Doodles 2: Cityscape & Flowers

CITYSCAPE

First I’m going to doodle a cityscape. I like to make my buildings wonky on purpose. Don’t worry about keeping your lines straight or your angles square.

I like to have a lot of diversity in my doodles because I think it makes them more interesting to look at.

Play around with adding features to the buildings. You can make windows that are square, round, rectangle, half-circle, or even just lines or dots.

Consider adding towers, chimneys, clocks, or awnings. Draw striped roofs or shingled. Add a steeple or a billboard. Vary the height of the buildings, and doodle some behind the first row to make it feel crowded.

Sometimes I like to add watercolor to my doodles. I’m using Sakura’s Koi® Watercolor Field Sketch Kit. The Pigma® Micron® ink won’t smear when you add paint. Don’t worry about making it perfect, imperfections just add to the charm of your doodle.

FLOWERS

Flowers are fun to doodle because there are so many variations. You can also doodle leaves, vines, and buds.

When drawing leaves, you can make a center line and then draw stripes on both sides, or just one side. Or you can fill in the leaf with curved lines. Leaves can be rounded, raindrop-shaped, heart shaped, or long and pointed like grass blades.

Try drawing a tulip by making a U, then joining at top with a zig zag line.

Even circles can make simple flowers. Add curved stripes like on a beach ball, then draw a couple of lines with dots to form stamen.

Speckles in the center of flowers add texture.

Fill in empty spaces with tiny star-shaped flowers.

Tiny leaves or raindrops can also be used to fill blank space.

Now add multiples of the flowers you just drew.

Try adding these doodles to art journals, envelopes, or planners!