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Creative Doodling & Beyond: Inspiring exercises, prompts, and projects for turning simple doodles into beautiful works of art (Creative...and Beyond)

Creative Doodling & Beyond: Inspiring exercises, prompts, and projects for turning simple doodles into beautiful works of art (Creative...and Beyond)

Current price: $19.95
Publication Date: December 1st, 2011
Publisher:
Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN:
9781600582479
Pages:
144

Description

Creative Doodling & Beyond features a fun variety of projects, prompts, exercises, and ideas to get your doodling juices flowing—and you can practice directly in the book!

Who among us doesn’t simply love to doodle—or, at the very least, doodle to pass the time during long meetings or classes? Now you can learn the fine art of doodling while exercising your creativity at the same time. Creative Doodling & Beyond features a fun variety of projects, prompts, exercises, and ideas to get your doodling juices flowing, while also providing inspiration for how to use your doodles creatively.

After learning about some of the basic tools and materials you’ll want to have readily available, learn some fun and easy ways to ignite your doodling spark. Then try your hand and replicating a variety of patterns and borders, and other elements directly in the pages of this colorful workbook. And from there, the real fun begins! Using the approachable step-by-step projects, you can create:

  • Doodled gift tags
  • Doodle-stamped gift wrap
  • A family heirloom handprint doodle
  • A family seek & find game
  • An embroidered wishing star stuffie
  • A doodled hobo bag
  • And more!

The book culminates with an idea gallery that shows even more creative ways you can incorporate doodles into everyday art and décor.

Creative Doodling & Beyond is meant to inspire you to abandon your preconceived ideas about what art is and isn’t; show you how easy it is to doodle; teach you how to create beautiful art using doodles; and help you connect to your inner artist! By the time you finish the exercises and projects in this book, you will not only find inspiration everywhere, but you will also habitually tote doodle notebooks with you wherever you go, filling them with happy little pen marks and drawings on every page.
 

The Creative…and Beyond series takes art to a new level by combining art exploration with practical application and interactivity related to on-trend subjects, including doodling, mixed media, papercrafts, hand lettering, and more. Each title features prompts, creative exercises, and step-by-step projects that invite artists to draw, doodle, and craft their way through a variety of creative ideas, from whimsical artwork and wall art to stationery, clever gift ideas, personalized artwork, home décor items, and more.

About the Author

Painter, illustrator, and graphic designer Stephanie Corfee is the author of several books on art and illustration, including Paint Lab for Kids, Fashion Design Workshop, Creative Doodling & Beyond, and Creative Illustration & Beyond. She has licensed her artwork for use on home goods, wall decor, apparel, and other products to such clients as Lil Blue Boo, Oopsy Daisy, and Target, and sells commissioned artwork, prints of her illustrations, and one-of-a-kind accessories online. Stephanie also offers tutorials, downloads, and online workshops on her website/blog, StephanieCorfee.com. She lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.