Simple and Creative Doodles to Draw
The basics behind every doodle: choosing pens and paper, line practice, basic shapes, and the small choices that make a drawing look cute.
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The short recipe behind soft, friendly doodles: rounder and shorter shapes, tiny features on a big body, a face set low and wide, blush marks and a highlight, plus six simple expressions and five objects turned into little characters.
A five-minute warm-up page of lines, waves, loops, zigzags, spirals and circles, plus the small habits that turn scratchy, hesitant strokes into clean, confident ones.
Six simple marks are behind nearly every doodle. Learn to name an object's biggest shape first, follow three stroke-by-stroke build-ups and try a five-minute routine that turns one shape into five objects.
Any pen works for doodling, but each type behaves differently. Compare fineliners, gel pens, ballpoints, markers and brush pens, learn what tip sizes mean and test a pen for bleed before you use it.
A doodle is just a few basic shapes plus one or two details. Here is the idea behind every small drawing, a first five-minute session to try and where to go next.
