What can you doodle for hours?

[MycoPanda]

I’m just curious what people here like to draw? What can you always fall back to drawing when nothing else is coming to you?

[sooz]

When I’m super stuck, I make big scribbles then I fill in the resulting closed shapes with different colours or textures. If I’m still stuck, I’ll begin selecting and distorting sections, pasting them in different locations.

[MycoPanda]

I like that. Yeah, I sometimes just make random scribbles and then see if I can make something out of them. They usually end up being weird shaped fish.

[sooz]

Ah, I wonder if that would be a subject you could develop further? Like do a series of weird fish?

[Erisian]

If I want to doodle and don’t have any ideas, I usually start with an eye or a face and work out from it with branch-like structures adding random elements as I go. It gets pretty psychedelic and sometimes a little dark.

[Dima]

for example, I have a lot of ideas, but many of them are difficult to implement on paper.

у меня например куча идей, но многие из них трудны в реализации на бумаге.

[RalMer]

I just do some basic stuff like shading and blending colors, or drawing basic shapes, or painting basic forms like spheres or cubes. I also love trying out the various brushes to create my doodles.

[PhaeCat]

I have always drawn nature things like trees and flowers so i always fall back into that when i cant think of anything else, because it mindless drawing for me and while I’m doing and idea will usually come to me. Oh also cats are fun to draw or just things you see around you.

[Guerreiro64]

When I was unemployed, I liked to practice an exercise I adapted from Betty Edwards’s book: “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.”

I’d take a drawing with strong shading, open it in Krita, and rotate the image 180 degrees. Then, I’d create a layer where I’d copy the contours. What’s this for? To make my lines looser when I trace/outline my own drawings.

Then I’d create another layer and apply the shading to it. Note: I used hatching for shading, not tonal blending. For more intense shading, I’d apply other hatching over and in the opposite direction to the hatching underneath.

And how does this help? Well, shading is one of my difficulties and perhaps it facilitates my learning. Or perhaps it helps me overcome that fear of applying shading to a drawing and ruining everything. In any case, it was a very relaxing exercise…

[Someonesane]

I do abstract form finding exercises. Basically, I find a brush that drops shapes down and make as random of a mark/shape as possible. Then I drop the opacity of that layer and attempt to create something from the abstract form. If any turn out viable, I may use them later for comics/etc.

Some examples:

[daenoki]

These look great. Creature design isn’t my focus but I’ll have to try this exercise someday

[Someonesane]

Thanks

[CrazyCatBird]

@Guerreiro64

Betty Edwards’s book: “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.”

I love that book! I recommend it to everyone who says that they can’t draw. I also tell them about the upside down exercise. They are amazed when they finally see that they can draw after all.

[Pisarka]

I wish I could say “my OC”, but… after drawing him way over 100 times (I stopped counting after that), I still draw him so poorly that it only gives me frustration =__=

[Michelist]

I find it has character!

Michelist

[NeotericCreativeHaus]

For me, flowers.