Doodling As Art
All about doodling as an art form.
Doodling is generally seen as something everyone can do and therefore not really "art". The internet and scrapbooking have caused doodling to come into its own as a legitimate art form.
Doodle of the Day!
Free Advice by Drew James on Flickr
How to Draw a Doodle
- Doodle Tutorial
- Carol Edmonston shares valuable insights on the health and financial benefits of stress reduction by using doodling as a healing tool.
- Doodle Designs Workshop
- An online doodle class that turns your doodles into fiber art.
- Digital Doodles : The Practically Creative Quarter
- How to take a hand drawn doodle and digitally turn it into a beautifully complex pattern.
My Favorite Doodle Art Book
Keys to Drawing with Imagination: Strategies and Exercises for Gaining Confidence and Enhancing Your Creativity
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 05/15/2008)
Although this book doesn't have doodle in the title, it's all about taking doodling to the next level. Or, if you already draw but are running out of ideas, this book will stretch your creative muscles. Remember when you were a kid and you got a book that showed you how to do something that got you so excited about it you could hardly stand it? This book is like that.
Online Doodling Sites
Draw Doodles Online and Rate Others
- Rate My Doodle
- An online doodling art site where you can draw and rate other doodles.
- Doodle Bug
- An online doodling art site where you can draw and rate other doodles.
- Sketch Swap
- Draw cartoons, art, brainstorms, anything. Very basic. You draw one and when you submit it you get someone else's sketch.
My Doodle Tool Box
The Five Essentials - the rest is gravy
Wacom Graphire Bluetooth 6x8 Tablet
Getting a graphic tablet completely changed my life. I went from not doing art and feeling guilty about it to doing art every day. I use it to draw in Photoshop and Corel Painter, but it also makes a better, more intuitive mouse. Digital art has taken over for me. I can't recommend trying this enough, although it takes a little bit of getting used to for some people. A couple of four hour sessions and I had it.
Amazon Price: Too low to display (as of 05/15/2008)
Sanford Berol Prismacolor Colored Pencil 48 Color Set
As much as I love the look of the sharp lines of pen and ink, I love color even more. I have many sets of colored pencils (including watercolor) but I still come back to this one as my favorite. They are softer and easy to blend. If you want sharper lines try the Prismacolor Verithin pencils.
Amazon Price: $55.99 (as of 05/15/2008)
Moleskine Small Sketch Notebook
I'll admit, I'm just catching up to the Moleskine frenzy, but from what I see other people doing, these blank notebooks must have muses living right in them!
Amazon Price: $9.45 (as of 05/15/2008)
COPIC ARTISTIC SKETCH MARKERS BASIC SET OF 12 - SCRAPBOOKING, PAPERCRAFTING & CRAFTS
I've added these even though I haven't tried them myself yet. Apparently they are THE marker of the moment. They are alcohol based and permanent, although I'm not sure about lightfastness. You can get special bleedproof paper to use with them.
Amazon Price: (as of 05/15/2008)
Zentangle (TM)
Doodles as a viral marketing phenom
- Zentangle (TM)
- The main site for Zentangles.
- Polymer Clay Ideas >> 6 ideas for Zentangles
- Ideas for using the Zentangle method of doodling.
- My Studio 13: My Zentangle What??
- Short blog entry about one person's experience with Zentangle.
- Zentangle Versus Mandalas
- "So here's the gist of it: I think it's kind of like a mandala: you make a squiggle and then fill in the open areas with a motif. I'm not sure what the technique is because they want you to buy a kit for $50.00 to learn how to doodle."
Astarte's Mega-Zine
Go Make Art!
A high quality, downloadable, e-zine in the style of Somerset Studio or Cloth Paper Scissors with articles by and about popular artists such as Claudine Hellmuth, Lee Silbers, Leslie Riley and others. Not only are there articles about everything from collage to polymer clay to felting to creativity and beyond, there is free clipart in every issue!Take it from someone who has subscribed to Somerset Studio from it's beginning, Astarte's Mega-Zine is in the same league. It's gorgeous and very much worth taking a look at!
Doodle Art Groups and Communities
- Joyfuldia A Doodle Art Community
- An online community for people who enjoy doodling
- Flickr: Yahoo Doodles
- This page is for drawings from the Yahoo Messenger's "Doodle" IMvironment.
- Flickr: Doodle Art
- An active doodle art group within Flickr.
- Decormania - a fanlisting for doodling
- A fanlisting for the relaxing and creative exercise of doodling.
- Index Card Art
- "...with the ICA GoogleGroups, you create art on any color 3x5 in index card. Doodle it in a meeting..." Not a doodle art group per se, but a fun idea nonetheless.
- DoodlersHaven Yahoo Group
- "This group is for anyone that loves doing Zentangles or just likes to doodle/noodle and wants to take it a step further and get into doing the zentangles." Swaps, too.
- Do you doodle? group on virb.com
- "Unconscious scribbling, doodling, sketching and drawing."
Doodle Study Method
Learning something new? Don't just take written notes - try doodling it! It will get the information into the deeper, non-verbal part of your brain.
Stickynote Theatre
Amusing doodles on "sticky notes"
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byDoodle Art Books
Doodling and Creativity
- Enchanted Mind - The Art of Doodling
- How to use doodling to tap into your subconscious mind.
- Doodling for creativity
- Fantasy art lesson 11: doodling to inspire creativity.
- Business on the Back of a Napkin - BusinessWeek
- Who says doodling is a waste of time? Here are four ways to solve serious business problems with a simple drawing.
- Scrapbooking.com -- Article - A Doodle A Day Keeps The Doctor Away
- Some great ideas for using your doodles for craft projects.
- National Doodle Day 2008: What Do Doodles Mean?
- Different types of doodles and how to analyze them.
Doodle Artist Sites
- Doodle of the Day
- Weekly doodles spanning 2002-2003.
- Bill Price's Doodle Art Gallery, 1967-1968
- Gallery 1 - Selected Doodles from 1967-1968(sorry - only thumbnails available)
- Hey, you wanna try something new? Try doodling ...
- A doodle artist talks about his process.
- Get Your Doodle On! « Art By Chrysti
- Many examples and great doodle links.
Voodoo Doll a Day
A "doodle a day" blog
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Need an excuse to doodle?
Start a doodle-a-day blog!
Do You Doodle?
My name is Doodle Dan
I Doodle
Therefore I am.
Posted May 13, 2008
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Winter52
It's funny how you are drawn to where you need to be. I got out my watercolors this morning and hated everything I did. (Coming down with something that has made me crankly lol) But doodling you can't screw up and it should be relaxing at the same time. Just might give it a try this afternoon. Thanks for the idea. Posted May 09, 2008 |
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BigGirlBlue
I've always considered myself a doodler but after seeing this lens I wonder. Some cool stuff out there. I love the idea of a Doodgle a day blog! Very tempting. :) Posted May 08, 2008 |
Cool site! But I'm wondering... how did you find my doodle? I've barely been on flickr more than a day or two!
Posted April 27, 2008
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beachbum_gabby
yes of course. I have just downloaded a Doodle brush for Photoshop. Really cool! Posted April 22, 2008 |
