make a draw little circle in the center engine, then start your lines from there. But I'm making sure that my flowers, my little flowers always have five petals, but that's completely up to you. You can always stay the same or mix it up. And we finished our last flower, and I'm actually going to switch over to the 1.0, the 1.0 fine liner, which is more like a marker itself to fill in the last gaps here, and we just fill all the gaps all around our petals that we're left with our flowers and we can't see the grid any longer. And here we go. So all the surroundings are black now. And in our next step, I want to embellish our petals. I want to give each petal three little lines like so, let me show you on a dark one from the center outside, following the rounding of the petals and each one will get three lines in the center. And here we go. All the petals have their embellishment. And if you want, you can just hear where the lines meet, draw a tiny little dot that we don't have so many black spaces here. Just like so. And today endodle is done. I don't know how you feel, but I think even just a few quiet minutes like this can change the tone of our day. You're doing something kind for yourself and you deserve that. So thanks for drawing with me today. I see you in our next project tomorrow. 12. Project 8: Squares & Rectangles: Hi there, and welcome back to Project eight. Before we dive into today's drawing, let's take a mindful breath together. Inhale, hold, and exhale. Our thought for today is, think happy thoughts, and you will feel happiness. It's a simple idea, but surprisingly powerful. The thoughts we choose to focus on influence how we feel. Think of something nice, even something tiny, a favorite drink, a cozy moment, a kind word, let this be your gentle background while you draw. Now, I've opened already the squares and rectangles coloring page in Procreate. Feel free to use your printout and markers or coloring pencils if you prefer. We are going to start by, of course, adding a new layer and dragging it below layer one and add another layer on top. Let's start by picking a black, our nice liner fine and the size of 7%, which is a fine liner 0.5. First of all, we round out all the corners. We don't need to do that with the squares, though, because we are going to add something else to the squares. We're going to fill the squares with kind of the elongated circle oval things, and we fill out the remainder white spots. And we can change the direction of our Oval. Some will be vertical and some are going to be horizontal. Of course, you can choose a different pattern if you want to that's totally up to you, of course, there's also no right or wrong here. You, your zendodle and a few peaceful minutes. If your mind gets noisy, just come back to the breathing and that little happy thought. And remember to check in with your body. Is everything relaxed or are there any tensed spots? You might want to stretch them. And those corners are all round now. Great. In our next step, we want to, of course, fill our rectangles with color. I thought of using shades of green and yellow. Since I think I've counted 27 different rectangles, I want to pick six different hues and fill four or five rectangles with the same color. Switch to this one, and of course, we go to our layer number two, and we switch to the brush marker again. And then I'm going to fill four rectangles with this dark green. All right. Then let's move over to the next color. I think this is going to be this medium green here. Okay. And our next screen, let's go to the latest version. Fantastic. Okay, let's move over to the darkest yellow. The next yellow. In the last one. This is all the rectangles filled, and in our next step, we want, of course, add some shading as well. All right, let's add another layer and switch to linear burn. When you draw with markers, you either go over with a grayish shade or just with a darker shade of the same color. That's a matter of taste and you just use whatever you have available. By the way, you could even go ahead and shade with coloring pencils or a blending stump together with a pencil. Up to you, you have a lot of options. I'm on a new layer. I'm going to switch over to the beige and then of course, my light source usually comes from the top left, so I'm going to just give them a darkish border here. And if that's too dark for my taste, I'm just gonna play with the blend mode. Like this should be fine. And when we are shadow, we of course also need highlight. So let's add another layer, switch over to white and our gliner. And then we draw on the opposite corner our light reflection, our highlight, maybe even more than just one. And down here, another one. And here we go. That's it for today. You filled these shapes with color and calm, and hopefully your mind feels just a little brighter, too. Thank you for drawing with me today, and I'll see you in our next project tomorrow. 13. Project 9: Seigeiha: Hi, and welcome to your ninth en Doodle date. Let's start with a moment of breathing. Inhale. Hold and exhale the stress. You can shape your life with your thoughts. Choose the gentle, positive and kind ones. They will change your life for the better. Today, we're drawing Segeha a beautiful, traditional Japanese pattern made of repeating wave like shapes. I'm working on the printed version again, but you choose whatever you love analog or digital. I've got my fine liner, a jelly rope pen, and three different blue shades ready, starting from dark to light. But you go with whatever colors you like best. I did another version with red, orange and yellow, and that also looked super pretty. It reminded me of a sunset or sundown. Okay, I want to start with my darkest blue shade. And I want to draw those kind of quarter circles down here at the bottom of each repeating pattern. I want to draw that the darkest. And I also want to add a little bit of shading down here in the center. So it means I'm going to go there once and then draw over the entire shape once more. And as always be gentle with yourself. Don't try to be too perfect. Just draw and enjoy the calm that comes over you. And we're finished with a darker blue. So I'm going to pick my next shade. And I'm going to fill the next quarter circle area here. And I also want to make sure that I draw over the bottom first and then color the entire segment to just make sure I have a little bit of a darker space on the bottom. It doesn't have to be big, just a tiny little bit. That creates a little bit of a shade. And again, don't be mad if you go over the line. That's no problem at all. We can cover it up. We're just humans. We make mistakes. We don't have to be perfect all the time. Let's move on to the last blue shade. But we're not going to color this third segment here of the circles. We're going to color the top segment here. We leave this one empty for now. And also again here, a tiny little darker area at the bottom, and then just fill it with color. This is the third segment, by the way, so we cannot fill that right now. We don't see the top of this segment. We have it at the bottom. All right, we can move on to the fine liner, and we're going to fill these top sections here. The ones that are still white, and I guess I'm going to go with my let's see, fine liner, 0.7. And I want to fill those quarter circles here with other circles. I'm starting in the center just to make sure they're kind of evenly spaced out. And then I'm filling the corners here with black. Super simple. Let's now move on from segment to segment and fill it with circles. They can be big, they can be small, whatever you want. And as always, make sure you check in with your body if there's any tensed spots in your body. Is it in your face? Is it in your mouth or shoulders or in your hand? Just make sure you take a moment to check in and release this tension. In my next step, I want to give the second segment here, the turquoise one. I want to give that something like just straight white lines with our gelpan and repeat that in every turquoise segment. Just like this. And in our last step, let's draw some kind of light spots here. And we're finished with today's sent doodle. It looks so pretty, and I feel super calm now. So thanks for drawing with me today. I'll see you in our next project tomorrow. 14. Project 10: Zig Zag: Hi there, and welcome back to Project Number ten. Let's begin with our slow, mindful breath. Inhale hold and exhale. Today's thought is a really strong one. What would you tell your best friend when they feel bad? Be your best friend. It's wild. How kind we can be with others while being super harsh with ourselves. So for today, give yourself the same gentle words, the same support as you would give your best friend. Just be there for yourself. While you let that sink in, let's have a look at today's project, Zigzag. I've already opened it in Procreate, but as always, feel free to use the printed version instead with your favorite pens. When you're working in Procreate, don't forget to add a new layer and drag it underneath the linework. And add another layer on top just to have it easier later on. On this layer, layer number three, we are going to start with our own linework where we need the black and the nice liner fine. In the medium size, 7% I've saved here, which is the 0.5 fine liner. Then what we're going to do is in each of those diagonal segment, we are going to round out opposite corners like this to create something like a leaf shape and the remaining white sections are going to be filled in with black. Just like this. And if you feel you want to zoom in into your canvas, that's totally fine. Rotating, zooming in. Just do whatever makes you feel the most comfortable. The same goes with a printed version. Please feel free to rotate your coloring page if you have to. As you can see, I'm doing all the line work now because by my personal preference, I like to finish one step until I move on to the next one. But that's totally up to your own preference. And because I have this experience with myself, I want to give out another reminder for checking in with your body. Check in. How are you sitting and drawing there? Do you have any tensed spots? Is your jaw relaxed? Is your forehead relaxed? Just check in and make sure you won't end up with any super tensed spots in your body. All right. I finished all the leaf shapes, and now I want to fill in all those empty corners, and I think I'm going to increase my brush size and see if that's working. Of course, you could also use a regular felt marker. That's totally up to you. Whatever you have on hand available. I always say making this kind of art for self care doesn't require a ton of new stationery. If you're tight on your budget, then please, please, please go and just get whatever is available for you. Get your kids crayons, get your kids markers, or just a cheap set from the supermarket that is absolutely okay. In our next step, we want to start coloring the leaves and I want to use per stem here, per side of a stem. I want to use, again, a darker, a medium, and a light, a medium, and a dark shade. Let's go ahead and start with this gorgeous, bright pink ish magenta shade. And of course, we need to switch the brush and go to layer number two. And here we are going to fill in the color in one of those leaves and then we let three empty and color the next one. Just like this, super easy. I want to go ahead and pick also yellow and purple and then end up with pink again. Here I'm going to alternate the location of the darkest leaf one, two, three, and another one here. All right. And then we pick the next pink shade we have here in our collection and draw the ones above and below the darkest ones. Of course, you can alternate within the stem between the colors I'm already curious to see all your projects, all your beautiful zen doodles in the project gallery. That's just so much fun for me and also inspiration to see how you guys interpret the prompts, the colors. What's your favorite combination, and so on. That is really wonderful. Alright. And the lightest pink shade, I think I'm going to go with this one. Beautiful. This looks very pretty already. Then I guess I'm going to go with orange and those two yellow shades here. All right. And then let's move on to the darker yellow here. Alright, the lightest yellow. And that's yellow done. Let's move over to purple. I guess I want to start with this as my darkest and the other two as my lighter version. And then our midtone and then the lightest. Okay. And also, I really want to add some shading here again. I'm going to add a new layer and turn that into linear burn. So I think I want to go with this line shade. And I've seen I've drawn over the line here. So I'm going to go tops to my color work layer, and I'm just gonna delete it here. That's okay. If you draw on paper and something like this happens to you, that's no problem at all. You just take your white gel pen or Posca pen and just gently draw over to cover up those spaces. And remember to be gentle with yourself. We're all humans. This is happening to all of us. Sometimes you draw over the line, and that's okay. And, of course, where there's shadow, there's also light. So let's pick the white, add another layer, go over to the gelliner and draw some lilight. The only thing that I think we need to do is give this white stem here something like a pattern. So I'm going to switch over to the black again and move back to our linework layer and I'm going to pick the nice liner or fine once more. But this time, I think I want to go with the smallest size and just draw lines here. The size is 4%, and it's kind of a fine liner 0.3. But of course, if you only have 0.5, just go ahead and use that. And I think we're done. This is it. I think it's such a nice work. I love how the colors go along. They look so pretty, bright and beautiful. And I'm so proud of you. You showed up, you created something for yourself, and maybe you feel a bit more grounded by now. So thanks for drawing with me today, and I'll see you in our next project tomorrow. 15. Project 11: Acanthus Leaves: Welcome back to Project 11. Let's start with a short breathing moment to get into the flow. Inhale. Hold. And breathe out all the stress. Our thought today is a little reminder. Worrying won't change the situation, but it does drain your energy. So instead of spinning in circles, let's use this time to refill your energy by drawing. This project is called Acanthus leaves, a classic shape often found in traditional decorative art. Although they might not exactly look like real Acanthus leaves, they just remind me of them. That's why I decided to give this pattern its name. Grab your printed coloring page or open it in Procreate if you prefer. Choose your favorite tools. I have my markers, fine liners, and my jelly roll pen ready. You draw, of course, like always with whatever feels good today. Let yourself enjoy the process. There's no pressure to be perfect. Ready? Then let's draw. I've picked seven different shades here in orange pink and green. I counted 22 sections. Means almost every color gets three sections to fill, and one color gets four. So let's just start with coloring. I have this pale orange here. Alright, I want to start by just coloring. Just take your time. As always, enjoy the process, enjoy every line. Don't be upset. If you go beyond the line. That is no problem at all. Most of it will be covered up in our next step anyways. All right. Wonderful. In our next step, we'll grab our fine liner. I have the 0.51 again. And now I'm going to show you in the center piece here. I'm drawing a line from the top to the bottom corner, and then I fill each side with these kind of loopy shapes here. Getting bigger and smaller. Like this. Here we go. That's one half of our Acantha leaves and the other side kind of similar. Just fill the space with these leaves. And now we got to do that in each of the boxes. I really like drawing these loops. They're just so wonderful. Such a pretty shape, and the hand basically does it on its own. And while drawing, don't forget to check in with your body. Make sure you don't have any super tense spots that will cause pain later on. Just make sure you relax your jaw, your forehead. Just try to draw as relaxed in your body posture as possible. All right. Second step done. And in our next step, we want to get something like a black marker. I'm using the brush pen gear from this set. And we're going to fill these gaps here. And if you're unhappy because you went over the line here like this, you just take your jelly roll pen in the end and just draw over. No one's gonna notice that. I really want to quote Bob Ross all the time with saying, We don't make mistakes. We only have happy little accidents, and that's absolutely true. Alright. That's how pretty already. Add on to embellishing our acants leaves by just drawing a nice little centre line pointy and getting a little bit thicker towards the stem. Just following the round shape of the leave itself, like this. And I think I want to add a little bit of a shadow, but a very simple one by just taking the pen and go over the bottom of the leaves once more, just like this. Just one darker bottom line. You could use a colored pencil to add your shading. And this way, you could be certain that you won't smudge any of the fine liner. Some fine liners they smudge when you draw over. So I highly recommend to make some um, tests before you start drawing precious zen doodles and then spoil them by just smudging and wiping through the fine liner. Not only does it ruin your image, it also ruins your marker tips. And in our last step, we want to give some highlights where there's shadow, there's also highlights. And I'm just gonna draw tiny dew drops, if you wish, are just kind of tiny white dots here, tip of the leaves. And here we go. Our beautiful Acanthus leaf Zendoodle is finished. I hope you enjoyed our Zendoodle today. You did something kind for yourself, and that matters. Thanks for drawing with me today. I see you in our next project tomorrow. 16. Project 12: Swirl: Hi again, and welcome back to Project 12. Let's begin with our calm breath, just to arrive in the moment. Inhale Hold and exhale. Just let it all go. And here's today's thought. Being happy for someone else makes you happy too. There's something really beautiful in sharing someone else's joy. It softens envy and reconnects us with the good things in life. So if someone comes to mind who's doing well right now, just smile for them. That feeling is yours too. All right, I've already opened the Sword file in Procreate. But of course, you know it by now. You follow along on whatever medium you like. If you follow along on paper, you might want to use a pencil and a blending stump, but that's just optional. For now, I want to start with my black. The fine liner in the 0.5 size 7% here in Procreate. The nice liner, fine. Here we go. If you are in Procreate, remember to add a new layer, track it underneath and add another layer, and we'll start with our black linework on layer three. What I want to do first is I want to draw lots of dots in the center, lots of circles. And that's the center done. In our next step, we want to start with coloring. I guess I want to start with our red. Let's switch over to the brush marker and just fill one segment with red. I will be using four colors in total. It's this bright red. It's a soft pink and a yellow and a green. I leave three segments empty and move on with my red. And this last one down here. Alright, then I'm gonna pick a pink. Let's say I'm gonna go maybe with this one. Ah, that's too dark. Maybe I'm gonna use the light one. Yes, I like that better. But again, you always go with colors you like best that makes you happy. Maybe you already have your signature colors that you really love to look at. Maybe you have certain color combinations that make you happy. Just go ahead and use those. All right. And the last one over here. And my next color is going to be, let's say, this beautiful, saturated yellow here. As always, this is your reminder. Check in with your body. Are you tense or are you relaxed? Check in with your jaw, your forehead, your eyes squinted together? Maybe you want to stretch out a little bit, stretch your arms and shoulders. So we make sure that you don't end up with any stiff body parts after your last project. All right. And the last one is here. And I just saw that I am on the wrong layer, but I'm going to show you how to fix that. All right, so I noticed I noticed I'm on the wrong layer, and the easiest way to fix that is just go to the ribbon tool and make sure free hand is selected. And then we just draw all around our center here. Then we open the copy and paste menu with default setting, it's probably with three fingers wiped down, and then I'm going to choose cut and paste. Now the center with the linework is on a different layer and our colors are on another separate layer. That's exactly what I wanted. So let's go on and choose the next color, and I guess I want to go with a nice yellowish green. Let's see how that looks. No, I don't like that. Then I'm going to pick this one. This looks brilliant. Very, very nice. And I color the remaining swirl sections in green. I also want to draw in the center below the bs, just a green dot, and then I switch over to the yellow and draw another circle around, and then I go to the light pink and draw another circle around, and then I'm going to go over to the red and draw the leftover. All right. In my next step, I am going to pick the smudge tool and I want to smudge with the same brush here. It's the brush marker, and now I just want to smudge those together to create a beautiful gradient in here. This is something you totally can create especially alcohol markers. They really let you blend them nicely, and that's exactly what I wanted here. And here we go. I hope you can see that on the screen. It's beautifully blended. Okay. Now it's a time where I want to add some shading. Above our color layer, I'm going to add another one and I set the blend mode to linear burn. When you're working on paper, you could just go and take your pencil right now and then I'm going to switch here to the beige color and with our brush marker, I'm going to draw here a little darker section. And here a little bit of a darker section. It doesn't have to be nice and tidy because we're going to smudge that in a second. Here we go. That's enough. On paper, you're going to switch over to your blending stump, or you just pick a tissue. It's also working with a tissue here in Procreate, we go back to our smudge tool, and then we just smudge that here towards the center. And here on the raise, we smudge it our wards. Just like this. And we follow the curve and just make sure that we get rid of this harsh line here, just like so. Let me zoom out. Then you can see it creates this gorgeous shadow in towards the center as if it would be a flower, the flower with curved petals on paper, you just smudge with your tissue or your blending stump. In our next step, we can move back to the linework layer with the dots we've created earlier. We switch over to black again on paper, you can just pick a fine liner, and I think I'm going to stick with my 7%, which is 0.5 fine liner. Then I'm just going to fill all these petals here with ovals. That's it. Just fill them with ovals from one line to the next. Then we move on to the next one. And then we just fill here those narrow corners we just fill with smaller ovals. Wonderful. In our next step, I am going to increase the size to 11%. You could switch over to a marker and then just color in all those gaps here. And here we go. And since we have some shadow added, I also want to add some highlights. Of course, you know me. So let's switch over to white and to our shell liner. And then I'm just gonna draw a few dots here like this. And here we go. Ours and doodle is done. Well done. You made something today and maybe smiled for someone else along the way. So thank you for drawing here with me today, and we'll see each other in our next project tomorrow. 17. Project 13: Ovals: Welcome back to project number 13, the second to last one. This moment is for you, so let's breathe together, breathe in. Hold and breathe out. Our thought for today is breathe in, calm, breathe out stress. As you breathe in, picture a soft, warm light flowing into your chest. Calm, steady, gentle. As you breathe out, imagine a cloud of tension leaving your body floating away with your breath. This little visualization can help shift your nervous system into calm mode. Even just one deep breath can change how you feel. Today, we're working on columns of ovals. You can use the printed coloring book version as I do and pick your favorite pens or markers. Or as always, you go digital and work in Procreate. I've picked five different shades of purple and pink, my trusty jelly roll pen, 1.0, a 0.5 fine liner. And today I'm also going to use a very soft pencil. I have a four B pencil here and a blending stump. You use it to blend in your pencil strokes and we'll use that to indicate some shadow later. Let's start now with the coloring. As always, take your time, follow the shapes, and don't worry about making it perfect. This is about being kind to yourself. I'm going to start with my first purple shade. And start from right to left, filling in those lines. I'm always going to leave one empty and color the next column. The ones in between will stay white for now. I also want to go over this side here once more to just indicate a little bit of darker area. And since this is only half and I don't want this color to be set because it doesn't get to draw so much, I want to also draw the other half here in that purple shade. And the same here, we want to draw the outside a little bit darker just to indicate some roundness. All right. That's it with the colors for now. In our next step, we are going to need the fine liner. And what we're going to do is we're just going to draw like arcs, arches, whatever you want to call those, and fill those white spaces in between, like kind of this shape. The more confident you draw, the better your lines get. Sometimes if we slow down too much, if we get too careful, the lines are getting, like, really shaky. And here we go. This first one is done. And now let's fill all the remaining columns. And while drawing, remember to check in with your body. Are there any hypertensed spots in your body? Make sure your shoulders are relaxed. Your face is relaxed. You don't do any weird things with your mouth. Just make sure your posture is relaxed and chill. And here we go. All right. That looks perfect already. In our next step, we are going to use the pencil and just draw very slightly at either side of these white columns with those arches all around the edge just slightly. Don't press too hard because then we can't smudge it. And on the other side, right next to the black line. And then we'll take our blending stump and just smudge that in to create a perfect gradient shadow. Just blend it towards the center that the darkest spot is right next to the black line and the lightest towards the center. Of course, you can go as dark or as light as you like. I'm happy with how it looks right now. And this creates this perfect round kind of I don't know, caterpillar shape, maybe. I don't know. I really like it. Let's go on. You could go around and do the same with the colored areas here. You could even go and pick some color pencil and smudge those in. I'm not going to do that for my colored sections, but I'm going to take my trusty jelly roll pen and just draw my beloved white spots here, just like this. And a small one here, a big one at the top, and a small one opposite at the bottom. And here we go. Our second to last and doodle is finished. Be proud of that. You just gave yourself a little pocket of peace. Let's keep choosing calm and draw one line at a time. Thanks for drawing with me today. I see you in our next project, the last one tomorrow. 18. Project 14: Peony: Hi, and welcome to our last project. I'm so glad you're here. Let's take one mindful breath to settle in. Inhale. Hold and exhale. Today's thought is, what made you smile today? Could be something big or tiny, a funny message, a good coffee, or a silly pet moment, whatever it was, hold onto that feeling for a moment. It's these little smiles that make up the good days. All right, I've opened the last coloring page pony in Procreate already, but as always, feel free to follow along on paper with your favorite pens. For this one, I thought about starting dark in the center and getting slightly lighter outside. I think I'm going to go with reddish pinkish hue and maybe some green around for the leftover spaces. In the end, we're going to decorate the flower with a little bit of embellishment. Let's go ahead and add a new layer. And wrack it underneath when working in Procreate. Then let's just add another layer. On layer two today, because we're starting with the coloring, I will start with layer two. I will pick the dark red we have here as a brush, I'm going to use the brush marker, and then I'm just going to color in those center petals. All right. That's the center petals. Then I'm going to move over to my medium red here and fill in the next layer of petals. Again, feel free to rotate your canvas. Zoom in and out, turn around your coloring page when you feel you need it. We want you to be in a restful position and just enjoy the process. Not being hunched or crunched or tensed. Okay, let's move over to the next pink. I think I'm going to go with this one. And the next layer of leaves will get or petals will get this. And then I'm going to move over to the next lighter shade. Like this one here, maybe. And the lightest pink. Oh, it looks beautiful. And for the remaining spaces there, I'm gonna pick I think I'm going to go with this darkest yellow green here. And this is how it looks so far. All right, as I said, we want to add a little bit of shading. I'm going to add a new layer on top and send the blend mode to linear burn. When you're working on paper, you could go ahead and just take a darker pink hue or a darker green hue for your shadows, or you could go with a pencil and a blending stump or a tissue. That's totally up to you. You don't even have to apply any shading. I just want to because I love the color change and the smudging as well. So I'm on this layer on top of the coloring, the layer sent to Linear Burn, and I'm going to start in the center and just give a few darker lines just like so, and I'm going to do that with every petal. And in our next step, we're just gonna smudge This is how it looks now. I'm going to move over to my smudge tool. Make sure I'm still on my brush marker. If you haven't noticed yet, the smudge tool is not set to 100% set opacity, but just 61%. For me, that works better. You could just go with whatever you prefer and however you like the effect best. But I think I'm going to increase the brush side size a little bit. All right. Then let's just smudge away. I just love how the different shades and textures blend into one another. That's really that really makes me happy. And if you like the shading a little bit more subtle, just go ahead and play with the opacity of this layer and turn the opacity down a little bit. Oh, I forgot the shading here, so let's switch back to our brush mark or brush and just add a few lines here and there. Alright. And that's splendid. I think I want to turn down the opacity a little bit, especially the outside is a little bit too dark for my taste. So I've set it to kind of 59%, and that's how I like it. In our next step, I want to add some embellishment. Of course, you know me. So I'm going over to layer three, that layer on top of the shading, and I will pick my black and my nice liner fine in the 7% size, which is, again, about 0.5, but you just pick whatever you have on hand. And I guess I want to add a line and maybe with a dot at the end, something like that. Let's see what looks best. Maybe like this. Yes, I guess. I like this the most. Just three lines with a dot at the end. And we don't need to make sure they are too even. The more variation I think the better it looks. And even though this was drawn digitally, I really like all these textures and color changes here in this petal. So you can really mimic traditional media pretty well, even though you might be drawing digitally. Beautiful. Yet, I think the green spaces are a little bit too boring, so I just want to give them lines. I'm going to go a size smaller, the 4% size. You could still use your 0.5 fine liner or you go a size below maybe 0.3. Then I think I'm just going to draw lines towards the outside. And you know me, if we have shadow, we also need some highlight. So let's add a new layer, go over to white, pick the gelliner and then we draw a few dots here. And that was our last project together. I can't believe it to be honest. And if you are like me, you don't want to stop right now because you're absolutely in the flow. So I really want to enable you to create your own and doodles. So let's head over to the next lesson where I show you how you can do that. See you there. 19. Make Your Own Zendoodle Template: All right. I promise to show you how to create your owns and doodles, so let's dive right in. I'll walk you through both methods in Procreate and on paper. Let's start in Procreate. Since I really enjoy square patterns for their symmetry, I've opened a square canvas with 2000 by 2000 pixels. But honestly, any size will do. You can even go for a rectangle if you prefer. Just choose whatever feels good to you. The same goes for paper. I'm using a square piece of slightly thicker paper here, but a page from your sketchbook or even a regular printer paper works just as well. In Procreate, I'm selecting my nice liner fine brush and setting the size to around 7%. I'll start by drawing a rough square shape. Then let the quick shape tool snap it into a perfect square by holding one finger on the screen. After that, I'll adjust it slightly if needed. On paper, grab a ruler and a pencil. Measure about one eighth of an inch or just a few millimeters in from the edges and place a small dot on each side. Connect the dots with light pencil lines to form your square. Once you're happy with it, you can go over the lines with a black marker or fine liner, either using the ruler again or drawing free hand, whatever you like better. Now that we have a frame, we'll add some guidelines to help us build our pattern. In Procreate, add a new layer underneath your square. Pick the sketcher rough and draw a slightly wavy vertical line down the middle. Then add two more, one in the center of the left half and one in the center of the right half. Repeat the same steps horizontally, so you end up with a grid. Now turn down the opacity of this layer. We don't want these lines to distract us while we draw. On paper, use your pencil to draw the same wavy guidelines with very light pressure so you can erase them later. Be careful not to press too hard. All right. Now it's time to create a woven texture. In Procreate, create a layer above the guidelines and go back to the nice slider fine brush. Start drawing lines next to the vertical guidelines. We stop at one intersection and cross the next. Then draw a line underneath that one again. In the second time, we stay to the right of the first guideline. On the next guideline, we shift the pattern down one space just like this. Stay to the left of the guideline first, cross one intersection and stop at the next. Then we draw the next one underneath. Same to the right of the guideline, just like this. Here with the last guideline, we go the same way as we did with the first one. Then we repeat the same steps for the horizontal lines. Wherever a vertical line is open, we draw across it. When it's closed, start a new line. On paper, do exactly the same using your fine liner. And once you're done, erase your pencil guidelines, but wait until the ink is fully dry so nothing smudges. In Procreate, we can just discard our guideline layer. And now you've got a perfect zendoodle base. I went ahead and rounded out the corners, filled in the squares, and added the details like those little lines in the lanes, the shading, and the highlights. This is how mine looked in the end. See how easy it is to make your own zendoodle template. So go ahead, play around and see what happens. I can't wait to see your creations. Now it's time for a little wrap up of this class. So let's meet in our final lesson. 20. Wrap-Up & Thank You: And here we are at the end of these two mindful weeks of zen doodling for stress relief. I hope you feel proud of what you've created and maybe even a little lighter. By now, you've explored a whole collection of beautifuls and doodles. You've learned how to use drawing as a way to release tension, refocus your thoughts, and create something meaningful, even on the most chaotic of days. You've even learned how to come up with your own patterns, and please don't stop here. Continue your mindful drawing practice, especially when life gets noisy or overwhelming. This is your space, your quiet time, and it's always there for you. If you've enjoyed the class, I'd love for you to upload your projects in the Projects and Resources tab, and let us know how it fell to draw each day. And please leave a review if you have a moment to help other students discover this class. And, of course, follow me here and on social media to stay in the loop. And if you share your art anywhere, feel free to tag me. I'd love to see it. So thank you for drawing here with me, and I'll see you in my next class. Bye.