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Doodling may seem like a fun little thing you do between other things, and it is, but it’s also turned into a legitimate genre of crafting, with people writing whole books about different ways to doddle.
I think that’s kind of cool, because it helps those of us who feel we can’t draw get over that a little bit. You can follow the examples in a book and practice and learn and be inspired without having to start completely from scratch.
I recently took some time to play with Craft-a-Doodle: 75 Creative Exercises from 18 Artists by Jenny Doh, and it was actually a lot of fun. (As usual, not an affiliate link.)
About the Book
The book is 144 pages and most doodle prompts cover a two-page spread. There’s a look at the finished doodle and a description of what you need for the prompt, instructions and tips. For more complex doodles, step-by-step drawings are shown.
![doodle prompts](https://www.ourdailycraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/craftadoodle.jpg)
Many of the doodles are done or can be done with just a pen and paper, but others call for specific kinds of ink, pens, watercolors and watercolor paper, etc. If you’re new to doodling, art journaling and the like and don’t have a lot of special supplies, you can stick to the basic ones or improvise with what you have to give the prompts a try.
There are all sorts of ideas in here, from how to doodle faces to writing a word and framing it with doodles, drawing a dress on an old book page and making dream catchers, to name a few.
![bunting doodle](https://www.ourdailycraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bunting-doodle.jpg)
I picked some of the basic ones that looked interesting and doodled a couple of pages in my Smash book.
It was a lot of fun to have some direction, and I think that I would feel more confident in my drawing and “doodling as art” abilities if I worked with this book regularly.
![people doodles](https://www.ourdailycraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/people-doodles.jpg)
If you’d like to get into doodling but you aren’t quite sure what to draw, or if you’d like to get your doodles looking more like what you think of as drawings, I think you’ll like this book, too.