The Art of the Doodle

The Art of the Doodle
By Eleanor Kwei
Gifted by Race Point Publishing
www.racepointpub.com
Reviewed by Melissa Conner, Editor of FaveCrafts.com

Are your notebooks and journals covered with little doodles of flowers, butterflies, shapes, and patterns?  Do you spend work meetings creating little illustrations in the margins of your notepad?  Well, then you're going to love The Art of the Doodle!

Made up of two seperate books (A Guide to Doodling and Doodle Journal), this book kit will help you turn those little doodles into beautiful illustrations that you'll be proud to show off.

Start your doodling journey with A Guide to Doodling.  This instructional book gives tips on creating doodles, coloring with pencils and markers, and ways to use your doodles (notecards, frames, gift bags, and much more).  Broken down into six chapters of popular doodle designs (paisleys, flowers, letters, butterflies, mandalas, and geometrics), this book will give you lessons on how to start your illustrations with a basic drop, then mold it into something beautiful and unique.  Nature will come to life, flowers and butterflies will embellish all your notes, and geometric borders will give all your note pages a nice frame.

As someone who enjoys making scrapbooks and cards, I really enjoyed the chapter on words and symbols.  I never realized how easy and fun it was to take any word and turn it into a beautiful piece of art.  This will surely change how I go about decorating all my paper projects from now on!

After you're done learning everything you can in A Guide to Doodling, it's time to test your skills in the Doodle Journal.  This book provides an elegant place to experiment with all of the techniques described in the instruction book.  With elaborate coloring activities, as well as simple guidelines to get started on creative doodling pages, this journal will help inspire and motivate you to put pen to paper and see what happens.  The journal is also scattered with inspirational quotations to help keep you going!

Perfect for kids and adults alike, the lessons and activites in The Art of the Doodle kit will change how you look at a small section of white space in your notebook.  Bring your notes, journals, cards, and scrapbooks to life with the simple suggestions found in The Art of the Doodle.