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There are literally dozens of patterns shown in this image, from simply dots which represent the markings on a domino to more complex stripes and scallop shapes, there are so many patterns within this one image that you can add another dozen or so to your stylebook. The doodling craze has caught on and people are sharing their patterns and the system they used to construct those patterns on websites such as Pinterest, DeviantArt and Flickr.

You can also find ideas from looking at the great range of doodling work that you can find when you search Google Images. However, many of the patterns incorporated in the images within this book will help you to build up your repertoire of patterns, so that you are never short of inspiration.

Looking on Pinterest will fill you with enthusiasm because there are loads of images there and you can adapt them to make your own pattern. Tip: Draw your strings with pencil and then bold the strings afterward because this really does give your work a lot of extra definition and clarity. I find that even if I make a mistake on the lines, I can thicken them up and that means that I can get rid of the mistakes easily.

You will make mistakes. Expect to. In the image below you will see a collection of patterns and these are endless. There is no end to the ways in which you can use different designs to fill in each of the spaces your strings create. If you have areas that are too big, you can make these smaller by adding a few twists to your strings.

If you have spaces which are small, use smaller patterns and make the detail every bit as important as the larger patterns are. You will soon get accustomed to which patterns work best in a large area and in a small area. Look at the more detailed patterns in the next chart as potentials for areas which you have on your doodle design.

Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution: M rs. Cook, Weebly. These are worthwhile keeping too. The series of lines and different elements that make up a doodle are fairly straightforward though you may enjoy trying more complex ones once you have gained more experience. Every single pattern starts out simple and more lines or detail are added to build up that pattern.

You can even add color if it pleases you. See the simple square in the middle, add the lines and curve them. It looks like the picture goes inwards in the center because of the curves. Image: Creative Commons: M arie Almunia If you look at the final stage of this construction, for example, you can see that the image provides a lot of depth.

The eye is drawn into the center of the picture. These kinds of lines are ideal for drawing flowers so that the petals look like they come up from the central stamen area of the flower and that makes your drawings more unique and more realistic.

You can take these doodle patterns a stage further if you want to by coloring in alternate lines with black or even colored pens. This gathering of ideas should give you plenty to work on as you make your way through the possibilities that doodling offers you.

The above example gave me several ideas and these are rough sketches that I did using the ideas. See how many you can make from one simple pattern explained in detail. Remember that these are roughly drawn sketches to show you the difference and what happens when you move the center. Of course, imagine these when they are done with a lot more care and with doodling pens because the paper and the pens that you use make an enormous amount of difference to your eventual presentation.

There are so many designs that are created using these shapes and simple dots can look very effective as can different shading techniques and using light and dark contrasts to make your picture complete. In the following chapters, we show you how children can use doodling and there are some projects for them that will help them with their alphabet or using doodling for their names so that these designs can be used to label things which are important to them.

Covering a text book with brown paper, the child can have their own monographic doodle to denote that the book is theirs. Remember, never work on brown paper covers as the ink may go through and damage the book. Always work on paper or the doodling cards when working with kids and apply these doodles to whatever you want to add them to afterwards using paper glue that will not damage anything at all. A Pritt stick is a very handy tool to have in the playroom for sticking doodles onto projects that the kids are encouraged to do.

Chapter 6 - The letters of the Alphabet In this chapter we are going to illustrate the letters of the alphabet in outline so that kids can copy them. If adults want to do more refined versions of the alphabet, you can get some great downloadable alphabet letters that may be of use. Doodles can also be produced in embroidery and if you are that way inclined, you need to first come up the idea on graph paper, such as monolog alphabet letters and then use the squares from the graph paper to help you to decide where to put your stitches on a counted canvas or embroidery fabric.

They add their strings to the letter. In this case, the strings that I have added are simple ones that all take the same direction. They can do this in any way that they want to.

Advise the child to create different areas on the letter so that they are big enough to add doodle designs to them. Getting the kids to do doodling is a start. They will want to excel. They will get more accurate as a natural progression of wanting to make their pictures look superb. Kids do have this wonderful sense of ambition. What we are doing at this stage is simply getting used to using doodle designs within given guidelines. What we will eventually do is to create a monograph of initials using this process but placing it within a square tile so that it becomes doodle art.

You see how kids can color in their initials? In this case, I used spots in the bottom left hand side, scallops, then stripes, then curved stripes, a sunshine at the top, white dots, curved tiles, fan style stripes and then normal stripes again.

That makes up the A. Below is a straightforward alphabet produced by color printables. These are standard letters which a child can use to shape the initials of their name. If they want to add any shapes or swirls then they can incorporate these at the drawing of the letter stage.

However, each of these is neat and tidy and will be good for making a doodle tile because they can be scaled down or up before you print them so that two initials fill a standard doodle pattern of three and a half inches square. They are not just coloring in. They are reproducing patterns within given spaces.

If you do use tracing paper, you may need to have carbon paper so that you can trace the letters through to the doodle square. If kids practice their lettering on plain paper, this gives them an idea of what the letters look like and then they can choose their favorites for their doodle design.

Putting letters together If you look at typical monogram designs, these help to see how letters can be interlinked with each other to form separate areas on a doodle design. The background to the initials When the initials are placed centrally onto a doodle square, you need to think about what the background will be like.

Here, children can be taught about what dark backgrounds do and what lighter ones achieve. In fact, if their letter is patterned in bold letters, the background would probably be better in designs that are light so that the lettering stands out. Copyright: Creative commons: Aline Deviant Art In this case, the artist used fairly uniform designs on the lettering so if you were to use neutral designs in the background, you would lose the lettering.

Thus, in a case like this, the best background that a person can have would be a contrasting background that lifts the letters. Place these upon a black and white bold stripe, for example, and you still see the letters. However you want to add lettering to your doodle, you have to remember that the idea is to fill the entire square.

I can explain how all of these things are done and can show you the results of work done specifically for this book, but will never purport to be an expert because there is still much to learn. One thing I have learned from doing detailed work such as monograms is that the quality of the pens that you use counts. However, you can introduce children that are too old for coloring books to the art of doodling by printing off free prints from printable websites and then giving them the idea of coloring in different areas of these using different patterns.

To get them started, try them out with their initials as shown in the last paragraph. Get them to draw an outline of their initials so that they are large enough to color in with different doodle patterns.

The great thing about doing this is that doodling takes up loads of time and the more they get into the art, the more they will enjoy it and find their own ways of expressing it. See how much fun your kids can have with their initials, using different doodle patterns and elements to color them in.

In this image, there are loads of patterns, but look how the artist has rounded off the bottoms of the letters to give them a stubbly look. You may need to prepare your pattern book in advance with patterns that you think the children would be capable of. It is never about right or wrong. Kids will err outside of the lines but they soon learn that it looks better when they can keep in each of the individual areas.

Here are some sketches that I did quickly to give your kids some ideas of easy patterns that they can use for their first experience of doodling. Your kids can design any kind of pattern they want and the reason for this being in draft format is that they can use it to get ideas from and make up their own patterns from it. If you present a child with a goal which is too hard, they may not even try, but if you can demonstrate what is meant by random patterns, they can really have fun with it.

Trying their very first Doodle Square Here are the steps that it takes to create a doodle square. An older child may want to try this and you can set them off on their doodling journey by showing them all the steps that are taken to produce a doodle. Theirs does not have to be the same as mine, but this is just to walk children through the process so that they know what they are expected to produce. The top and bottom of the figure of eight hit the edges of the design on purpose, thus creating different areas to be colored in with doodling patterns.

They could also join the edges of the eight to the sides if they want to create even more areas, but this is simply shown so that a child can copy the idea and see how it works. Step 2 — Filling in the first pattern Okay, I decided to use a ruler for this design. Step 3 — Filling in other areas In this case I chose to use tiles. These are drawn easily. You simply draw stripes, either with a ruler or without and then draw stripes across them so that you create a grid of tiles.

Then you color in every other tile. You can use things such as patterns within the squares of the tiles if you so wish. I thought that the tiles were actually a bit bland so what I did was to create a flower in the center of each of the white tiles and that worked. I then started on the area that formed the base of the figure eight.

First I drew the dark lines which are simple curves and I then made them into a cobweb pattern. I then added blobs at the intersections where the cobwebs hit the main curved lines. Then I drew circles around the blobs and finished off by doing cobwebs in the other direction. By all means, turn your work around as you work because you will find it easier to draw your lines.

Look at the top shape. Because I decided to use curved lines, it actually looks like an egg as opposed to a flat oval.

I added different designs to the stripes that I created and was quite pleased with the results even though this is just in draft format.

If, on the other hand, they try ideas in a scrap book or graph paper, they then have time to try different things before using that more expensive resource. As such it needs to conform to standards which mean that your strings form some kind of composition so that what you draw is pleasing to the eye.

These are fairly simple and I can show you with some rough pictures that explain each one of them. These are simple sketches to demonstrate the point of composition and what it does for your image.

In art and in photography, the rule of thirds means that you place the main feature of the image to the left or right of the center. This is a very good way of presenting your doodle design and the design thus follows the rule of thirds.

They create the background. In this case, I have chosen the same rule of thirds and applied it to my doorway. This gives the doodle a lot of depth and the viewer would be drawn into the central area of the doodle, which would use very dense patterns to accentuate that the doors are central to the theme of the doodle. By doing this, you are drawing attention to the central feature but you also need to remember to fill in the areas around it with patterns of less density.

The idea of this is to give the shape some kind of three dimensional effect and it works very well. The curved window area can also be a deep area and can be dark in nature because this would follow the same rule of composition. This rough sketch was done to demonstrate something else entirely and that symmetry. Pictures look great if they are balanced in some way. In the Butterfly String picture, I would choose patterns of similar density for the tops of the wings, and then other strong patterns of similar density for the bottom of the wings.

As I want viewers to recognize the butterfly in the picture, I would use patterns with less density for the background patterns. Density of Patterns You can see from the above illustrations that the density of the pattern matters. For example, those patterns which are the densest are those which use bold black and white in large quantities so that you are immediately drawn to them. Look into your scrapbook or if you have not yet started one, look at a sheet of doodle patterns and the first ones that will hit your eyes are those which are dense.

These are used for parts of the image where you want the eye to be drawn. Medium density patterns are less pronounced but have a lot of detail and are good for background work and the least dense are those which are bland to look at but still a very necessary part of the image being created.

Thus, your picture needs to have a mixture of these patterns used for the different specific purposes to which they are the most useful. These may be fill in areas. Thus, you need to mark your patterns in your book and decide which fall into which category so that when you actually draw out your doodle patterns, you can choose the ones which give your composition the very best that you can do in presenting the image in a three dimensional effect.

Look at the image below because this artist has got it right. She has perfect symmetry and she has used a dense pattern in the central area to draw attention to it. That is perfect use of density and gives the picture a great look.

Look also how she has used uncomplicated and less dense patterns around the edge of the picture because nothing more was needed. In fact, the fact that she used these means that she allowed viewers to see quite clearly her intention to show circles, by not trying to complicate the doodle design.

Creative commons attribution: Diane M acKillop This lady has some wonderful designs. Look how fine her pen work is. I have written a chapter which is after this one that explains all about the different pens and the way in which people can use them correctly.

Sometimes, it just takes practice and this lady has certainly had plenty of that because she produces very fine work indeed. It makes a whole lot of difference to the presentation of the doodle what pens you use and how you use them, so do spend a little time reading the next section as it may help you when holding your pens so that you produce the best results possible.

When you see results like those in the image above, you can see why the quality of the pen counts! Chapter 9 — Your tools and the way you use them You may not think that it makes a lot of difference how you hold your pens but it does, especially if you have never used gel pens before. The detail that this artist is able to produce is because of the way that the pen is held. Look at the fine lines and how accurately they are drawn. You need to practice it. Using your gel pens to produce lines Looking at this image, you can see why accuracy is so important.

If you went wrong on one of these lines, it really would stand out. Thus, the tools that you use and the way that you use them is vital.

Your pencil should always be sharp, your pens should not bleed when you place the nib on the paper. If it does, chances are that you have been pushing too hard on it and the nib needs wiping. Start by drawing out lines Make a space in your scrapbook to draw out the lines using different pens and then mark which pen it was that made that line. The reason this is so vital is that different doodle pens give different thicknesses of lines and you need to know which pen to grab for your next line.

Guesswork will lead to mistakes. If you look at the detail in the images below, these are typical of what students would be given in a class and the detail is very fine indeed. Thus, having your pens graded is essential so that you can pick out the right pen for the job. Your pens are what give the lines and shaded in areas their depth and if you do buy doodle pens, pigment pens typically have a metal tip. If you hold them like a standard pen, you are likely to get disappointing lines because they need to held straight upward to get the best results.

I have a favorite pen that I use and the lines that it produces are consistently fine and of good standard.

The pens that you use will also be responsible for the shading quality of your images. For example, if you use simple felt tipped pen, you are unlikely to get the fine detail that can be produced from sigma pens.

These are more expensive for a reason and you need to allow the ink to flow, rather than pushing on the pen. In fact, pushing on the pen nib is something that children tend to do to get more color. They do need to have the working of the pens explained to them so that they do not damage the tips. This image shows all kinds of different pens having been used as there are shading areas as well as areas which are simply worked with detail to give the impression of density. Remember we told you about density, this is produced by the amount of ink that is put into one area.

Thus the darker balls in the image are obviously denser than other areas. To produce pictures like this, you do need to have good quality pens and use them correctly. Remember when you are using Sakura pens, these are very much like technical pens. The angle is straight up and instead of putting pressure onto the paper as you would with a Bic or similar pen, you simply let the ink flow.

There have been problems using these and these are usually because they were not used on the correct surface. Many people have tried on canvas and rough surfaces and even on fabric, but if you are going to do doodle on fabric, then you really do need fabric pens rather than the Sakura doodling pens as what happens is that fluff gets into the nib and dries up the ink, giving very disappointing results. With the lighter pens, the lighter pressure of use is essential.

Hold the pen where you want it to be, but no weight should be applied if you want to get accurate lines. Images such as these are not produced with clogged pens and you need to look after your pens, cleaning the nib when you have finished drawing with it.

I use a piece of fabric that has no fleece to it and simply wipe the nib between uses. Other people simply keep the pens away from dusty areas and always make sure that the caps are replaced once they have finished using them. If you do hold it in a standard way, such as how you were taught at school, what happens is that you get scratchy results and will see lines where you tried to fill in a block area with black or an individual color.

Do you remember how children colored in pictures at school or when they were very young? The chances are that there were lines that went outside the actual coloring in section but more than that, you could always see the scribble lines in the solid color area. With doodling, you are trying to produce a solid block. Moving the pen, held upright at a 90 degrees angle to the paper let the ink do the work, rather than pressing down at all and you will find that your filling in is much better quality and you produce a solid black as opposed to one which has gaps or where you can see which directions the pen was pulled or pushed in.

Using Gel Pens If the children or if indeed you start to enjoy doodling, then try some gel pens. These are great to work with and you can get a whole rainbow of colors so that you can produce some pretty stunning artwork. As you can see, Kate has used some pretty amazing color in this image and from a simple pattern of circles has created a stunning doodle pattern using solid colors.

Remember to draw your shapes first. Then do the coloring in and then, if you need to, use your doodle outlining pen to reinstate the blackness of the strings or lines as you may have messed these up a little during the filling in process. Re-doing your lines also gives you a chance to place extra emphasis where you need this to occur. Shading using your pens Shading can be produced in the same way as it would with art or architecture plans in that a fine hatching can be used.

If you do have a very fine pen, this works because you can produce a hatched shading that gives the impression of lift. Hatching is simply drawing a series of lines that make the area look a little darker. Perhaps you only need them to extend a short way to create the effect that you need. Copyright: Creative commons attribution: Diane M acKillop This is one of my favorite doodling artists and you can see gray areas in the image that are there to give each of the elements extra depth.

This shading is very effective and you can produce that either by using a gray doodling pen or by using diluted ink or even watercolor, but be very careful. The last thing that you need to produce is bleed from one area to another. Test your work and do not add the gray until the rest of the ink is dry. She is particularly good at making shading lift areas of the image, such as in the case of the scrolls, the bracelet and the different elements included in the doodle.

It gives the image a much better three dimensional look and should be something that you begin to employ to make your images look more professional. The kind of shading that you employ is up to you. You can also work in colors and add richness to the doodle pattern, but if you are using anything other than doodling pens, make sure that the lines are all dry and that you use good quality pens where the ink will not run when wet.

They can be used but you need to be very careful how you use them and try to go for colors which are not too diluted. For this purpose, you need small paintbrushes and should try to practice drawing between the lines without compromising the lines.

Another system that I tried out which was rather fun was outlining or drawing all my doodling strings using lead lining from a tube. This was done on canvas, but remember not to use your doodle pens on canvas because this will clog the tips. I then colored all the different areas using acrylics and the picture was very effective indeed, although not on a standard doodle card.

Remember to keep your pens clean, to store them correctly away from heat and to wash your paintbrushes thoroughly. You need also to remember that when working on your doodle, leaning on an area you have just worked can cause smudges. These can really spoil your picture.

Try to turn the picture so that you never have your hand over other areas of the image because it is so easy to make mistakes in this way and far easier to turn the paper so that the lines you have created are not compromised. Good luck with your doodling practice and by looking after your tools and using them correctly, they really will last you a lot longer and give you better service. These are relatively expensive pens when you are doing a lot of work so looking after them makes good sense.

You will have favorites but you will only know this from use and from drawing out those initial lines, marking which pen produced them, so that you always know which is the best pen to use for each kind of pattern that you create. Chapter 10 — Projects You Can Do With Doodling You may wonder what you can do with all your hard work, but there are a number of things that are very attractive that can be done with doodling.

Often people are too busy tangling to actually think of what can be done once the images are finished. This chapter tells you a little about the kinds of projects that you can do with your doodle drawings. A treasure chest or toy box If you gather all of your drawings together from the playroom or make sure that you have loads of tiles which are completed, these can be used to cover a toy box or to make your own little box of treasures.

In fact, if you really want to get the kids excited, why not undercoat their toy box in white, and encourage them to do their doodle directly onto the box. This can be left to dry and then varnished with a clear varnish so that the patterns last. You need to divide the box into squares so that the children know where their next design begins and this can be done in pencil. Creative Commons attribution: Dynamic Eagle, Deviant Art Another idea which is simpler and takes up less room is to paint a shoe box white and then get the kids to stick their doodle squares onto it in a collage, so that the box is very decorative indeed.

This can be given as a gift or it can be used to wrap up a gift to a friend. This kind of glue stick is ideal for the kids to use and you can teach them how it works to stick their images onto the shoe box. Furniture Items The important thing to remember is that kids need to see an end product or they will run out of enthusiasm. If you can give them the ideas, they really can get on with it with gusto. One of the projects I set for my children was to make as many doodle squares as they could and I told them that there was a huge project that I had in mind.

I painted an old chair which was very attractive in shape but which had no antique value. Once they had done a whole heap of doodle designs, I then got them to add them to the chair using glue which is suitable for decoupage. They enjoyed getting up close and personal with something messy, but what they produced was outstanding.

Each part of the chair was covered and that included the legs, the cross bar that held the legs together, the back rest and all of the wooden back of the chair, the arm rests and the seat! I had to make sure that the paper they used for the doodle was suitable for decoupage and that the inks they used were not ones that would run as soon as they became damp from the glue.

This provided them with hours of fun and we produced a completely unique and original chair. The results were stunning and I finished them off with a decoupage varnish. The black and white of the doodle was superb and everyone commented on the chair, so much so that a friend eventually pleaded for it and the kids gave in and gave it to her. We did this and bought some of the transfer paper for the printer which enabled me to print what we wanted onto that paper and then transfer it to tee-shirts.

This gave the tee-shirts a completely original look and the kids were encouraged to draw something which actually meant something to them and they used their initials in doodle format surrounded by eight squares of doodle patterns that they had produced. I was able to resize it exactly by scanning the image into Word before printing it. One of my sons had the wonderful idea of painting up a pair of his sneakers.

They were white and before he started to draw doodle patterns onto the fabric, I had to make sure that the right type of pens were used, rather than seeing him ruin his good pens. By buying waterproof pens with a narrow nib area, we were able to draw squares all over the sneakers and then into each square, he drew a doodle.

How did we achieve a pair? That was simple — we simply duplicated every action, doing one part of the pattern on both shoes before moving on to the next pattern. These were super and the kids enjoyed it enormously and were coming up with all kinds of ideas for different items within their bedroom upon which doodles could be drawn.

In fact, we bought a lead liner from Amazon. It creates a raised surface on the canvas and we were not sure if this would work or not. In fact, it worked very well indeed. We penciled the string first.

Then we used pencil to create all the different patterns which were to be included and these were then lined with the lead. It looked superb, but one of the boys suggested that we add color to the image that was produced and we used acrylics because these gave good coverage and did not get onto the lead lining so you could still see the doodle work even when the design was colored in.

An alcove provided this opportunity. You have a choice of how to do this. You can simply have a plain painted wall and stick your individual doodle cards onto the wall or you can do like we did and actually draw the pictures on the wall. The background was already white and the pens used were good quality pens intended for hard surfaces. For the coloring in, the boys used felt tipped pens that were washable. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

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