How to Doodle Beginner Course

Learn how frameworks structure doodles using the visual alphabet, creating sketches like a cat or a bird, and progress toward second nature through practice.

Expand your visual vocabulary by practicing the visual alphabet and doodling objects each day, from trees and bees to flags and teacups, to boost visual thinking and growth.

Practice doodling people with stick figures, block, blob, star, and triangle shapes to build comfort and creativity. Submit your doodles to inspire others as you learn new poses.

Learn to doodle active figures—walking, running, jumping, sitting, resting, tripping over, meditating, skipping, crouching—using stick, blob, or box shapes. Refine posture and limb placement to convey motion.

Learn to doodle active people in dynamic poses by drawing stick figures in crawling, falling, thinking, splits, handstand, spinning, and splat moments, and build a fun storytelling routine.

Practice six active doodle poses—flying, kicking ball, dancing, stretching, skating, and swimming—to improve stick-figure motion and doodling confidence in day 13 of the beginner doodle course.

Learn to doodle facial expressions using the face matrix, adjusting eyebrows and mouths with a few lines to express a range of emotions.

Turn random squiggles into expressive faces through playful doodling and practice, using simple shapes to develop creativity and imagination.

Learn to doodle varied eyes, mouths, noses, and hair to convey diverse emotions, using a visual alphabet and quick techniques while practicing to master cartoon expressions.

Practice drawing expressive faces by combining earlier lessons and sketching various emotions through eyes, mouths, and smiles, including winks and grins, with simple, depth-filled details.

Explore heads in a variety of shapes and sizes, then add facial features to express emotions. Doodle without perfection, focus on experimentation, and have fun while improving your doodling.

Explore how the nose anchors facial orientation in doodling, with side, front, and above views guiding eye and hair placement. Practice doodling noses in varying directions to build character sketches.

Explore doodling facial expressions on inanimate objects to give them life. Transform balloons, books, pencils, and umbrellas into expressive characters that convey messages through imagination.

Learn to doodle hands and feet with simple shapes, emphasizing thumbs, fingers, and a handshake to convey action quickly; keep details minimal and practice to save time.

Strengthen your creativity by doodling monsters from random shapes with no limits. Combine elements like bird, lion, and fish to design playful monsters and visualize challenges and competition.

Learn to represent movement and direction in doodles using lines, smoke, and arrows, and show state changes from walking to running with motion cues.

Learn to doodle three dimensional shapes, including a box, pyramid, cone, and tube, from multiple angles. Practice turning flat shapes into depth with simple lines.

On day 26 of the how to doodle beginner course, learn how vanishing points and horizon lines define perspective to enhance doodles with simple, front-on and angled shapes.

Learn to doodle metaphors and abstract words by turning nonphysical ideas into symbols, like danger as a siren or time as a clock with wings, and build your visual vocabulary.

Transform abstract words into doodles by illustrating concepts like mystery with a question mark, decline with a graph or thumbs down, and conflict with symbols such as swords or gloves.

Express ideas quickly with simple doodles, not detailed artwork, using the visual alphabet to capture concepts in meetings. Practice the doggy doodle activity and bird doodles to stay efficient.

Explore standard versus visual forms of note-taking. Learn to create visual notes using fonts, word pictures, diagrams, connectors, frames, and thought bubbles, guided by Eva Lotta Lamb.

Explore how to doodle diagrams to visualize ideas and numbers, using mind maps, flow charts, maps, and a range of charts from bar and pie charts to Venn diagrams.

Explore how handwriting and captions spice up doodles by adding readable text around images to clarify meaning. Practice interpreting cartoons and crafting captions that invite creative interpretation, enhancing visual notes.

Learn to use dividers and separators to create space and improve readability in visual notes, using simple lines, patterns, and themed elements like bells or twigs.

Explore how arrows and connectors direct attention and show paths between points in visual notes. Apply them to connect ideas and guide the viewer through doodles.

Master structuring visual notes with bullets and icons. Use simple or themed bullets, icons like light bulbs and question marks, and resources such as the Noun Project to enhance doodles.

Learn to use frames and containers to separate ideas and highlight content, and add speech and thought bubbles to create dynamic visual notes by mixing words, pictures, and shapes.

Use the IQ doodle cheat sheet to turn writing into visual notes, applying typography, icons, and connectors. Practice turning goal-setting paragraphs and earth facts into doodles, then share your creations.

Explore multiple structures for visual note taking—linear, radial, popcorn, pathway, and modular layouts—using borders, containers, and a font hierarchy to organize topics like goal setting and Earth facts.

Reflect on the 40-day journey, celebrate day 40, and commit to ongoing doodling, visual thinking, and building a visual diary through daily or weekly practice.