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How to Doodle a Habit

Step 1

drawing a habit

If someone asked you to visualize a HABIT, what would you draw? How about the act of brushing your teeth each day? But how would we visualize that in a simple and practical way? Well, let’s take a look. Begin by drawing a toothbrush in the middle of your page. Notice the various visual alphabet shapes used to doodle our toothbrush. Stick to very simple and straightforward lines and angles.

Step 2

draw a habit

Now that we have our toothbrush in place, let’s take a look at demonstrating that this is a habit. To begin with, let’s draw our moon icon that will represent the habit of brushing our teeth at night.

Step 3

doodling a habit

Next, let’s draw our rising sun icon, which will represent brushing our teeth first thing in the morning. This is a great start, but it still doesn’t quite visualize the idea of a habit. How do we do that?

Step 4

doodle a habit

To visualize the idea of a habit and to connect the toothbrush with morning and nighttime, we will need to use a couple of arrows. Notice how in the example I have used two curved arrows that point in a clockwise direction. This is to show that brushing our teeth is a cycle that transitions from morning to night and back to morning again. This now gives us the impression that this is something that people do daily.

Step 5

How to doodle a habit

To finish off your doodle, give it some needed color. And there you have it. This is our HABIT doodle. You could, of course, replace the toothbrush with anything else you might do in the morning and at nighttime. I used a toothbrush because it’s something that most people do consistently without too much thought. But this is, of course, only one way to visualize a HABIT. How many other ways can you think of?

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How to Doodle a Guru

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle a Guru

Step 1

drawing a guru

If someone asked you to visualize a GURU, what would you draw? Let’s take a look at an example. To begin with draw a triangle with rounder corners. Notice how the top section of the triangle creates an arc-shape. This will become the body of your guru.

Step 2

draw a guru

To draw the head of your Guru, doodle an oval that connects to the top section of the body you drew in step 1. Notice how this isn’t a full oval shape.

Step 3

doodling a guru

To draw the legs of your Guru character, use a wide arc-shape. Notice how this arc shape extends beyond the length of the top section of the Guru’s body. This is a great start, but at this stage, our doodling doesn’t really look like much. Kind of looks like a chess pawn. 🙂

Step 4

doodle a guru

Let’s now add some details to make our doodle look more like a Guru. Notice the straight lines and arc shapes used on the legs the arms and the face of our Guru figure. These are all very simple shapes. And with these shapes in place, we can now see our Guru character come to life. 🙂

Step 5

How to doodle a guru

Add the finishing touches to your Guru character by giving him some color. You can, of course, play around with the colors. And there you have it. We now have our Guru figure that you can doodle in just a few seconds. 🙂

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How to Doodle Growth

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Growth

Step 1

drawing growth

If someone asked you to visualize the idea of GROWTH or of something GROWING, what would you draw? How about a graph of growing plants. Here is what it would look like. First, let’s draw the outside of the graph. Use three straight lines as shown within the example. Notice the angles of the lines, especially the top long line that’s pointing upwards on a 45-degree angle.

Step 2

draw growth

To show that there is an upward movement here, let’s turn this line into an arrow. To do this, draw a triangle at the end of this line. Notice how the triangle is pointing upward at a 45-degree angle.

Step 3

doodling growth

Let’s now draw a graph that shows a progressive increase over time. One of the best and simplest ways to visualize growth is by drawing plants. So, for this example, let’s doodle leaves or a closed flower bud. Notice how within the example these flower buds have been draw progressively higher. Notice also how the height of the flower buds mirrors the angle of our graph line.

Step 4

doodle growth

Let’s now draw the stem of our flower. To do this, use curvy lines as shown within the example. Notice how the lines get progressively longer as we move from left to right along the graph.

Step 5

how to doodle growth

Add the finishing touches to your GROWTH doodle by giving it some color. And there you have it. This is our representation of GROWTH. You can, of course, substitute the flower buds or leaves with another item. This is just one example. And there are many more ways we could potentially visualize the idea of GROWTH. What other ways can you think of?

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How to Doodle Greed

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Greed

Step 1

drawing greed

If someone asked you to visualize the idea of GREED or BEING GREEDY in a picture, what would you draw? This isn’t an easy one. Greed, however, is often associated with money. Therefore, let’s use that as the theme for our doodle. To begin with, draw two ovals side-by-side in the middle of your page. Then around these ovals, draw two larger ovals as shown within the example. These ovals will become the lenses of our glasses.

Step 2

draw greed

To draw the frame of your glasses, use straight lines. Notice in the example the length of each line and the angles used. Notice also where these lines intersect with the ovals we drew in step 1.

Step 3

doodling greed

To doodle the face of our greedy character, use a couple of arc-shapes. Then for the teeth, use another arc shape in combination with several straight lines. For the tongue of our character, use a wavy shape that kind of looks like an “m”.

Step 4

doodle greed

For the nose of our greedy character, use another arc-shape. Notice how this arc shape is quite deep and that the two ends of the shape almost come together at the top. Then to show that all our character is thinking about is money, let’s draw a couple of dollar symbols reflecting in his glasses.

Step 5

how to doodle greed

Finish off your GREEDY doodle by giving it some color. This is, of course, just one way to doodle the idea of GREED. There are possibly many other ways you could also represent GREED. What ideas come to mind?

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How to Doodle Gravity

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Gravity

Step 1

drawing gravity

If someone asked you to visualize GRAVITY, what would you draw? This is a tough one since gravity is imperceptible. However, it is possible to represent it in a visual by using something we are already familiar with. For this doodle, let’s draw a representation of our solar system to visualize gravity. Begin your doodle by drawing a circle in the middle of your page. This circle will become the center of our gravity field.

Step 2

draw gravity

Around this circle, draw numerous v-shapes as shown within the example. This now becomes our sun which lies at the center of our gravity field.

Step 3

doodling gravity

Around our sun, let’s draw three larger circles. Notice the spacing and size of each of the three circles. These circles will become the orbits of planets revolving around the sun.

Step 4

doodle gravity

To help us represent the idea of GRAVITY, let’s now draw these planets. Doodle three circle shapes along each of our orbits. These circle shapes will become our planets orbiting around the sun.

Step 5

how to doodle gravity

Add the finishing touches to your GRAVITY doodle by giving it some color. And there you have it. This is just one visual representation of gravity. How many other ways can you think of that would help us to visualize gravity?

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How to Doodle Gossip

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Gossip

Step 1

drawing gossip

If someone asked you to visualize the idea of GOSSIP, what would you draw? How about two icon characters talking to each other. To begin your doodle, draw two circles in the middle of your page. These two circles will become the heads of our two characters. Notice how I have also added a small arc shape to each circle. These arc shapes represent the noses of our characters.

Step 2

draw gossip

To draw the body of our two characters, use a combination of three arc shapes for each body. Notice how some arc shapes are slightly more curved than others. Because we are trying to keep our doodle as simple as possible, we won’t be adding any more details to the body of our two characters. This is enough to get our idea across that these are to people in conversation.

Step 3

doodling gossip

Let’s now draw a talking bubble above the two heads. Use an oval shape for this purpose. Notice how there are two v-shapes that break up the bubble pointing at each of our characters. This is to show that they are sharing a conversation.

Step 4

doodle gossip

To highlight that there is an actual conversation going on between these two characters, I have added squiggly lines to the talking bubble. These squiggly/wavy lines represent words shared by our two characters.

Step 5

how to doodle gossip

To finish off, give your characters some color. And there you have it. This is now our GOSSIP visual. So the next time someone asks you to visualize GOSSIP you will know what to draw. However, this is only one way of representing the word GOSSIP. How many other ways can you think of?

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How to Doodle a Goal

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle a Goal

Step 1

drawing a goal

If someone asked you to draw a GOAL, how would you visualize it on a page? What exactly would you draw? How about a mountain with a flag on top that represents our goal? Begin by drawing a straight line on the bottom of your page. This line will represent the ground and the bottom of our mountain. Next, doodle the mountain. Use a wavy and rounded triangle shape to draw your mountain. Your mountain doesn’t necessarily need to look like the example above. Feel free to play around with the shape if you wish.

Step 2

draw a goal

To draw the flag on top of our mountain, use a straight line and a side triangle shape. Notice that the lines of this triangle shape are curved rather than straight. This gives us the impression that the flag is waving in the wind. This flag will represent our goal, while the mountain represents the journey and challenges that come with goal achievement.

Step 3

doodling a goal

Let’s now show our path toward our goal. To visualize this path, draw an arrow that extends from the bottom of your mountain right up to the top where the flag is. This arrow shows the path we took to accomplish this goal.

Step 4

doodle a goal

Let’s now add a few more details to our GOAL doodle. To make our flag look more like a goal, let’s add a few straight lines extending out from the flag. This helps us highlight the goal. It makes the goal seem more important. Then add some additional straight lines on the side of the mountain to give it some texture and shading.

Step 5

how to doodle a goal

Add the finishing touches to your GOAL doodle by adding some color. Feel free to experiment with the colors. This is, of course, only one way to visualize the idea of a GOAL. How many other ways can you think of to draw a goal?

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How to Doodle Giving

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Giving

Step 1

drawing giving

If someone asked you to visualize the act of GIVING in a picture, what would you draw? How about two hands exchanging a heart. 🙂 Let’s begin our GIVING doodle by drawing the left hand (which is a right hand, but that makes no difference) 😉 It’s difficult to express in words how to draw this hand. Please have a look at the example and pay particular attention to the length of the lines and where they merge together.

Step 2

draw giving

For the second step, we will now draw the opposite hand. You will notice that this hand is a mirror image of the hand we drew in step 1. You are basically mirroring the exact same doodle here. The only difference is that the fingers and thumb are pointing in the opposite direction. Take note of all the angles used in these first two steps.

Step 3

doodling giving

Let’s now draw a heart floating above our left hand. This heart will symbolize the idea of giving love to somebody else.

Step 4

doodle giving

Now, let’s draw an arrow moving from right to left. This arrow is pointing to the floating heart and represents how the heart was moved or given from one hand to the other hand.

Step 5

how to doodle giving

Finish off your GIVING doodle by giving it some color. And there you have it. You now have a representation of GIVING in a visual format. So next time you need to represent this word visually, you will know what to draw. But, of course, there are many other ways we could potentially represent the idea of GIVING. What other ideas can you think of?

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How to Doodle a Ghost

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle a Ghost

Step 1

drawing a ghost

To doodle a ghost, begin by drawing a large arc shape in the middle of your page. Notice how the arc shape veers outwards on the bottom left and right. This will become our ghost head.

Step 2

draw a ghost

Let’s now close off our arc shape by using wavy lines. There are no strict rules here. Your wavy lines don’t need to look like the example. You can create your own variation of these wavy lines.

Step 3

doodling a ghost

To doodle the eyes of your ghost, use to side arc shapes for the eyeballs. Then use two small oval shapes for the iris. Notice how we are emphasizing the eyes in this ghost doodle. We want to make the ghost look somewhat scary. 😉

Step 4

doodle a ghost

There are a number of ways you can doodle the mouth of your ghost. In this example, you will notice that the mouth is large and wide. Notice also the tongue is visible as the ghost opens its mouth. Doodle the tongue using a wavy line.

Step 5

how to doodle a ghost

Add the finishing touches to your ghost doodle by giving it some color. Feel free to play around with different variations of this doodle. You can, for instance, change the eyes, or adjust the mouth of your ghost to make him/her look a little scarier. 🙂

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How to Doodle Frustration

How to Doodle, Home / By Adam Sicinski

How to Doodle Frustration

Step 1

drawing frustration

If someone asked you to doodle FRUSTRATION, what would you draw? How would you represent this word using a picture? How about a pencil snapping in half. To begin with, draw a rectangle shape slanted at a 45-degree angle. Notice the jagged line at the top of the rectangle shape.

Step 2

draw frustration

To draw the tip of your pencil, use a v-shape and then a straight line. Notice the size of the pencil tip when compared to the body of the pencil you drew in step 1. This is, however, only about half the body of our pencil. The second half is in step 3.

Step 3

doodling frustration

Draw the other end of your pencil using the same rectangle shape you drew in step 1. Also, include the jagged line on the right end of the rectangle. Notice the angle of this end of the pen compared to the other end of the pen.

Step 4

doodle frustration

Use an arc shape and a straight line to doodle the rubber tip at the end of our pencil doodle.

Step 5

how to doodle frustration

For the final step, we need to show that our pencil is getting snapped in half in frustration. We, of course, want to keep this simple by showing only the snapping action. To visualize this, use v-shapes extending from the space between the two pencil ends. Then in between the v-shapes, draw small dots and circles to show little pieces breaking off the pencil. And finally, don’t forget to give your FRUSTRATION doodle some needed color.

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