Days of Doodling...

If I had kept all my notebooks from high school and college, you would be able to note two things:

 

1. I took good notes.

2. My notes were secondary to my doodles.

 

I love to doodle. Primary in my repertoire are cartoon faces followed by various letters, numbers, and shapes. (Here I should admit that I still doodle in the margins of meeting agendas and all over PowerPoint handouts.)

 

Anyway, one of the lovely items I picked up as a Christmas gift from my pal, Laura, is this book:

 

Best. Workbook. Ever.

 

This book is wonderful for my doodling soul. It has pages of doodle how-to's followed by pages of practice pages followed further by projects revolving around doodling!!

 

How could I not LOVE this?!

 

I have been trying to control myself and not do every single workbook page in one sitting (self-control has been put into overdrive for that one!), but I have worked through several exercises this week. Doodling was, after all, my creative endeavor for the week. Here is a sampling of the exercises that I have tried. Please note that all of the designs are from Stephanie Corfee's extraordinary imagination; I'm copying them for practice purposes.

 

Letter Designs

 

More Letters

 

 

Candy, Anyone?

 

Hearts Make Me Happy

 

Beautiful Birdies

 

Postcards from Doodle Land

 

My Banner, A Doodle

 

I have to admit, though it may be strange to some, how fulfilling it is to doodle. Specifically to doodle with the purpose of making it a beautiful doodle. I'm looking forward to continuing this workbook and moving on to the next step of doodling with a purpose!

 

So I must also admit that if I roll the die and find that I have to continue this exercise next week, I shan't be too disappointed in the repetition! ;)